Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands. -Jewish Proverbs
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There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry. -Henry Miller Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. -William Blake Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. -Arthur Schopenhauer Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. -Lewis Morris Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. -John Kenneth Galbraith I believe that I am a child of God, endowed with a divine birthright. I believe that there is something of divinity within me and within each of you. I believe that we have a godly inheritance and that it is our responsibility, our obligation, and our opportunity to cultivate and nurture the very best of these qualities within us. -Gordon B. Hinckley Don't sweat the small stuff... and it's all small stuff. ~ Richard Carlson No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life. -Orison Swett Marden A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push. -Unknown Source As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live -Pope John Paul Iii I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. -Thomas Carlyle A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. -Henry Ward Beecher Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? -Steve Polyak More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them. -Harold J. Smith Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. -Nathaniel Emmons Genuine security arises from actual, firsthand knowledge that one is both capable and worthy of achieving happiness (through conscious, responsible action) and, once having attained it, that he deserves it. -Michael J. Hurd Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know. -John Grisham To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. -George Orwell Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." -Mary Tyler Moore Unexplained joy is always so keen that...it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable. -Jessie B. Fremont Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. -James A. Garfield The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity. -Marcel Proust There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it. -Henry Miller |
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