"Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities."

-- Buzz Aldrin

#Optimistic Quotes #Past Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Know whatever comes to you unexpected to be a gift from God, which will surely serve you if you use it to the fullest. It is only that which you strive for out of your own imagination, that gives you trouble.”

Source : Brandon Bays (2012). “The Journey: A Practical Guide to Healing Your Life and Setting Yourself Free”, p.196, Simon and Schuster
“In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.”
“Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.”
“If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.”
“Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.”
“An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm which could be removed by no medicines, and which was at last succeeded by a perfect palsy of the whole arm. . . . He learned to write with his left hand, which was soon thereafter seized with the same disorder.”
“You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.”
“Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.”

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