Quotes – Pearls of wisdom? Or perhaps they are the spark for inspiration? If a quote speaks to you, explore the reason it does. If it is something you do not except, why doesn’t it? If quotes were charms for a bracelet I could not lift either arm. Anything that can get me thinking, defending my position, looking at something in a new light, it has served me well. Quotes are a powerhouse and just wait for us to discover them and examine what they mean to us as individuals. Perhaps there are a few you can take for a walk across the page, canvas… It is my hope you will find something among what is offered here and see where it takes you… Often I find my best work when I attack a statement I have strong feelings about regardless if they are positive or negative. In fact, the negative ones are often the most enlightening.
“If you haven’t changed your mind lately how can you be sure you still have one?” Author unknown
“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.” – Moliere
“We die only once and for such a long time.” – Moliere
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.” – Moliere
“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” – J.M. Barrie
“I am not young enough to know everything.” – J.M. Barrie
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” – J.M. Barrie
“For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.” – J.M. Barrie
“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” – J.M. Barrie
“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.” – J.M. Barrie
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A.A. Milne
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” – A.A. Milne
“You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.” – A.A. Milne
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” – A.A. Milne
“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.” – A.A. Milne
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.” – Lewis Carroll
“I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ said Alice. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the cat. ‘We’re all mad here.” – Lewis Carroll
“That’s the reason they’re called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.” – Lewis Carroll
“Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – Lewis Carroll
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” – Mark Twain
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Léa
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