Quotes May 31, 2017

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
 
 
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law, 1930-present
 
 
Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983
 
 
You can have the nine greatest individual ballplayers in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth,
baseball player
 
 
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
Thomas Jefferson,
third US president
 
 
“The mind…is rarely so disturbed, but that the company of a friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.”
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
 
 
“The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.”
Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
 
 
“I’m glad to report that even now, at this late day, a blank sheet of paper holds the greatest excitement there is for me—more promising than a silver cloud, prettier than a little red wagon. It holds all the hope there is, all fears. I can remember, really quite distinctly, looking a sheet of paper square in the eyes when I was seven or eight years old and thinking, ‘This is where I belong, this is it.’”
E. B. White, letter to Stanley Hart White January 1947
 
 
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
Pema Chödrön