As you cannot do what you want, want what you can do.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Wisdom | Courage | Justice | Temperance
As you cannot do what you want, want what you can do.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
~ Hannah Arendt
“It still doesn’t take away a desire to do something, even if you really fuck it up.” She smiles. It’s the beginning of everything, in life as in fiction. “The desire to do something”.
~ Meg Wolitzer / The Guardian, June 1st, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/01/meg-wolitzer-interview
“Whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal. It is a choice we must all make consciously or unconsciously at one time in our lives.”
~ Hunter Thompson
“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
~ Hunter Thompson
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
~ Buddha
“A little fire is quickly trodden out,
Which being suffer’d, rivers cannot quench.”
~ William Shakespeare
“One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.”
~ Thomas Fuller
“The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.”
~ William Shakespeare
“Talkers are no good doers.”
~ William Shakespeare
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
“Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what’s said and what’s done.”
~ Seamus Heaney