Week 2025-51: Orson Scott Card - Collected Quotes

"Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender’s Game", 1985)

"There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender’s Game", 1985)

"Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender’s Game", 1985)

"But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart." (Orson Scott Card, "Speaker for the Dead", 1986)

"Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty."  (Orson Scott Card, "Speaker for the Dead", 1986)

"This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question." (Orson Scott Card, "Speaker for the Dead", 1986)

"Your dream is a good one. [...] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It’s the desire for greatness." (Orson Scott Card, "Speaker for the Dead", 1986)

"All the universe is just a dream in God's mind, and as long as he's asleep, he believes in it, and things stay real." (Orson Scott Card, "The Tales of Alvin Maker: Seventh Son", 1987)

"Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth." (Orson Scott Card, "The Tales of Alvin Maker: Seventh Son", 1987)

"'If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?' [...] 'Because they are beautiful monsters', he whispered. 'And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.'" (Orson Scott Card, "Wyrms", 1987)

"Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered." (Orson Scott Card, "Xenocide", 1991)

"Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause." (Orson Scott Card, "The Call Of Earth", 1992)

"But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies."  (Orson Scott Card, "Children of the Mind", 1996)

"Here is the truth. What human life is, what it’s for, what we do, is create communities." (Orson Scott Card, "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus", 1996)

"History has no laws, and all patterns that we find there are useful illusions." (Orson Scott Card, "Children of the Mind", 1996)

"Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon." (Orson Scott Card, "Children of the Mind", 1996)

"Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts." (Orson Scott Card, "Sarah: Women of Genesis", 2000)

"He had long since learned that when something unusual was going on, he would often find out more information faster by waiting than by asking." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)

"Human evolution is driven by community needs […]. How is that possible, since genetic information is passed only by and to individuals?" (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)

"Most human communities demand anti-survival behavior from large numbers of their members." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)

"'My preliminary assessment shows that when a civil society is mature and successful, the citizens become complacent and to satisfy various needs they reinvent tribes that eventually collapse the society from the inside.' 'So both failure and success lead to failure.' 'The only question is whether it’s inevitable.'" (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)

"No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. I am your enemy, from now on. From now on I am your teacher." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)

"People reach their peak ability as military commanders much earlier than we thought. Most of them in their late teens. The same age when poets do their most passionate and revolutionary work. And mathematicians. They peak, and then it falls off. They coast on what they learned back when they were still young enough to learn." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)

"That would be true […] and indeed is true in the main, except that there are only a few types of human communities that actually survive long enough to improve the chances of individual survival." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)

"The real training ground for leadership is in the game." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)

"There are community traits that promote survival of the individual, and individual traits that promote the survival of the community." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)

"We make each other think better […]. Together, we’re smarter." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)

"[...] you can’t stay committed to one pattern. It makes you too easy to predict." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)

"In philosophy class I think we finally decided that ‘good’ is an infinitely recursive term—it can’t be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it’s better than bad, though why it’s better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)

"Patience, absolute self-control, learning the capabilities of those under you so you can make up for their deficits through training." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)

"Leading is a strange thing […]. People see it happening, but they don’t have a clue how it works. […] They don’t see what a leader does, they just see how everybody respects a good leader, and they want to have the attention and respect without understanding what you actually have to do to earn it." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)

"Some people are born to lead [...].They just think that way, whether they want to lead or not. While others are born craving authority, but they have no ability to lead." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)

"[…] that’s what science was - the sharing of information, the pooling of knowledge. (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)

"[…] the idea was for humans to colonize all their former worlds, so that humanity’s fate would not be tied to that of a single planet. (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)

"The leader only has as much power as his followers give him." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)

"The absence of information is information." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)

"We arrive at an extremely high level of technology - but with nothing under it to hold it up. If we crash, we crash all the way down." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)

"We humans can be destructive, but the universe’s thirst for creation goes on unslaked." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)

"You can’t lead people you don’t know or at least understand." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)

"You take a step, then another. That’s the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it’s a remaking of your own mind. You see things that you never saw before. Things never seen by the eyes of human beings." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)

"The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice." (Orson Scott Card, "Empire", 2005)

"A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone." (Orson Scott Card, "Pathfinder", 2010)

"Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any." (Orson Scott Card) 

"Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees." (Orson Scott Card) 

"We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness - the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction." (Orson Scott Card)

Week 2025-35: On Mind (Spiritual Texts)

"A mental image that the mind creates when processing only words is verbal delusion." (Patanjali, "Yoga Sutra", cca. 5th c. BC)

"Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being." (Patañjali,"Yoga Sutra", cca. 5th c. BC)

"Yoga occurs when the machinations, vacillations, perturbations, whirlings, spinning, and agitations (vrtti) of the mind-field (citta) dissolve, cease, and become still (nirodha)" (Patañjali,"Yoga Sutra", cca. 5th c. BC)

"When meditation is mastered, 
the mind is unwavering,  
like the flame of a lamp in a windless place." (Bhagavad Gita, cca. 2nd c. BC) 

"[…] just let your mind be like space, without clinging to a mental image of space, functioning responsively without obstruction, unminding in action and repose." ("The Sutra of Hui-neng", cca. 8th c. )

"Oh! Son of Sari! Forms of object as perceived by our mind is no different from emptiness, (and) emptiness is no different from form. Forms perceived are virtual. Virtuality is the reality of forms perceived. Such are the processing of the stimulus of perception, the mental image of the object perceived, the mental activities of analysing this object of perception and the forming of mental conception of this object." ("Heart Sutra", cca. 7th c.) [Akishi’s translation]

"The mind when sullied, / cannot be purified / in the tirthas where man bathes himself," (Yoga Darshana Upanishad)

"If while speaking of the samadhi of oneness, you fail to practice straightforward mind, you will not be disciples of Buddha. Only practicing straightforward mind, and in all things having no attachments whatsoever, is called the samadhi of oneness. The deluded person clings to the characteristics of things, adheres to the samadhi of oneness, and thinks that straightforward mind is sitting without moving and casting aside delusions without letting things arise in the mind. This they consider to be the samadhi of oneness."

This kind of practice is the same as being insentient like a rock and is the cause of obstruction to the Tao. Tao must be something that circulates freely; why should we impede it? If the mind does not abide in things, the Tao circulates freely; if the mind abides in things, it becomes entangled." (Hui-Neng, "Platform Scripture") 

"The Purusha is Divine, formless, existing inside and outside, unborn, free from Prana and mind, pure, and greater than the great unmanifest." (Swami Krishnananda, on the "Mundaka Upanishad") 

Week 2025-05: Aeschylus - Collected Quotes

"Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"But time growing old teaches all things." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"Everyone's quick to blame the alien." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"God always strives together with those who strive." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"God loves to help him who strives to help himself." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

 "I know how men in exile feed on dreams." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"It is always in season for old men to learn." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"It is best for the wise man not to seem wise." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"The man whose authority is recent is always stern." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"The wisest of the wise may err." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"The words of truth are simple." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"Time brings all things to pass." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"When a man's willing and eager the god's join in." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?" (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC) 

"Whoever is new to power is always harsh." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

"You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense." (Aeschylus, cca. 5 century BC)

Week 2024-28: Dean Koontz - Collected Quotes

"Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time - affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil." (Dean Koontz, "From the Corner of His Eye", 2000)

"Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard." (Dean Koontz, "One Door Away from Heaven", 2001)

"Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph." (Dean Koontz, "One Door Away from Heaven", 2001)

"No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make." (Dean Koontz, "Life Expectancy", 2004)

"A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost." (Dean Koontz, "The Good Guy", 2007)

"Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens." (Dean Koontz, "The Good Guy", 2007)

"Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp - and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble." (Dean Koontz, "Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog", 2009)

"Nothing can be imagined, nothing can be visualized in our minds, until we have a word for it." (Dean Koontz, "Odd Apocalypse", 2012)

"Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations." (Dean Koontz, "Odd Apocalypse", 2012)

"Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well - and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told." (Dean Koontz, "Innocence", 2013)

"To understand the universe, our world, and all life in the world, you have to step out of time, which for living humanity is not an option, because we are a part of this painting, characters within it, able to perceive it only as a continuing series of events, episodes. However, because we are conscious creatures with the gift of reason, we can seek and learn and extrapolate from what we learn, and conceive the truth."  (Dean Koontz, "Innocence", 2013)

Week 2024-27: Gottfried W Leibniz - Collected Quotes

“Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. […] It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions (principles). This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.” (Gottfried W Leibniz, 1670)

"When a rule is extremely complex, that which conforms to it passes for irregular (random)." (Gottfried Leibniz, "Discourse on Metaphysics", 1686)

"God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts." (Gottfried W Leibniz, "Protogaea", 1693/1759)

"[...] nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part." (Gottfried W Leibniz [letter to Jacob Bernoulli], 1703)

"There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible." (Gottfried W Leibniz,  "Monadology", 1714)

"The helps offered to improve the mind consist in certain ways of thinking which facilitate thinking." (Gottfried W Leibniz)

"There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance." (Gottfried W Leibniz)

"This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God." (Gottfried W Leibniz)

Week 2024-26: Ashvaghosha - Collected Quotes

"All things are originally of the mind only; they in fact transcend thoughts. Nevertheless, the deluded mind, in nonenlightenment, gives rise to irrelevant thoughts and predicates the world of objects." (Ashvaghosha, "The Awakening of Faith", cca. 2nd century)

"Ignorance does not exist apart from enlightenment; therefore, it cannot be destroyed [because one cannot destroy something which does not really exist], and yet it cannot not be destroyed [insofar as it remains]. This is like the relationship that exists between the water of the ocean [i.e., enlightenment] and its waves [i.e., modes of mind] stirred by the wind [i.e., ignorance]. Water and wind are inseparable; but water is not mobile by nature, and if the wind stops the movement ceases. But the wet nature remains undestroyed. Likewise, man's Mind, pure in its own nature, is stirred by the wind of ignorance. Both Mind and ignorance have no particular forms of their own and they are inseparable. Yet Mind is not mobile by nature, and if ignorance ceases, then the continuity of deluded activities ceases. But the essential nature of wisdom [i.e., the essence of Mind, like the wet nature of the water] remains undestroyed." (Ashvaghosha, "The Awakening of Faith", cca. 2nd century)

"The essence of all things is one and the same, perfectly calm and tranquil, and shows no sign of 'becoming'; ignorance, however, is in its blindness and delusion oblivious of Enlightenment, and, on that account, cannot recognize truthfully all those conditions, differences, and activities which characterize the phenomena of the Universe." (Ashvaghosha, "The Awakening of Faith", cca. 2nd century)

"The essence of Mind is free from thoughts. The characteristic of that which is free from thoughts is analogous to that of the sphere of empty space that pervades everywhere." (Ashvaghosha, "The Awakening of Faith", cca. 2nd century)

"The Mind, though pure in its self-nature from the beginning, is accompanied by ignorance. Being defiled by ignorance, a defiled state of Mind comes into being. But, though defiled, the Mind itself is eternal and immutable. Only the Enlightened Ones are able to understand what this means. What is called the essential nature of Mind is always beyond thoughts. It is, therefore, defined as 'immutable'. When the one World of Reality is yet to be realized, the Mind is mutable and is not in perfect unity with Suchness. Suddenly, a deluded thought arises; this state is called ignorance." (Ashvaghosha, "The Awakening of Faith", cca. 2nd century)

"The mind has five different names. The first is called the 'activating mind', for, without being aware of it, it breaks the equilibrium of mind by the force of ignorance. The second is called the 'evolving mind', for it emerges contingent upon the agitated mind as the subject that perceives incorrectly. The third is called the 'reproducing mind', for it reproduces the entire world of objects as a bright mirror reproduces all material images. When confronted with the objects of the five senses, it reproduces them at once. It arises spontaneously at all times and exists forever reproducing the world of objects in front of the subject. The fourth is called the 'analytical mind', for it differentiates what is defiled and what is undefiled. The fifth is called the 'continuing mind', for it is united with deluded thoughts and continues uninterrupted." (Ashvaghosha, "The Awakening of Faith", cca. 2nd century)

"What is called 'consciousness' (vijnana) is the 'continuing mind'. Because of their deep-rooted attachment, ordinary men imagine that I and Mine are real and cling to them in their illusions. As soon as objects are presented, this consciousness rests on them and discriminates the objects of the five senses and of the mind. This is called 'vijnana' [i.e., the differentiating consciousness] or the 'separating consciousness'." (Ashvaghosha, "The Awakening of Faith", cca. 2nd century)

Resources:
[1] Ashvaghosha, "The Awakening of Faith" (link)

Week 2024-25: Elbert G Hubbard (Collected Quotes)

"Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. As the tide goes clear out, so it comes clear in. In business sometimes prospects may seem darkest when really they are on the turn. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose." (Elbert G Hubbard, Electrical Review, cca. 1895)

"Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong." (Elbert G Hubbard, The Philistine, 1897)

"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement." (Elbert G Hubbard, The Philistine, 1901)

"The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without." (Elbert G Hubbard, The Philistine, 1907)

"Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience." (Elbert G Hubbard, "A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard", 1911)

"Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes." (Elbert G Hubbard, "The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams", 1923)

"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience." (Elbert G Hubbard, "The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams", 1923)

"An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all." (Elbert G Hubbard, "The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams", 1923)

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit." (Elbert G Hubbard, "The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams", 1923)

"To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise — and no faculty grows save as it is exercised." (Elbert G Hubbard, "The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams", 1923)

"Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books." (Elbert G Hubbard, "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard", 1927)

"Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments." (Elbert G Hubbard, "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard", 1927)

"The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible—and the man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also. Discipleship is a degenerating process to all parties concerned. People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them." (Elbert G Hubbard, "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard", 1927)

"Life without absorbing occupation is hell — joy consists in forgetting life." (Elbert G Hubbard, "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard", 1927)

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." (Elbert G Hubbard, "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard", 1927)