Thomas A. Kempis

If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

Verily, when the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

Man proposes but God disposes.

Sic transit gloria mundi - Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

W dniu sądu zapytają nas o to, czego dokonaliśmy, a nie o to, co przeczytaliśmy.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

Człowiek miłujący spokój jest bardziej potrzebny niż mędrzec.