This week's blog is Quotes: In the course of the year I have had many personal challenges, growth spurts and surprising encounters. Here are some quotes that reference the kind of growth I've had in the year...
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
The first is deep love,
The second is frugality,
And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.
Because of deep love, one is courageous.
Because of frugality, one is generous.
Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world. Lao-tzu
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself. Oprah Winfrey
Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Anais Nin
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. Abraham Lincoln
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
The wisest men follow their own direction. Euripides
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Eddie Cantor
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tune in next week for updates on my new website and lipbalm.. yay!!
