"It's so easy to wish that we'd made an effort in the past, so that we'd happily be enjoying the benefit now, but when now is the time when that effort must be made, as it always is, that prospect is much less inviting."

-- Gretchen Rubin

#Monday Quotes #Past Quotes #Effort Quotes

“You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.”

Source : "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poetry is in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus .. or just what's in your heart'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2009.
“O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.”
“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”

Source : Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.503, Routledge
“The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.”
“Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.”
“Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Most of our notions about the world come from a set of assumptions which we take for granted, and which, for the most part, we don't examine or question. We bring these assumptions to the table with us as a given. They are so much a part of who we are that it is difficult for us to separate ourselves from them enough to be able to talk about them. We do not think these assumptions, we think from them.”
“It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.”

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