Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. —Wallace Stevens More about this quote Tags: truth perspective walking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says. "I am coming. —Virgil More about this quote Tags: life fear death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. —William James More about this quote Tags: life change effort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two-week vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. —Dorothy Canfield Fisher More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. —Josh Billings More about this quote Tags: fighting fitness adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The birds are molting. If only man could molt also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. —James Allen More about this quote Tags: mind error man heart passion birds Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. —John Kenneth Galbraith More about this quote Tags: choice proof changing your mind Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [prison] had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress. . . . I discovered my real self in Cell 54. —Anwar Sadat More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing. —Christina Baldwin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities 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. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, I find it difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. —Lucy Larcom More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. —Voltaire More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes," he said, "I believe we're given the same lessons to learn, over and over, exactly the same experiences, till we get them right. Things keep circling past us. —Anne Tyler More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have no right to ask, when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. —Barbara Bloom More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email