You know, every now and then, you come across words that make so much sense to you, or intrigue you, or is just something you want to remind yourself of?
“I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.”- Anais Nin
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.”- Yeats
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.”- Elizabeth Bibesco
“If you want happiness…
For an hour: take a nap
For a day: go fishing
For a month: take a long holiday
For a year: inherit a fortune
For many years: love someone
For a lifetime: help someone.”
“People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.”- Douglas Macarthur
“At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.”- Grey’s Anatomy (I think)
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I’m capable of becoming.”- Katherine Mansfield
(saw the next one on cherylchua’s wall)
“To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded”- Emerson (though some people say it’s not from him)
