cool quotes

[freespirit2001]

"Curiosity will conquer more fear than bravery will."

---James Stephen

 

[freespirit2001]

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of truth and knowledge, will be shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

Einstein

 

[freespirit2001]

MY LIFE IS A STROLL UPON THE BEACH

My life is a stroll upon the beach,
As near the ocean's edge as I can go,
My tardy steps its waves sometimes o'erreach,
Sometimes I stay to let them overflow.

My sole employment 'tis and scrup'lous care,
To place my gains beyond the reach of tides,
Each smoother pebble, and each shell more rare,
Which Ocean kindly to my hand confides.

I have but few companions on the shore;
They scorn the strand who sail upon the sea,
Yet oft I think the ocean they've sailed o'er,
Is deeper known upon the strand to me.

The middle sea contains no crimson dulse,
Its deeper waves cast up no pearls to view;
Alone the shore my hand is on the pulse,
And I converse with many a shipwrecked crew."

---Henri Thoreau

 

[kelco]

Beuatiful freespirit!

 

[Antara]

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 (1874 - 1936)

 

[brinny]

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. ~William James

 

[brinny]

The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. ~Author Unknown

 

[Teddy Dandilion]

He who dose not make mistakes .. Usually is not making anything..

 

[kelco]

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. -- Mark Twain

 

[2Timothy2]

If one can not amuse himself, then it is not likely that anyone else can either - hischildsindik

 

[smiling sheep]

Christians are like teabags. You don't know what they're made of till you put them in hot water. ~ Can't remember authour.

 

[freespirit2001]

"YOUR LIVING IS DETERMINED NOT SO MUCH BY WHAT LIFE BRINGS TO YOU, AS BY THE ATTITUDE YOU BRING TO LIFE; NOT SO MUCH BY WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU, AS BY THE WAY YOUR MIND LOOKS AT WHAT HAPPENS."

---Kahil Gibran

 

[kelco]

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous

 

[brinny]

These quotes are absolutely the best !!!! I needed to hear them just as you set them out!!!

"True persons of old slept without dreams,
Woke without worries...were they cool? Only as cool as autumn.
All that came out of them came quiet, like the four seasons.
Joy does all things without concern."
---Chuang Tze

 

[brinny]

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955

 

[brinny]

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull

 

[brinny]

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. ~Boris Pasternak

 

[brinny]

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer

 

[brinny]

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

[brinny]

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. ~Friedrich Nietzsche