More Quotes

Did not sleep well last night. Woke up very early this morning and started reading a book of quotes that I bought on the cheap, at MPH yesterday. It helped calm me down.

Just to share some with you, for this Sunday morning:

"Unhappiness is best described as the difference between our talents and our expectations" - Edward De Bono

"It is an old ironic habit of human beings to run faster, when we have lost our way" - Rollo May

"What you have become is the price you paid, to get what you used to want" - Mignon McLaughlin

"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breath" - Martin Luther King Jr.

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook" - William James

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man, while he lives" - Albert Einstein

"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact" - Bertrand Russell

"For him that has no concentration, there is no tranquility" - Bhagavad Gita

"Every Man is entitled to be valued by his best moments" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is only one success - to be able to spend life in your own way" - Christopher Morley

"I imagine that one of the reasons people cling on to their hates so stubbornly, is because, they sense, once the hate is gone - they will be forced to deal with the pain" - James Baldwin

"The greatest happiness you can have, is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness" - William Saroyan

"There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self" - Samuel Johnson

"You see things; and say "Why?". But I dream of things that never were and I say, "Why not?" " - George Bernard Shaw

"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure" - John Gardner

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity" - Thomas Huxley

"We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage - and indeed, perhaps more" - Pearl S. Buck

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes and fears or wishes, rather than with their minds" - Will Durant

"Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self" - Cyril Connolly

"It's not the men in my life that counts - it's the life in my men" - Mae West

"The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it" - Goethe

"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand" - George Santayana


And one last one:

"Get in, get into that place where it's your nature, whether it's running a corporation or picking daisies in the field, get in there and live to it, live to the fullness of it, become what you are and I'll say to you, you've done more than most men.

Most men,...most of them don't ever do that.

They'll work at a job and not know why. They'll marry a woman and not know why. They'll go to their graves and not know why" - E.L. Doctorow


Have a good weekend, folks!