There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
36th U.S. President

"Those who believe in fate are too weak to control their own future."
-Arno Lebenhagen

What is necessary is never a risk.

Jean-Francois-Paul de Gondi (c. 1614-1679)
Clergyman and politician

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

~ Confucius

Love rarely overtakes, it mostly comes to meet us.

Wilhelm Stekel (1868-1940)
Psychoanalys

All warfare is based on deception

Sun Tzu

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

~ Demosthenes

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Writer

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't know it well enough" -Einstein

/i think

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

~ William Osler

"It's not what you see that is art, art is the gap."

Marcel Duchamp

"Nobody is completely useless, they can always serve as a bad example"

Chumbawamba

you can't roller skate in a buffalo herd.

Roger Miller

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Writer

Every once in a while I foget that I can't use the word "Faggot" without offending someone.

Reminds me of:

"Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that there is nothing important to do."

Too true.

"Why do you cry when you know how the story ends?
How can you laugh, when you know that it hurts your friends?"

--Streetlight Manifesto

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Faye Wattleton
Journalist

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Danish proverb

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Barbara Jordan (1936-1996)
Politician

"When you know what you know that you know what you know, then know that you know what you know that you know."

Just a long way of saying, "Don't second guess yourself."

-Pastor Agard

ignorance is NOT exclusive - me

the truth comes knocking on your door and you say, go away, i'm looking for the truth. so it goes away.. puzzling - robert m. pirsig

I POSTPONE DEATH BY LIVING, BY SUFFERING, BY ERROR, BY RISKING, BY GIVING, BY LOSING..
-anais nin

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

~Pasquier Quesnel

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers
Writer

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Karl A. Menninger (1893-1990)
Psychiatrist

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.

~ Geoffrey F. Abert

As I told my son at one of our.... TALKS..... I'm learning this as "I" go along.... Life did not come with a instruction book

"Dont Drink Guinness then smoke a cigar" - Me

Success never rests. On your worst days, be good. And on your best days, be great. And on every other day, get better.

Carmen Mariano
Educator and writer

Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.

~ Lou Holtz

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Mary MacCracken

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabbinical Saying

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

I'm a Mom couldn't help myself ;) I will admit some of these I just found after reading this thread, and I will save them for the future ;)!

Great thread and wonderful thoughts!

I'm driven by my own destiny.


And the need for beer and sex.

You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.

Stephen Gaskin
Writer and lecturer

It is how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

~ David Feherty

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Clint Eastwood
Politician and actor

"If you're not taking flak, you're not over the target".

You gotta live it up.


'Cause you're so fuckin' money and you don't even know it.