"If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment."

-- Thich Thien-An

#Contentment Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“I don't ever look back. I look forward.”
“Why is it we love so fully what has washed up on the beaches of our hearts, those lost messages, lost friends, the daylight stars we never get to see? Bad luck never takes a vacation, my friend once wrote. It lies there among the broken shells and stones we collect, a story he would say begins with you, with me, a story that is forever lost among the backwaters of our lives, our endless fear of ourselves, and our endless need for hope, a story, perhaps an answer, a word suddenly on wing, the simple sound of a torn heart, or the unmistakable scent of the morning's fading moon.”
“The authorities in the United States confiscated private gold holdings in the Depression of the 1930's. They may seek to do so again in the Depression of the 1990's.”
“The world is your oyster when you are successful. That was when I was getting scripts. I was planning for this. I like this business. Parts of it I love, and I didn't want it to just end. The further you get away from your success, the less your phone rings. The next thing you know, it's 20 years later and you're in a mall going, "Remember when Al and I used to do something like this...”
“Blood is the god of war's rich livery.”
“By staying active & learning to control negative emotions and thoughts, you can live out the rest of your life on a good note.”
“Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.”
“Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.”

Source : Arthur Symons (1906). “An Introduction to the Study of Browning”

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