Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. – Marion Howard

I have found that sitting in a place that you have never sat before can be inspiring. – Dodie Smith

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. – Sophia Loren

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal — that is your success. – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)