Quotes You Like

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

Success is not final,
Failure is not fatal,
it is the Courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill (attributed)

Don’t do something permanently stupid because you are temporarily
upset!

~ Anonymous

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars;
the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

~ H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
Agatha Christie

“It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.”
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Do you have a favourite saying?” asked the boy.
“Yes, “ said mole. “If at first you don’t succeed, have some cake”

( The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse )

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” asked mole.
“Kind”, said the boy.

( The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse)

"A moment's courage or a lifetime of regret. That's always been the choice."
- Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright, "Endeavour"

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

~ Will Durant
US historian (1885 - 1981)

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
C.S. Lewis

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
― Walt Whitman

“Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life