He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do
nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing
is worthless. Buth he who understands also loves, notices, sees..The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater
the love...Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
---Paracelsus

"Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any sigle realized joy could be." Friedrich Nietzsche

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." ~William James

"A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise."
Ann Zwinger

"On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy motive,
Nor be thy attachment to inaction."

Bhagavad Gita

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." Helen Keller

"One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'."
Sir Winston Churchill, Second World War (1948)

"Your biggest task is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself." {MQforMP}