Desideratum Book Quotes & Sayings

Only the shallowest person believes that they can attain true happiness by maximizing their wealth at any cost. In absence of morality, ethics, and a sustainable philosophy to guide us in an ethical search for happiness, we will always perceive life's random countervailing forces of adversity and unpleasantness as inflicting a great personal injustice upon us. Through application of a deeply embedded personal philosophy, we can push back against the negative implications of a life of suffering. We can use a philosophical stance to gain the perspective needed to say 'yes' to all of life, both its rosy path of ineffable joys and a blackened trail of tears. We must learn to accept life as it truly is and not waste precious time in wistfulness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them. — Johann Lamont

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon. — Arthur Lynch

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. — William Shakespeare

Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream. — Thomas Carlyle

The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are. — Lord Chesterfield