Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

Unnecessary

Published January 2, 2024  ·  All posts on Jan 2  ·  

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; Rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

~ C.S. Lewis

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Communication

Published December 30, 2023  ·  All posts on Dec 30  ·  

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

~ Cicero

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Mystery

Published December 19, 2023  ·  All posts on Dec 19  ·  

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Dogs

Published November 30, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 30  ·  

We give them the love we can spare, the time we can spare. In return, dogs have given us their absolute all. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

~ Roger Caras

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Cultivate

Published November 28, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 28  ·  

Give fools their gold and knaves their power, let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall, who sows a field or trains a flower or plants a tree, is more than all.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

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Character

Published November 23, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 23  ·  

Competence is how good you are when there is something to gain. Character is how good you are when there is nothing to gain. People will reward you for competence. But people will only love you for your character.

~ Mark Manson

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Watch, quietly

Published November 15, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 15  ·  

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

~ T.H. White

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I arrange my thoughts

Published November 14, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 14  ·  

[A]s I write I think about all sorts of things. I don’t necessarily write down what I’m thinking; It’s just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths. No matter how much I write, though, I never reach a conclusion. And no matter how much I rewrite, I never reach the destination. Even after decades of writing, the same still holds true.

~ Haruki Murakami

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Success

Published November 13, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 13  ·  

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

~ Warren Buffett

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