Quotes

My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible. Josephine demott Robinson, O Magazine, December 2003

To try to be better is to be better. Charlotte Cushman, quoted in O Magazine, December 2003

Strive for excellence, not perfection. H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger. Saul Bellow, O...

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own...

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. Francois de La Rochefoucauld, quoted in O Magazine, October 2002

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things?[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves...

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. Etty Hillesum, O Magazine, October 2002