Carpe diem – Seize the day. Horace Happy, Life, Opportunity, Sunday You May Also Like Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Wisdom, Wise A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. By SIR FRANCIS BACON Entrepreneurs, Opportunity We live not as we wish to, but as we can. By Menander Life, Wisdom, Wish Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: the children desert one as they grow up. By Morton Hunt Life, Mental health, Parenthood, Psychotherapy If only one could have two lives: the first in which to make one’s mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them. By D. H. Lawrence Life, Mistakes You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Persuasion, Wise You May Also Like from Horace Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. By Horace Books, Experience, Wisdom If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. By Horace Grief, Sad Wisdom at times is found in folly. By Horace Wisdom Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. By Horace Adversity
Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Wisdom, Wise
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. By SIR FRANCIS BACON Entrepreneurs, Opportunity
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: the children desert one as they grow up. By Morton Hunt Life, Mental health, Parenthood, Psychotherapy
If only one could have two lives: the first in which to make one’s mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them. By D. H. Lawrence Life, Mistakes
You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Persuasion, Wise
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. By Horace Adversity
