"As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today."

-- Aminu Kano

#Strength Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Children Quotes

“She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, â€˜All are shadows!â€”all are passing!â€”all is past!”
“Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.”
“The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.”
“Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.”
“There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.”

Source : Benjamin Wiker (2008). “10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help”, p.5, Regnery Publishing
“Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some peopleâ€™s flames are so still they donâ€™t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you canâ€™t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire.”
“I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.”
“Follow your arrow / Wherever it points,”

Source : Song: Follow Your Arrow, Album: Same Trailer Different Park, 2013

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