"If you rest, you rust." — Helen Hayes quote meaning

“If you rest, you rust.”

“The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”

“Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.”

“Childhood is a short season.”

“Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.”

“Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.”

“Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.”

“LAUGH NOW CRY LATER”

“There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road.”

“When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.”

“For this is Wisdom; to love, to live”

“Are we being good ancestors?”