"I have never been able to understand the compelling phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It does not matter very much whether I keep up with Tom Jones or anybody else; what is important is to keep up with myself by making my today a little better than my yesterday."

-- Eknath Easwaran

#Yesterday Quotes #Important Quotes #Doe Quotes

“In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.”
“And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.”
“Spring: trees flying up to their birds”
“I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.”
“Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it”
“You know, we've been right on everything, haven't we? We told people about drones five years ago, didn't we? We told people about the NSA five years ago, didn't we? We told them about indefinite detention. We told them you can't come after the internet, that's unconstitutional. You can't do warrantless searches, that's unconstitutional.”
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.”
“As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.”

Source : Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (2001). “Two Years Before the Mast”, p.15, Digital Scanning Inc

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