Bright Drops Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen. — Freya Stark

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters. — Oscar Wilde

Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis. — Susan Forward

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented. — Donald Rumsfeld

How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect? — Wolfgang Pauli

We must recognize that the reality of another's fear is not to be estimated by our own attitude toward the object of the fear, but by the attitude of the person who fears. It is the fear, not the object, which is the reality. — Frances G. Wickes

FOR TREES THAT LIVE in the snow, winter is a journey. Plants do not travel through — Hope Jahren

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs. — Horace

There is nothing so intractable as a calendar. — Margery Sharp

Out of the sad sack of sad shit that was my life, I made a wordhouse. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told. — Umberto Eco

There is only one thing in the world that is really valuable, it is to do good. — African Spir

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live. — Tehyi Hsieh