Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
~Robert Frost
Jun27
Monday Morning Wisdom #368
Tag Archives: Quote
Jun20
Monday Morning Wisdom # 367
Humor plays close to the big hot fire which is Truth.
~E.B. White
Jun13
Monday Morning Wisdom #366
Bowing out of the comparison game will require you to stop looking outward for affirmation and feelings of accomplishment and start charting your course inwardly, with the quiet satisfaction that you’re not in this life to see how well you measure up against others. You’re here to live an extraordinary life, regardless of what others do with theirs.
~ Steven James, “12 Foolproof Ways to Fail as a Writer,” January/February 2022 Writers Digest
Jun6
Monday Morning Wisdom #365
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
~Pyotr Tchaikovsky
May23
Monday Morning Wisdom #363
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
~Samuel Smiles
May16
Monday Morning Wisdom #362
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
~George S. Patton
May9
Monday Morning Wisdom #361
Everybody makes their own fun. If you don’t make it yourself, it isn’t fun. It’s entertainment.
~David Mamet
Apr25
Monday Morning Wisdom #359: U is for Peter Ustinov
The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe. ~Peter Ustinov, from Dear Me
Apr18
Monday Morning Wisdom #358: O is for Cynthia Ozick
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing. ~Cynthia Ozick
Apr11
Monday Morning Wisdom #357: I is for Irwin Shaw
An absolutely necessary part of a writer’s equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ~Irwin Shaw
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