“It is never too late to become what you might have been.” — George Eliot
inspirational quotes
Quote of the Week for Dec. 27
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.” — T.S. Elliot, Four Quartets
Quote of the Week for Oct. 28
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human can fight, and never stop fighting.” — e.e. cummings
The Man (or Woman) in the Arena
This week had some high points (yay!) and some low points (well, there you go) and lucky for me the pluses outweighed the minuses. Since I work alone in the NH woods (with all due respect to my gifted Jack Russell, Andy), I often rely on the words and wisdom of other people who have persevered to help me plow through those low points — like working on a book chapter for a week only to realize it won’t work, at least not yet — without reaching for the Nutella jar. This week, I was reminded of Teddy Roosevelt’s speech “Citizenship in a Republic,” which he delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris on April 23, 1910.
Quote of the Week for Sept. 23
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John Shedd