So I've Heard
On Life
- Voltaire -“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
On Life
- Shel Silverstein -“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
On Life
- -“Do you want to live a safe life or an authentic one?”
On Life
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
On Life
- Marcus Aurelius -“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”
On Life
- -“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”
On Life
- Christopher Poindexter -“The most beautiful people to be around are the ones with open minds. The ones who will tell you that sorrow is just as important as bliss and that at any moment, you can be whoever you want to be and love whoever and whatever you want to love, pain or a certain religion, I sit at bars and linger in coffee shops just to find these kinds of people. Without knowing it, they are slowly changing the world.”
On Life
- Peyton Conway March -“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.”
On Life
- Goethe -“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
On Life
- Jim Rohn -“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.”
On Life
- Plato -“I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.”
On Life
- -“Those who do things that count never stop to count them.”
On Life
- T.E. Lawrence -“All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recess of their minds wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people for they dream their dreams with open eyes and make them come true.”
On Life
- Samuel Ullman -“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
On Life
- C.H. -“Leave behind the expectations of what you MUST do in your life. Abandon the known. Abandon the comfortable. Abandon the accepted. Because in the end, as your lungs are taking in the last few breaths they will ever take, you will look back on the people you’ve loved, the places you’ve been, and all you’ve accomplished. Don’t you want all of that to be somewhat interesting? So, Embrace the unknown, Escape your comfort zone, Love what is different. It just might give you some good memories.”
On Life
- Tony Lawrence -“Too many people are only willing to defend rights that are personally important to them. It’s selfish ignorance, and it’s exactly why totalitarian governments are able to get away with trampling on people. Freedom does not mean freedom just for the things I think I should be able to do. Freedom is for all of us. If people will not speak up for other people’s rights, there will come a day when they will lose their own.”
On Life
- Kurt Vonnegut -“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, an exclaim, murmur, or think at some point, “if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”
On Life
- Mae Jemison -“It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”
On Life
- Lailah Gifty Akita -“Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.”
On Life
- Octavia Butler -“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
On Life
- Noam Chomsky -“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.”
