Daily Wisdom

Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the
eternal. The giant weed (of evil) cannot flower there;
this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere
of eternal thought.

Helena Petrova Blavatsky

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The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches
nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though
he is in the right.

The Younger Cato

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic:
a man's own observation what he finds good of and what
he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Francis Bacon

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For I never have seen, and never shall see,
that the cessation of the evidence of existence
is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.

William Frend De Morgan

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Life precedes form, and life survives the last atom of form.
Through the countless rays proceeds the life-ray,
the one, like a thread through many jewels.

Book of Dzyan

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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must
do is the same as what they most want to do.

Wynstan Hugh Auden

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The diamond cannot be polished without friction,
nor the man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

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