Quotes Around The Zodiac: Capricorn

CAPRICORN-QUOTES

December 22 - January 20



December 22, 1962 Ralph Fiennes:

My mother endlessly told this story of how I never joined in any games, always took a jigsaw puzzle of my own to any other party and did it on my own. I loved jigsaw puzzles. And then the other mothers got very irritated that my mother wouldn't force me to mix in.


December 23, 1926 Robert Bly:

I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.


December 24, 1822 Matthew Arnold:

Culture is acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.


December 25, 1908 Quentin Crisp:

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.


December 26, 1891 Henry Miller:

The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.


December 27, 1906 Oscar Levant:

It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts.


December 28, 1902 Mortimer Adler:

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.


December 29, 1893 Vera Brittain:

Mere wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.


December 30, 1865 Rudyard Kipling:

People say that what we're all seeking is the meaning of life... I think that what we're really seeking is the experience of being alive.


December 31, -105 Marcus Tullius Cicero:

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.


January 1, 1919 J. D. Salinger:

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect...


January 2, 1920 Isaac Asimov:

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.


January 3, 1945 Markku Siivola, Finnish psychiatrist:

A man with a method has never been real, because for him spiritual development means a process of gradually giving up mistakes and growing towards truthfulness by definite gymnastic exercises and moral methods. He doesn't look for truth, he looks for a method. Thus he becomes a prisoner of external programs ... He becomes a programmed saint, who can keep up his sainthood only through continual exercise of his method.


January 4, 1930 Don Shula, football coach:

I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.


January 5, 1932 Umberto Eco:

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.


January 6, 1915 Alan Watts:

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.


January 7, 1903 Zora Neale Hurston:

I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.


January 8, 1942 Stephen Hawking:

It matters if you just don't give up.


January 9, 1908 Simone de Beauvoir:

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.


January 10, 1924 Aila Meriluoto, Finnish poet

Some day
I will totally exist.


January 11, 1757 Alexander Hamilton:

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect men.


January 12, 1600 Pedro Caldron de la Barca:

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure

And I say "Whilst most of my friends got married, and 'stayed married' even against their better judgement, I decided to try getting married but was unable to stay so, as I found out the hard way that marriage was not for me. I feel freer, non-judgmental, and optimistic about the future, because I am in control of my life......~~~~~~

Ditto that kiwigrl 🙂

December 23, 1926 Robert Bly:

I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

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Today dxp did teach me about Alan Watts. I don't know if I like him in one year. But I'm happy there is stuff I can listen to this year.