Ani

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
― Spinoza

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
― Baruch Spinoza