Rimantas

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”
― John Ruskin

“The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”
― John Ruskin