Saturday, February 29, 2020

February Words of Wisdom

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. --Cicero

What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit. --Stacy London

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
--Marcus Aurelius

Be your own artist and always be confident in what you're doing. --Aretha Franklin

Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. --Ricky Gervais

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. --Ayn Rand

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. --Robert Heinlein

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you. --Zig Ziglar

No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams. --Maya Mendoza

I believe that we are all brilliant creatures and that we have only just started to tap into the amazing human organism that we are. --Laird Hamilton

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil. --St. Dominic

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is caricature. --Ernest Hemingway

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