Beautiful quotes....

Another set of beautiful quotes from smart, intelligent and wise people...

1. Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

2. Trust only him who doubts.

3. When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well. - Lu Xun

4. Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by complete absorption in what one does. -MihalyCsiksgentmihalyi

5. When we are left alone, with no demands on attention, the basic disorder of the mind reveals itself. With nothing to do, it begins to follow random patterns, usually stopping to consider something painful or disturbing.

6. "Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy." - Ralph Ransom

7. "A desperate man is a manipulated man." - David Carvalhoj

8. "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

9. "When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger" - Chinese Proverbs

10. "Many Western doctors hold the belief that we can improve everything, even natural childbirth in a healthy woman. This philosophy is the philosophy of people who think it deplorable that they were not consulted at the creation of Eve, because they would have done a better job." - Kloosterman

11. "When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse."

12. "The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy."

13. "He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign."

14. "When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective."

15. “There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.” – Vernon Howard

17. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare

18. "A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor." - Victor Hugo

19. "I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage" - Elbert Hubbard

20. “They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”