Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air.
Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: “return to sender, addressee unknown.” That’s a shame because it’s a whole other world out there–or in here depending on your point of view.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet, ‘Meditations Divine and Moral,’ 1655
Motivational Quotes of the Day
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you’ll know right away what you amount to.
From Aaron Ruell of Napoleon Dynamite, aka Kipp:
The biggest-grossing films of all time have always been PG films. If people craft intelligent, entertaining movies that as a parent you can take your children to, and the whole family will be entertained, I know I’ll go see it.
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
- Richard Lewis
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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