“Sometimes the people whom we've know for only a short amount of time have a bigger impact on us than those we've known forever.”
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Impact
“Sometimes the people whom we've know for only a short amount of time have a bigger impact on us than those we've known forever.”
Will never forget
“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.” Maya Angelou
We must do.
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” Leonardo da Vinci
Action
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Watch your thoughts
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
The Truth
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Galileo Galilei
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt
Happiness
- "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." definition of "Happiness" by John F. Kennedy
Poetry
"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things." Matthew Arnold
life is too short
"Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. " Friedrich Nietzsche
Life
Monday, September 6, 2010
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." Albert Einstein
Obstacles
- "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." Henry Ford
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." Xenocrates
The sensation I have while working.
- "Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working." Albert Giacometti
Give a stranger one of your smiles.
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
Smile :)
"Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over." Walter Anderson
Today isn't just another day.
Today isn't just another day.
Today i'll create something beautiful. :)
Today i'll create something beautiful. :)
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” Flora Whittemore
Learn
“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.” Sarah Caldwell
“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” Kahlil Gibran
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Mother Teresa
“Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives”
“Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives”
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” Ryunosuke Satoro
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." Ayn Rand
Don't be a silent friend
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King Jr.
"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'." Friedrich Nietzsche
Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.
Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” Garrison Keillor
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” Garrison Keillor
"Ah, there you are."
“There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."” Frederick L. Collins
Don't believe in circumstances
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them” George Bernard Shaw
“People living deeply have no fear of death.” Anais Nin
“People living deeply have no fear of death.” Anais Nin
Be You (TIFUL)
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." e.e. Cummings
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.” B. F. Skinner
“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.” B. F. Skinner
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