Imperfection, Work, Storms

Imperfection is God's playground

~ Unknown

 

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

 

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Failures, Unconditional

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.

~ Michael Patrick King

 

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

~ C. S. Lewis

 

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

~ Madonna

Kisses, Vices, Conference

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
~ Bob Hope

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
~ Abraham Lincoln

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do
nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
~ Fred Allen

Know your limitations, Drive, Invention

Never eat more than you can lift.

~ Miss Piggy

 

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

~ Bette Davis

 

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

~ Agatha Christie

Patience, Parents, Humor

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

 

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

~ Ogden Nash

 

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

~ Larry Gelbart

Love, Skiing, Obstacles

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most
difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the
work for which all other work is but preparation.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
~ Dave Barry

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

Walls, Refresh, Discreet

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who
cares enough to break them down.
~ Banana Yoshimoto

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will
flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their
own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will
drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
~ John Muir

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be
mysterious about any.
~ Arthur Wellesley

Future, Jilted, Foolish

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees
nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
~ Jim Bishop

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to
forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
~ Moliere

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
~ Colette

Persist, Usefulness, Quartet

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
~ Tobias Wolff

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be
preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
~ Sir Francis Bacon

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a
barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.
~ Chuck Sigars

Theories, Faith, Force

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has
data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead
of theories to suit facts.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way
we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely
convinced of God's existence think faith is impossible for them. Not
so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something
you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the
more heroic your faith.
~ Real Live Preacher

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
~ Abraham Lincoln

poverty, gift, data

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of
the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own
opinion, or in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
~ Ann Radcliffe

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
~ Charles Dudley Warner

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to
make it up.
~ Scott Adams

disappointments, greatness, get busy

Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.
~ Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Even the great get greater by doing more of it.
~ Colleen Wainwright

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I
can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Atheist, Fire, Intelligence

I'm still an atheist, thank God.
~ Luis Bunuel

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and
he's warm for the rest of his life.
~ Terry Pratchett

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
~ Charles Darwin

Courage, Fishing, Sources

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the judgment that something
is more important than our fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted
line. He caught every other fish.
~ Steven Wright

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for
his facts.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Danger, Envy, Encouragement

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
~ Jane Goodall

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder
for what you want.
~ Robert Bringle

Encouragement is like a premium gasoline - it helps to take knocks out
of living.
~ Anonymous

Image, Progress, Belief

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is
this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.
~ William Gurnall

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
~ George Santayana

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
~ Edith Sitwell

Enemy, Success objective, Thought

So long as a man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to
him is "You're fine." But after you do take sides, it becomes "Your
heart is bad and you know it."
~ John Eldridge, Wild at Heart

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything
else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations
bend to that one objective.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
~ Sir William Osler

Doubt, Reasonable, Ready

Do not doubt in the dark what you have learned in the light.
~ Susie Larson

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable,
you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left
is a compromise.
~ Robert Fritz

People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who
aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it./ The minute you
become ready is the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer
about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'.
~ Hugh Macleod

Tomorrow, Opinions, Expression

The man of God you want to be tomorrow, start living today.
~ Unknown

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well.
Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.
~ Ruben Studdard

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the
expression of opinions that we loathe.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Student, Wit, Outnumbered

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions,
never know too much to learn something new.
~ Og Mandino

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
~ Jeph Jacques

If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for
the forty-eight.
~ Margaret Thatcher