Category: Quotations

Finish each day and be done with it.  You have done what you could.  Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can’t build on it: it’s only good for wallowing in.Katherine Mansfield

The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back.Franklin P. Jones

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.Samuel Johnson

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.Joseph Fort Newton

If an idea, I reasoned, were really a valuable one, there must be some way of realizing it.Elizabeth Blackwell

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.D. H. Lawrence