Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 122
Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
Alexis Sanchez
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.
Robert B. Parker
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.
Young-Ha Kim
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
B. C. Forbes
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
Jean Nidetch
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.
John Eliot
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bernard Williams
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint Basil
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
Jeff Bridges
