et me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
et me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
Follow me, and let the people speak: stay still like a tower which doesn’t collapse when a strong wind blows.
-Dante Alighieri
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honoré De Balzac
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
-Henry Ford
I live like the birds on the branch. If there is no wind I stay there. But if it grows windy, I spread my wings and go where the wind carries me.
-Alexandre Dumas
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte