"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."

-- Wislawa Szymborska

#Littles Quotes #Common Quotes #Grind Quotes

“Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.”

Source : Linda Ellis, Mac Anderson (2012). “The Dash: Making a Difference with Your Life from Beginning to End”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!”
“The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.”
“I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.”
“Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little that occurs around him) that the noise is often a noble uproar, "deep calling unto deep," the clamor of wonderful machinery, of great labors, of human struggles, of heroes' voices. But storms, though grand, must sink if the sea is to show the stars.”
“There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.”
“There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.”

Source : William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.11, Penguin
“Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.”

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