“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What are we going to do today, Brain?”
“The same thing we do every day, Pinky – try to take over the world!”
“A wrong note played timidly is a wrong note. A wrong played with authority is interpretation.”
Stolen from my friend John’s favorite quote wall
“One word expresses the pathway to greatness: voice. Those on this path find their voice and inspire others to find theirs. The rest never do.”
Steven Covey
“If we believe as a society that we should only be as good as the least of us, we will be stifled.”
Bob Mazzuca, Chief Scout Executive, Boy Scouts of America
“Here we are at the 21st century, but where’s the world of the future we were always told about? Where are the flying cars? Where are the robots doing our housework? Where are the people zippingaround in jetpacks? I’m sorry, but clapping my lights on and off doesn’t cut it.”
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“I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
Robin Williams
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.”
Voltaire
“Because either Jesus rose on Easter Day-or he did not. And if he really did rise from the dead, if he really died for our sake-then this is so overwhelming that it must permeate our entire life.”
Kierkegaard, Sophie’s World
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad
Detroit where the weak are killed and eaten
T-shirt
Failure is the path of least persistence.
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
Thoreau
“Some people see things and ask why; I see things that never were and ask why not.”
Robert Kennedy
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Soren Kierkegaard, In Liberty
“I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once.”
A friend’s facebook, whose I cannot remember
“In victory be humble. In defeat be strong. In all things be fair.”
H.U. Lee
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
Douglas Adams
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Steve Jobs
“And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”
Steve Jobs
“Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.”
Sir Thomas Brown
“Simple is hard, and effortless takes lots of work.”
Josh Clark, Tapworthy
“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
Sherlock Holmes
“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”
Socrates
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
“Everything is beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Confucious
“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
St. Augustine
“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
Donald Trump
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Howard Thurman
“One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.”
John Stuart Mill
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”
Neil Gaiman
”Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
Winston Churchill
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Frank Herbert’s Dune
All that is gold does not glitter, not all who wander are lost, the old that are strong do not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.
J.R.R. Tolkien, Fellowship of the Ring
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn
“The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but to have other eyes.”
Marcel Proust
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
“Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.”
George Kneller
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
Madeleine L’Engle
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Do not pray for an easy, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
Bruce Lee