Grab your copy of Two Thoughts: A Timeless Collection of Infinite Wisdom today:
Amazon (hardcover, paperback, Kindle & audiobook)
Barnes & Noble (paperback, eBook & audiobook)
Spotify (audiobook)
Our website (complete bundle or signed collector’s edition)
Sunday, 12 April
Two thoughts from Wendy Mass
“The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn’t matter how others see you.”
“The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field.”
Monday, 13 April
Two thoughts from Dietrich von Hildebrand
“Beauty is the archenemy of mediocrity.”
“Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.”
Tuesday, 14 April
Two thoughts from Gabriel Marcel
“You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.”
“The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.”
Wednesday, 15 April
Two thoughts from E. M. Forster
“A humanist has four leading characteristics: curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
Thursday, 16 April
Two thoughts from Pierre Bourdieu
“Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.”
“Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”
Friday, 17 April
Two thoughts from Amelia Earhart
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do.”
“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.”
Saturday, 18 April
Two thoughts from Frederick Douglass
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Follow Jim on Twitter for a daily dose of Two Thoughts!
Dear Jim,
Great quotes! Some of my faves this time:
Wendy Mass:
“The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn’t matter how others see you.”
Gabriel Marcel:
“You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.”
“The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.”
E. M. Forster:
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
Amelia Earhart:
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do.”
“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.”
Frederick Douglass:
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
Thank you for sharing!
Love
Myq
Jim , We definitely need to do something together. You can find my contact information in the pinned post of my newsletter.