"I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions."

-- Jane Jacobs

#Grateful Quotes #Independent Quotes #People Quotes

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”

Source : Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.41
“I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. ... I'm a country songwriter and we write cry-in-your-beer songs. That's what we do. Something that you can slow dance to...I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. ... Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.”
“There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.”
“Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.”
“I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.”
“Life calls the tune, we dance.”

Source : John Galsworthy “Five Tales”, Lulu.com
“I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.”
“Never do anything that someone else can and will do, when there is so much of importance to be done which others cannot or will not do.”

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