"If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself."

-- Orison Swett Marden

#Want Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.”
“One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.”
“Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.”

Source : Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy (2002). “Collected Works”, p.242, Univ of California Press
“What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.”
“The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.”
“Remove 'can't', 'won't' and 'shouldn't' from your vocabulary when they restrict attainment. Persevere if you truly believe your cause is just.”
“I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with an effusiveness and profundity quite unmatched--have found their way into book form. No one tells these tales of young Ted, Mr. Geisel, and Dr. Seuss, and makes the connections between the three of them, quite like Dr. Pease.”
“I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.”

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