Neel Burton Quotes
It takes ten good decisions to make up for one disastrous one. This is why it is better not to make nine good decisions than to make one bad one—which is what happens most of the time.
A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.
Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.
A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't.
One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both.
Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.
Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.
A genius is no more—and no less—than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.
Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.
It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.
The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them.
Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.
Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.
There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.
