Quotes, attributed
Dec. 23rd, 2018 12:07 pmI love learning things from my reading page! In the last little while I've come across a couple of quotes that I had been familiar with, but didn't know the source for.
The first is via![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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I think about this a lot as I'm pruning plants in the garden or sweeping up broken glass on the next block so I don't bike through it and get a flat later. Sometimes the best we can hope for is to leave things a little better than we found them. If enough of us do that, things get better overall.
I don't remember where I ran across the other quote, but I was surprised to see the attribution. My parents use it as their family motto, and I had never asked myself where they got it.
When I was poking around trying to find where I saw it, I also found, "If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed,” from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
The first is via
oursin[T]hat things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.from Middlemarch by George Eliot
I think about this a lot as I'm pruning plants in the garden or sweeping up broken glass on the next block so I don't bike through it and get a flat later. Sometimes the best we can hope for is to leave things a little better than we found them. If enough of us do that, things get better overall.
I don't remember where I ran across the other quote, but I was surprised to see the attribution. My parents use it as their family motto, and I had never asked myself where they got it.
Blessed is He Who Expects Nothing, for He Shall Never Be Disappointed.by Alexander Pope, who called it the 9th Beatitude. Here's a reference for that one.
When I was poking around trying to find where I saw it, I also found, "If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed,” from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
