1725424's blog: "quotes for the day"

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony."

—Thomas Merton

Money is a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."

—Henry James A new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later." —Diana Vreeland Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. ―Ralph Waldo Emerson You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ―Mahatma Gandhi

The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks. —Wallace Stegner Life can only be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards. — Søren Kierkegaard Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. ―Christian Nestell Bovee An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight...The truly wise person is color-blind. —Albert Schweitzer

It is the ability to choose which makes us human. — Madeleine L’Engle Don’t worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that’s creativity. — Peter Max There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent you just touch it up once in a while. — Pearl Bailey Love is love. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. — Leo Tolstoy Perfection is attained by slow degrees, it requires the hand of time. — Voltaire In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. — Aaron Rose

When you tug at a single thing in nature, you find it attached to the rest of the world. — John Muir Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. — Louis de Bernières Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. — Victor Hugo Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free . . . your true self comes out. — Tina Turner The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. — Jill Churchill You play the hand you’re dealt. I think the game’s worthwhile. — CS Lewis

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. — Joseph Campbell Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things. — Benjamin Franklin

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. — Vernon Lee Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. — Virgil Democracy is…the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. — Mencius They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. — Mahatma Gandhi We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. — Thornton Wilder

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. — Abraham Lincoln Joy is the best makeup. — Anne Lamott Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. — Blaise Pascal

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. — Eleanor Roosevelt Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. — Gloria Steinem Wine should be taken in small doses; knowledge in large ones. — Chinese proverb Design is not for philosophy — it's for life. — Issey Miyake Democracy is…the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. — Allan K. Chalmers