{"id":2349,"date":"2013-08-02T13:23:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2013-08-02T13:23:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T17:23:29","slug":"a-quotes-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/2013\/08\/02\/a-quotes-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quotes Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a writer, I\u2019m a collector of quotes.\u00a0 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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.<\/i><\/h3>\n

Jane Austen<\/strong> British author<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.<\/i><\/p>\n

Thomas \u00e0 Kempis\u00a0<\/strong>Dutch religious scholar<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.<\/i><\/h4>\n

Miles Davis\u00a0<\/strong>American jazz musician <\/b><\/b><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.<\/i><\/p>\n

Socrates\u00a0<\/strong>Greek philosopher<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.<\/i><\/h3>\n

Michel de Montaigne<\/strong>\u00a0French writer<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.<\/i><\/h4>\n

Guillaume Apollinaire\u00a0<\/strong>French writer, poet and critic<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

‘I have done my best.’ That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Lin Yutang\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Chinese writer and inventor<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.<\/i><\/p>\n

Abraham Lincoln<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.<\/i><\/p>\n

Henry Miller <\/strong>American novelist and painter<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.<\/i><\/h3>\n

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette<\/strong> French novelist and performer<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>William James <\/strong>American psychologist and philosopher<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.<\/em><\/h3>\n

Baltasar Graci\u00e1n\u00a0<\/strong>Spanish writer<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.<\/i><\/p>\n

William James\u00a0<\/strong>American psychologist and philosopher<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. <\/i><\/h4>\n

Franz Kafka <\/strong>German novelist<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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. — <\/em><\/p>\n

Rainer Maria Rilke <\/strong>poet and novelist<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.<\/em><\/h3>\n

Frederick Buechner<\/strong>\u00a0American writer and theologian<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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