Consider each obstacle as a mere detour to your goal and a challenge to your profession.
--Og Mandino
I like this one:
"Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is."
William James (1842-1910), American psychologist and philosopher
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
- Charles Bukowski
"beauty is in the eye of the beer holder"
-Zyndiche
"detachment. It's something to hold on to"
Lisa Nowak: "I pity the fool that sentences me. Lisa Nowak no whack no nobody. Come here boy and I'll kick your ass NASA style."
"I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, 'This is what I believe. Finished.' What I believe is alive...and open to growth."
-Madeleine L'Engle
I read this quote in More magazine recently and it really resonated with me. What do you guys think about it?
From The Quotations Page:
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
strawberry333 wrote:"I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, 'This is what I believe. Finished.' What I believe is alive...and open to growth."
-Madeleine L'Engle
I read this quote in More magazine recently and it really resonated with me. What do you guys think about it?
It's true.
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
-Socrates
Bette Midler - "I have my standards. They may be low, but I have them!"
The Narrow Way
13 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14Because arrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
-Sermon on the mount
The arrow is the gate
The Great Way is gateless,
Approached in a thousand ways.
Once past this checkpoint
You stride through the universe.
From the gateless gate
"Moun mouri pa konnen valè dra blan."
The dead do not know the value of white sheets. (Funerals are for the living.)
Haitian proverbs
Quote:The dead do not know the value of white sheets.
I agree. On the other hand, a nice zip-loc baggie......
"When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -- Sinclair Lewis
Funny quote
"I had other priorities in the '60s than military service. I don't regret the decisions I made. I complied fully with all the requirements of the statutes, registered with the draft when I turned 18. Had I been drafted, I would have been happy to serve. I think those who did in fact serve deserve to be honored for their service.... Was it a noble cause? Yes, indeed, I think it was."
Congressman Dick Cheney in 1989,
describing his five deferments during the Vietnam War
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
