Today Quotes
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneLin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.M. Grundler
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.Natalie Goldberg, O Magazine, October 2002
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, quoted in O Magazine, October 2002
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsJames Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.Etty Hillesum, O Magazine, October 2002
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.Charlie Chaplin, O Magazine, October 2002
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.Jane Austen
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.Joseph Conrad