Quote Of The Day – Life Insights For Today

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“Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half of the evil they say of others. ”
– Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it. ”
– Jean de La Bruyère

“Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. ”
– Jean Paul Richter

“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.”
– Joe Ancis

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own. ”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. ”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. ”
– John B. Gough

“He that is down needs fear no fall. ”
– John Bunyan

“If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it’s boring, try it for four. If you still think it’s boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you’ll find that it’s really not boring at all.”
– John Cage 

“No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here. ”
– John G. Whittier

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”
– John James Audubon

“I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best. ”
– John Keats

“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.”
– John Lubbock

“Not to know at large of things remote from use, obscure and subtle, but to know that which before us lies in daily life, is the prime wisdom. ”
– John Milton

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ”
– John Quincy Adams

“Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. ”
– John Tillotson

“Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind. ”
– Jonathan Edwards

“Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. ”
– Josh Billings

“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.”
– Joshua Reynolds

“Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he’s overcharging you.”
– Kin Hubbard 

“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. ”
– Leo J. Suenens

“History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.”
– Leonard Louis Levinson

“Some men just aren’t cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.”
– Lois McMaster Bujold

“My home is not a place, it is people.”
– Lois McMaster Bujold,

“Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined. ”
– Lucan

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
– Luther Burbank

“Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades. ”
– Madame Du Deffand

“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”
– Madonna 

“We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. ”
– Mao Zedong

“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”
– Marc Chagall

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