Author: Nyx

For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union. – Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

“The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Chinese proverb

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. – Unknown

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. – Reggie Leach

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. – David Hume, 1711 – 1776

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy