Take risks … be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.
—Jim Lehrer (American Television Journalist)
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
—Dante Alighieri (Italian Poet, Philosopher)
Cheerful looks make every dish a feast; and it is that which crowns a welcome.
—Philip Massinger (English Playwright)
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
—Edward Gibbon (English Historian)
I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you’re going no matter how you live, cannot you part.
—Annie Dillard (American Writer)
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.
—Bruce Lee (American Martial Artist)
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
—Remy de Gourmont (French Poet, Writer)
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
—Margaret Fuller (American Journalist, Feminist)
There is no prison like a guilty conscience.
—Welsh Proverb
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don’t have enough of, or the right kind of. It’s an ongoing process.
—Sharon Salzberg (Buddhist Teacher)
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
—Leo Aikman (American Columnist, Humorist)
The big money is not in the buying or the selling, but in the sitting.
—Jesse Lauriston Livermore (American Investor)
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (American Humanitarian)