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Judith Light: Ready
“People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it. ” —Judith Light.
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The world was not enough
“A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. ” —Alexander The Great Related articles AlexanderTheGreat-ia (bizgovsociii.wordpress.com) Alexander the Great: 2000 Years of Treasures (sandratblog.com) About Alexander,the Great’s final wishes (truerivers.wordpress.com)
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Ralph Marston: Reality
“Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. ” —Ralph Marston. Related articles Really Want It by Ralph Marston (angelabee.wordpress.com)
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Pat Nixon: Sacrifice
“I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political career of my husband. “ —Pat Nixon.
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Robert Anton Wilson: Certitude
“Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia. ” —Robert Anton Wilson
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Sting: Love
“I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them. ” —Sting. Related articles Sting Isn’t an Icon in Pro Wrestling; Needs WWE to Be Considered (bleacherreport.com)
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Horace: Wisdom
“Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. ” —Horace
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Jack Welch: Reality
“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. ” —Jack Welch.
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Ambrose Pierce: Patience
“Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ” —Ambrose Pierce.
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Julie Burchill: Pretty face, merely a visa
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out fast. –Julie Burchill, writer and journalist (b. 1959). Embed from Getty Images Related articles Visa drama. (jessicabethtravels.wordpress.com) New UK visa rules for travellers from Libya, Egypt and Syria (teddyoshea.wordpress.com) Relaxed visa regime steps away…
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Samuel Butler: Prayers
“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.” —Samuel Butler, poet (1612-1680).
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Bertrand Russell: The Human Race
“I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied ‘The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies that’s fair.’ In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.” —Bertrand Russell. Related articles Bertrand Russell On God (wcward57.wordpress.com) Quotastically speaking (theblueoyster.wordpress.com) Bertrand,…
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Buddha: Ability
Embed from Getty Images He is able who thinks he is able. —Buddha.
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Maxim Gorky: On the past
“In the carriages of the past you can’t go anywhere. ” —Maxim Gorky
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Michel de Montaigne: Custom, not law
“The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. ” —Michel De Montaigne.
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Talent—irrelevant
I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire. —Gordon Lish
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James E Jones: Bonding
“You don’t build a bond without being present. ” —James E Jones. Embed from Getty Images
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Allergy to consciousness
“I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. ” —James Thurber Related articles It’s not a cold, it’s just allergies! (mudpiebliss.wordpress.com) Tip of…
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Reinhold Niebuhr: Forgiveness
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” –+Reinhold Niebuhr.
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Consent
“He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. ” —St. Augustine Related articles Augustine on the binding of the devil (apologus.wordpress.com) A Prayer by St Augustine (gabrielshope.wordpress.com)
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Mark Twain: 'Classic'
“‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.” —Mark Twain.
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Forgiveness
“When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others. ” Jennifer O’Neill
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Amby Burfoot: Winning
“Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It’s only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.” —Amby Burfoot, Editor-at-Large, Runner’s…
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Carl Jung: No recipe for living
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” —Carl Jung. Related articles Carl Gustav Jung – The World Within (dphilosophy.wordpress.com) Carl Jung’s Five Key Elements to Happiness. (happiness-project.com) Carl Jung’s Five Key Elements to Happiness (psychcentral.com)
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Poppycock
“I’m not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege it is poppycock.” —Sam James Ervin Jr. Related articles It’s Political Poppycock (andrawatkins.com) Poppycock and Pinwheels (traumatotreasure.wordpress.com)
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Music
“Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it’s hard to be angry when you are listening to music. ” Jerry Reed
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Brian K. Blackden: Justice and privacy
“Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public.” —Brian K. Blackden.
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George Orwell: Objectification
“The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” —George Orwell.
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CS Lewis: Road to perdition
“The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. ”—C S Lewis Related articles Road to Perdition (personalscience.wordpress.com) A whiff of perdition… (botoblog.com) Washington’s Road to Financial Perdition! (genomega1.wordpress.com)
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Direction
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset: Living
“We cannot put off living until we are ready. ” —Jose Ortega y Gasset.
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Henry Bolingbroke: Pride
“Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. ”—Henry Bolingbroke.
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100 million miles an hour
“I’ve never had a huge circle of friends. I can’t spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can’t do that with everyone. ” —Jeremy Northam
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Louis Kesler: Work
“Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you.” —Louis Keisler.
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Boldness
Bold is not the act of foolishness but the attribute and inner strength to act when others will not so as to move forward not backward. —Byron Pulsifer
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Nina Kuscik: Running
“Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo. You can choose your own course and think whatever you want. Nobody tells you what to do.” —Nina Kuscik, marathoner.
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Michel de Montaigne: 'cos it was me, 'im meself
“If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. ” —Michel de Montaigne.
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Henry Ward Beecher: Forgiveness and forgetfulness
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.” -Henry Ward Beecher. Embed from Getty Images
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Failures and successes
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. —Havelock Ellis
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Better mousetrap
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Oscar Wilde: Genius and talent
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. —Oscar Wilde.
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Khalil Gibran: Hate
“Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?” —Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931).
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Franklin D Roosevelt: Try something
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. —Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Freedom
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.” —Mohandas Gandhi.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Dangerous, mad, degrading
“To strive with an equal is dangerous, with a superior, mad, with an inferior, degrading.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
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The Future
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. —Eleanor Roosevelt
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Martin Luther King Jr: Love Our Enemies
“Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martha Graham: Misery
“Misery is a communicable disease. ” —Martha Graham.
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The World Happens From You
The world doesn’t happen to you it happens from you.
