Quotes November 16, 2020

Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness

 
 
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”
James Baldwin, Paris Review Interviews II
 
 
 
 
“It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light.”
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
 
 
 
 
“She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).”
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
 
 
 
 
“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves.”
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate