“Sorry don’t get it done, Dude.”
-John T. Chance (Rio Bravo)
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
-Oscar Wilde
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Victor Frankl
Improvement is our evolutionary obligation to humankind.
Sal Glesser
“Life is flux……the only constant is change.”
“All lasting and meaningful change starts on the inside and works it’s way out.”
“Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.”
Adam Lindsay Gordon
“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
William James
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being , let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
William Penn
“Stop making the perfect the enemy of the good.”
“This above all: to thine ownself be true.”
William Shakespeare
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“Life is a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.”
Epictetus
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
Dr Seuss
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
Nelson Mandela
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
Dolly Parton
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future.”
F. Douglass
“We all die, just a question of when.”
“Fate whispers to the warrior, ‘You cannot withstand the storm,’” And the warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.’”
“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”
Lao Tzu
“Stop worrying about the world ending today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”
Charles Schulz
WORK:
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Jerome K. Jerome
“Childhood’s over the moment you know you’re gonna die.”
— Top Dollar
Rocky—“I see three of him out there”
Paulie—“Hit the one in the middle”
(Rocky 4)
John Vernon From: The Outlaw Josey Wales
^ that’s a good one
I noticed when you get to dislikin’ folks they aint around long either— Lone Watie
(The Outlaw Josie Wales)
Dyin’ aint much of a living, boy— Josie Wales
It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt - Various
“We all died a little in that damned war.”
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.”
–John D. Rockefeller
- Some day we will all die, Snoopy!
- True, but on all the other days, we will not.
You don’t have to be a leader, but don’t be a follower, be Yourself not what you think others want you to be.
Not everything you have learned is True or Fact, Think without prejudice and With Common Sense.
Watch, Learn, Do, Don’t be afraid to do something, if another can, so can you.
Never stop challenging yourself, find a way to get it done, Think outside the normal way, outside the box.
" "You" must be the change you wish to see in the world" Ghandi
easier said than done, but always a good reminder!
I would never join any club that would have someone like me as a member
Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is!
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
—John Blutarsky
(Animal House)
“Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.”
“We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
~Winston Churchill
My favourite quotes:
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” - Cyril Connolly
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” - Stephen King
Looks nice from far, but far from nice.
“No one has a right. You have to take a right. Or stop it from being taken from you.”
"This is America ..... we don't share land here"
“It’s the one constant in life. You build something worth having, someone’s gonna try to take it.”
“You are the trailer park; I am the tornado.”
“When the misery is bad enough, tomorrow is rarely factored into decisions.”
“I gotta tell you something, and it comes from a place of love. You should really consider killing yourself.”
-Yellowstone -