Quotable Quotes: Engaging Wisdom
by Miki Saxon
No unifying theme or organized focus today, just an odd lot that I find particularly engaging.
We’ll start with James Cook provides some basic wisdom for living, “Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”
That advice goes hand in hand with these words from Rosalynn Carter, “If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try — you don’t take the risk.”
Failure is a passing state unless you’re dead—then it’s permanent. Jim Rohn hits the nail on the head when he says, “It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.”
In the course of daily living we frequently look at our neighbor and wish that we could trade places. When that happens remember what common wisdom tells us, “When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.”
On a more irreverent level is this from Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, who reminds us, “The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him”
And to round out the irreverent is this pearl from Winston Churchill,“…Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.”
Sad, but true.
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