I like quote books -- there is something about encapsulated wisdom that changes the way I think about things, sometimes, like a powerful pill small enough to swallow. I wouldn't say this book changed my life, but it was pleasant enough.A few I noted:
Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
– Henry David Thoreau
Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.
– Eskimo Saying
Mistakes are portals of discovery.
– James Joyce
A new broom sweeps clean, but an old one knows the corners.
– English Saying
We live in an ironic society where even play is turned to work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.
– Conrad Hyers
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
– Niels Bohr
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside; awakes.
– Carl Jung
A ship in harbor is safe. But that is not what ships are for.
– John A. Shedd
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
– Buddha
The person who upsets you the most is your best teacher, because they bring you face to face with who you are.
– Lynn Andrews
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