Belvedere Times

Inspiring Ideas

Michael Stone, Editor-in-Chief

Inspiration

 

FIRST FIG

My candle burns at both ends,

It will not last the night,

But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends,

It gives a lovely light.

• Enda St. Vincent Millay

''We are the times

such as we are

such are the times''

• St. Augustine

Yesterday is history,

Tomorrow is a mystery,

Today is a gift,

That's why it is called-

The present.

• B. Olantunji

''Our greatest glory is not in never falling,

but in rising every time we fall.''

• Confucius

''To live is the rarest thing in the world,

most people exist, that is all''

• Oscar Wilde

''If you want to be happy, be''

• Leo Tolskoy

''We must be the change we wish to see''

• Gandhi

''Blessed are those who can give without remembering

and take without forgetting''

• Elizabeth Bibesco

''This above all; to your own self be true''

• William Shakespeare

''Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens''

• Jimi Hendrix

''No man is an island''

• John Donne

''Not everything that can be counted counts,

and not everything that counts can be counted''

• Albert Einstein

''Two roads diverged in a wood and I,

I took the one less travelled by,

and that has made all the difference''

• Robert Frost

   

''No man ever steps in the same river twice,

for it's not the same river

and he's not the same man''

• Heraclitus

''He who hesitates is lost''

• Joseph Addison

''When one door closes, another door opens:

but we often look so long and so regretfully

upon the closed door that we do not see

the ones which open for us''

• Alexander Graham Bell

''When the winds of change blow, some

people build walls, others build windmills''

• Chinese Proverb

''Whether you think you can or you think you can't,

you're right.''

• Henry Ford

''The greatest journey is not the one you take,

it is the one that takes you''

• John Steinbeck

''Tús maith leath na hoibre''

• Seanfhocail

''Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?'

• Mary Oliver

''Happiness is real, only when shared''

• Christopher McCandless

''Save one life, save the world''

• the Talmud

''Some people see things and say why?

But I dream things and say why not?''

• George Bernard Shaw

 

 

 

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