Today Quotes
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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.Helen Keller
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.Confucius
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.Helen Keller
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.Eleanor Roosevelt
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.Eleanor Roosevelt
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
Discretion is not the better part of biography.Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Stravinsky