Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
Helen HayesRead
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
Interpretation
Traveling with others requires patience and understanding.
This quote highlights the importance of patience and tolerance when sharing experiences with others, especially during travel. It suggests that the close quarters and differing perspectives can lead to challenges, and one should approach these moments with a calm and accommodating attitude, much like how one enjoys the comfort of their morning coffee.
In practice
This quote can be used during a travel workshop to emphasize the importance of maintaining harmony in group travel.
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.
I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.
Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'
I just look at Miley Cyrus, and I'm like, 'Great, you've doubled your audience. But you've also doubled the number of people that hate you, and doesn't that hurt?' It takes a crazy person not to be affected by that.
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the sophisticated deplore these formalities as 'empty,' 'meaningless,' or 'dishonest,' and scorn to use them. No matter how 'pure' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.
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