From Xenophon: “Success should never breed complacency.”
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Quote of the day 09/19/25
From Xenophon: “For I believe that the best life is lived by those who take the best care to make themselves as good as possible, and the pleasantest life by those who are most conscious that they are becoming better.”
Quote of the day 09/04/25
From Haruki Murakami: “Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
Quote of the day 09/03/25
From Haruki Murakami: “Things outside you are projections of what’s inside you, and what’s inside you is a projection of what’s outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you’re stepping into the labyrinth inside.”
Quote of the day 07/31/25
From John Keats: “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
Quote of the day 07/06/25
From the Salla Sutta: “This world is afflicted with death and decay; therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world.”
Quote of the day 06/13/25
From the Fo-pen-hing-tsih-king: “All men should cultivate a fixed and firm determination, and vow that what they once undertake they will never give up.”
Quote of the day 04/07/25
From the Hekiganrobu: “To meet with ill fortune is to meet with good fortune. To meet with submission is to meet with an enemy.”
Quote of the day 03/05/25
From Francis Bacon: “He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
Quote of the day 02/26/25
From Francis Bacon: “If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.”