LA Ewoldt

“To thine own self be true. SHAKESPEARE”
― Alexandra Stoddard, You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live a Good Life

“The notion of a humorist is one that is greatly pleased, or greatly displeased, with little things; who sets his heart much upon matters of very small importance; who has his will determined every day by trifles, his actions seldom directed by the reason and nature of things, and his passions frequently raised by things of little moment. Where this practice is allowed, it will insensibly warp the judgment to pronounce little things great, and tempt you to lay a great weight upon them. In short, this temper will incline you to pass an unjust value on almost every thing that occurs; and every step you take in this path is just so far out of the way to wisdom. XIII.”
― Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind

“E. B. White, who once wrote, “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― Alexandra Stoddard, You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live a Good Life

“Beauty, like love, makes us happy, but we have to be keenly receptive to the seduction. Until”
― Alexandra Stoddard, You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live a Good Life