Half of our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
— Will Rogers
Tag Archives: wise words
Wise Words: George Bernard Shaw: why?
You see things, and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”
— George Bernard Shaw
Wise Words: Julia Cameron: start
Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.
Wise Words: Cicero
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Wise Words: Natalie Goldberg
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
Wise Words: Maxwell Maltz
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Wise Words: William Strunk & E. B. White: writing
Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn’t been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.
Wise Words: Anne Wilson Schaef
Asking for help doesn’t mean that we are weak or incompetent. It usually indicates an advanced level of honesty and intelligence.
Wise Words: Lewis Carroll
Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Wise Words: William James: attitude
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
