"Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to."

-- Josh Billings

#Letting Go Quotes #Tails Quotes #Bulls Quotes

“...protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man !...”
“Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.”
“Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.”
“But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.”

Source : Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Bargain”
“There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.”
“He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.”

Source : William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1334, Delphi Classics
“Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow.”
“Every path hath a puddle.”

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