You would do well to budget your time as follows: one-half in work… one fourth in social pastimes with others… and one fourth as an interested, pleased observer of life.
-William B. Terhune
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #62
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
-Eric Hoffer
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #63
But now you love a hyacinth. So much the better. You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
-Henry Tilney in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #64
Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen.
-Governor Jerry Brown
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #65
Anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present.
-Roger Rosenblatt
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #66
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate,-that’s my philosophy.
-Thornton Wilder
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #67
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
-Ingrid Bergman
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #68
What we truly and earnestly to be, that in some sense we are.
-Anna Brownell
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #69
The maxim “nothing avails but perfection” may be spelled PARALYSIS.
-Sir Winston Churchill
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #70
We should not make light of the troubles of children. They are worse than ours, because we can see the end of our troubles and they can never see the end.
-William Middleton