“There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do."
-- Florence Scovel Shinn
Dear Cheryl and Friends,
The above quote is one of the most inspiring that I have ever read. Curiously enough, since for several years I have been a collector of great quotes myself, only recently did it cought my eye for the first time. It was at one of Branka's forums here.
In fact, my liking for collecting quotes started about three years ago with my reading Bogdan's daily quotes at his forum. Here is one of my favorites from him:
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us
to count our blessings."
-- Erik Hoffer
Other quotes come to me in my mail, some with "ArkaMax Business Success", a daily newsletter, and others with Nick Grimshawe's "Beautiful Summer Morning". Still others I read in the papers.
I received this one with my mail today:
"Strength does not come from physical capability. It comes from
an indomitable will."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Great, right? As great as was its author's nickname (Mahatma = "Great Soul").
What about this one?
"Great things are done by a series of
small things brought together."
-- Vincent Van Gogh, artist
The next two are most uplifting indeed:
"I will study and prepare, and someday
my opportunity will come."
-- Abraham Lincoln
No wonder, it was by one of the greatest men the world has ever known. And here is the other one, a precious thought from another privileged mind:
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
-- George Eliot
I have a new favorite (at least for me, who had not read it before) brought to this very forum by Kenneth Nairne in page 1 of this thread:
"You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement,
can change a life forever."
~Zig Ziglar
It can certainly be considered as an homage to you Cheryl, since with this thread and the posts and quotes revealed in it you are surely greatly inspiring others whose acts and words in turn might inspire others until, who knows? taken on the waves of spirit, they could be some day of great benefit to the entire world.
Some quotes are not even uplifring, just great thoughts from the minds of great men. Like this one of Albert Einstein:
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science."
-- Albert Einstein
At the risk of provoking an "anticlimax" after reading such wonderful quotes by illustrious people as have been given here, I would like to reveal a thought that came to my mind after a recent exchange of ideas with Roger Mcdivitt at Sara's thread "Missing Friends". It was about the current course of events in the world and how it could be caused by the awful weather conditions, which could explain much of our personal and social behavior and make even machines behave crazily. All of it most interesting really, at least for us. My thought, to say it poetically, was:
"Here under the Sun and the Stars, everything has to do
with everything else."
Thank you,
Luis Miguel Goitizolo