Quotes May 20, 2018

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it;
blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches;
for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray
 
 
 
 
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
 
 
 
 
A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path — he does not mock and jeer at him.
Epictetus,
philosopher
 
 
 
 
Complaining is not a strategy. You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.
Jeff Bezos
 
 
 
 
What, after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them.
Jane Addams,
social activist
 
 
 
 
“Decide who you’re not before you decide who you are.”
Questlove
 
 
 
 
“The new basic principle is that in order to learn to avoid making mistakes, we must learn from our mistakes. To cover up mistakes is, therefore, the greatest intellectual sin.”
Karl Popper
 
 
 
 
Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.”
Socrates