Quotes December 03-06, 2023

So give freely of yourself always to your family, your friends, your community, and your country. The world will pay you back many times over.
Sandra Day O’Connor,
lawyer, politician, jurist, first woman on the US Supreme Court
1930-2023
 
 
 
 
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton – Singer – Actress – Author
 
 
 
 
“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.”
W.H. Auden
 
 
 
 
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Roger Ascham – 1515-1568 – English Scholar-Writer
 
 
 
 
The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself.
Ellen DeGeneres – Comedian-Television Host-Actress-Writer-Producer
 
 
 
 
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Ralph H. Blum – Author
 
 
 
 
I pray this winter be gentle and kind — a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.
John Geddes,
writer
 
 
 
 
Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons.
Tana French,
writer, actor
 
 
 
 
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
Thomas Merton
 
 
 
 
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle