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Christopher Morley: Unanimity and you
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. -Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)
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Jonathan Carroll: Beginning of love
“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.” ~Jonathan Carroll
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Abraham Lincoln: Grandfather and grandson
“I don’t know who my grandfather was; I’m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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Rodney Dangerfield: Happy till we met
My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met. -Rodney Dangerfield, comedian (1921-2004)
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Edith Wharton: Spreading light
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton, novelist (1862-1937)
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George Wharton James: Slaves to indoor life
What a pitiable thing it is that our civilization can do no better for us than to make us slaves to indoor life, so that we have to go and take artificial exercise in order to preserve our health. -George Wharton James, journalist, author, and speaker (1858-1923).
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Robert H. Jackson: Price of freedom
The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish. -Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court justice (1892-1954). Embed from Getty Images
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George Bernard Shaw: Liar’s punishment
“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” —George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950).
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Jonathan Swift: Just enough religion
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” —Jonathan Swift, author of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/171396541
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Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr: Three characters
“Every man possesses three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has.” —Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, novelist and journalist (1808-1890).
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Michelangelo Buonarroti: Mastery, not so wonderful
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all. -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564).
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Piet Hein: Co-existence
Co-existence / or no existence. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996) Embed from Getty Images
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Elizabeth Aston: First love versus next
“One’s first love is always perfect until one meets one’s second love.” ~ Elizabeth Aston.
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Jumana H-s: Best thing in life
The best thing in life is finding someone who knows all your weaknesses & yet will never take advantage of you. Jumana H-s
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Rachel Naomi Reme: Healing
”Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you — all of the expectations, all of the beliefs — and becoming who you are.” ~ Rachel Naomi Reme
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Bob Goddard: Happiness
Happiness is the art of making bouquets of those flowers within reach. ~ Bob Goddard
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Thomas Babington Macaulay: Real character
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. -Thomas Babington Macaulay, author and statesman (1800-1859). Embed from Getty Images
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James Baldwin: The flattery of children
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” ~ James Baldwin Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul
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Rene Descartes: Those who have seen nothing
It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. -Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650). Embed from Getty…
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C.S. Lewis: Friendship
Cover of C.S. Lewis “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.” ~ C.S. Lewis Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul
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Paul Auster: Only the good
Only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can’t forgive themselves. -Paul Auster, novelist and poet (b. 1947). Embed from Getty Images
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Proverbs: The key
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. -Proverb
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John Muir: Anything by itself
Image via Wikipedia When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. –John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)
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Robert Brault: Little things
Image via Wikipedia ”Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ~ Robert Brault. Related articles Courage (linusfernandes.com)
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Bertrand Russell: Individual existence
An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose…
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Elizabeth Kubler Ross: People
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.” ~ Elizabeth Kubler Ross Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul
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Unknown: Accept, learn, let go
There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go. ~ Author Unknown.
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Robert Southey: Words and sunbeams
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. -Robert Southey, poet (1774-1843). Embed from Getty Images
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Fr. Craig Scott: Scars
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, I survived. – Fr. Craig Scott.
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Lie Yona Yosephine: No time to love?
Lie Yona Yosephine If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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Angus Grossart: Exhaustion or boredom
“I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ~ Angus Grossart. Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul
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Rabindranath Tagore: Shutting truth out
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. -Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941). Embed from Getty Images
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Mark Abley: Modern English
Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand. -Mark Abley, journalist (b. 1955)
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Anonymous: Younger today than tomorrow
“You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.” ~ Anonymous
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Secret history of enemies
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/158374024
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Aldous Huxley: Experience
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” —Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963).
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Winifred Holtby: Things worth doing
“The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.” ~ Winifred Holtby
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Thomas Jefferson: Luck and hard work
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” ~ Thomas Jefferson Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Unvarnished truth
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008). Embed from Getty Images
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Francis Bacon: Root of all superstition
“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.” —Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/149418203
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Vincent Van Gogh: Not by impulse
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”~ Vincent Van Gogh. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/109891498
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Virginia Woolf: The strongest natures
The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength. -Virginia Woolf, writer (1882-1941). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/55853534
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Albert Schweitzer: What a man can do
“A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.” ~ Albert Schweitzer.
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Julia Child: Happiness and good health
Image via Wikipedia “Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.” ~ Julia Child
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Unknown: If you want to feel rich
“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy.” ~ Author Unknown. Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Gary Zukav: Love is all there is
“Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” ~ Gary Zukav. Chicken Soup for the Soul. Embed from Getty Images
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Albert Einstein: Don’t stop questioning
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.” ~ Albert Einstein Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Blaise Pascal: Words and meanings
“Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.” —Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662).
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Treating mankind
“A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient; nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca,…
