Difficulat deliveries...

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. 

-J.B. Priestley, author (1894-1984)

Taking less...?

The Hardest thing is to take less when you can get more!

- Kin Hubbard

Memories and Dreams

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
-Jeremy Irons, actor (b. 19 Sep 1948)

Surpass himself

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself. 

-Georges Clemenceau, statesman (1841-1929)

Short and long...

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

-Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (29 Sep 1547-1616)

Dimming consciences...

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. 

-Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)

Strung Bow

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string? 

-Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (1903-1974)

Fit the present?

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
- Golda Meir

Create an additional source

"Never depend on single income invest to create second source."

- Warren Buffet

Years VS Moments

"People forget years and remember moments."

 -Ann Beattie, novelist (b. 8 Sep 1947)

Gain time

"The end of labor is to gain leisure."

- Aristotle

Faith and doubt

When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

- Robert M. Pirsig, author and philosopher (1928-2017)

How you react...

"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens."
- Ellen Glasgow 

Teachers' Day

To follow...

Take Risk

Leap, and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs

Saying and doing...

"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."
- Iris Murdoch

Opinion vs decisions

A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion. – Chinese Proverb

Wisdom...

Can't be free

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
- Oscar Wilde

The last tree...

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. 

-Alanis Obomsawin, filmmaker (b. 31 Aug 1932)