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Lillian Dickson: Like a coin
“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” ~Lillian Dickson, quoted in “Teens Talk Growing Up”
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Walter Savage Landor: Effectiveness
Image via Wikipedia People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. – Walter Savage Landor Related articles by Zemanta A Terrible Ugliness Is Born (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com) Yet another Excuse! (blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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Paulo Coelho: Disobedience
When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue. – Paulo Coelho.
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Chicken soup for the soul: Extraordinary teens
Image via Wikipedia ”Always remember to love yourself enough to give yourself a chance.” ~ Chicken Soup for the Soul: Extraordinary Teens.
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Dr. Billy Graham: Well-beaten path
“Do not think you are on the right road just because it is a well-beaten path.” ~Dr. Billy Graham, quoted in “Inside Basketball”.
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Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine: Illusions and age
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose. -Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine, mystic (1782-1857)
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Louis L’amour: Anger
Anger is a killing thing; kills the man who angers, For each rage leaves him less than he had been Before it takes something from HIM. – LOUIS L’AMOUR.
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Hendrick Ibsen: One deed
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” ~Henrick Ibsen, quoted in “On Being a Parent” Related articles by Zemanta ‘It was as if Ibsen had dropped a bomb’ (telegraph.co.uk)
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Paulo Coelho: Killing our dreams
The first symptom of the process of our killing our dreams is the lack of time. The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. -…
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Vannii Acrci: Friends are like stars
“Friends are like stars, you don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” – Vannii Acrci.
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Lynn Johnston: Apology
“An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.” ~ Lynn Johnston, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk, Tough Times.
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Kevin Spacey: Send the elevator back down
If you are lucky enough to have done well, then it is your responsibility to send the elevator back down. – Kevin Spacey. Related articles by Zemanta Cate Blanchett & Kevin Spacey: Watch Out!!! (justjared.buzznet.com) Kevin Spacey: Star of screen, stage and Las Vegas? (cnn.com) Kevin Spacey’s Blue Suit: Hit Or Miss? (PHOTOS, POLL) (huffingtonpost.com)
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Alfred Lord Tennyson: Action and despair
Image via Wikipedia I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. – Alfred Lord Tennyson.
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Chinese proverb: Tigers and naps
“Even tigers sometimes take naps.” —unknown author,Chinese proverb.
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Philip K. Dick: Reality
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” — Philip K. Dick (1928–1982), U.S. science fiction writer. Quoted by Dick in “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later,” introduction, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1986).
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Byron Pulsifer: Memories
“Memories are created by what we do not by what we think.” ~ Byron Pulsifer
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Raymond Hull: To suit everyone
“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.” ~Raymond Hull, quoted in “Like Mother, Like Daughter”.
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Christopher Dodd: Legislation
“We can’t legislate wisdom or passion. We can’t legislate competency. All we can do is create the structures and hope that good people will be appointed who will attract other good people.” – Senator Christopher Dodd, trying to justify the expanded discretionary power given to regulators to constrain excesses in the financial services industry.
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Unknown: 1/7 of your life
Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life. ~Author Unknown
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Erich Fromm: Mother’s Love
“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” ~Erich Fromm, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Indian Mothers
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Chuck Palahnium: Real discoveries from chaos
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that seems wrong and stupid. – Chuck Palahniun
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E E Cummings: Laughter
Image via Wikipedia The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” ~ E.E. Cummings Related articles by Zemanta You gotta be joking (blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com) Intriguing Facebook statuses (I hope!) – Mine! (linusfernandes.com) Keep travelling, keep smiling (blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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Muhammad Ali: Faith
Embed from Getty Images “It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.” —Muhammad Ali.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Leave a trail
Image via Wikipedia “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners”.
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Mark Twain: Keep away
Image via Wikipedia “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ~ Mark Twain, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Extraordinary Teens.
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Ben Franklin: Things that hurt instruct
“Those things that hurt, instruct.” —Ben Franklin.
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Mahatma Gandhi: The weak and the strong
Image by chrisjohnbeckett via Flickr “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ~Mahatma Gandhi, quoted in “Teens Talk Growing Up” Related articles by Zemanta Gandhi (milkandcookies.com) Learning from mahatma gandhi dr shriniwas kashalikar (slideshare.net) Seek & Forgive (thisido.blogspot.com) Marathi, mahatma gandhi and namasmaran dr shriniwas kashalikar (slideshare.net) Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地…
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James Bryce: Worth of a book
Image via Wikipedia “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.” ~ James Bryce
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Brad Henry: Families
“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” ~ Brad Henry.
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Geoff Crane: Assumptions
Image via WikipediaOne of the things I constantly grapple with are assumptions. When dealing with someone during negotiations, my tendency to assume my counterparty possesses a piece of knowledge that they may not sometimes gets me into trouble. I constantly have to remind myself not to assume that people know anything, and to use language…
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Bill Cosby: Fatherhood
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – Bill Cosby
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Hendrick Ibsen: One deed
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” ~Henrick Ibsen, quoted in “On Being a Parent” Related articles by Zemanta ‘It was as if Ibsen had dropped a bomb’ (telegraph.co.uk)
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Cyril Connolly: Have no public
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ” —Cyril Connolly.
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Joseph Joubert: Echoes
Image via Wikipedia “We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.” —Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824).
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Catherine Pulsifer: Friendship
Image via Wikipedia “Never take friendship for granted, you never know what tomorrow holds.” ~ Catherine Pulsifer. Related articles by Zemanta Friendship with an Opposite Sex (socyberty.com) Farewell, Friend (lifescript.com) The Perils of Friendship (teabreak.pk)
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Natasha Gregson Warner: Parenting
Image via Wikipedia “I thought my mom’s whole purpose was to be my mom. That’s how she made me feel.” ~ Natasha Gregson Wagner
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Adolf Hitler: Leadership
“The art of leadership … consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention…. The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.” – Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), German dictator. Mein Kampf,…
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Jose Ortega Y Gasset: Me and my surroundings
Image via Wikipedia I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. –Jose Ortega Y Gasset, philosopher and essayist (1883-1955) Related articles by Zemanta Ortega y Gasset, Read, and Block on “Left and Right” (stephankinsella.com)
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Guy Debord: Quotations
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. Guy Debord (b. 1931), French situationist philosopher. Panegyric, vol. 1, pt. 1 (1989). _______________________________________________________
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: True innocence
Whoever blushes is already guilty. True innocence is ashamed of nothing. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Related articles by Zemanta A Terrible Ugliness Is Born (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com) Rousseau’s Narcisse, or The Self Admirer (socyberty.com)
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Holy Bible: Faith
Image via Wikipedia “I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” ~ The Holy Bible; Chicken Soup for the Indian Spiritual Soul Related articles by Zemanta Anxious…
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Hal Borland: Trees and grass
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. –Hal Borland, journalist (1900-1978)
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G M Trevelyan: Education
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. – GM Trevelyan, British historian.
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Paulo Coelho: Memories
Image via Wikipedia “Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Michel de Montaigne: Cast in the same mold
“The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.” —-Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592).
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Robert Redford: Environment
Image via Wikipedia “I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?” ~ Robert Redford.
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Andy Warhol: Fantasy love
Image via Wikipedia Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. – Andy Warhol. Related articles by Zemanta 16 Minutes of Fame (jackofallblogs.com) Wayward Love! (blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com) A tale of two castles (blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com) The Worth of Warhol (nybooks.com)
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Al Gore: Airplane travel
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. – Al Gore. Embed from Getty Images
