Author: SS

My good friends tell me I'm genuine, kind, intelligent, wise, and funny. But I wouldn't take their word for it, they're mainly idiots (an example of me trying to be funny).

"I contain multitudes"
- Walt Whitman

Liberation – Alain de Botton

“It’s liberating to recognise that pessimism never protected anyone from disasters.”
 
– Alain de Botton
 

Right and wrong – Rumi

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
 
– Rumi
 

Confidence – Woody Allen

“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”
 
– Woody Allen
 

Youth – Unknown

“You were once the youngest person on earth.”
 
– Unknown
 

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Green grass – Unknown

“The grass is greener where you water it.”
 
– Unknown
 

Choices and abilities – J.K. Rowling

“It’s our choices that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
 
– J.K. Rowling

Sadness and happiness – Jonathan Safran Foer

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
 
– Jonathan Safran Foer
 

Win and learn – Dr Brooke Magnanti ‏

“Some days you win. Some days you learn.”
 
– Dr Brooke Magnanti
 

Yesterday, tomorrow and today – A.A.Milne

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
 
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
 

Procrastination – Uknown

“Procrastination: working tomorrow for a better today.”
 
– Unknown
 

Share, celebrate, love – Dr Leo Buscaglia

“No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.”
 
– Dr. Leo Buscaglia
 

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Comfort zone – Neale Donald Walsch

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
 
– Neale Donald Walsch
 

Brilliance or bullish*t – Unknown

“If you can’t beat ’em with brilliance, baffle ’em with bullshit.”
 
– Unknown
 

Knowledge, Wisdom – Zen proverb

“Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.”
 
– Zen Proverb
 

Start today – Karen Lamb

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
 
– Karen Lamb