"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." ~Bernice Johnson Reagon, African American Composer, Singer and Cultural Historian (1942-)
"Non Degener Addam" (I add without loss)
5/23/10
Rick Nichols - walk right in!
"Forgive, forget, and let go of the past. You are the creative artist, enjoy your work, paint paradise in your future, and walk right in! " ~Rick Nichols
Scott Andrews - smile and breath
"By focusing on what is important NOW and taking action that I really CAN DO now, a step at a time, worry subsides. And remember to smile and breath deeply - these two actions will help you keep your stress down. " ~Scott Andrews
Dorothy Galyean - rocking chair
"Worry is like a rocking chair — it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere." ~Dorothy Gaylean, Grandma's Little Books
Bob Perks - sighs of the heart
"Close your eyes for a moment and dream about the love that makes you sigh. I not only find it in the arms of my loved ones, but in the caress of a sunset, the kiss of the moonlight and the gentle brush of cool air on a hot day. They are the sighs of the heart." ~Bob Perks
George Bird Evans - dogs
"I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better." ~George Bird Evans, Outdoor Essayist
Agnes Repplier - happiness
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." ~Agnes Repplier, American Essayist (1855-1950)
Steven Pinker - genes
"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate." ~Steven Pinker
5/14/10
THOMAS FULLER Quotes
“A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.” ~Thomas Fuller
"All things are difficult before they are easy." ~Thomas Fuller
"Be a friend to thyself and others will too." ~Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye." ~Thomas Fuller
“Fools grow without watering.” ~Thomas Fuller
"Good clothes open all doors." ~Thomas Fuller
"Great and good are seldom the same man." ~Thomas Fuller
"He that plants trees loves others beside himself" ~Thomas Fuller
"Health is not valued until sickness comes." ~Thomas Fuller
"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break." ~Thomas Fuller
"If you have one true friend you have more than your share." ~Thomas Fuller
“It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.” ~Thomas Fuller
“It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.” ~Thomas Fuller on Computer / technology / science
"Learning makes a man fit company for himself." ~Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
"Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper." ~Dr. Thomas Fuller
"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." ~Thomas Fuller
"Such casual collection of data is pleasant and sociable but often unreliable. But if the personal is fallible, it is also organic. There is no life without it." ~ Dr.Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends." ~Thomas Fuller
“There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved." ~Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
"They are rich who have true friends." ~Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
"Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks." ~Thomas Fuller
“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” ~Thomas Fuller
"What a day may bring, a day may take away." ~Thomas Fuller
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"Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper." ~Dr. Thomas Fuller
"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." ~Thomas Fuller
"Such casual collection of data is pleasant and sociable but often unreliable. But if the personal is fallible, it is also organic. There is no life without it." ~ Dr.Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends." ~Thomas Fuller
“There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved." ~Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
"They are rich who have true friends." ~Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
"Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks." ~Thomas Fuller
“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” ~Thomas Fuller
"What a day may bring, a day may take away." ~Thomas Fuller
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5/13/10
Nora Roberts Quotes
"Everything I know, I learned from dogs." ~Nora Roberts
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." ~Nora Roberts
"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice." ~Nora Roberts
“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.” ~Nora Roberts
"Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy." ~Nora Roberts
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5/11/10
Quotes From IF YOU'RE THE ONE
"Beauty can stop a man, but wisdom retains a man." ~from If You're The One
"Distance creates a sense of beauty." ~If You're The One
"Make your children hate you for twenty years. They'll thank you later." ~If You're The One
Source: SBS2 (2016)
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Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
"Each body has its art." ~Gwendolyn Brooks
"We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond." ~Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000
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Nancy Reagan - like a tea bag
"A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water." ~Nancy Reagan
"I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life." ~Nancy Reagan (1923-) American First Lady
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Bob Hope Quotes
"I feel truly humble, but I believe I truly have the strength to get over it." ~Bob Hope
"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." ~Bob Hope
"Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning." ~Bob Hope
"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy." ~Bob Hope
"You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." ~Bob Hope
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Iris Murdoch Quotes
"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous." -Iris Murdoch
"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." ~Iris Murdoch
"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats." ~Iris Murdoch
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." ~Iris Murdoch
"Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing." ~Iris Murdoch
"We can only learn to love by loving." ~Iris Murdoch
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5/6/10
Lindell Ngaluafe - hard yards
"The hard yards in life...tough, exhausting and thankless. But by persistence and patience will strengthen you for the future." ~Lindell Ngaluafe, FB
Evan Esar Quotes
"Anger is a feeling that makes your mouth works faster than your mind." ~Evan Esar
“Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it." ~Evan Esar
"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration." ~Evan Esar
“You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.” ~Evan Esar
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Megan Gale - love
"There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a bit of love." ~Megan Gale, Fashion Model, Sunday Telegraph, Body and Soul, January 29, 2012 Issue
Claude Arien Helvetius - equal rights
“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.” ~Claude Arien Helvetius on Rights
General George S. Patton Quotes
"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." ~General George S. Patton
"An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body." ~General Patton
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." ~George S. Patton
"If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you"ll be amazed at the results."~Gen. George Patton
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." ~George S. Patton, Jr.
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." ~George S. Patton
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." ~George S. Patton
"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals." ~George S. Patton
BIO
General George Smith Patton Jr. was a senior officer of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European theaters of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the U.S
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5/5/10
Mary Morris - maps of instincts
"When I see danger, I step away. When I think I can move forward, I move ahead, and when I think I can come closer, I do. Sometimes I am wrong, but often, if I pay attention, I am right, and these maps of my own instincts guide me as surely as any by Rand McNally would." ~Mary Morris
J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities." ~J.R.R. Tolkien
"All we have to decide, is what to do with the time that is given us." ~J.R.R. Tolkien
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." ~JRR Tolkien
"Every tree has its enemy, few have an advocate. In all my works I take the part of trees against all their enemies". ~JRR Tolkien
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” ~JRR Tolkien
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!” ~J.R.R. Tolkien
"I am at home among the trees." ~JRR Tolkien
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?” ~J.R.R. Tolkien
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." ~J.R.R. Tolkien
“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
"Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the East.” ~Gandalf
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." ~J. R. R. Tolkien
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien,The Lord of the Rings
"Not all those who wander are lost." ~J. R. R. Tolkien
‘Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, make a good tale...’
From The Hobbit by J. R. Tolkein
"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead." ~J.R.R. Tolkien
"The wise speak only of what they know." ~J.R.R. Tolkien
“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
~J.R.R. Tolkien
“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” |J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
OTHERS
"Some believe it is only the GREAT POWER that can hold the evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found that it the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." ~Gandalf
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Richard Buckminster Fuller Quotes
“Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
"Dare to think. And dare to go with the truth. And dare to really love completely." ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
"Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking." ~R. Buckminster Fuller
“Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
"How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else." ~Buckminster Fuller
“Human beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
“I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
"I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller, I Seem To Be A Verb
“I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
“I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
"I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
“If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
"If we dump all the machinery and take the knowledge we have in the ocean within six months humanity will die. If we dump all the politician all around the world in the ocean everything will go along very nicely.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
"It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
“Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
"Many creatures have brains. Man alone has mind." ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
“Most importantly we have learned that from here on it is success for all or none, for it is experimentally proven by physics that "unity is plural and at minimum two" - the complementary but not mirror-imaged proton and neutron. You and I are inherently different and complimentary. Together we average as zero - that is, as eternity.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
“Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
"Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking." ~R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963 (1895-1983)
"The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love." ~Buckminster Fuller
“There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." ~Richard. Buckminster Fuller
"Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions.
Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral." ~Buckminster Fuller
“We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller, Education Automation: Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies
"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty... but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality." ~Buckminster Fuller
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