"The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days."

-- Sue Monk Kidd

#Memories Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Book Quotes

“Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best when soonest wrought,Linger'd labours come to nought.”
“Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.”

Source : Linux Kernel mailing list, 1999.
“How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.”
“Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.74, Penguin
“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
“I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.”
“I need to be able to explain myself in context.”
“Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.”

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