“Unfinished… Gauti to his credit never gave up on his dream but that is usually not how it goes, i mean usually it isn’t a speeding bus that keeps the brown pointy weird church from being built. Most of the time it’s just too difficult or too expensive or too scary, it’s only once you’ve stopped, that you realize how […]
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“Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?” – Joan Didion
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Henry Thoreau was languishing in jail after he had refused to pay the Massachusetts poll tax in 1843 [to protest the Mexican-American War], Ralph Waldo Emerson came to visit him and asked him why he was there. “Waldo, why are you not here?” said Thoreau. – Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes
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“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” ― Barbara De Angelis
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“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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“Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?” . . . “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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“The best of times is now!” – Oprah Winfrey
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“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
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