Words worth keeping

The quote collection.

Reminders for brave starts, creative days, and the moments when you need a little push.

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“No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”

“No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”

“Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.”

“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”

“What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”

“Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.”

“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.”