Quotes February 13, 2021

The worst has happened. The best is next.
Paul George
 
 
 
 
Rudeness is the weak person’s imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer
 
 
 
 
Certainty is based on flimsier evidence than most of us realize.
Ellen J. Langer
 
 
 
 
A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.
Donna Brazile
 
 
 
 
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
 
 
 
 
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett
 
 
 
 
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
Vin Scully
 
 
 
 
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they’ve been hurt, they’re sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that’s protecting this tiny, dear part in them that’s still alive.
Jeff Bridges
 
 
 
 
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius
 
 
 
 
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity–which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves–we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves.
James Baldwin
 
 
 
 
“I used to try to decide which was the worst month of the year. In the winter I would choose February. The reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.”
Katherine Paterson
 
 
 
 
Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.
Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography
 
 
 
 
Consistency is so important. Be consistent with your positive energy, if you wish to reap positive results.
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