Quotes June 09, 2018

Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin
 
 
 
 

“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”
Benjamin Disraeli
 
 
 
 
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”
James Baldwin, Paris Review Interviews, II
 
 
 
 
“Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.”
“Habit makes all things bearable.”
Ovid
 
 
 
 
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals
 
 
 
 
“How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.”
Terence
 
 
 
 
“To be mature you have to realize what you value most. It is extraordinary to discover that comparatively few people reach this level of maturity. They seem never to have paused to consider what has value for them. They spend great effort and sometimes make great sacrifices for values that, fundamentally, meet no real needs of their own. Perhaps they have imbibed the values of their particular profession or job, of their community or their neighbors, of their parents or family. Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
 
 
 
 
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them!”
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac
 
 
 
 
“The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
 
 
 
 
“And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.”
Raymond Carver, “Late Fragment”