Quotes and Thoughts for the Day

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Ernest Hemingway

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

"The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off."

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. ”
 

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