#pa

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#also #anything #assume #because #believe

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#away #brought #current #events #passing

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#four #never #paintings #you

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use. ↗

— Sai Baba

#jungle #lost #man #meaning #negative

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. ↗

— Sai Baba

#created #earthly #flow #his #instead

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me. ↗

— Paul Auster

#because #break #circle #difficult #extremely

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. ↗

— Paul Auster

#bread #contemporary #earn #food #french

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names. ↗

— Mary Austin

#canons #certain #clear #fame #familiar

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#championships #coast #i #indoor #pacific

Everybody makes his path differently. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#everybody #his #makes #path