Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
© Harry Burchell Mathews
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
© Jim Beggs
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
© Theodore H. White
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
© Wayne Dyer
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
© Marcus Aurelius
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
© John F. Kennedy
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
© Marquis Vauvenargues
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.
© Albert Einstein
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
© Lao Tzu
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
© David McCullough
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
© Albert Einstein
The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
© H. Bertram Lewis
The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.
© Denis Waitley
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
© Buddha