“Despair is anger with no place to go.” — Mignon McLaughlin
“Life’s most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.” — Carl Jung
“If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?” — George Carlin
“Good taste is the flower of good sense.” — A. Poincelot
“You pray for the rain, you gotta deal with the mud too.” — Denzel Washington
“To the wrongs that need resistance,
To the right that needs assistance
To the future in the distance
Give yourselves” — Carrie Chapman Catt
“You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.” — Franklin Jones
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“You can’t change the music of your soul.” — Katharine Hepburn
“If you don’t know how much you need, the default easily becomes ‘more.’” — Ryan Holiday
“Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.” — Victor Hugo
“Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out; but I can usually shut her up with cookies.” — Cora Harvey Armstrong
“The difficulty in life is the choice.” — George A. Moore
“In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time’s continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present.” — Diane Ackerman
“People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.” — Nadine Gordimer
“My mother was the worst cook ever; in school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.” — Rita Rudner
“Use soft words and hard arguments.” — English Proverb
“You cannot move away from something without moving toward something else.” — Andy Stanley
“The fishermen knows that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” — Vincent Van Gogh
“When a man tells me he’s going to put all his cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve.” — Leslie Hore-Belisha
“A golden cage is still a cage.” — Anita Krizzan
“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” — Mignon McLaughlin
“An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.” — Blaise Pascal
“When your mind stops working, don’t forget to turn off the sound.” — Vikrant Parsai
“If a patient dies, the doctor killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him.” — Italian proverb
“If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.” — Unknown
“In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.” — Donny Miller
“Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.” — Alfred Hitchcock
“Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.” — Unknown
“I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.” — Winston Churchill
“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.” — Albert Camus
“Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.” — Johann Kaspar Lavater
NOTE: NO STATUS QUOtes (SQ) tomorrow; SQ will return on Monday!
“Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.” — Scandinavian Proverb
“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.” — Baltasar Gracian
“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?” — Marcel Marceau
“You can’t put off being young until you retire.” — Philip Larkin