Thoughtful Thursday

"To find yourself, think for yourself. "
- Socrates

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power."
- Washington Irving

"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."
- Henri Frederic Amiel

"Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve."
- George Santayana

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."
- Samuel Butler

"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language."
- Joyce Carol Oates

"A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition."
- Jose Bergamin