Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

—Seneca

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

—Seneca

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

—Seneca

One should count each day a separate life.

—Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

—Seneca

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all—he's walking on them.

—Leonard Louis Levinson

We should remember that it is easy and foolish to sneer at the mistakes or barbarities of remote ages.

—Hermann Hesse

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

—Charles Austin Beard

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

—Lillian Hellman

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us, and call that handful of sand the world.

—Robert Pirsig