Quotes December 11-13 2023

This is our century, dear reader, yours and mine. Let us encourage one another with visions of a shared future.
I made a few shows in my day.
Norman Lear,
screenwriter, television producer
1922-2023
 
 
 
 
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
Edmund Burke
 
 
 
 
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
Aristotle
 
 
 
 
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
Plutarch
 
 
 
 
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people.
Leonardo DiCaprio – Actor-Producer
 
 
 
 
Your current circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein – Businessman-Speaker
 
 
 
 
Being happy never goes out of style.
Lilly Pulitzer – 1931-2013 – Fashion Designer
 
 
 
 
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
Stephanie Perkins – Author
 
 
 
 
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
Anne Carson,
poet, essayist, translator
 
 
 
 
December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory.
John Geddes,
writer