“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsMayHandsValuesOughtAmountLibraryPossessionCompareDisorder Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.” MayLittlesTodayStruggleChildhoodGoodnessBottomCompareLittle ThingsGesturesBring Me Down Author:Natalia Vodianova
“Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?” FirstsMaySaidTwoSummerSeasonsInfiniteCompareJuneFrost Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“We need to stop comparing ourselves to others, and stop patting ourselves on the back for attaining artificial measurements of spirituality. We need to take care that we do not think we are something we are not, or else we may deceive ourselves, setting ourselves up for rebuke in the future when we see Christ face to face” ThinkingNeedsMayCareFacesSpiritualityChristTake CareSettingSettingsCompareArtificialDeceivingMeasurementFace To FaceRebuke Author:Dan Schilling