Quote of the Day - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
“Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don’t.”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
“I prepared to jump into the icy cold water-to take a symbolic plunge that this would be the year of NO FEAR. Regardless of the circumstances I was facing, this would be the year where I would trust and go for it. This would be the year I would be bold in actions and faith and humble in spirit”
“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.”
“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.”
“Our doubts are traitors,
And makes us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.”
“The greatest prison that people live in is the fear of what other people think.”
“People just don’t want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.”
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it”
“Life is a series of triumphs and disappointments. Once you harness the disappointments, your triumphs will be greater.”