Posts Tagged ‘Mark Twain’
EXPLORE. DREAM. DISCOVER.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
TO BECOME GREAT
“Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain
COURAGE
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
TO THROW A STONE
“They dragged her to a tree and threw a rope over the limb, and began to make a noose in it, some holding her, meantime, and she crying and begging, and her young daughter looking on and weeping, but afraid to say or do anything.
They hanged the lady, and I threw a stone at her, although in my heart I was sorry for her; but all were throwing stones and each was watching his neighbor, and if I had not done as the others did it would have been noticed and spoken of. Satan burst out laughing.
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So we walked away, and I was not at ease, but was saying to myself, ‘He told them he was laughing at them, but it was a lie — he was laughing at me.’
That made him laugh again, and he said, ‘Yes, I was laughing at you, because, in fear of what others might report about you, you stoned the woman when your heart revolted at the act — but I was laughing at the others, too.’
‘Why?’
‘Because their case was yours.’
‘How is that?’
‘Well, there were sixty-eight people there, and sixty-two of them had no more desire to throw a stone than you had.’”
Mark Twain – The Mysterious Stranger
Quote Of The Day
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
Mark Twain
