Quotes October 07-08, 2023

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary – 1919-2008 – Mountaineer
 
 
 
 
The reward for our work is not what we get, but what we become.
Paulo Coelho – Author
 
 
 
 
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan – 1934-1996 – Astronomer-Planetary Scientist
 
 
 
 
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter – an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
 
 
 
 
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
“Hanlon’s Razor” – Robert J. Hanlon
 
 
 
 
There is nothing like the death of a moneyed member of the family to show persons as they really are, virtuous or conniving, generous or grasping. Many a family has been torn apart by a botched-up will. Each case is a drama in human relationships — and the lawyer, as counselor, draftsman, or advocate, is an important figure in the dramatis personae. This is one reason the estates practitioner enjoys his work, and why we enjoy ours.
Attorneys Jesse Dukeminier and Stanley M. Johanson
 
 
 
 
People almost never make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought. By way of compensation they demand freedom of expression instead.
Sören Kierkegaard
 
 
 
 
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
Silence is golden… unless you have a preschooler, then silence is suspicious.
Bluebird of Bitterness