Quotes - Julie (julieseedorf) Showing 1-22 of 22

#1

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

#2

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

tags: realist

3668 likes

#3

“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

tags: choice, evil, invitation, strategy

1973 likes

#4

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

tags: beauty, canyons, carvings, nature, perseverance, suffering, windstorms

1563 likes

#5

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

3239 likes

#6

“It isn't ever delicate to live.”
― Kay Ryan

1016 likes

#7

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

1856 likes

#8

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen

4837 likes

#9

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
― Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

1513 likes

#10

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

3145 likes

#11

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20726 likes

#12

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

3049 likes

#13

“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
― Kate Greenaway

1586 likes

#14

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset

5317 likes

#16

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

3058 likes

#17

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

6086 likes

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