Art &
Philosophy

The unexamined life is not worth living.

You cannot govern an entire day; you can choose where your first attention goes.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.

A delay is sometimes an opening to look without haste.

Looking at an image can also be a way of learning and drawing inferences.

Name what you cannot control, then find the small action still within reach.

I rebel; therefore we exist.

Calm is not feeling nothing; it is not surrendering to a feeling at once.

You need no distant retreat to return to your own mind.

A good decision cannot guarantee the outcome, but it reveals your character.

Do not live as if time were endless; be good while you can.

You need not believe every thought; some simply pass through.

True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything to the present.

Do not leave today’s needed kindness to tomorrow’s uncertainty.

An obstacle can become material for action when you change your approach.

Attention is time in an unseen form; life grows where you give it.

Look within for the spring of good; keep searching and it can rise again.

Looking at a work again is not returning unchanged; you arrive as someone new.

No, a person knows how to hold back. That is what being human means.

Do not miss livable moments while waiting for a perfect one.

Your judgments and actions are yours to govern; reputation and others’ choices are not.

Anger’s first sentence need not be your final word.

Instead of demanding that events follow your wishes, learn to meet them as they come.

To revise yourself, you need not belittle who you were.

To name something wrongly is to add to the unhappiness of this world.

Trying to understand another person is also a form of courage.

You may not choose the part you are given; playing it well is your task.

Seeing the value in enough does not forbid you to hope for more.

Many fears grow in the mind before the feared event arrives.

Sometimes one honest conversation lightens the weight of a day.

Every generation, doubtless, feels called to remake the world. Mine knows it will not remake it.

Whatever someone’s status, see the human being first.

Virtue grows through repeated action, not through knowledge alone.

Every whispered doubt bears the shadow cast by the self.