Verum Insights

I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the

loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I co

would have endured them so long.”

― Hermann Hesse

“Life

 is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that

storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome: ”Do

your worst, for I will do

mine!” Then the fates will know you as we know you.”

—

Alexandre Dumas, The Count Of Monte Christo

“The greatest benefit of wisdom is that it teaches us to master the passions”

—

Rene Descartes

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“Though much is taken, much abides; and though

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

― Alfred Lord Tennyson,

Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.”

― Tennyson

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”

― Lord Alfred Tennyson

“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

― Alfred, Lord Tennyson,

“Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.”

“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”

― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.”

― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.”

Love is the only gold.”

“My strength is as the strength of ten,

Because my heart is pure.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”

― Alfred Lord Tennyson

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”

― Alfred Lord Tennyson

Our echoes roll from soul to soul,

And grow forever and for ever.”

“That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies;

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright;

But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

To expect bad men or woman not to do wrong is madness.

The only truth is action

“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.”

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”(My Fav")

“Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been.”

“It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.”

“External thinks are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.”

“If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone.”

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” 

“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.” – Marcus Aurelius

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

“If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” – Seneca

“No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.” – Seneca

“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.” – Seneca

“He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.” – Seneca

“This is our big mistake: to think we look forward to death. Most of death is already gone. Whatever time has passed is owned by death.” – Seneca

“Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.” – Seneca

“I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.” – Seneca

“How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?” – Seneca

“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering tim ethey are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.” – Seneca

“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will—then your life will flow well.” – Epictetus

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus

“Curb your desire—don’t set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.” – Epictetus

“That’s why the philosophers warn us not to be satisfied with mere learning, but to add practice and then training. For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.” – Epictetus

“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”- Epictetus

“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…” – Epictetus

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, ‘He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would have not mentioned these alone.'” – Epictetus

CATO QUOTES

“I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.” – Cato

VIKTOR FRANKL QUOTES

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.” – Viktor Frankl

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ours

elves.” – Viktor Frankl

“For always roaming with a hungry heart / Much have I seen and known.”

work is love mae visible

“Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.”

― Alfred Lord T

He makes no friends who never made a foe

“Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.”

― John Keats