Quotes
Authors
Elsa Barker
"I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions." --
Source : Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
Elsa Barker
#Lazy Quotes
#Mind Quotes
#Wish Quotes
“Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.”
“It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.”
“Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.”
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”
“Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.”
“For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.”
“If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.”
“Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.”
