Inspiring Quotes

[tyefly]

Way Deep

[paris]

oppps  --- I got nothing!    Maybe tomorrow!

[dwcrawford]

I didn't do it... And I didn't undo it.  Boy we have some real techies in here.  Who ever undoed it (undid it) (fixed it) can you please get me back my avitar. I've got some really special new ones.

[okarol]

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

~Richard Bach

(Thanks Michelle)

[-Lady Noir-]

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

[kitkatz]

When in doubt, run and shout!
What?  There is too much running and shouting going on. I cannot hear you!

[-Lady Noir-]

When in doubt, run and shout!
What?  There is too much running and shouting going on. I cannot hear you!

 

[okarol]

He who has hope has everything.
- Arabian Proverb

[okarol]

 
Four things you can't recover:

The stone........after the throw...          The word.........after it's said..

The occasion.........after it's missed.      The time..........after it's gone.

[jbeany]

I had one I wanted to post at my FIL's hunting shop, but then I looked it up and found it wasn't real. 

"Trust in God, boys, but keep your powder dry."  Oliver Cromwell. 

Turns out it's from a poem about Cromwell, but not an actual quote.  Ah, well.  It would have been cute posted in the black powder musket section of the store!

[okarol]

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

     ~Unknown

[okarol]

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”

 ~ Henri Nouwen

[okarol]

"Life moves pretty fast... if you don't stop and look around every once in a while, you might miss it." ~ Ferris Bueller

[okarol]

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the things you did." ~ Mark Twain

[paris]

Okarol, the last three quotes are perfect.  Love all of them.   We all need reminders to live now and enjoy where you are at  -- don't wait for tomorrow.   Thanks for sharing.

[jbeany]

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle

[Des]

One day ,somewhere in the future, you will refer back to these days as : "the old days"

Make them special.

I said it. well I actually wrote it. 

[okarol]

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision." Helen Keller

[Zach]

Current events remind me of the commentary by Edward R. Murrow in his "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" on his "See It Now" television news program back in 1954:

" ... No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind as between the internal and the external threats of communism.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular."

This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it — and rather successfully. Cassius was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
Good night, and good luck."

[kristina]

   
   Freedom of thought is best promoted
 by the gradual illumination of men's minds,
which follows from the advance of science.

          Charles Robert Darwin.

[okarol]

Finding a job IS a job.
   -From speaker at Job Fair today

[jbeany]

Finding a job IS a job.
   -From speaker at Job Fair today

As I've just started to think about finding at least a part time one, it's a good quote for me today!

[okarol]

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
   - Ezra Pound

[okarol]

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
           ~Unknown

[jbeany]

Okay, not liking the Pound quote much.  Sounds too much like he's blaming the victim for the circumstances.


My thought for the day, on a lighter note..."Why make the same mistake twice when there are so many new ones to try?"