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.

When you tell her you love her she will leave.

When she knows you no longer care she will tell you she loves you.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them...Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

—Michel de Montaigne

Life is spiraling into oblivion

Chastity--you can carry it too far.

- Mark Twain

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

U.S. President, James A. Garfield

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Sir Winston Churchill

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary
Explorer

"If you're going to tell a man to go to hell, then you better be prepared to send him there."

Former American President LBJ

Failures are divided into two classes - those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

John Charles Salak

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

—P. J. O'Rourke

great quote! I'll have to remember that.

Devote to better living the energy that you could spend in criticism.

Imelda Shanklin
Writer

Life cannot exist without interactions, without relationships, without civilizations. When you turn your back on a fellow human being, you turn your back on life.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969)
Clergyman

If life sucks... Get a better vaccum.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Founder of psychoanalysis

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

Victoria Holt
(1906-1993)
Novelist

Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be your day.

Author unknown

Each one of us can work for a small change in the world around us.

Lamar S. Smith

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up, and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

Rosa Parks

If you are what you do, then when you don't you aren't.

Wayne Dyer
Psychologist and writer

Turn the wheel of your life. Make complete revolutions. Celebrate every turning. And persevere with joy.

Deng Ming-Dao

There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) Poet and journalist

You gotta bounce for the sexy.

Where integrity meets creativity, vision naturally grows.

-Pat McHenry Sullivan
Consultant

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people."
-- Jan Ashford

Happiness comes when we stop wailing about the troubles we have, and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have.

Author unknown

Everything's all right in the end... if its not allright, its not the end

I've heard you say that quote a million times... and i still like it

Tell someone you love them-having feelings won't kill you-not having them kills the soul and a dying soul signals the end of living.
Me

If you're goin' through Hell.


Keep goin'

Good one, King!

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999)
Writer and editor

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins (1915-1990)

“You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jelly beans.”
----
Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) U.S. 40th President (1981-89);
always had his favorite snack of jelly beans on his desk.

To love is to stop comparing.

-Bernard Grasset

We perceive an image of the truth
and possess nothing but falsehood...

Blaise Pascal

true enough, uncle phil!
thanks for that one.

"If you love something let it go, if it comes back it was truly meant to be"

It's only failure if you quit. It's only success if you build upon it.

-Me

Some people like to wake up with bacon and eggs.

I like to wake up with my dick between your legs.

No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.

Spanish proverb

A man's knee is worth a thousand gold - chinese proverb

How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

Norman Douglas (1868-1952)
Novelist and essayist

We see what we want to see, hear what we want to hear, think what we want to think and do what we want to do, rarely do we ever shift that to our need - Me

We've got the power to change the world.

Now, put the beer down.

Look upon every day as the whole of life, not merely as a section; and enjoy and improve the present without wishing, through haste, to rush on to another.

Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

"Somebody's paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. They're getting paid by the American taxpayer in both cases. So we pay them to destroy the country, and then we pay them to rebuild it. Those are gifts from U.S. taxpayer to U.S. corporations."
-- Noam Chomsky

When the going gets tough, tough it out! -me

What you resist persists. -CWG

Be that which you want to see in the world. -Ghandi

Your love gives me such a thrill but your love can't pay my bills

Allegorical dismemberment. The music to which one listens while
under the influence of hashish appears, in Baudelaire, as "the
entire poem entering your brain, like a dictionary that has come
alive."

Walter Benjamin, Arcades Project

All that I know, I learned after I was 30.
Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) Statesman

Carl W. Buechner
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Everything that is most eccentric in man, the gypsy in him, can surely be summed up in these two syllables: garden.

Louis Aragon

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution

As difficult as it seems, you can be sure of this: At the core of the heart, you have the power to move beyond the old issues that are still hindering your freedom. The hardest things—the ones that push you up against your limits—are the very things you need to address to make a quantum leap into a fresh inner and outer life.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Writer

“Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
----
Henry James (1843-1916) U.S. novelist

"train hard; fight easy"
Marshall Alexander V. Suvorov (1729-1800)

What nurishes me, destroys me.

Y'all should know this by now but...


TRUST NO ONE.

Harry Truman
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.

Be careful of your thoughts for your thoughts become your words.

Be careful of your words for your words become your actions.

Be careful of your actions for your actions become your habits.

Be careful of your habits for your habits become your character.

Be careful of your character for your character becomes your destiny.

Every day ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict?"

Gerald Jampolsky
Psychiatrist

Nothing is really lost. It’s just where it doesn’t belong.

Suzanne Mueller

Jennifer Ross
No man/woman is worth your tears and the one that is won't make you cry.

Maya Angelou
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Many opportunities float by, but sometimes you have to swim out and meet them.

Freedom is the greatest liberator, for with it you can choose your own path; you are your own person. Freedom is also the greatest prison, for within it you are trapped in your own decisions with no one to blame for your failures but yourself. Within the endless walls of freedom it is only you who can choose the path that you will take.

- myself

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
(Paris Sorbonne,1910)

If you're only as old as you feel?

I'm 65.

"Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why."

-author unknown

Summer grasses
al that remains of the great soldiers'
imperial dreams

matsuo basho
the narrow road to the interior

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Mae West

dont worry about the things you cant change..... change the things you can change....... and dont worry

“Posing is a performing art.”
----
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-) U.S. (Austrian born) bodybuilder and actor - won Mr. Universe title five times and Mr. Olympia six consecutive times. Governor of California.

My daily though: Man I should have only taken one Klonopin last night. Plus I should have stopped at 6 beers instead of twelve! My head hurts and I'm strugglin today here at work! BLAH!!

"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion."

~Carl Sagan

Why do creditors always find you as soon as you have money?


Makes me want to punch a kitten.