Category: Quotes … Thu

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
~ Plutarch

Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.
~ JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom, 2002

Sleep – those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
~ Edgar Allen Poe

If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.
~ Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
~ Leo J. Burke

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
~ Irish Proverb

You may have noticed that I haven’t posted much this week… well, hence today’s topic. :) Catch you soon, S.

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For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
~ Lily Tomlin

Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action.
~ Charles Mayo

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
~ Seneca

The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.
~ Unknown

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
~ Will Rogers

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
~ Bertrand Russell (see also Rule 6 in this book!)

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
~ Sylvia Plath

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
~ Sydney J. Harris

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BTW, I have a new site that I like: www.coolquotes.com.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
~ e. e. cummings

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Evelyn also posted about this quote.

“Babies are such a nice way to start people.”
~ Don Herrold

“Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow their children to come back home.”
~ Bill Cosby

“Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.”
~ Marshall McLuhan

“If your baby’s “beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time,” you’re the grandma.”
~ Theresa Bloomingdale

A little different:
“Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.”
~ Erich Fromm

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
~ Golda Meir

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy…. Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture … Do not build obstacles in your imagination … Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
~ Norman Vincent Peale

Proverbs:
* Self-confidence is the memory of success.
* Self-assurance is two-thirds of success.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
~ Robert Collier

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
~ Samuel Johnson

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
~ Arthur Ashe

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
~ Billie Jean King

Self-assurance. Being aligned with yourself. Some people describe this as authenticity. You see this when you see a performer on stage who appears casual, who appears to have a very easy rapport with the audience – whether a pop performer or a folk musician or a comedian. It’s a lightness. And I so believe in life being light and being easy.

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of day saying “I will try again tomorrow.” ”
~ Mary Anne Radmacher

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
~ Marie Curie (She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, and she recevied TWO of them in her life! There is a book by a Harvard classmate of mine, Sarah Dry, about Marie Curie.)

“Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.”
~ Ruth Gordon

“Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.”
~ Jack Lemmon

“Do not fear mistakes, there are none.”
~ Miles Davis