From Socrates: “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
Author Archives: Kevin Warstadt
Quote of the day 08/25/23
From Diogenes: “I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.”
Quote of the day 08/24/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “Everything is brought about by nature, not by anything beyond it, or within it, or apart from it.”
Quote of the day 08/23/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “Look into their minds, at what the wise do and what they don’t.”
Quote of the day 08/22/23
From Lucretius: “Trees don’t live in the sky, and clouds don’t swim In the salt seas, and fish don’t leap in wheatfields, Blood isn’t found in wood, nor sap in rocks. By fixed arrangement, all that live and grows Submits to limit and restrictions.”
Quote of the day 08/21/23
From the Buddha: “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”
Quote of the day 08/20/23
From Seneca: “Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.”
Quote of the day 08/19/23
From Buddhism: “Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”
Ambition
Make your progress slow, gentle Ambition is a quicksand trap The more you struggle The deeper you sink
Perfection
A block of marble is perfect A blank canvas is perfect Empty space is perfect Continuous, unblemished, unbroken A sculpture is beautiful A painting is beautiful Nature is beautiful
