“No man knows how bad he is until he has tried very hard to be good.”

—CW Lewis

“If you need a witness, be your own.”

—Epictetus

“The only way to deal with a unfree world, Is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is a act of rebellion.”

—Albert Camus

“He that pursues two hares at once does not catch one and lets the other go.” 

—Ben Franklin 

“I’ve not yet begun to fight!” 

—John Paul Jones

“If the things you said about yourself were on your skin would you still be beautiful?”

“There is nothing you MUST do, the universe has no preference.

But your soul does.”

“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and looses his own soul?”

Mark 8:36 — Jesus

“The best way to destroy your enemies is to befriend them.”

“The edge, there’s no honest way to describe it because the only ones who really know where it is are the ones who went over.” 

—HST

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
— Benjamin Franklin

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
— Aristotle

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
— Sylvia Plath

“Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.”

—Ecclesiastes 11