Quotes April 11, 2022

Happy Monday—celebrate companionship in your life, in all its wonderful forms.
Warmly,
The Good Trade Team
 
 
 
 
I have found that Centering, like clay,…bears the future within it.
M.C. Richards
 
 
 
 
All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
 
 
 
 
Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It’s about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important and enough… and then just let go of all the rest.
Duane Elgin
 
 
 
 
For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
T.S. Eliot
 
 
 
 
A poem is where the flint of soul
strikes the stone of trauma
and makes a spark.
Chelan Harkin
 
 
 
 
Anxiety is the verb, the vibe, the texture, the pH of our age.
Ellen Vora, MD
 
 
 
 
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Marcel Proust – 1871-1922 – Novelist-Critic-Essayist
 
 
 
 
“Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut
 
 
 
 
The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.
Steve Coogan,
actor, comedian, producer, screenwriter
 
 
 
 
The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but it’s in the curving paths that the best things are found.
We need to do things without expecting benefits in return.
Lygia Fagundes Telles,
writer, lawyer
1923-2022