We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
-George Washington
Quotations
Inspiration
It is not that Buddha, Krishna, Jesus or Mohammed lacked anything in their
compassion. If they could, they would have eliminated the "pains and miseries" of
human life long back. But the problem is, in this case we have to help ourselves,
no one else can.
-Deep Trivedi
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-Abraham Lincoln
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
-Sigmund Freud
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
-Vincent van Gogh
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
-Henry David Thoreau
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
