Do not consider painful what is good for you.
- Euripides


Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly.
- Thomas Huxley, British biologist


In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
- Bertrand Russell


If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau


The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.
- Proverb


Love doesn't sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, writer


Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
- Lord Chesterfield