So I've Heard
On Life
- W. Somerset Maugham -“It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.”
On Life
- Oseola McCarty -“If you want to feel proud of yourself, you’ve got to do things you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions.”
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
- Viktor E. Frank -“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
On Life
- Androl -“Small things were important. Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man’s life.”
On Life
- Lewis Carroll -“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
On Life
- Rumi -“Seem as you are or be as you seem”
On Life
- Brian Cox -“The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement about individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense.”
On Life
- Norman Vincent Peale -“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
On Life
- Ray Bradbury -“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
On Life
- Frances Hodgson Burnett -“Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.”
On Life
- Mark Jenkins -“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.”
On Life
- Zen -“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
On Life
- Travis Fisher -“You never know, and that’s the beautiful part.”
On Life
- Subbu Peteti -“To reduce your age, increase your experiences.”
On Life
- Robert Frost -“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life… It goes on.”
