Quotes July 18, 2020

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Rabindranath Tagore
 
 
 
 
No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Teachings of the Buddha
 
 
 
 
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero,
statesman, philosopher, lawyer
 
 
 
 
Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.
Mario Quintana,
poet, writer, translator
 
 
 
 
“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
James Thurber
 
 
 
 
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
Seneca
 
 
 
 
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’”
Erich Fromm
 
 
 
 
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe
 
 
 
 
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.“
Groucho Marx
 
 
 
 
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
Viggo Mortensen
 
 
 
 
“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.
Mario Quintana,
poet, writer, translator