I hope this is the right vid, with the recitation and the song. The first time I saw and heard it, I was gobsmacked.
Famous Quotes . . .
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There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.
- Elmer G. Letterman
- Elmer G. Letterman
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures.
Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
~ William Durant
Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
~ William Durant
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
~Lily Tomlin
~Lily Tomlin
Remember when people were saying the world was gonna end on 21st December 2012. Even people like me who thought it was ludicrous were pleased when the world didn't end, but then I remember we were a day ahead
Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.
- Emma Goldman
- Emma Goldman
Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.
- Anonymous
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
- Robert Frost
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
- Honore de Balzac
- Robert Frost
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
- Honore de Balzac
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
- Gertrude Stein
- Gertrude Stein