Two Thoughts (14 - 20 April)

Sunday, 14 April

Two thoughts from Rollo May

"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way."

"Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose."

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Monday, 15 April

Two thoughts from Johann Gottlieb Fichte

"What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is."

"A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not."

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Tuesday, 16 April

Two thoughts from Etty Hillesum

"Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning."

"Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up."

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Wednesday, 17 April

Two thoughts from Daisaku Ikeda

"Unless we live fully, not “sometime” in the future, but right now, true fulfillment in life will forever elude us."

"So many of life’s conflicts find their origin and cause in envy. Envy ruins and destroys people’s hearts."

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Thursday, 18 April

Two thoughts from Miguel de Unamuno

"We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past."

"None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much."

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Friday, 19 April

Two thoughts from Baron de Montesquieu

"The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded."

"To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise."

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Saturday, 20 April

Two thoughts from Alfred de Musset

"Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits."

"How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception."

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