On Virtue
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
• Anne Lamott
It’s not the honors and the prizes, and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted. That we never have to fear the truth. That the bedrock of our lives, from which we make our choices, is very good stuff.
• Fred Rogers
You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits.
• The Bhagavad Gita
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.
• Epictetus
Time and patience are the strongest warriors.
• Leo Tolstoy
If greatness should ever accidentally stumble upon you, let it catch you hard at work.
• Elizabeth Gilbert from Big Magic
This was, among the ferryman's virtues, one of the greatest: like only a few, he knew how to listen.
• Hermann Hesse from Siddhartha
Be generous. Be grateful. Confess when you're not.
• Rumi
