"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."
-Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931)
Crumbs from mind
For or inspite of
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
-Victor Hugo, novelist and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885)
-Victor Hugo, novelist and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885)
Always there's a one....
"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."
– Alexander Graham Bell
5 Steps to Teaching
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Winning and losing
| How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it. - Anonymous |
Alter...
| There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. |
| – Phyllis Battome |
What you gave...
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
-Calvin Coolidige
Investment to Scatter sunshine
There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
- Orison Swett Marden
Giving birth to
"Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves."
-Robert Neelly Bellah, sociologist and author (23 Feb 1927-2013)
Faithful Friends
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog & ready money.
- Benjamin Franklin
Change the wor(l)d
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
-William H. Gass, writer and professor (b. 1924)
Living their own life
"The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism."
- Napoleon Hill
Striking resemblances
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
- Ronald Reagan
Giving is the beginning of...
"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence."
- Lao Tzu
Harmony & Happiness
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
- Mohandas Gandhi
Strange machine
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
-Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (18 Feb 1883-1957)
Company
A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps.
-Thomas J. Watson, businessman (17 Feb 1874-1956)
Politics & hatred
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
-Henry Adams, historian and teacher (16 Feb 1838-1918)
Passion for the truth
I was sixteen years old when the first World War broke out, and I lived at that time in Hungary. From reading the newspapers in Hungary, it would have appeared that, whatever Austria and Germany did was right and whatever England, France, Russia, or America did was wrong. A good case could be made out for this general thesis, in almost every single instance. It would have been difficult for me to prove, in any single instance, that the newspapers were wrong, but somehow, it seemed to me unlikely that the two nations located in the center of Europe should be invariably right, and that all the other nations should be invariably wrong. History, I reasoned, would hardly operate in such a peculiar fashion, and it didn't take long until I began to hold views which were diametrically opposed to those held by the majority of my schoolmates. ... Even in times of war, you can see current events in their historical perspective, provided that your passion for the truth prevails over your bias in favor of your own nation.
-Leo Szilard, physicist (11 Feb 1898-1964)
Your Life
Never Accept the Definition of Life from others,
It is Your Life, Define it Yourself…
No One knows about 'you' Better than 'Yourself'…
You are the Writer, Director, Producer and Creator of Your Own Life…
1000 obstacles
"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."
– Theodore Roosevelt
Communicate to listeners
"We must have a deep and abiding desire to communicate our convictions and transfer our feelings to our listeners."
- Dale Carnegie
Ability to outgrow
"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
– Theodore Roosevelt
Unworthy of Winning
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
-Adlai Stevenson, governor, ambassador (5 Feb 1900-1965)
-Adlai Stevenson, governor, ambassador (5 Feb 1900-1965)
Choice is always yours
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Other Peaks...
The mark of the educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and stood on the top of it, but in his admission that there may be other peaks in the same range with men on the top of them, and that, though their views of the landscape may be different from his, they are nonetheless legitimate.
-E.J. Pratt, poet (4 Feb 1882-1964)
Writers...he..he..hee
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
-Walter Bagehot, journalist and businessman (3 Feb 1826-1877)
Change comes in
"Change doesn't come in nickels and dimes. It comes in dedication and sweat."
- Toni Sorenson
JOBS are like...
Jobs are like going to church: it's nice once or twice a year to sing along and eat something and all that, but unless you really believe there's something holy going on, it gets to be a drag going in every single week.
-Thomas Michael Disch, science fiction author and poet (2 Feb 1940-2008)
-Thomas Michael Disch, science fiction author and poet (2 Feb 1940-2008)
Turn around
When you turn the corner
And you run into yourself
Then you know that you have turned
All the corners that are left.
-Langston Hughes, poet and novelist (1 Feb 1902-1967)
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