“Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.” MenArtLife IsCoursesSeaWindSeriesCurrentsShipsConquerCrushTidesReducing Book:The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated Source: The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
“The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.” MenGreaterConstitutionSeriesRoundsVicesComplainingFollyDeceitUnhappinessFraudInherentPettyDegradeKnaves Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.” IfsMenWellsSoulSeriesLive Well Author:Marcus Aurelius