A Quotes Collection
Posted on August 2, 2013
As a writer, I’m a collector of quotes. I collect them the way other people collect baseball cards or Beanie Babies. Here are some of my recent favorites. These are all in the public domain. Do you see a theme? A progression? Enjoy!
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.Jane Austen British author |
| Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas à Kempis Dutch religious scholar |
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.Miles Davis American jazz musician |
| The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates Greek philosopher |
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.Michel de Montaigne French writer |
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.Guillaume Apollinaire French writer, poet and critic |
| ‘I have done my best.’ That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
Lin Yutang Chinese writer and inventor |
| When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
Abraham Lincoln |
| All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
Henry Miller American novelist and painter |
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette French novelist and performer |
| Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James American psychologist and philosopher |
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.Baltasar Gracián Spanish writer |
| To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
William James American psychologist and philosopher |
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.Franz Kafka German novelist |
| I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it. —
Rainer Maria Rilke poet and novelist |
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.Frederick Buechner American writer and theologian |
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