Duke Ellington on Adversity
“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”
- Duke Ellington
“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”
- Duke Ellington
“Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If the internal enemy of hatred is not tamed,
When one tries to tame external enemies, they increase.
Therefore, it is a practice of the wise to tame themselves
By means of the forces of love and compassion.”
- Bodhisattva Tokmay Sangpo
“I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.”
- Diana, Princess of Wales
“Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.”
- Rumi
“Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.”
- Deepak Chopra
“The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.”
- Bhagavad Gita
“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
- Thomas A. Edison
“Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.”
- Ann Landers