Quotes: Lao Tzu

"Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts."

–– Lao Tzu (c. 500 BCE), Chinese philosopher and writer

Source: Tao Te Ching 

via Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2007, p. 118.

Quotes: Cher

"It's a thousand times harder to come back than to become. Becoming famous is hard, but making a comeback is almost impossible."

–– Cher (b. 1946), American singer and actress

Source: Alexandra Jacobs. "Turn Back Time." The New York Times Book Review, Sunday December 8, 2024; p. 27. Re: Cher. Cher: The Memoir, Part One. 

via: Commonplace Book, 2024, 2025, p. 58. 

Quotes: Lao Tzu

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

–– Lao Tzu (c. 500 BCE), Chinese philosopher and writer 

Women's quotes: Katherine Anne Porter

"All life worth living is difficult. ... It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it." 

–– Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980), American writer and political activist 

Source: Natalie Jenner. Bloomsbury Girls. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2022, unpaginated. 

via: Commonplace Book, 2022, p. 70.