Today's Words of Wisdom - September 13, 2015

Today is the birthday of the following people:

Roald Dahl (1916 – 1990):

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

and

“So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.”

and

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Walter Reed (1851 – 1902):

“If it happens, it happens... We can't stop living.”

Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941):

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.”

and

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”

and

“In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers”

J.B. Priestley (1894 – 1984):

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” 

and

“Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.”

and

“The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

and

“To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness.”

Steve Kilbey (1954 - ):

“Wish I knew what you were looking for

Might have known what you would find”

Fiona Apple (1977 - ):

“I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.”