Quotes

A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.

Beautiful →

Published October 26, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 26  ·  , ,

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.

~ Helen Keller

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Leave a trail →

Published October 25, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 25  ·  ,

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Exerting yourself →

Published October 24, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 24  ·  , ,

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you’re going to while away the years, it’s far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive than in a fog, and I believe running helps you do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: That’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—and for me, for writing as well. I believe many runners would agree.

~ Haruki Murakami

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Silence →

Published October 23, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 23  ·  ,

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

~ Mark Twain

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Youthful exuberance →

Published October 22, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 22  ·  ,

You are only young once. After that you have to think up some other excuse.

~ Billy Arthur

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Creative work →

Published October 21, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 21  ·  , ,

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

~ Mary Oliver

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Have it over →

Published October 20, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 20  ·  

Don’t stand shivering upon the bank; Plunge in at once and have it over.

~ Haliburton

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Learners →

Published October 19, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 19  ·  ,

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

~ Eric Hoffer

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Too late →

Published October 18, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 18  ·  ,

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

~ Alexander Pope

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Reading →

Published October 17, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 17  ·  ,

Reading must occur every day, but it is not just any daily reading that will do. The day’s reading must include at minimum a few lines whose principal intent is to be beautiful—words composed as much for the sake of their composition as for the meaning they convey.

~ Mandy Brown

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