"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
I am who I am today because of what happened to me yesterday; But I will be who I want to be tomorrow if I make the right choices today. Jack R Gladden
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." Vince Lombardi
Tuesday is Monday with twice the workload, but with an ever so slightly better marketing plan.
"If you don't like it, you can't have any." -- Oberon Zell-Ravenheart.
"I totally see why people follow convention. People don't want other people to be different and they don't want them to be happy when they're different because then the implication is that they could live differently, too. A lot of people just can't face that." -- Jenny Block.
"The Truth against the world." Druid maxim
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind" - Dr. Suess
"Let us all bow our heads and contemplate those people
stuck in traffic trying to get to a gym to ride a stationary
bike." politician on the opening of a new bike trail
It's better to have had your wish than to wish you had.
Nobody ever forges new ground and gets away with it! -Aidan Odinson
Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. -Ambrose Bierce
"Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed".
- Frank Herbert, "God Emperor of Dune"
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. -George Bernard Shaw
-"But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
The Desiderata
By Max Ehrmann, 1927
This is Max Ehrmann's timeless philosophical statement.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble, it's a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
If you want to have what you have not,
you must do what you do not.
-Taro Gold
American-born Buddhist Philosopher and Author
Before we proceed further let us get one thing clear. Are we talking about the brown Indians in India, who have multiplied alarmingly under the benevolent British rule? Or are we speaking of the red Indians in America who, I understand, are almost extinct? - Winston Churchill
St. Francis said,
A man who uses his hands is a laborer. One who uses his hands and mind is a craftsman. He who uses his hands, and his mind, and his heart is an artist.”
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. - John Maynard Keynes
"To you alone it is given to know the truth about the gods and deities of the sky... The innermost groves of far-off forests are your abodes. And it is you who say that the shades of the dead seek not the silent land of Erebus and the pale halls of Pluto; rather, you tell us that the same spirit has a body again elsewhere, and that death, if what you sing is true, is but the mid-point of long life."
Lucan Pharsalia, speaking to the Druids, c.60AD
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."
Charles Darwin
"The willow learns to bend with the wind so that it doesn't break with the storm."
Unknown
"Three candles that illuminate every darkness: Knowledge, Nature, Truth"
An Irish triad
You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books.
Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
- St. Bernard
"As long as there has been one true God," Sir Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen) tells Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), "there has been killing in his name."
"Some people think freedom is something you buy with money...Some people are fools!" - Troy Young 12/30/08
Funny Quotes
Attack a sheep, you'll remember the kill. Attack a wolf you'll remember the fight. Attack a skunk, and you'll remember never to attack a skunk again!
Me And You Is Friends . You Smile, I Smile You Hurt, I Hurt You Cry, I Cry You Jump Off A Bridge I Gonna Miss Your E-Mails
"Linux is just like an indian tent: no Gates, no Windows and an Apache inside..."
I don't think stupidity should be a crime or anything, but what I think we should do is take all the safety labels off everything and let the problem solve itself.
A successful man is one who can earn more money than his wife can possibly spend. A successful woman is one who can find that man.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. -W.C. Fields (1880-1946)
Scientific breakthroughs happen when the old scientists die off.
October 2,2009 Posted by Troy | Topics: Worthy Quotes
