"To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage."

-- Erich Fromm

#Thinking Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.”

Source : Israel Zangwill (2016). “The Big Bow Mystery”, p.91, Oldcastle Books
“What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.”

Source : Leonard Sweet (2001). “SoulTsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture”, p.73, Zondervan
“E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
“Perseverance and perspective until victory.”
“Have pity on a dinosaur.”
“Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”
“Happiness isn't a state, it's a skill. It's the skill of knowing how to take what life throws your way and make the most of it.”
“I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.”

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