“Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.”
— Alfred Austin
January 2012
31 posts
“Work is much more fun than fun.”
— Noel Coward
“Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life… just one. Our life. We have nothing else.”
— Ugo Betti
“I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.”
— Christopher Fry
“To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.”
— George Ade
“The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.”
— Francis Beaumont
“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”
— Khalil Gibran
“We can’t all do everything.”
— Virgil
“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Leave no stone unturned.”
— Euripides
“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.”
— Gustave Flaubert
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Confucius
“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.”
— William Ralph Inge
“The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.”
— May Sarton
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.”
— Don Herold
“We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.”
— Ethel Waters
“Hope is a risk that must be run.”
— Georges Bernanos
“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”
— Ellen Glasgow
“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.”
— Dolley Madison
“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.”
— Edward Gibbon
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”
— Francesco Guicciardini
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.”
— Jean Ingelow
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
— Karl Barth
“The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.”
— Nadia Boulanger
“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”
— Thomas A. Edison
“Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.”
— Alexander Pope
“Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.”
— Max Beerbohm
“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”
— Mary Pickford
December 2011
32 posts
“No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.”
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Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.”
— Morihei Ueshiba
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
— John Steinbeck
“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.”
— Hannah Arendt
“God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”
— Izaak Walton
“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.”
— - Thomas Tusser
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
— Charles Dickens
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“When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.”
— Elizabeth Bowen
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
— William Arthur Ward
“There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.”
— Charles Horton Cooley
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
— Winston Churchill
“How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.”
— Robert Mondavi
“Love is the crowning grace of humanity.”
— Petrarch
“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
“Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.”
— John Updike
“If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.”
— Norman Cousins
“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”
— Virginia Satir
