"If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle."

-- Sholom Aleichem

#Self Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes

“You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.”

Source : Daisaku Ikeda (1975*). “The tide toward the 21st century: addresses”
“His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.”
“It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.”
“I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.”
“A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.”

Source : Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365, (388), 1926.
“With six small diamonds for his eyes He walks upon the summer skies, Drawing from his silken blouse The lacework of his dwelling house.”
“To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.”
“The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.”

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