Quotes July 12 & 13, 2020

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children… to leave the world a better place… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
“If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”
Joseph Addison
 
 
 
 
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”
Dr. Robert Anthony
 
 
 
 
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”
Peter Marshall
 
 
 
 
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
Clay P. Bedford
 
 
 
 
“The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.”
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
Abraham Maslow
 
 
 
 
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
Warren Buffett
 
 
 
 
How many times had those awful words – “I know what I’m doing” – been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
Christopher Buckley
 
 
 
 
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense
 
 
 
 
The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.
John Adams, letter to Patrick Henry, June 3, 1776
 
 
 
 
Too many people are trying to find the right person instead of being the right person.
Gloria Steinem
 
 
 
 
Paradise is always where love dwells.
Jean Paul Richter
 
 
 
 
Holding on is being brave, but letting go and moving on is often what makes us stronger and happier.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
It’s okay to have flaws. That’s what makes you real.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.”
Unknown