Your Quote of the Day

It was German-American painter and lithographer Herm Albright who made the following sage observation: "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

“There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. ”
― Alexander Hamilton

"There was an old man with a beard, Who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, Four larks and a wren Have all built their nests in my beard”
Edward Lear

People are unreasonable, irrational and self-centered; forgive them anyway. If you're kind, people may accuse you of selfish motives; be kind anyway. What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight; create anyway. If you find peace and happiness, some may be jealous; be happy anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten; do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it may never be enough; give your best anyway. In the final analysis it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
The Buddha

Watched Lord Jim a little bit, then I found out that this guy had written the book

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman (Peter O'Toole) lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Based on Joseph Conrad's novel...
Directed by Richard Brooks. Starring Peter O'Toole, James Mason.


Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Joseph Conrad.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

A light heart lives long.
William Shakespeare

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anaïs Nin

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln

“We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.”
Lyndon B. Johnson

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
― David Hume, A Treatise Of Human Nature

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Immaturity

Ten Fall Shows That Need More Sharks
August 13, 2012
by Linda Holmes
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/08/13/158719461/ten-fall-shows-that-need-more-sharks

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Albert Schweitzer

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from Mars.

ORSON WELLES, The War of the Worlds

“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”
Mark Twain

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Euriphides

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
Leonard Cohen