Thursday, March 12, 2009

boredom on the first day of spring break

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
- William Shakespeare

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
- Anonymous

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
- Emily Dickinson

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Destiny is not a matter of chance but of choice. Not something to wish for but to attain."
- William Jennings Bryan

"I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
- Edward Everett Hale

"Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it."
- Ella Williams

"People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway."
- Anonymous

"Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning'"
- Thomas Kempis

"The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul."
- David O. McKay

"When you're worried, tell yourself the truth: Shyness is a strength to build on, not a character flaw to be stamped out."
- Malvern School

"The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses."
- Danish Proverb

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
- G.K. Chesterton

"Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, 'What happened?'"
- Anonymous

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
- Buddha

1 comments:

AuckChuck said...

spring break for you. lucky (: . i enjoyed the pictures on your blog, hopefully ur break gets better

 
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