My favorite from a professor
“Experts should be on tap, not on top” B. R. Davidson
There’s also this - I quoted it earlier:
“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong . . . but that’s the way to bet.” - Damon Runyon
“. . .sound and fury, signifying nothing . . .”
I looked it up, Josephine, you didn’t mix anything up or leave anything out. It’s perfect.
William Shakespeare “MacBeth”, Act 5, Scene 5
Some of you Californians and others may remember the est training …I received a booklet with quotes in the mid eighties upon completion of the training , This is what Werner said :
" Happiness is a function of accepting what is .
Love is a function of communication .
Health is a function of participation .
Self Expression is a function of responsibility " .
PS noticed on this page a community ad about our British Columbia , Canada ,Provincial election to vote for a certain party . Interesting .
‘Now that all your worries have proved such an unlucrative business…why not find yourself a better job’ Hafiz
‘Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field…I’ll meet you there’ Rumi
my favourite Sufi poets 'cause they inspire good sense
Thanks Terry, I remembered it from school, but I just didn’t know if it was right.
Man is born free and everywhere in chains. Plato could be Socrates No they are from Rousseau’s EMILE, I think.
Nature never decieves us, it is we who decieve ourselves.
Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance. Plato.
For a man (woman) to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Also remember a book a JB. Keane Letters of an Irish Publican, it was hilarious, an old woman with a drink problem used to go into the pub for drink pretending she was gonna bake cakes with it. One day a cheeky young fella said, sure we all know your drinking the drink yourself, she turned around and said "May your rear end close up and fester ". There was more but I can’t remember it. Great book.
"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences"
Winston Churchill
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first” I like that one, especially when I feel hard done by and everyones out to get me down!
A couple of favorites:
“I am the Emperor. I want noodles.” – Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria.
“I’m going to live forever, or die trying.” – Woody Allen
“You cannot compel love, nor summon it at will. Still less can you dismiss it.” – Diana Gabaldon
“When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, anything your heart desires, will come to you.” – Ned Washington.
i thought of this one and made it my lifestyle:
“You can’t live life until you accept the fact that you’re already dead.”
Some of my favorites are:
“Mistakes only make us stronger”
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have”
“Be who you want to be, not what others want to see”
“Unless you have lived my life, don’t judge me because you don’t know, never have and never will know every little thing and detail about me”
“If you never try, you’ll never know”
“Every story has an end, but in life every end is just a new beginning”
I love all ya’s… but if zombies are chasing us, I’m going to trip yer butt
“Life is hard” “but God is good.” For years this was the greeting and response of a church I attending. I still remember it, and it comforts me, believe it or not. Not that God is out to get us, but that life is just that, life, and we do what we can, and let God take care of the rest. Anyways, it makes sense to me.
“A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she is in hot water” Eleanor Roosevelt
Growth comes from making sense of things that don’t seem to add up–Unknown
One thing worse than failure is succeeding at something with no eternal significance.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce
Happy Mother’s Day everyone!
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” How I feel about life. Take it head on.
Dont have time to read them all but did anyone put “today is the first day of the rest of your life” Cheers all
The Roosevelt women are a great source of quotes:
“No good deed goes unpunished.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you don’t have anything nice to say . . . come sit next to me.” - Alice Roosevelt (daughter of Teddy).
They dont make them like they used to…but then again, they never did.