"QUOTES" of the day

[benevolentcrow]

“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” Paulo Coelho

[benevolentcrow]

"The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought." Denis Waitley

[andywight]

"A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a Unicorn".-Thomas Banacek

[benevolentcrow]

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” Brandi Snyder

[magamud]

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Voltaire

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire

[andywight]

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
— Douglas Adams (The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time)

[Bethany]

Action talks, bullsh*t walks.....

[Akhenaten]

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that someone isn't trying to F**K with you

[magamud]

“And the sea will grant each man new hope . . . his sleep brings dreams of home.”
Christopher Columbus

[Heretic]

"I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon the dewdrop."
— Kahlil Gibran

[andywight]

"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

[Northern Boy]

Success is going from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm. ? Winston Churchill

[Northern Boy]

Saskatchewan listened to the Wise Old Indian:


When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said,

“Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.”

[VajraYaya]

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. "
~JFK

[VajraYaya]

"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine."

~ Dr. Marcia Angell from: Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption

[VajraYaya]

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in harsh words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in harsh words again, thought it contradict everything you said today. –“Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.” –Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[magamud]

“The best time for transition is during a period of great strength, ... We believe these appointments and the evolution of the governance of the firm will strengthen our management focus and keep the firm on a solid foundation to serve our clients, develop our people, and execute our strategy.”
Henry Paulson

[Northern Boy]

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing,?When you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors,?When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you,?When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice,?You may know that your society is doomed.

-❤ Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged, 1957

[Northern Boy]

Every last one of the great philosophers has told us that things are not what they seem. Every last one of the great scientists has assured us that there are worlds within worlds. And every famous metaphysician has insisted that our conditions, our surroundings, and our world are fashioned by the thoughts we think and the way we think them.

- Marcus Bach

[fossileyesed]

Saskatchewan listened to the Wise Old Indian:


When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said,

“Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.”

awesome nb
peace

[Harley]

Regarding the current state of world affairs . . .

Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen!

...Pvt. Hudson - Aliens (1986)

[magamud]

An honest man is always a child.
Socrates

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.”
Erica Jong

[magamud]

There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all out kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us."
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

[magamud]

"The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

[Tamara]

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you;
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want;
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.
- Rumi