Quotes & Memes
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B.F. Skinner,
psychologist
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Stephen Chbosky
“Someone once told me that you can take the boy out of the war. But not the war out of the man.”
Barbara Nickless
“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.”
Bo Bennett
“It’s better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.”
Unknown
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
If we could surrender to Earth’s intelligence, we would rise up rooted, like trees.
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Persevering does not mean being rigid and fixed, but flowing like water, willing to meet the conditions at hand yet never giving up…
Tracy Cochran
Humility in response to an experience of failure, then, is at its core a form of therapy, the beginning of a healing process.
Costica Bradatan
The ability to learn is older — as it is also more widespread — than is the ability to teach.
Margaret Mead,
cultural anthropologist
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.
Mary Kay Ash,
entrepreneur
God did not intend for a husband to mistreat his wife or for him to be lord and master over her. When that happens, the husband is killing the marriage as surely as if he shot the wife between the eyes with his deer-huntin’ rifle,” the preacher said.
The Lullaby Sky
Carolyn Brown
“Sh@@. Sorry. Didn’t mean to go off on a mangent.”
“Mangent?”
“When you don’t shut up about the guy in your life.”
Strung Up: A Blacktop Cowboys Novella
Lorelei James
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” William Arthur Ward
In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett,
investor
“If you feel like you don’t fit in in this world, it is because you are here to help create a new one.”
Jocelyn Daher
The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
Marilyn Monroe,
entertainer
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence — only in constant improvement and constant change.
Tom Peters,
writer and management consultant
“Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.”
Michel de Montaigne, “Upon Some Verses of Virgil,” The Essays of Montaigne
“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
Samuel Johnson, Selected Writings
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Guillaume Appollinaire
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton,
entrepreneur
You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.
Eckart Tolle
Why is pot against the law? It wouldn’t be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can’t make a profit off it, would it?
Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake. Like on the seventh day God looked down, “There it is. My Creation, perfect and holy in all ways. Now I can rest. [Gives shocked expression] Oh my Me! I left fuckin’ pot everywhere. I should never have smoked that joint on the third day. Hehe, that was the day I created the possum. Still gives me a chuckle. But if I leave pot everywhere, that’s gonna give people the impression they’re supposed to … use it. Now I have to create Republicans.” ” … and God wept”, I believe is the next part of that story.
I think it’s interesting the two drugs that are legal, alcohol and cigarettes, two drugs that do absolutely nothing for you at all, are legal, and the drugs that might open your mind up to realize how badly you’re being fucked every day of your life? Those drugs are against the law. He-heh, coincidence? See, I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, ’cause I took ’em one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, “My God! I love everything.” Yeah, Now, if that isn’t a hazard to our country… how are we gonna justify arms dealing if we know we’re all one?!
Over the years, he had often been asked to run for political office but had eschewed all attempts to convince him to enter the political arena. Martz preferred the freedom to speak his mind and, on occasion, offend both sides of the aisle, sometimes at the same time.
Good people died for things they believed in. Bad people would kill for things they wanted. It had always been that way.
Sanctioned Murder
Glenn Trust
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s: She changes it more often.
Oliver Herford
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.
W. H. Auden
Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs – and we do so through the power of prayer.
Nick Rahall
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
Henri Nouwen
We live in a time of conflict – external and internal – when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
Charlie Dent
Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
Leah LaBelle
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
Earl Granville
“Don’t let others decide your destiny…let go of your past and don’t choose your path, pave it for what’s best for you.”
#KindAndHumility
#ButDestroyTheNegative
Satisfactions are fulfillment of the heart. Dissatisfactions are the rumblings of the mind.
Duane Elgin
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey,
media personality, businesswoman and philanthropist
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
Benjamin Disraeli
Nobody sees a flower — really — it is so small it takes time — we haven’t time — and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Mary Schmich
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. Golda Meir
The more laws, the less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”
Wayne Dyer
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
“We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.”
Marianne Williamson
“Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.”
Eugene Ionesco
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.
Edwin Arlington Robinson,
poet
“His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy.”
Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand
“Most men rather please than admire you; they seek less to be instructed, and even to be amused, than to be praised and applauded; the most delicate of pleasures is to please another person.”
Jean de La Bruyère, “Of Society and Conversation”, The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère
“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.”
Max Ehrmann
How can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful.
Thomas Carlyle,
philosopher
What we fear most is that we will be denied the opportunity to fulfill our true potential.
Dan Pallotta
Bill Fikes Jr
Dad was a Programmer, he used to keep “Garbage in, garbage out” taped on his keyboard. (it was the early 1960s, not the sort of “keynoard” your using). GIGO is applicable to almost any situation in life, you get out what you put in. “The love you take is equal to the love you make.”
The first use of the term has been dated to a November 10, 1957, syndicated newspaper article about US Army mathematicians and their work with early computers, in which an Army Specialist named William D. Mellin explained that computers cannot think for themselves, and that “sloppily programmed” inputs inevitably lead to incorrect outputs.
“There is almost one time that is important— Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.”
Leo Tolstoy
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
Robert Hand
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Rumi
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
John Henry Newman
The things that we love tell us what we are.
Thomas Aquinas
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John Locke
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