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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Enthusiasm
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Daniel L. Reardon: Optimism and pessimism
“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.” ~ Daniel L. Reardon
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Angela Schwindt: Life and children
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” Angela Schwindt; Chicken Soup for the Soul: Indian Teachers
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William Somerset Maugham: Happy chance
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” —William Somerset Maugham, writer (1874-1965).
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Ezra Pound: Human wisdom and human comprehension
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension. -Ezra Pound, poet (1885-1972)
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Paramahansa Yogananda: Magnetic heart
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, Chicken Soup for the Indian Armed Forces Soul
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Aldous Huxley: Excuses
Image via Wikipedia “Several excuses are always less convincing than one.” —Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963).
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Gloria Steinem: Planning and dreaming
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning” ~Gloria Steinem, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Power Moms
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Willa Cather: Calm and storm
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm” ~Willa Cather, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Power Moms
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Anais Nin: Dream As A Kite
Image via Wikipedia “Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.” —Anais Nin, author (1903-1977).
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Salman Rushdie: Unthinkable thinkable
“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.” ~ Salman Rushdie; Chicken Soup for the Indian Teenage Soul
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Mortimer J Adler: Good books
“In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” —Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, educator and author (1902-2001).
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Dare
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Jim Rohn: Success
“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn.
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Frank Zappa: From information to beauty
“Information is not knowledge;knowledge is not wisdom;wisdom is not truth;truth is not beauty.” – Frank Zappa.
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Joann Thomas: Good, firm push
Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. – Joann Thomas.
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Henry Fielding: Envy and emulation
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. -Henry Fielding, author (1707-1754)
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Tommy Lasorda: Determination
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” ~Tommy Lasorda, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners
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W S Gilbert: What’s on the chairs?
“It isn’t so much what’s on the table that matters, as what’s on the chairs.” ~ W.S. Gilbert, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters
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Mahatma Gandhi: Remake ourselves
“As human beings, our greatness lies not in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, from Chicken Soup for the Indian Teenage Soul
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Arthur Koestler: Creative Activity
“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” —Arthur Koestler, novelist and journalist (1905-1983). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/114338860
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Phil Whyman: Who’s in charge?
“Giving up is your brain’s idea. Ask yourself, who’s in charge here?” ~Phil Whyman, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners
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Emily Dickinson: Faith
“Faith” is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see — / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency. -Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)
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James Runcieman Sutherland: Modern prose
Modern prose has become, like modern manners and modern dress, a good deal less formal than it was in the nineteenth century. -James Runcieman Sutherland, professor and writer (1900-1996)
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Washington Allston: Only competition
Image via Wikipedia “The only competition of a wise man is with himself.” ~Washington Allston, quoted in “Runners”
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Gene Fowler: For themselves…
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. -Gene Fowler, journalist and author (1890-1960)
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William Shakespeare: To thine own self be true
“This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.” —William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (1564-1616).
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Rick Warren: Integrity
Image via Wikipedia Integrity is like virginity.Once you give it up it’s gone for good.”The dishonest are ruined by their own duplicity”Pr11:3 Rick Warren on Facebook.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Extreme justice and injustice
“Extreme justice is extreme injustice.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE).
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Oliver Goldsmith: Better sermon
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”—Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician (1730-1774)
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Joseph Addison: Time
Cover via Amazon “The best thing to spend on your children is your time.” ~ Joseph Addison, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grand and Great.
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Jorge Luis Borges: Life—a quotation
Image by Yellow Snow Photography via Flickr “Life itself is a quotation.” – Jorge Luis Borges
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Yahia Lababidi: Collisions
Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions. -Yahia Lababidi, author (b. 1973)
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Benjamin Franklin: Energy and persistence
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin.
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Bill Gates: Teachers and bosses
Image via Wikipedia If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. he doesn’t have tenure. ~ ~ Bill Gates.
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Talmud: As we are
We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are. – Talmud.
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George Lucas: Do or do not
Image via Wikipedia “Do or do not. There is no ‘try.’” ~ George Lucas, Jedi Master Yoda, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners. Embed from Getty Images
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Zen Proverb: Move
“Move and the way will open.” ~Zen Proverb, “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners”
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H.G. Wells: Bend a little
Image via Wikipedia “Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.” ~H.G. Wells, quoted in “Happily Ever After.”
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Albert Einstein: Miraculous life
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~ Albert Einstein
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Franz Stampfl: Coach’s job
Embed from Getty Images “The coach’s main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.” ~Franz Stampfl, quoted in “Runners.” Related articles by Zemanta Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Jogging Mommy (beliefnet.com)
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Thomas Edwards: To rejoice and to mitigate
“To rejoice in another’s prosperity, is to give content to your own lot; to mitigate another’s grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.” —Thomas Edwards. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/155888597
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John Updike: Artist
“The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.” —John Updike, writer (1932-2009).
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George Bernard Shaw: Lifetime of happiness
Image via Wikipedia “But a lifetime of happiness! No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Garrison Keillor: Shallow life
Image via Wikipedia It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars. – Garrison Keillor on Salon.com Related articles by Zemanta “Employing tricks like needless pagination, auto-refreshing (see Salon.com), misleading headlines,…” (marco.org) Salon.com Boosts Readership and Revenue in Second Quarter 2010 (eon.businesswire.com) Salon.com Announces First Book in Brand-new Reading Club (eon.businesswire.com) GARRISON…
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Christian Nestell Bovee: Beauty in life
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless and other half discreditable.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
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Florence Scovel Shinn: Game of boomerangs
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. -Florence Scovel Shinn, writer, artist and teacher (1871-1940)
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C. Roach: Pessimism
A pessimist looks a donut and sees only the hole. – C. Roach.
