Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment. Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self requires strength; He who knows he has enough is rich. Perseverance is a sign of will p...
Whenever we talk about goals, one question inevitably rises: what if you are not reaching them? Say, you have a noble goal, and your mind is all set on it, but, in spite of all the effort, you’r...
One will surely understand what I consider to be the function of poetry. It is to nourish the spirit of man by giving him the cosmos to suckle. Francis Ponge, a French essayist and poet....
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm, a German-American philosopher and psychologist....
Problems are only opportunities with thorns in them. Hugh Miller, a Scottish geologist and writer....
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher....
As we know, failure is not the result, it is an attitude. We are conditioned, however, to take every deviation from the result we wanted with all our hearts and minds as a failure. It may take years b...
The good Lord gave the director two eyes – one to look into the camera, the other to be alert to everything that is going on around him. Andrzej Wajda, a Polish film director...
There is only one reason for literature to exist, to save those who write it from the tedium of living. J. K. Hyusmans, the French author...
Your characters are mute, so to say; but they make me speak, and that I speak to myself. Tes personnages sont muets, si tu veux; mais ils font que je me parle, et que je m’entretiens avec moi-me...