Well1 Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry
if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work is done. Woody Allen famously declared that "eighty percent of success is showing up." NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) teaches kids how to show up again and again. — Jonah Lehrer

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things. — Ellen Barkin

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it. — Lucretia Mott

Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom. — Laurence Overmire

her untimely death. Death for her meant death for us both. — Edna O'Brien

The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is natural. But by struggling to overcome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life and develop the compassion to share the sufferings of others as our own. — Daisaku Ikeda

Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense. — Bryant McGill

I'm glad to report that even now, at this late day, a blank sheet of paper holds the greatest excitement there is for me - more promising than a silver cloud, prettier than a little red wagon. It holds all the hope there is, all fears. I can remember, really quite distinctly, looking a sheet of paper square in the eyes when I was seven or eight years old and thinking, 'This is where I belong, this is it'. — E.B. White

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind. — Plato

When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell. — Vance Havner

Who can doubt, my dear Lucilius, that life is the gift of the immortal gods, but that living well1 is the gift of philosophy? — Seneca.

Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind. — Stephen King

A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart. — Tibullus

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us. — Leona Lewis

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. — Robert Reich