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Quotes September 12, 2016

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

 

Quotes September 11, 2016

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

Quotes September 10, 2016

 

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

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

 

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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

Quotes September 9, 2016

“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

Quotes September 7, 2016

“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

Quotes

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

 

 

 

 

Quotes August 30, 2016

Taking a stand does not preclude you from taking a position. One needs to take a position from time to time to get things done or to make a point. But when a stand is taken it inspires everyone. It elevates the quality of the dialog and engenders integrity, alignment, and deep trust. Taking a stand can shape a person’s life and actions and give them access to profound truths that can empower the emergence of new paradigms and a shift in the course of history.
Lynne Twist
The Soul Of Money

White Privilege

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King Jr.,
civil rights activist

“We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.”
Mary Dunbar

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.
Jimmy Buffett

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
Lois McMaster Bujold,
writer

“The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself; he who goes away pleased with himself and his own wit is also greatly pleased with you.”
Jean de La Bruyère, “Of Society and Conversation”, The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère