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

Slow down – Lily Tomlin

“For fast-acting relief try slowing down.”
 
– Lily Tomlin
 
 

Generosity – Albert Camus

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
 
– Albert Camus
 
 

Unseen – Robert M. Pirsig

“We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives.”
 
– Robert M. Pirsig
 

Remembrance – Shakespeare

“Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is gone.”
 
– Shakespeare
 

God of Money – Henry Fielding

“If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.”

– Henry Fielding

Cruelty & compassion – Hasdai Ibn Shaprut

“If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?”
 
– Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
 

Mind or heart – Sigmund Freud

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
 
– Sigmund Schlomo Freud
 

Promise of happiness – Stendhal

Beauty is the promise of happiness.
 
– Stendhal
 

Categories
Quotes

Habitual thoughts – Marcus Aurelius

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then with a continuous series of such thoughts as these: for instance, that where a man can live, there he can also live well.

 
– Marcus Aurelius

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing – Sam Ewing

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about.
 
– Sam Ewing
 

Advice – Erica Jong

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

– Erica Jong

 

 

Be who you are, say what you feel – Theodore Seuss Geise

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
– Theodore Seuss Geise

 

 

Looking at the stars – Oscar Wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

– Oscar Wilde

 

 

Today is the tomorrow – Dale Carnegie

“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

 
– Dale Carnegie

 
 

Eternity’s sunrise – William Blake

“He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity’s sunrise.”

 
– William Blake