Worth repeating

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Walt Emerson

Life is like riding a bicycle- in order to keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.

John Barrymore

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Voltaire

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Ghandi

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comfort and hopes.

Francis Bacon

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

Diana Trilling

Diana Trilling was the one name I was unfamiliar with.  She was married to the literary critic Lionel Trilling and was a writer and reviewer for The Nation magazine.  Our own Martin Amis said of her:

In New York, Diana Trilling is regarded with the suspicious awe customarily reserved for the city's senior literary ladies. Whenever I announced my intention of going along to interview her, people looked at me with trepidation, a new respect, a certain holy dread. I felt I was about to enter the lion's den — or the den of the literary lioness, which is often just as dangerous."