Quotes to chew on

“Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well-lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day, for it is life, the very life of life.”

~ from The Sanskrit

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.”

~ John Neal

“The most valuable talent of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

~ Thomas Jefferson

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”

~ Mark Twain

“Men’s energies are consumed in making a living, and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.” ~ Lin Yutang “It is good to love as many things as one can, for therein lies true strength; and those who love much, do much, and accomplish much;and whatever is done with love is done well.”

~ Vincent Van Gogh

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

~ Walter Cronkite

“The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us / Most often are the very ones that end us.”

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

“Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts—only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.”

~ Racquel Welsh

“Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.”

~ Henry Miller