Quite paradoxically, people don’t always find success pleasant and important. We fight, then fall. In the midst of the despair and anger, our life can be intensely colorful. – Taro Okamoto [Okamoto Tarō] (1911 – 1996): The Eyes of Taro… More »
Quiet people have the loudest minds. – Stephen (William) Hawking (1942 – 2018) (Image by Pexels from Pixabay) / (Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
The question is which is to be master. – Lewis Carroll (1832 – 98): Through the Looking-glass (Humpty Dumpty) (The original illustration by John Tenniel) More »
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Quitting smoking is easy, I’ve done it hundreds of times. [Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.] – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) (Image by dorze from Pixabay)… More »
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. [A clear conscience is a soft pillow.] / A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. / (Being free of guilt makes one sleep well.) (Image by kbt1016 from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text,… More »
The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get. – Dorothy (Miller) Richardson (1873 – 1957): The Long Day: the Story of a New York Working Girl As Told… More »
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