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but don'y worry,you get enough excersise pushing your luck !!!
 
The roughest road often leads to the top.

Sometimes in life you have to experience what's not meant for you to realize what is.

Sometimes you have to move on without certain people, if they're meant to be in your life, they'll catch up.
 
Invictus – the poem
by William Earnest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud,
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
 
Be who you are and say what you feel,because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Dr. Seuss
 
"We have a weight to carry and a distance we must go.We have a weight to carry,a destination we can't know.We have a weight to carry and can put it down nowhere.We are the weight we carry from there to here to there."-The Book of Counted Sorrows
 
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Never sh*t on anybody as you climb the ladder of success - it can be very slippery going down. (a colleague at work)
 
~H.O.P.E ~ Hold on pain ends.~
"Best thing about the worst times of your life is that you get to see the true colors of everyone you cared for." Bakare
~Learn to say NO ~ without explaining yourself~
~The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.~Paulo Coelho
~It's easier to say your mad then to admit your hurt~
~It only takes one negative comment to kill a dream, remember that next time~
~When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is worth more then a pound of preaching.~
~If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one~ Mother Teresa
~Learn to love without condition. Talk without bad intention. Give without any reason. And most of all care without any expectation.~
~"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." Aristotle.
~ No matter how you feel, get up dress up and show up and never give up.~
~'No-one has ever become poor from giving' Anne Frank~
~ If you can be anything, be kind~
~'If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete' Buddha
~After all of this is over, all that will have really mattered is how we treated each other~
So many....and more.

Peace to you
 
'People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel.' Maya Angelou

" Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. " William Penn

"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened." Winston Churchill

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” Apple Inc.

" Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. "
Saint Augustine

"Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too." Voltaire

"Even the shiniest wrapping paper sometimes conceals the most disappointing present. It's always what's inside that counts" unknown

"F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run'
or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours." Zig Ziglar

" Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. "
John Wayne

"When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact:
EVERYTHING around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Once you learn that, you'll NEVER be the same again." Steve Jobs

"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open." Thomas Dewar

"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation." Leo Tolstoy

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." Edward Everett Hale

“Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.” Dalai Lama XIV
 
" How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. "
George Washington Carver
 
You gain strength, courage and confidence in every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do

Elanor Roosevelt:
 
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"I wanted a perfect ending...Now I've learned,the hard way,that some poems don't rhyme,and some stories don't have a clear beginning,middle and end.Life is about not knowing,having to change,taking the moment and making the best of it,without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious ambiguity."

Gilda Radner
 
These are my fav's

Don't be so humble - you are not that great

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his
 
"Weed" is a loser's term for a winner.
- On tumbleweeds, from an issue of National Geographic I have since lost.
 
I am not sure this is an exact quote but it goes he is no fool who gives what he cannot keep by Jim Elliot.
 
The muscian Avicii has a song (Wake me up) that I like, but it has a line that I really love:

Life's a game made for everyone. And love is the prize
 
Bullies bring nothing to the table except themselves and there own needs and wants.They lack loyalty and they are not the warriors they pretend to be.Weed them out of the group,and put them out with the trash where they belong.

Sonny Barger
 
We sell magnets with various quotes from kids on them at the store I work at...

"If you can just be patient you can get in trouble slower" Brittany McMahan age 10.
 
You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

J K Rowling
Harvard Commencement Address 2008
 
JM1 said:
You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

J K Rowling
Harvard Commencement Address 2008
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As the wise Headmaster,Albus Dumbledore,once said "It does not do to dwell on dreams,and forget to live."
 
When I worked in repair, one of my favorite sayings was...

"A grinder and paint makes a welder what he ain't!"

Then I couldn't keep up anymore so I got into education. That turned into...

"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."
 
If I said I was good, you would say im bragging. If i said I was bad you would know im lying.

Bruce Lee

And also

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Or does it explode?

A little bit from Langston Hughes
 
"That's the trouble,you see.When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time,you don't know how to spit it out."

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ank-Morpork Watch
 
From Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Ferris: Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
 
The secrecy surrounding the huts was justified. The true Jewish teaching is not for wide consumption, is not for groups, is not to be polluted by even a single gesture of communication. Spreading messages dilutes them. Even understanding them is a compromise. The language kills itself, expires inside its host. Language acts as an acid over its message. If you no longer care about an idea or feeling, then put it into language. That will certainly be the last of it, a fitting end. Language is another name for coffin. Baumen told us the only thing we should worry about regarding the sermons was if we understood them too well. When such a day came, then something was surely wrong.

~Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
 
I have two: When you choose not to decide you still have made a choice - "Freewill" Neil Peart, Rush

The best laid plans (schemes) of mice & men often go awry. "Of Mice & Men" -John Steinbeck
 
Common sense is not so common. Voltaire.

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. Henry David Thoreau.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. George Carlin.
 
Is it not enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too. Douglas Adams
 
The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern.The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced he is superior to a man who merely picks up his own and other people's litter on the beach,when in fact the latter is in some small way sure to make the world a better place,while the former is likely to be a monster of vanity whose crusade will lead to unintended destruction.

Odd Thomas
 
Nothing clarifies our thinking more than an awareness of our extreme vulnerability.

Odd Thomas
 
"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life."

Life Magazine's...motto
 
Frodo: I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to do is decide to to do with the time that is given us.
 
Daisy G said:
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." ~ Charles Bukowski
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I'm still in doubt whether I am an idiot or a genius. Based on this, I am definitely a genius. Thanks!

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Daisy G said:
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." ~ Charles Bukowski
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I love this one.

A couple of my other favorites:

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense.”
-Buddha

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. Henry David Thoreau.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. George Carlin.
 

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