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"I
beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your
heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were
locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.
Don’t
search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because
you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live
everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far
in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live
your way into the answer…"
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." [Selection from Epictetus]
"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it." [Bertolt Brecht]
"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child." [Author Unknown]
"For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one. Happiness is a journey, not a destination." [Souza]
"The things you're scared of are usually the most worthwhile."
"It's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart." [Ulysses Everett McGill]
"If you're going through hell, keep going..." [Winston Churchill]
"In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present." [Tao Te Ching]
"To
laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest
critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate
beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch… to know even
one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to
have succeeded!" [Emerson]
"Finish
each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some
blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as
you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and
with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." [Emerson]
"Twenty
years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your
sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." [Unknown]
"If I see farther than those who have come before me, it is only because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." [Isaac Newton]
"The
meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." [Jung]
"...I
never perceived how each and every event and encounter of a lifetime,
no matter how enormous or small, leads from one to another, and
that to the next... that we might learn those lessons which show
us our worth and our place at each moment, until this, the final
moment when it is time to write, THE END." [Lynn Schooler, The Blue Bear]
"Many
people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends
leave footprints in your heart. To handle yourself, use your head;
to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short
of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he
betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who
loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more;
he who loses faith, loses all. Beautiful young people are accidents
of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Learn from
the mistakes of others. You can't life long enough to make
them all yourself. Friends, you and me ... you brought another
friend ... and then there were three ... we started our group ... our
circle of friends ... and like that circle ... there is no
beginning or end ... yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift. That is why they call it a present." [Eleanor Roosevelt]
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." [Kahlil Gibran]
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." [Virginia Woolf]
"Happiness
is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude
you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come
and sit softly on your shoulder." [Henry David Thoreau]
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage." [Anais Nin]
"When one
door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so
long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been
opened for us." [Helen Keller]
"There is no such thing as a self-made man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success." [George Matthew Adams]
"In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure." [Heart Warrior Ohosa]
"Nothing happens unless first a dream." [Carl Sandburg]
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