Critical Thinking, quote interpretation

Select two of the following questions for your analysis: The past should be like a springboard, not a hammock. -Ivern Ball If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. -Maya Angelou A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. -Chinese proverb Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’re conquered human nature. -Charles Dickens The point is not to pay back kindness, but to pass it on. -Julia Alvarez Our actions are like ships that we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. -Iris Murdoch One cannot step in the same river twice. -Heraclitus Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. -Willa Cather Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln A book must be the axe for a frozen sea within us. -Franz Kafka We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars. -Antal Szerb