Quitting, Disorder, Play

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
~ Lance Armstrong

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
~ Herman Melville

It is a happy talent to know how to play.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher, poet, essayist

Attention, Living, Happiness

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
~ Isaac Newton

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Choice, Gratitude, Intellect

You have freedom of choice, but not freedom from choice.
~ Wendell Jones

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
~ Aesop

If we find a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

life

Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
~Advice

We are wiser than we know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Encountering minds, and who is education for?

Try to make at least three people smile each day.
~ Advice

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
~ Mark Twain

Experimentation

Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
~ Advice

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
~ Anonymous

Each moment fits into eternity

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
~ P. J. O'Rourke

Never explain -- our friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
~ Elbert Hubbard

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ R. W. Emerson

Election Day

"Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

-- John Quincy Adams

Liberty

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood;
And fired the shot heard round the world.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

--Thomas Jefferson