If I were to travel back in time, I might urge the young man I was to set the books aside for a minute, open the windows, and let in some fresh air. I’d tell him to relax, go meet some people, and enjoy the pleasures that life reserves for those in their twenties.
– from A Promised Land book by Barack Obama
Category: Quotes
Life is our résumé. It is …
Life is our résumé. It is our story to tell, and the choices we make write the chapters. Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?
– from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Hope sustains life. Hope is the …
Hope sustains life. Hope is the elixir of survival during our darkest times. The ability to envision and imagine a brighter day gives meaning to our suffering and renders it bearable. When we lose hope, we lose our central source of strength and resilience.
– from Will book by Will Smith
It’s never just business. It never …
It’s never just business. It never will be. If it ever does become just business, that will mean that business is very bad.
– from Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight
Maybe that’s the rite of passage …
Maybe that’s the rite of passage before you become a man – realizing your father doesn’t have life figured out any more than you do.
– from Ugly Love book by Colleen Hoover
It may not be possible to …
It may not be possible to do away with government – sometimes I think that government is an inescapable disease of human beings. But it may be possible to keep it small and starved and inoffensive – and can you think of a better way than by requiring the governors themselves to pay the costs of their antisocial hobby?
– from The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress book by Robert A. Heinlein
Human beings have a tragic habit …
Human beings have a tragic habit of remembering the things that would be smart to forget and forgetting the wonderful things it would be wise to remember.
– from The 5 AM Club book by Robin Sharma
Books were more than words on …
Books were more than words on paper; they were portals to other places, other lives.
– from The Lost Bookshop book by Evie Woods
The great irony of investing is …
The great irony of investing is that the more you watch and fiddle with your holdings the less well you are likely to do. Fill your basket, add as much as you can along the way and ignore it the rest of the time. You’ll likely wake up rich.
– from The Simple Path to Wealth book by J. L. Collins
Dear one, time will teach you …
Dear one, time will teach you what you refuse to learn from your well-wishers.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni