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Corrie Ten Boom: Worry
“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. ” —Corrie Ten Boom
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Merlin Olsen: Life's most painful moments
“One of life’s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn’t do our homework, that we are not prepared. ” Merlin Olsen. Embed from Getty Images
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Viktor E. Frankl: Answering to life
“Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. ” Viktor E. Frankl. Embed from Getty Images
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John Sloan: Consistency
“Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.” John Sloan.
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Suze Orman: Doing and not doing
“It’s better to do nothing with your money than something you don’t understand.” Suze Orman. Embed from Getty Images
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Jack Handey: Listen to yourself
“I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF” Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts.
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Woody Allen: Love and suffering
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer…” ~Woody Allen. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/178223386
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Haruki Murakami: Love
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.” ~Haruki Murakami. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/84813590
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Aristotle Onassis: The sea never rests
“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. ” Aristotle Onassis. Embed from Getty Images
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Galway Kinell: Scars, fall in love!
“Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. ”—Galway Kinell.
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Virginia Woolf: The truth
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” —Virginia Woolf, writer (1882-1941). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3320744
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Latin Proverb: Deliberations
“Deliberate often–decide once.” —Latin Proverb.
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Jacqueline Bisset: Looks are temporary
“We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life. ” —Jacqueline Bisset. Embed from Getty Images
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Albert Einstein: Science and religion
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ” —Albert Einstein. Embed from Getty Images
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Stephen Leacock: Advertising
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ” –—Stephen Leacock
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Dore Schary: Fusion
“The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be. ” –—Dore Schary
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Music and odors
“Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.” –— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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R D Hitchcock: Control
“The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.” R D Hitchcock.
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Friedrich Schiller: Truth and clamor
“It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. ”Friedrich Schiller.
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Murray Walker: Halving it…
“With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go. ” — Murray Walker
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Victor Hugo: Greater need of the ideal
“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.” —Victor Hugo.
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William Shakespeare: To thine own self be true
“This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.” —William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (1564-1616).
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Felicia Anjani: Statement, promise and responsibility
“I’m Sorry” is a statement. “I won’t do it again” is a promise. “How do I make it up to you” is a responsibility. ~ Felicia Anjani.
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Pat Riley: Winning
“A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.” ~Pat Riley, former coach and player in the NBA. Embed from Getty Images
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Susan B. Anthony: Independence is happiness
“Independence is happiness. ” Susan B. Anthony. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/2673287
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Andrew Card: Quotes
Embed from Getty Images “You shouldn’t presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate. ” Andrew Card.
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Eric Hoffer: Logic
“The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.” Eric Hoffer.
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Anaïs Nin: Idea of them
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ‘idea of them’.” ~Anaïs Nin. Embed from Getty Images
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Stephen Hawking: Predestined
“I have noticed people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” ~Stephen Hawking. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/181169057
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Saadi: Sorrow and joy
“That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.” —Saadi, poet (c.1213-1291).
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Henry Kissinger: Businessman
“If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. ” —Henry Kissinger. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/454553452
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John Henry Newman: Words and ideas
“Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. ” John Henry Newman. Embed from Getty Images
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Amos Bronson Alcott: Ideals
“Our ideals are our better selves. ” —Amos Bronson Alcott. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/463900769
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Don Bosco: Jesus crucified
“Why is it that we have so little liking for spiritual things? This is because we love Jesus Crucified so little.” —Don Bosco.
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Don Bosco: Politics
“In 1848, I realized that if I wanted to get anywhere in doing some good, I had to put politics aside. From then on, I always shied away from politics and managed to do good without interference. In addition, I found help where I least expected it.” – Don Bosco.
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Don Bosco: Honey
“I’d like you to learn how to make honey as the bees do. Do you know how they go about it? First, they do not act independently, each on its own, but as a team under the direction of a queen bee, whom they obey in every detail. Secondly, they go from flower to flower…
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J. Bronowski: Impersonal world
“Who has not hoped To outrage an enemy’s dignity Who has not been swept By the wish to hurt And who has not thought that the impersonal world Deserves no better than to be destroyed By one fabulous sign of his displeasure.” ~J. Bronowski. Embed from Getty Images
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Ursula K Le Guin: Thousand men
“It does not take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.” “It might to keep it open.” ~Ursula K Le Guin. Embed from Getty Images
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St. Francis of Assisi: Pardon
“Where there is injury let me sow pardon. ” St. Francis of Assisi. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/486702881
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Babe Ruth: Don't ever forget
“Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks. ” Babe Ruth. Embed from Getty Images
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Bronwyn Davies: No longer…
“It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.” Bronwyn Davies.
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Colette: Writer or author?
“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” —Colette, author (28 Jan 1873-1954).
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John Cale: Databank
“The value of having a computer, to me, is that it’ll remember everything you do. It’s a databank. ” John Cale. Embed from Getty Images
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George Iles: Student
“Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.” George Iles. Embed from Getty Images
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R. A. Salvatore: Grab at the stars
“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them… At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts.” R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn.
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Subhash Chandra Bose: Blood to blood
“India is calling Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we shall carve our way through the enemy’s ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr’s death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road that will bring our Army…
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Tryst with destiny
“Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge… At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” ~Jawaharlal Nehru
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Beauty
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. ” ~John Kenneth Galbraith.
