Favourite quotes

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. (Oscar Wilde)

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. (Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. (Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I )

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. (Aristotle)

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. (Aristotle)

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."  (Oprah Winfrey)

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.  (Oprah Winfrey)

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings. (Oprah Winfrey -1954)