Beeckman Dimitri Quotes & Sayings

I have no doubt that, one way or another, you'll fill the empty spaces left behind. — Neal Shusterman

All partings foreshadow the great final one. — Charles Dickens

Once you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier, his mother said to him. — Paul Bowles

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Victory belongs to the most persevering. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Your words are containers for power, and by the words you speak you frame your world! — Paula White

In the third month of autumn it blows down the leaves
to open up the second month's flowers.
On the river are waves of a thousand feet.
Among the bamboo, ten thousand are dry and slanting — Li Qiao

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot. — Bruce Chatwin

The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many, eliminates the nonessentials, and then removes obstacles so the essential things have clear, smooth passage. In other words, Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless. — Greg McKeown

I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus. Adapted to freezing deep-ocean temperatures, I'd flop around down there at
peace. The big concerns of my life would be what sort of bottom-coating slime to feed off of - that's not so different from now - plus I wouldn't have
any natural predators; then again, I don't have any now, and that hasn't done me a whole lot of good. But it suddenly makes sense: I'd like to be
under the sea, as an octopus. — Ned Vizzini