Dead Phoenix

Virtue is the truest nobility.  Miguel De Cervantes

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. Buddha

 -Plato

John Ruskin

THROWBACK: The Emo Song

Carl Jung

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. Simone de Beauvoir

Enjoy!

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.  Buddha

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.  Anais Nin

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.  George Washington

The earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbencies of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence. Thomas Jefferson 

Thomas Jefferson  

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.  Lawrence G. Lovasik

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt

Madame de Stael