In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. Miguel de Cervantes
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. Miguel de Cervantes
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. William J. H. Boetcker
Reporting from Saratoga Springs this week.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein
"I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there." - Elizabeth Gilbert (B - 1969)
American author
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world."- Paul Harding (B - 1967)
American musician
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here. Finley Peter Dunne
"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."- Sarah Ban Breathnach (B - 1947) Author, Speaker and Philanthropist
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
"We have failed to recognize our one great asset: time. A conscientious use of it could make us into something quite amazing."- Friedrich Schiller (1759 - 1805) German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright
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"My idea of the modern stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking."- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (B - 1960) American essayist
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. - Billie Holiday
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill
"Wealth is the slave of the wise man and master of the fool."- Seneca, Roman philosopher (4 BC - 65 AD)
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - E. M. Forster
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The person who is a master in the art of living makes little distinction between their work and their play, their labor and their leisure, their mind and their body, their education and their recreation, their love and their religion. They hardly know which is which. They simply pursue their vision of excellence and grace in whatever they do, leaving others to decide whether they are working or playing. To them, they are always doing both. - Zen Buddhist text
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"So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."- J. K. Rowling (B - 1965) British novelist, on her rocky early career and life
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Irish playwright
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. - Bil Keane
"Heroism is really the quest to live according to one's internal standards of right and wrong, regardless of whether the world is watching."- John F. Groom Attitude Media Publisher and Entrepreneur
I don't post on here much anymore. My last trip really left a bad taste in my mouth for Disney. I do hop on here and see the quotes of the day whether I log in or not though. Thank you for bringing a little sunshine to every day. <3
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. - William E. Gladstone
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"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."- E. E. Cummings (1894 - 1962) American poet
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James
"No home is complete without affection. You can have all the Picassos in the world or walls made of gold, but without affection it's nothing."- Claudio Luti CEO of furniture company Kartell
"I know you can't save every dog. But you can totally try to save the dog that's in front of you."- Cesar Millan (B - 1969) American-Mexican dog trainer, aka The Dog Whisperer
Good thought
"A man who makes no mistakes makes nothing."- Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Former British Prime Minister