"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none" --Jules Renard
(poetry)
"In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter bitter", he answered,
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart." --Stephen Crane
Bill Parcell's posted this in the Dallas Cowboys locker room shortly after taking over as head coach. "Losers assemble in little groups and bitch about the coaches and the system and other players in other little groups. Winners assemble as a team."
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. --Theodore Roosevelt
"You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." --C.S. Lewis
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. --Thomas Edison
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin
Franklin
Be like water. If you put water in a glass, it becomes the glass; put it in a bowl and it becomes the bowl. Water has no form, it adapts. Water can flow or it can crash. Be like Water, my friend. --Bruce Lee
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. --Eddie Rickenbacker
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders. --Ben Stein
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.--C.S. Lewis
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence
of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the
light."
- Helen Keller
With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth
a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of
happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered
world."
- Helen Keller
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have
somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain
Quotes from Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source
of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no
longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are
closed.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because
of those who look on and do nothing.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is
more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the
world.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. --Victor Hugo
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability--Henry Ford
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.--Joseph Stalin
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." - Robert Heinlein (reminds me of our government)
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot . . . and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why . . . I succeed." --Michael Jordan
"Perseverance and toughness have nothing to with ability and everything to do with choice."--Me
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself and all the while a great wind carries me across the sky.-- Ojibwe Saying