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Marcel Proust – voyage

Mind Quote / Paris, France / 1871- 1922 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Lizard sunbaking, Coogee Australia / LoadingBookmark / Print /
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

– Marcel Proust

 

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Henry David Thoreau – thanksgiving

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence.”

Reinhold Niebuhr – serenity prayer

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.”

Aesop – feathers

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

Aristotle – habit

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald – a smile

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”