Thoughtful Thursday

"The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him."
- Jan Patocka

"If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."
- Henry Miller

"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen but understanding it for the first time."
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody."
- Herbert Bayard Swope

"They can because they think they can."
- Vergil

"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."
- Seneca

"How small of all that human hearts endure / That part which laws or kings can cause or cure."
- Samuel Johnson