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James A. Garfield: Wrinkles
“If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.” ~ James A. Garfield.
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Bernard Berenson: Search For Truth
Embed from Getty Images Between truth and the search for truth, I opt for the second. -Bernard Berenson, art historian (1865-1959).
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Eric Idle: Comedy, humour and satire—seriously
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This…
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Tom Robbins: Decisions
“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” ~ Tom Robbins Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Anonymous: Be led by your dreams
“Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams.” ~ Anonymous Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Phyllis Dryde: Life, love and laughter
Image via Wikipedia “Life, love and laughter — what priceless gifts to give our children.” Phyllis Dryde Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul
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Orson Welles: What to ask for
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.” ~ Orson Welles. Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Pierce Brosnan: Love and dancing
”Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.” ~ Pierce Brosnan. Chicken Soup for the Soul http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/149694488
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Anonymous: Caring and knowing
“People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – Anonymous Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Jerome K Jerome: Idleness and work
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. -Jerome K. Jerome, humorist and playwright…
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William James: Make a difference
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ~ William James. Chicken Soup for the Soul.
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Winston Churchill: Courage
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ~ Winston Churchill.
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Paulo Coelho: Hide your craziness
“Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That’s all you need.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Convictions
“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” —Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900).
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Albert Einstein: Never tried anything new
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ~ Albert Einstein. Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul
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Confucius: Wisdom
Image via Wikipedia “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” ~ Confucius, Chicken Soup for the Soul.
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William Hazlitt: Fear of death
Image via Wikipedia “Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when you were not: that gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?…
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Catherine the Great: The more a man knows, the more he forgives
“The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” ~ Catherine the Great Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul
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Pastor Rick Warren: Music
Music is a miraculous medicine that can calm you down or fire you up. The greatest music draws you to God. —Pastor Rick Warren. Embed from Getty Images
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Pastor Rick Warren: Music
Music is God’s gift to us for expressing emotion. —Pastor Rick Warren. Embed from Getty Images
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Pastor Rick Warren: Friends
Friends show up.They walk into your life when everyone else walks out. —Pastor Rick Warren.
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Paulo Coelho: Changes
“Changes only happen when we go against everything we’re used to doing.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: In matters of conscience
“In matters of conscience the law of majority has no place.” —Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948).
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Unknown: Sky’s not the limit
“Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” ~ Author Unknown
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Josh Billings: Yes, too quickly. No, not soon enough.
“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.” ~ Josh Billings.
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Albert Camus: Absolute justice
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction: therefore it destroys freedom. –Albert Camus, writer, philosopher, Nobel laureate (1913-1960). Embed from Getty Images Related articles Co-ordination and disintegration (linusfernandes.com)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Thousand forests
”The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Paulo Coelho: Revenge
“A very small dose of revenge is always good for your health.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Albert Schweitzer: Optimists and pessimists
”An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
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Martin Luther King Jr.: Measure of a man
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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Richard Dumb: Dreams
“Don’t follow your dreams; chase them.” ~ Richard Dumb
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George Carlin: Person on the left
“In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.” ~ George Carlin
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George Eliot: Never Too Late
”It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot.
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Benjamin Spock: Trust yourself
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” ~ Benjamin Spock
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W. Clement Stone: Courage
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” ~ W. Clement Stone. Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Paulo Coelho: The present
“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.” —Paulo Coelho
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Dalai Lama: Prime purpose
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can ’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.“ ~Dalai Lama
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Thomas Huxley: Opinions
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. -Thomas Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1895)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Prosperity and calamity
“No man has a prosperity so high or firm, but that two or three words can dishearten it; and there is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882).
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Herman Melville: Assumptions
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” —Herman Melville, novelist and poet (1819-1891).
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Dr. Seuss: Love
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss. Embed from Getty Images
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Paulo Coelho: Victim
“If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.” ~Paulo Coelho http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/150574555
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John Steinbeck: Co-ordination and disintegration
“Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, that processes of co-ordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the co-ordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no…
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William Somerset Maugham: Unchanged minds
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind. -William Somerset Maugham, writer (1874-1965) Embed from Getty Images
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr: Moderate giftedness
“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into…
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Paulo Coelho: Dress up, show up
No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up and show up. —Paulo Coelho http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/96231163
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Don Marquis: Human, cousins
human wandering through the zoo / what do your cousins think of you. -Don Marquis, humorist and poet (1878-1937). Embed from Getty Images
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William Hazlitt: Pain
“The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.” —William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830).
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Francesco Guicciardini: Friends
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” —Francesco Guicciardini.
