Karroubi Letter Quotes & Sayings

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. — Sigmund Freud

Make doing your best a habit, and you'll never know not doing your best. If you build roads, then build them Roman - make them last two thousand years. Dig ditches as if you were taking them to the state fair to win another blue ribbon for best ditches ... — Carew Papritz

Chasing the external to achieve joy is a death-trap for personal-development. — Bryant McGill

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. — Rick Bass

We must also make ourselves flexible, to avoid becoming too devoted to the plans we have formed, and we should make the transition to the state that chance has brought us to without dreading a change either in our purpose or our condition, provided that we are not falling prey to fickleness, a vice entirely at odds with repose. — Seneca.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider. — Thomas Carlyle

When confronted with problems, most companies try to make small changes or Band-Aid fixes and hope things get better or that the problem goes away. This approach doesn't work and ensures that they'll waste vast amounts of time and energy. — Jason Jennings

It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word. — Henry De Montherlant

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other. — Jane Yolen