"Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him."

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Betty Smith

#Wisdom Quotes #Humility Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.”

Source : Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1948). “Championship golf”
“A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.”
“Most people/musicians hear things differently and what might please one might not please another. One man's meat is another man's poison. Don't be afraid to dig, the most important people/musicians in my life always have. If you do decide to dig, don't always expect to come up with a clean face. It's o.k. The most important lessons to me have been learned by trial and error. All I'm trying to say is "try to find yourself," as I have.”
“I think that Donald Trump, how many times during the campaign did he tell us that his plan for dealing with foreign policy was to be unpredictable? Well, there we have it.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I mean, I love Comic-Con.”
“How you educate the people around you, what steps you take toward making it better, what sacrifices you make. The equation of life is simple: There's no gain without pain. For whatever reason, that's the way this world was designed in every facet. It's the same thing, there has to be a sacrifice.”

Source : "'People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football'". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.
“No one said you can't go outside the lines.”
“Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.815, Head of Zeus Ltd

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