Feeling old and tired? Try this quotation by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.: “To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
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“I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organise and concentrate—or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my ‘ten minutes’. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive.”
Rumer Godden, A House with Four Rooms
The light in the world comes principally from two sources — the sun, and the student’s lamp.
Christian Nestell Bovee,
writer
“The Greatest Homage We can Pay Truth is to Use it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I used to know these two brothers who looked exactly alike, except one was missing an eye.
They were dentical twins.
Unknown
They say don’t judge a book by it’s cover, but that’s exactly what f*cking covers are for.
Anonymous
I don’t have a lot of money, but if my childhood self heard I own my own WiFi network, HD widescreen TV and all the music and movies I want via streaming, he’d think I was the next Bill Gates.
Anonymous
If you think about it, a plastic bag is a modern-day tumbleweed.
Anonymous
After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
Chris Kyle
We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have ‘guardians at the gate.’
Allen West
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they’re protecting us.
Tom Clancy
You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
Barry Goldwater
I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my enemies and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.
Marcus Luttrell
You don’t have to learn how to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.
Unknown
I prefer to earn it. It makes me appreciate it more.
Anonymous
Fairy tales are more than true-
not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
Anonymous
I admire people who choose to shine even after all the storms they’ve been through.
Unknown
When no one’s listening, walk away from the rage.
Anonymous
“Anything you can’t control in life is teaching you how to let go.”
Unknown
Running away from your problems is a race you’ll never win.
Anonymous
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Barack Obama
“The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.”
Alain de Botton
“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
Flannery O’Connor
“All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.”
Matthew Arnold
“The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.”
John O’Donohue
“These days, whether you are online or not, it is easy for people to end up unsure if they are closer together or further apart.”
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together
“I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.”
Sally Mann, Hold Still
“Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,’ said his cousin. ‘But we seem to have no other.’”
Ivy Compton-Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant
There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure.
Herbert Casson,
journalist
“She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).”
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room that had bunny wallpaper…and a bookcase crammed with the collected Beatrix Potter. Snow White was in a youth bed and Rose Red was in a crib, and next to them was the little blue and white guest room that one of them would have one day. Because I recognize emotions only in retrospect, I didn’t know that I was happy. As always, there was something nagging at my mind’s corners. But I did know that I had all that it is proper in this world to wish for.”
Mary Cantwell, Manhattan, When I Was Young
“Life is short. Say what you’ve wanted to say. Do what you’ve wanted to do. Don’t wait until the only thing you can say is, I wish I’d had the courage to do it sooner.”
Lori Deschene
Army veteran Andrew “Sarge” Chambers
https://youtu.be/X6AYmzunPlQ
Published on Oct 31, 2013
Speaking from prison, Iraqi war veteran Andrew “Sarge” Chambers tells the story of how he got there. As the judge told him when he sentenced Chambers to 10 years at Marion Correctional: “Your time in Iraq makes you a threat to society.” Chambers reminds us of the sacrifices that linger with soldiers — and simply asks us to listen.
Andrew “Sarge” Chambers proudly hails from Pickerington, Ohio. He served in the U.S. Army and has maintained the habit he acquired there of cursing just a bit too much. Throughout his service, Sarge was also able to maintain and hone his sense of honor and kindness, but the experience did slightly alter his sense of humor. While categorically not a morning person, when he is able to finally pry his eyes open, he always thinks to himself that he would rather be fishing. Most of his days are filled with coaching softball, Garth Brooks songs and thoughts of the family he hopes to be able to start soon. He is taking the stage to tell his story, parts of which can be seen in the documentary Operation Resurrection: The Warrior Returns. After TEDxMarionCorrectional he will work on his next unique thing.
By Matt Agorist: Judge to Soldier: “Your time in Iraq makes you a threat to society…”
“Don’t seek approval. This may be the toughest suggestion for you to follow — and the most important. Whether you’re a teenager seeking approval from your peers, a middle-aged parent seeking the approval of your kids, or a man or woman seeking the approval of a partner, it all amounts to the same thing. You’re giving your personal power away every time you seek validation from someone else for who you are.”
TRISH MACGREGOR, Soulmate Astrology
“Eventually you just have to realize that you’re living for an audience of one. I’m not here for anyone else’s approval.”
PAMELA ANDERSON, Esquire, Jan. 2005
“Man’s desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.”
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Moon and Sixpence
“He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness in another’s keeping.”
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Good-Natured Man
“Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century.”
J. C. LETTSOM, attributed, Day’s Collection
“The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it–so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.”
WAYNE W. DYER, Your Ultimate Calling
“If you are an approval addict, your behavior is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.”
HARRIET B. BRAIKER, Who’s Pulling Your Strings? How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life
Courtesy of The Chive:
For a song entitled “Piano Man” it sure does have a lot of harmonica.
My ego makes me think I can do anything, but thankfully my laziness stops me. Perfect balance.
Whenever I try to brush my teeth and multitask I end up brushing the same side of my mouth for 2 minutes.
If alcohol is liquid courage, is caffeine liquid anxiety?
If you go to jail for tax evasion, you’re basically living off of taxes because you didn’t pay your taxes.
If i had a dollar for everytime I packed a banana thinking it’d be a quick snack only to forget about it and have it get squished and stink up my backpack, I’d have like 13 dollars.
Pet stores should post “Chameleon” on empty reptile cages just to see how long people would stand and look.
A program crashing after you try to close it is its way of saying “You can’t fire me, I quit!”
Apples are tastier when you cut them into slices! (No idea why though?)
If I was immortal, I would probably just become a massive procrastinator.
If I had a son or daughter come out and tell me they’re gay, I’d only respond with “I know”. This way, if it’s a prank, they just got pranked back. If they’re serious, I look like an understanding parent. Win-win.
Most of the trash on the streets is from junk food because people that don’t care about their own health aren’t going to care about the health of the planet.
The most dangerous game is resting your eyes after you turned off the alarm clock in the morning.
Without Looney Tunes, I’d likely not appreciate classical music.
The purpose of a lock is to turn a door into a wall.
Clocks went from our pockets onto our wrists and then back into our pockets.
Lying to your therapist is like throwing away money, which is exactly what a crazy person would do.
Ginger is a type of root, and ale is a type of beer. So ginger ale is a type of root beer.
After watching a scary movie, I feel the events that happened could also happen to me. The same is not true for porn.
I like how the term “as f*ck” is a common unit of measurement.
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