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Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”? – Norman Douglas

Other quotes by Norman Douglas

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of ones senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. – Norman Douglas

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Reality
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Norman Douglas
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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. – Norman Douglas

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Happiness
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Norman Douglas
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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? – Horace

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Carpe Diem

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. – Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

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Carpe Diem

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Carpe Diem

One can make a day of any size… – John Muir, August 1875 [I love how this sounds like it could so beautifully appl

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Carpe Diem

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Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. – Samuli Paronen

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Names

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his days work at Auschwitz in the morning. – George Steiner

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Morning

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Adversity

The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling our country out of the difficult position it finds itself in. The banking system of our country will survive and grow. – Nicos Anastasiades

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Attitude