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To take the measure of oneself by reference to one’s colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
SENECA

Adversity Fire Gold Men One Liner Prove
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Shortness Waste
You can buy muscles, but you can’t buy COJONES!
BAS RUTTEN

Buy Cojones Muscle
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
DENIS DIDEROT

Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.
VIRAT KOHLI

Mindset Myself Play Sports Yourself
Writers should provoke disagreement.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Agreement Argument Writing
Music is the only thing keeping the peace when I’m falling into pieces.
LIL PEEP

Fall Music Peace Pieces
When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you’re like, “What is this?”
KRISTEN STEWART

Change Love Ownership
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Black Ignorance Live Ourselves Travel
That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Delusion Kind Self
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Decided Dresses Memorable
Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Children Communication God Honesty Miracle Time
Life is about the pursuit of excellence. That pursuit is probably more exciting to me now more than ever.
JOE ROGAN

Excellence Excitement Life Myself Pursuit
You were the easiest to love. Hardest to leave. And impossible to forget.
SONIKA M

Easy Forget Hard Impossible Leave Love
In the beginning was the word, but it wasn’t a fixed number of bits.
BOB BARTON

Bits Fixed Numbers
He put his cold hands on either side of my face and fixed his golden eyes on mine. Would you please tell me what you’re thinking? Before I go mad?
STEPHENIE MEYER

Cold Eyes Face Gold Hands Mad Myself Thinking