Gurcharan Kaur Quotes

#1. Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer than other people do because I have to simplify things to help me and that has helped others.

Richard Branson

#2. Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#3. If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found!

James Montgomery

#4. Things change. Time changes them. Great nations, and institutions, rethink. But only if they're great.

Peggy Noonan

#5. Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

Sarah Dessen

#6. There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

Susan Sontag

#7. Creeps get rewarded for being creepy.

Tom Scharpling

#8. Coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.

Betsy Sholl

#9. When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.

Gretchen Rubin

#10. A great start-up, a great project - a great job, for that matter - should be fun, and if you're working your butt off without deriving any enjoyment, something's probably wrong.

Eric Schmidt

#11. I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

Brad Pitt

#12. Don't start from the good old things but the bad new ones.

Benjamin Noys

#13. something is malignantly addictive if (1) it causes real problems for the addict, and (2) it offers itself as a relief from the very problems it causes.

David Foster Wallace

#14. Of all crimes the worst
Is to steal the glory
From the great and brave,
Even more accursed
Than to rob the grave.

Robert Frost

#15. I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?

Buzz Aldrin