Good Morning quotes
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“They can because they think they can.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book V, p. 153
“Happiness and Beauty are by-products.”
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“Understand me who can, for I understand myself.”
Canzone 105, st. 2
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“Friends are the family you can pick.”
Attributed quotes
“The birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.”
A Birthday, st. 2.
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
“Give If You Can - Take If You Have To.”
Inscription on sculpture by Jacek Tylicki. Palolem, India, 2008. Published on cover of book: "Jacek Tylicki: Art and Artworks", 2014, ISBN 9780985369231
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
As quoted in Meditations for Living In Balance: Daily Solutions for People Who Do Too Much (2000) by Anne Wilson Schaef, p. 11.
“There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.”
The source is likely to be either modern Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, or Calvinist clergyman Abraham Johannes Muste. The phrase appears in Thich Nhat Hanh's writings; but it also appears in a volume of US senate hearings from 1948, when Thich Nhat Hanh had not yet been ordained as a monk. Muste is known to have used a variant of the phrase – "'peace' is the way" in 1967, but this was not the first time he had used it, and he had a connection with the 1948 hearing.
Misattributed
“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”
Address to the Nebraska Republican Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska (16 January 1936)
“There is less there than meets the eye.”
On Prime Minister Clement Attlee, to President Truman, in 1946. When Truman defended Attlee (‘He seems a modest sort of fellow’), Churchill replied ‘He’s got a lot to be modest about.’ As cited in The Origins of the Cold War in Europe (1994), Reynolds, Yale University Press, p. 93 ISBN 0300105622
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Vol. 2, Ch. 2: Our Relation To Ourselves http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/counsels/chapter2.html
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
Context: Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
“They can because they think they can.”
Possunt, quia posse videntur.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 231 (tr. John Conington)
“So these are changes that are important.”
Donovan: "We are all one shining Being" (1998)
Context: Today I can’t comment on what the problem is in China, Russia, or Africa without realizing again and again the Diamond Sutra, which says that we look at the world and see it as separate but in fact, this is an illusion, but the reality is that we are one shining being. Until this can be understood, I can’t see any change. But I see some change now. There is a world consciousness. In the "old" New Age, they talked about the Age of Aquarius being an age of enlightenment. And now when a man goes to the moon he sees the earth. Before when someone did meditation he or she could meditate on the earth and the moon but now a man and a woman can see that we are on one planet and that the water is polluted and that the air is dirty. So these are changes that are important. But when we spoke about these things in the 60s people said we were dreamers.
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
“Self-trust is the first secret of success.”
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
“There is value in NOT doing a thing.”
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