One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
-Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (1900-1980)
...Knows the strength
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
- Woodrow Wilson
- Woodrow Wilson
uninterrupted...?
For sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
-Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)
to be earned...
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
- Margret Thatcher
- Margret Thatcher
Heroes: See the need & respond
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
-Fred Rogers, television host, songwriter, and author (1928-2003)
...from others
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
-John Updike, writer (1932-2009)
...secure comfort
"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort."
~ Humphry Davy
Others to join...
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
-Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court justice (1933-2020)
Divine accident
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident.
-Hugh Walpole, writer (1884-1941)
-Hugh Walpole, writer (1884-1941)
Not for lack of trying
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
-Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)
so many to so few
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
- Winston Churchill
never wasted..
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882)
..worth a volume
A page of history is worth a volume of logic.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice (8 Mar 1841-1935)
Beauty is...
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
-Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564)
...discovering what you
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
- Gustave Flaubert
- Gustave Flaubert
Years to evolve?
It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!
-George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist (1904-1968)
One thing and thousand....
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
- Horace Walpole
- Horace Walpole
...crowning reward
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
-Frederic Chopin, pianist and composer (1810-1849)
Govern myself...
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
-Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
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