Kurt Hahn - to settle for less

Photography: Lily during her Pacific Jewel Cruise
January 19-29, 2010

"There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less." ~Kurt Hahn

Willa Cather Quotes

"Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody." ~from MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather

"Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always." ~Willa Cather

"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke." ~Willa Cather (1873-1947)

"The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world." ~Willa Cather

"The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire." ~Willa Cather

"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great." ~Willa Cather

"There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that." ~from "The Bohemian Girl" (1912) by Willa Cather

"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies." ~Willa Cather (1873-1947)

"Where there is great love, there is always miracles." ~Willa Cather

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Joan Jet - science and spirit

"I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet." ~Joan Jett

Hans Margolius - quiet waters

11 October 2009
Taupo, New Zealand

"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." ~Hans Margolius

Democritus Quotes

"But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down." ~Democritus

"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." ~Democritus

"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss." ~Democritus

"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it." ~Democritus

"Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature." ~Democritus

"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry" ~Democritus

CTTO

"The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest." ~Democritus 

"The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement." ~Democritus

"The secret of my health is applying honey inside and oil outside." ~Democritus

"The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world." ~Democritus

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Douglas MacArthur Quotes

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent." ~Douglas MacArthur

"Duty, Honour, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be." ~Douglas MacArthur

"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself." ~Douglas MacArthur

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." ~ Douglas MacArthur.

"You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt;
as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear;
as young as your hope, as old as your despair." ~Douglas MacArthur

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Edith Lovejoy Pierce - first chapter

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Clementine Paddleford - wishbone

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be." ~Clementine Paddleford

Emma Goldman Quotes

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck." ~Emma Goldman

"The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another." ~Emma Goldman

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H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

"Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Every once in a while, take the scenic route.”  ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Let people know what you stand for - and what you won't stand for." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” ~Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Never deprive someone of hope it may be all they have ." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr. from Start from the Heart

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Alford Street, Quakers Hill
Autumn Morning 2006

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Author, "Life's Little Instruction Book"

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr. (PS I Love You)

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Sam Keen - imperfect person

"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."~ Sam Keen

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Randy Sparks - a million tomorrows

The Entrance, NSW
October 2007
"A million tomorrows shall all pass away
'Ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today." ~Randy Sparks

Joe Clark - deafeat

"Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it." ~Joe Clark

Groucho Marx Quotes

"A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast." ~Groucho Marx

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself:
I — not events — have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." ~Groucho Marx

"Home is where you hang your head." ~Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

"Humor is reason gone mad." ~Groucho Marx

"I dream of a better tomorrow where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives." ~Groucho Marx

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ~Groucho Marx

"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." ~Groucho Marx

"My mother loved children — she would have given anything if I had been one." ~Groucho Marx

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." ~Groucho Marx

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." ~Groucho Marx

"She may look like an idiot, talks like an idiot but don't let that fool you, she really is an idiot" ~Groucho Marx

"The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open." ~Groucho Marx

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.” ~Groucho Marx

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.” ~Groucho Marx

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Gerald Jampolsky Quotes

"Healing is knowing that the only reality in the universe is love." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Healing is knowing that forgiveness is the key to happiness and offers me everything that I want. Healing is knowing that the only reality in the universe is love, and that love is the most important healer known to the world." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Healing is letting go of the fearful child so many of us carry inside, and awakening to the innocent child who has always been within us." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we have always been." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Healing is releasing from the past. It is retraining my mind so as not to see the shadow of the past on anyone. It is learning not to make interpretations of people's behavior or motives. It is letting go the desire to want to change another person. It is letting go of expectations , assumptions , and the desire to control or manipulate another person." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Love is letting go of fear." ~Gerald G. Jampolsky

Courtesy by Lily Dancel
Pacific Jewel Cruise 2010

"Love is the total absence of fear. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"The world does not have to change. The only thing that has to change is our attitude." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed." ~Gerald Jampolsky on Volunteerism

"To heal is to trust in a creative force that is loving and forgiving, and to know in our hearts that there is no separation and we are all joined in love with God and each other. It means that all hearts and minds are joined as one." ~Gerald Jampolsky

Milan Kundera Quotes

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.” ~Milan Kundera

"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." ~Milan Kundera

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” ~Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object." ~Milan Kundera

Bio

Milan Kundera is a Czech-born writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Wikipedia

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Arthur Schnabel - pauses between notes

"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides." ~Arthur Schnabel

Sarah Mclaughlan - you gave me light

"Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light." ~Sarah Mclaughlan

Vicki Hitzges - discipline

"If you discipline yourself today, you'll enjoy your life more tomorrow." ~Vicki Hitzges

Meister Eckhart Quotes

"If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is, "thank you," that would suffice. "~Meister Eckhart

"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."~Meister Eckhart

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“And suddenly you know; it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of new beginnings.” ~Meister Eckhart

"If you want someone to speak to you, speak to them.
If you want someone to hear you, listen to them.
If you want someone to trust you, trust them.
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world
speak the same language."
~Meister Eckhart

"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me: my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one Love." ~Meister Eckhart

"The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind."  ~Meister Eckhart

"To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind." ~Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 AD, German Mystic)

"Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us." Meister Eckhart

“We are all Mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born” ~Meister Eckhart

"We are to practice virtue, not possess it." ~Meister Eckhart

"Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it." ~Meister Eckhart

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Ralph Marston Quotes

"Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it." ~Ralph Marston

Other Quotes

"Be truly thankful for what has brought you here, whatever it may have been. Then let the past go and let yourself soar into a magnificent, fulfilling future." ~Ralph Marston

"Beauty talks in the language of the heart. The magnificence of a sunset, or of a violin concerto, cannot be adequately conveyed in words. Just as food nourishes our body, beauty nourishes our spirit. It inspires and challenges us to do great things. But you don’t need to be rich or powerful to enjoy the sublime pleasure of beauty. The only thing you need is the willingness to appreciate the beauty that is already around you - in nature, in other people, in works of art, architecture, music and literature. In a world where creativity and innovation are essential in every aspect of life, beauty is a powerful fuel for successful living." ~Ralph Marston

"Don’t allow the past to imprison you or discourage you. Instead, let the opportunities of the present inspire you to take solid, effective action." ~Ralph Marston

"Enjoyment is not something we take. It is something we give. Enjoyment is not a function of our circumstances. Enjoyment is a choice we can make, regardless of the circumstances. When we choose to enjoy where we are, it opens our eyes to the positive possibilities. When we decide to enjoy what we’re doing, our effectiveness skyrockets. Enjoy your day, and you add joy not only to your own life but also to all of life around you. Enjoy who you are, and from who you are will flow great and meaningful value. Give the gift of your own genuine enjoyment. Demonstrate your gratitude and immense respect for life by truly enjoying each precious moment." ~Ralph Marston

"Every positive thing in your life represents a single unique blessing. Every negative thing in your life has the opportunity to become a double blessing. For when you turn a negative into a positive, you gain twice. You are no longer burdened with the negative situation, and in addition to that you are strengthened by a new positive force." ~Ralph Marston.

"EXCELLENCE is not a skill. It is an ATTITUDE." ~Ralph Marston

"Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you." ~Ralph Marston

["Let go of your thoughts about what could be, or should be, or might have been. Be here now, fully and lovingly. Give your attention to the miracle of what is. See the great value and beauty that is right in front of you, here and now.

Let your thoughts arise and then let them go. There’s no need to wander away from the wholeness of this moment. Don’t hurry ahead to whatever is next. Be here now, and give all the power of your awareness to living the wonder and value of what is.

What you truly desire is not out there somewhere, and is not waiting for someday to appear to you. It is yours to manifest and enjoy in this moment. There is great power and ability in your presence. Be here now, and live the treasure that is already yours in this very moment." ~Ralph Marston]

"Love is never easy, yet it is easily the most powerful and positively enduring choice. Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive the past, and love your way forward." ~Ralph Marston

"There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them." ~Ralph Marston

"There is a thought in your mind right now. The longer you hold on to it, the more you dwell upon it, the more life you give to that thought. Give it enough life, and it will become real. So make sure the thought is indeed a great one" ~Ralph Marston

"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have." ~Ralph Marston

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." ~Ralph Marston

"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?" ~Ralph Marston

"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality." ~Ralph Marston

"Your triumphs of the past are now little more than pleasant memories. Reach inside, touch your most compelling purpose, and bring your best possibilities to life." ~Ralph Marston

"You can transform your world in an instant by the way you choose to see it. You can change problems into opportunities, anxiety into enthusiasm, and despair into determination." ~Ralph Marston

"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality." ~Ralph Marston on Reality

"Spread Your Kindness"

"Live as though every positive thing you do will start a chain reaction, the culmination of which is so beneficial you cannot even imagine. Live as though even the smallest kindness, passed along from one person to another, can change the world for the better.

Live as though every good thing you do is multiplied many times over before surely and eventually returning to you. For that is indeed the way life can work.

You have a far greater influence than it may seem over people and events, even those far removed from you. Because the way you act toward others gets passed along in ever-increasing numbers.

Think about how you do it yourself. If someone has been kind and considerate to you, you're far more likely to act with kindness toward others, and many of them will do the same.

If in one hour you were to spread kindness to just three people, and each of them did the same, and the process continued to repeat itself, the results would be astounding. It would take less than 24 hours for that kindness to be spread to every person in the world.

Spread your kindness and consideration freely and respectfully to others. And the positive benefits will go farther than you can possibly imagine." ~Ralph Marston

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Earl Nightingale Quotes

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination." ~Earl Nightingale

"Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn." ~Earl Nightingale

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." ~Earl Nightingale

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured." ~Earl Nightingale

"Most people tiptoe through their life hoping to make it safely to their death." ~Earl Nightingale

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." ~Earl Nightingale

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us." ~Earl Nightingale

"Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us." ~Earl Nightingale

"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfilment." ~Earl Nightingale (1921-1989)

"We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light." ~Earl Nightingale

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within." ~Earl Nightingale

"We tend to live up to our expectations." ~Earl Nightingale

"What's going on in the inside shows on the outside." ~Earl Nightingale

"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality." ~Earl Nightingale

"Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind." ~Earl Nightingale

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Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

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"All we have is all we need. All we need is the awareness of how blessed we really are." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Begin today. Declare outloud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

2004
Stanbury Place
Quakers Hill Home

"Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend ... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure — the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"How could I expect more from the universe when I didn’t appreciate what I already had?" ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"I acknowledged the deep longing in my heart. What I hungered for was an inner peace that the world could not take away." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"I felt humbled by my riches and regretted that I took for granted the abundance that already existed in my life." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"I wish I had known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman' I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd been born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but to it with open arms." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Little changes [and] little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

“New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream.” ~Sarah Breathnach

"Only dreams give birth to change." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully."~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Our success already exists on a spiritual level; it's a matter of pulling it into the physical world." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers, but, above all, the world needs dreamers who are doers." ~Sarah Breathnach

"This moment is always the best one in which to express your care for others." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away our lives by focusing only on what tomorrow could, should, would bring." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Today, and everyday, take as your personal mantra: I am what I am and what I am is wonderful." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and always grateful 'HEART'." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"When I surrendered my desire for security and sought serenity instead, I looked at my life with open eyes." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"...while working your dream a reality, feel the joy of your accomplishment and savor it with celebration and thanksgiving." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

"You've got to make a conscious choice everyday to shed the old-whatever "the old" means for you." ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Marcel Proust Quotes

Westmead Council Roadside Garden

May 2009
"Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom." ~Marcel Proust

Photography: Lily on her Pacific Jewel Cruise
January 19-29, 2010

"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each of them sees." ~Marcel Proust French novelist and one of the great literary figures of the 20th century (1871-1922)

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"Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life." ~Marcel Proust

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress." ~Marcel Proust

“But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.” ~Marcel Proust, "In Search of Lost Time." From Oriah Mountain Dreamer

"Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade." ~Marcel Proust

"Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now." -Marcel Proust from Read, Love and Learn

"Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces." ~Marcel Proust

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." ~Marcel Proust

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time." ~Marcel Proust

"It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions." ~Marcel Proust

"It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body." ~Marcel Proust

"Love is space and time measured by the heart." ~Marcel Proust

"My destination is no longer a place, but a new way of seeing." ~Marcel Proust

"One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be." ~Marcel Proust

"Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter." ~Marcel Proust

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground." ~Marcel Proust

"Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present." ~Marcel Proust

"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." ~Marcel Proust

"Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance." ~Marcel Proust

"The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love." ~Marcel Proust

"The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains." ~Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 — November 18, 1922) in Remembrance of Things Past, Part 2: Within a Budding Grove

"The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." ~Marcel Proust

"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory." ~Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist

"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them." ~Marcel Proust

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full." ~Marcel Proust

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey through the wilderness, which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we must come at last to regard the world." ~Marcel Proust

"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond." -Marcel Proust


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Thornton Wilder Quotes

"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value." ~Thornton Wilder

"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate; that's my philosophy." ~Thornton Wilder

"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion." ~Thornton Wilder

"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day." ~Thornton Wilder

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"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love." ~Thornton Wilder

"We are most alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." ~Thorntorn Wilder

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." ~Thornton Wilder

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