"If someone throws you the ball, you don't have to catch it."

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Source : Richard Carlson (1997). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff”, Hyperion

Richard Carlson

#Choices Quotes #Balls Quotes #Ifs Quotes

“The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.”
“To express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art.”
“Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.”
“It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.”

Source : Giambattista Vico, Thomas Goddard Bergin (1948). “The new science of Giambattista Vico”
“Value your words. Each one may be the last.”
“You know what the bodega is? It's the little Latin store, and they try to act like it's a grocery store. It has two aisles. And the guy, he always tries to help me, 'You looking for the bread?' I was like, 'Dude, I can see it right here, alright.' He's like, 'Hey, hey, it's in aisle two.' That's all you got, what are you talking about?”
“I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.”
“May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul.”

Source : FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 12, 2014

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