Thursday, August 31, 2023

August Words of Wisdom

Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself! --Betsey Johnson
 
The question is not: will today be a good day?
Every day is a good day.
The question is: how much good will you get out of today?
--James Clear
 
Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideas. --Ralph Bunche

True nobility is not about being better than someone else, but about being better than your former self. --Marcus Aurelius
 
Some people think I'm unhappy, but I'm not. I just appreciate silence in a world that never stops talking. --Unknown
 
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye. --Dorothy Parker 

Oftentimes, readers can relate more to your failures than to your successes, plus they're usually more entertaining. --Grace Ly

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn. --Albert Einstein

The wound is the place where the light enters you. --Rumi

The Constitution is not a living organism, it's a legal document, and it says what it says and doesn't say what it doesn't say. --Antonin Scalia
 
The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled. --Aldous Huxley

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. --Hannah Arendt
 
The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as an insane asylum. --George Bernard Shaw

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