Lucky (lucky)
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If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? ~John Lancaster Spalding
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Eggs cannot be unscrambled. ~American Proverb
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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ~Dr Seuss
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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I’ve observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. ~John L. McClenahan
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ~Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955
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You can see a lot by just looking. ~Yogi Berra, also often quoted as “You can observe a lot by just looking.” (original wording as yet unverified)
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Matsuo Basho
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Seeking is not always the way to find. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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Before I travelled my road I was my road. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson
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To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. ~Stanislaus I of Poland
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Matsuo Basho
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Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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There’s no fun in playing safe or by the rules, but it’s not fun being hit by a semi-truck either. ~Daniel, @blindedpoet
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He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ~Marcus Aurelius
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb