Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
-Aristotle
Any task that looks very difficult from a distance, remember...the same once
commenced, never proves to be that difficult.
-Deep Trivedi
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
-Paulo Coelho
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
Light tomorrow with today.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browing
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
-Virginia Woolf