“At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.”
—Leo Babauta (via myquotelibrary)
February 2012
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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
—Steve Jobs (via myquotelibrary)
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
—Simone Weil (via musingsinfemininity)
“In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It’s a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.”
—Deepak Chopra (via musingsinfemininity)
“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?…I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”
—Churchill, 1908 (via taylorbrody)
“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.”
—Cullen Hightower (via myquotelibrary)
“The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via musingsinfemininity)
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it.”
—Anne Lamott (via myquotelibrary)
“Passion is the difference between having a job or having a career.”
—(via dknyprgirl)
“Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages”
—General George Washington (via whoischrisjones)
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
—Orson Welles (via picturesfromafar)
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
—Agatha Christie (via myquotelibrary)
“Rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor.. such is my idea of happiness.”
— Leo Tolstoy (via musingsinfemininity)
“Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.”
- Charles Dickens
I can’t help but admire Dicken’s passion. It’s his 200th birthday today, and I couldn’t let it pass without recognizing the man who charmed my study abroad with the lens of a Dickensian London, brought us so many great novels and words of wisdom, and wrote one of my favorite books, “Our Mutual Friend.”
“The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.”
—Charles M. Schwab (via myquotelibrary)
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
—albert schweitzer (via wordscrash)
“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”
—The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides. (via fabuloscity)
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
—Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
“You can’t love anything more than something you miss.”
—Jonathan Safran Foyer
“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly…And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via musingsinfemininity)
