IT IS ONLY WHEN WE FORGET ALL OUR LEARNING THAT WE BEGIN TO KNOW, HENRY DAVID THOREAU
LIFE IS 10 PERCENT WHAT YOU MAKE IT AND 90 PERCENT HOW YOU TAKE IT. IRVING BERLIN
1% CONTROL THE WORLD.
4% ARE THEIR PUPPETS.
90% ARE ASLEEP.
5% KNOW AND TRY TO WAKE THE 90%
THE 1% USE THE 4% TO PREVENT THE 5% FROM
WAKING UP THE 90%.
DOROTHY DIX 1861-1951 Highest paid and Most widely read journalist
To Dorothy from “Bert”
DEAREST school-mate ever true
Let me speak my wish to you.
May you ever happy be
And from sorrows cares be free
As the stars that shine at night.
And may your onward path
Be guided by the hand of love.
I HAVE LEARNED to live each day as it comes & not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
YOU never saw Avery busy person who was unhappy.
IT IS A QUEER THING but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
NOBODY WANTS TO KISS WHEN THEY ARE HUNGRY.
WE ARE NEVER HAPPY UNTIL WE LEARN TO LAUGH AT OURSELVES.
THERE isn’t a single human being who hasn’t plenty to cry over and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
THE comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright Sid of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.
IT IS ONLY the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all then world.
FOR IN ALL THE WORLD there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age and find how steep are the stairs of another man’s house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.
MARGARET ATWOOD 1939–“THE HANDMAIDS TALE”.
WINNING INTOXICATES YOU and numbs you to the suffering of others.
YOU MAY not be able to alter reality but you can alter your attitude towards it and this paradoxically alters reality. Try it and see.
IF YOU’RE NOT ANNOYING SOMEBODY, YOU’RE NOT REALLY ALIVE.
I HOPE that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ — the human race — and that we are all members of it.
IN THE END WE’LL ALL BECOME STORIES.
IF you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
MEN are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
DON’T wait until you’re ‘in the mod.’ Get into the mood by writing.
THE FABRIC OF DEMOCRACY is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.
STUPIDITY IS THE SAME AS EVIL IF YOU JUDGE BY THE RESULTS.
I’M WORKING on my wnlife story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m taking it apart.
OPPRESSION involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
CHARLES BUXTON 1823-1871–“Slavery & Freedom in the “British West Indies”
IN LIFE AS IN CHESS FORETHOUGHT WINS.
YOU WILL NEVER ‘FIND’ TIME FOR ANYTHING. If you want time, you must make it.
EXPERIENCE shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
BAD TEMPER is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man’s venom poisons himself more than his victim.
THE FACT IS — nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.
YOU have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
A SUCCESSFUL CAREER HAS BEEN FULL OF BLUNDERS.
YOU CANNOT WIN WITHOUT SACRIFICE.
FEW THINGS ARE MORE BITTER THAN TO FEEL BITTER.
TO MAKE PLEASURES PLEASANT SHORTEN THEM.
PROVERBS ARE POTTED WISDOM.
SELF-laudation abounds among the unpolished but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
ALL HIGH TRUTH IS POETRY. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.