"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness."

-- Nana Mouskouri

#Believe Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Appreciate Quotes

“Discern the vital few from the trivial Many.”
“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.”
“You can't be a winner if you're a whiner...wiener.”
“The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.”
“Dear Lord, I pray that my place will never be with the cold, timid souls who do not compete yet criticize, for they never know or feel success or failure.”

Source : "Bob Stoops: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 15, 2011.
“In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?”
“Aikido can be summed up like this: True victory is self-victory; let that day arrive quickly! (True victory) means unflinching courage; (self-victory) symbolizes unflagging effort; and (let that day arrive quickly) represents the glorious moment of triumph in the here and now.”
“Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers, and strong reasons.”

Source : Thomas Cranmer (1846). “Miscellaneous Writings and Letters of Thomas Cranmer”, p.63

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