The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G.K. Chesterton
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw