Never take the thatch off your own house to buy slates for a neighbor’s.
-Irish proverb
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #32
What I fear most about stress is not that it kills, but that it prevents me for savoring life.
-Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #33
Be nice, feel guilty, and play safe. If there was ever a prescription for producing a dismal future, that has to be it.
-Walter B. Wriston
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #34
On choice: we can afford it. We just can’t afford it and everything else.
-Peggy Kagan
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #35
Misfortune does not always come to injury.
-Italain proverb
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #36
There are offences given and offences given but not taken.
-Izaak Walton
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #37
Eighty percent of life is showing up. Day by day, year by year…
-Ellen Goodman
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #38
We should have no regrets. We should never look back. The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in experiences it brought is something we had to know.
-Rebecca Beard
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #39
Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life.
-attributed to Kalidasa, Hindu poet
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #40
I am not an early riser. The self-respect which other [people] enjoy in rising early I feel due me for waking up at all.
-William Gerhardi