Another in our series of interesting, thought-provoking or humourous quotes recently encountered.
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.
[Hamlet IV, v]
Self-confidence doesn’t consist of knowing for sure something will go well. It has more to do with relaxing with the certainty that you can handle uncertainty, even if that means some kind of failure.
[Mark Tyrell]
All the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.
[Eckhart Tolle]
She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
[Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park]
Books en masse are more than a library, they are a statement of identity.
[Mark Miodownik, Stuff Matters]
Friendships must be built on a solid foundation of alcohol, sarcasm, inappropriateness and shenanigans.
[Source unknown]
The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.
[Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching]
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
[Sir William Osler]
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
[Marcus Aurelius]
Amidst al the shoppinge and eatinge, remembir whatte the holidayes are trewely aboute: fightinge off the wolf who hath stolen the sun.
[Chaucer Doth Tweet, ‏@LeVostreGC on Twitter]
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
[Samuel Johnson, 1759]
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
[Soren Kierkegaard]
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
[Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching]