Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
- Alexis Carrel, French Nobel Prize-winning surgeon (1873-1944)
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman writer (54 BC - 39 AD)
"I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
- Lin Yutang, Chinese writer, inventor (1895-1976)
Let us be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die, so let us be thankful.
- Siddhartha Gautama, Indian spiritual teacher, founder of Buddhism (563-483 BCE)
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it.
- Clarence Buddinton Kelland, writer (1881-1964)
Apologies that merit forgiveness reflect the ethical virtues of respect and responsibility. They show respect because they express a sincere, deeply held regret for the way injury was caused and responsibility because the apologizer is not only sorry but will not do it again.
- Michael Josephson
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