Five$tacks

““No” and “yes” are short words requiring long thought.”

Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you’re willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature.

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.”

“Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.”

“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”

“The deed is everything, the glory nothing.”

“Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.”

“It is hard to fight against anger, but harder still to fight against pleasure.”

“Daring begins an action, but luck controls its end.”

“At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.”