Quotes 12-25-11

Merry Damn Christmas!!!



"If someone wants to be a part of your life, they will make an effort to be in it, so don't bother reserving a space in your heart for someone who doesn't make an effort to stay."  
  -unknown

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

- Channing Pollock

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

- Dale Carnegie

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

- Plutarch

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity... I can be sure that I am right.

- Federico Fellini

Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.

- Stanley Horowitz

If you don't run your own life, someone else will.

- John Atkinson

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

- Maya Angelou

Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me, and I'll understand.

- Chinese Proverb

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

- Alice Mackenzie Swaim

There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

- Yogi Berra

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.

- Sandra Carey

You've got to be the best person you can be in your life.

- Jeff Gordon

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

- F. Wilezek

A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless you fail to make the turn.

- Unknown

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.

- Benjamin Franklin

Some look upon the sun as our father Who makes life possible with heat and rain And divides time into months and seasons. Others have seen him riding in wisdom On his chariot, with seven colors As horses and six wheels to represent The whirling spokes of time.

- Prashna Upanishad

There simply is nothing to which we can attach ourselves, no matter how hard we try. In time, things will change and the conditions that produced our current desires will be gone. Why then cling to them now?

- Master Hsing Yun, "The Indescribable"

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

- William Jennings Bryan

While aid may outwardly seem as puny as a mustard seed, The knowing will deem it as imposing as a towering palm. Help rendered another cannot be measured by the extent Of assistance imparted. Its real measure is the recipient's worthiness.

- Tirukkural 11:104-105

 

The one man team is a complete and total myth.

- Don Shula

If you wish to understand yourself, you must succeed in doing so in the midst of all kinds of confusions and upsets. Don't make the mistake of sitting dead in the cold ashes of a withered tree.

- Emyo

Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.

- Hal Lindsey

He who is free from selfish attachments, who has mastered himself and his passions, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from action.

- Bhagavad Gita 18:49

 

I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.

- David Robinson

Therefore the practice is like a key, the key of meditation. If we have the right key in our hand, no matter how tightly the lock is closed, when we take the key and turn it the lock falls open. If we have no key we can't open the lock. We will never know what is in the trunk.

- Ajahn Chah, "Living Dharma"

A nation that is ruled by it's government is never truly free.

-Myself

Remember the virtues you lack and the faults you have; forget the good you did and the wrong you received.

- Orhot Tzaddikim, 15C

Politics and Politicians get in the way of good and effective government.

-Myself

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free

- Oprah Winfrey

Erroneous views keep us in defilement While right views remove us from it, But when we are in a position to discard both of them We are then absolutely pure.

- The Sutra of Hui Neng

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

-Unknown

It is better to have less if it is with peace of mind than to have abundant wealth but with a tormented spirit.

- Ecclesiastes

Well It's New Year's Day

Another year down and another one coming up. Let's see how this one turns out.

As I look back to the past year, and I think of all that's happened. I realize that I can't remember much of shit. lol Of course there have been ups and downs, as happens to everyone every year. The reflections of the past have no bearing on the future and should not be an indicator of what lies ahead. You have the ability to make the best of the coming year and I highly suggest that you do. I know I'm going to make the best of the next year, and right the wrongs, and make the goods better. As I'm coming up on my one year anniversary I am reminds of a couple quotes that I have to remind myself of on the off occasion.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
 -Robert Anderson

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
 -Doug Larson

More quotes for you.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate of someone else.
  - Judy Garland

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
 - Herm Albright


You should always just be yourself, if you have to be a certain way for someone else to like you, they ain't worth the effort of changing. Be honest with yourself and everybody around you and you will find people that will love you for who you are and not try nor want to change you.

Regardless of the circumstances things will always get better, unless you just give up and let the bad hang around. The best first step to making the bad leave your life is to have a positive attitude. No matter what, you still have your life.