why does the night fall and the sun break
-my math teacher

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
—Douglas Adams

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Writer

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy any place.

Ernie Banks
Major league baseball player

Would anyone miss me if I disappeared (outside of family)?

Ego provides you with the mechanism to affect everyone around you negatively to bring them down so that you can feel better about yourself. --Edward Toupin

People often say that this person or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.

Thomas Szasz
Psychiatrist

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

-John Beecher

If you haven't got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want.

Author unknown

Murphy's Law :: If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Murphy's Law :: Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Declare your mission--and then live it!

Tom Welch
Career coach

It's only time until someone else wins. Don't get used to it.


You can't be whatever you want to be.

Where the FUCK did my glasses go?

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Politician and philosopher

You kissed me like you meant it.


And I knew that you meant it.

Good ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

C. D. Jackson

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
Professional football coach

You know, everytime I try to go where I really want to be, It's already where I am. Cause I am already there.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

Earl Wilson (1907-1987)
Columnist

I you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.....

Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed.

Henry S. Haskins
Writer

Make your life a mission, not an intermission.

Arnold H. Glasgow
Psychologist

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

Jared Sparks (1789-1866)
Historian and editor

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward - Robert C Gallagher

Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower
Social critic

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
-Bob Dylan

I feel I have very little to offer here in TFP.

We all have very little to offer.
But together, these small drops of ours can add up to some very deep water!

ARTelevision

Be "Self"-Centered, not self-centered.
i.e. speak, act, be, do everything that reflects your true Self.

''It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a
vast landscape, and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.''

- Thornton Wilder

A favorite place is where you feel most alive. -yours truly

Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.

Paul M. Romer
Scholar and educator

Life is worth living. Live your life worthy of doing so.

-iamtheone

Everytime I try to go where I really want to be it's alreay where I am because I am already there

-Serj Tankian

Eyesight is more powerful than hearsay.

Icelandic proverb

I am not competitive.... I just always win

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.

-Abe Lincoln

The wise shepherd never trusts his flock to a smiling wolf

Once in a while it really strikes people that they don't have to live in the way they have been told to.

Alan Keightly

"Once you learn to die, you learn how to live."

Morrie Swartchz
R.I.P.