Sublime

“If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”

“The one who knows, does not say; the one who says, does not know.”

‘What will the world say of me if I act thus?’ is often a reflection strong enough to enable us to resist the most powerful temptation to vice or folly. This preserves the integrity of the wavering, the honesty of the covetous, the sanctity of some of the religious, and the chastity of all virgins.”

The late William Bolitho, author of Twelve Against the Gods, put it like this: “The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.”

author Matthew Kelly said, ‘You can learn more in an hour of silence than you can in a year of books’

A mark of lifelong learners is recognizing that they can learn something from everyone they meet.

‘If man were wise, he would gauge the true worth of anything by its usefulness and appropriateness to his life,’

“If you realize you have enough, you are truly rich.”

Montaigne, the great French philosopher, adopted these seventeen words as the motto of his life: “A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.” And our opinion of what happens is entirely up to us.