Mottoes to live by

Dunno if this counts as a motto, but I still like it: “Duma Luma!” From a private cartoon to me, evolving into an earlier incarnation of my novel Subway Visions. Here are ten more.

1. “I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free” – Nikos Kazantzakis, “Japan, China,” 1963
2. “Abide in me”– Jesus of Nazareth
3. “Jesus is the unseen guest in this house” – as inscribed over a Quaker family’s doorway in Belmont County, Ohio, followed by, “He listens to every conversation.”
4. “The closer we get to our hopes, the closer we get to our fears” – artist Lita Albuquerque
5. “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind” – Horace Mann
6. “Mind the Light” – old Quaker counsel
7. “I make dreams … I don’t see clothes, I see the world” – Ralph Lauren
8. “Everyone wants to reach for something a little higher. … Part of Ralph’s genius is he understood life’s aspirational”  – Michael Gould, Bloomingdale’s buyer
9. “Randomness invites the universe to speak” – James Bartolino
10. “You better be good to toads,” Cassia in What’s Left

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