So I've Heard
On Life
- Danny Kaye -“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.”
On Life
- Jennifer Elisabeth -“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”
On Life
- Lao Tzu -“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”
On Life
- Charlotte Eriksson -“Leave that room, kid. Shut the screen off. Take your dirty shoes, not the pretty ones, and go out to feel the wind. Touch water. Touch earth. Touch wood, touch skin, touch everything you can touch and memorise everything because that’s all you will live off in the end, and that’s all you will need.”
On Life
- Unknown -“I know you’re sad, so I won’t tell you to have a good day. Instead I advise you to simply have a day. Stay alive, feed yourself well, wear comfortable clothes, and don’t give up on yourself just yet. It’ll get better. Until then, have a day.”
On Life
- Anna Quindlen -“All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.”
On Life
- Unknown -”You’re better off spending time alone than spending time with people who will hold you back with their victim mentality. Hang around people who want to be happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don’t mind saying sorry or thank you.”
On Life
- Po Bronson, What Should I Do With My Life? -“There are far too many smart, educated, talented people operating at quarter speed, unsure of their place in the world, contributing far too little to the productive engine of modern civilization. There are far too many people who look like they have their act together but have yet to make an impact. You know who you are.”
On Life
- Katrina Mayer -“You can’t find happiness at the end of your journey if you didn’t bring it with you all along.”
On Life
- Leonardo da Vinci -“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”
On Life
- Ben Stein -“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.”
On Life
- Andrea Gibson -“Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.”
On Life
- Dan Smith, The State of the World Atlas -“As we encounter each other, we see our diversity — of background, race, ethnicity, belief – and how we handle that diversity will have much to say about whether we will in the end be able to rise successfully to the great challenges we face today.”
On Life
- Jack Keroauc -“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
On Life
- Dhammapada -“If while on your way you meet no one your equal or better, steadily continue on your way alone. There is no fellowship with fools.”
On Life
- Anon -“I asked for wisdom
And God gave me problems to solve.
I asked for prosperity
And God gave me brains and the strength to work.
I asked for courage
And God gave me danger to overcome.
I asked for love
And God gave me troubled people to help.
I asked for favors
And God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted
I received everything I needed
My Prayer has been answered.”
On Life
- Anon -“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.”
On Life
- Paulo Coelho -“If you only walk on sunny days, you’ll never reach your destination.”
On Life
- Shannon Hale -“You don’t need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless.”
On Life
- Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie -“Accept who you are; and revel in it.”
On Life
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden -“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.”
