When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
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Siri Hustvedt
In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
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Zadie Smith
The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.
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Clare Francis
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come...
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A.E. Housman
More Quotes By George E. Woodberry
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication sympathy and service.
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.
Always begin anew with the day just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.