Words worth keeping

The quote collection.

Reminders for brave starts, creative days, and the moments when you need a little push.

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“Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.”

“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.”

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.”

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

“The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”

“Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.”

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”