Some quotes for the week of Thanksgiving

“But listen to me; for one moment, quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.” - Rumi

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." - Frank Tibolt

"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - Cyril Connolly

"I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter." - Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", 1657

“Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? It is the hour of savage instincts and natural tendencies; it is the triumph of the Disagreeable and the Cross. I am convinced that the Muses and the Graces never thought of having breakfast anywhere but in bed.” - Elizabeth Russell