Favorite Quotes....

JDMPWR

It's a poem but has stuck with me through life-

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

charlie18091980

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb.......and I also know I'm not blonde!" - Dolly Parton

Anderia

"I freed a thousand slaves, I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."---Harriet Tubman

firesoforion

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act." -- G.K. Chesterton.

"I may not have always gone where I intended to go, but I think I've wound up where I needed to be." -- Douglas Adams.

clydethecat

"i swear by my life and love of it, to never live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine" - john galt, atlas shrugged.

MMarvelous

"We must focus on what we want to happen rather than what we fear will happen."

MMarvelous

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb.......and I also know I'm not blonde!" - Dolly Parton

LOL I love Dolly Parton!

gildinha

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

MrsLVF

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
-William Lyon Phelps

Anderia

◦"Religion is your attempt to speak of the unspeakable. It does not do a very good job"---CWG

cal1973

don't be afraid to take a big leap if one is indicated, you can't cross a chasm in small steps - david lloyd george

what does not kill me makes me stronger - friedrich nietzsche

EatClenTrenHard

pain is a weakness leaving your body

speedyf

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
-Martin Luther King

Anderia

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

sunkisses

It's a poem but has stuck with me through life-

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

This is the poem my uncle wanted us to read after he died. Unfortunately that happened very unexpectedly 2 weeks ago I am way familiar with this poem and it will always have significance to me.

sunkisses

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics. You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars. And the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today.

- Lawrence Strauss

delilah47

"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."

Dolly Parton

cekeys

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." -C.S. Lewis

SandyChampWins

"Only half of what you hear about me is true, the other half, "I" made up!" ~ Me

mowu

"You can't always get what you want.
But if you try; sometimes you might find you get what you need"

"In times of stress we don't rise to the occasion; we sink to the level of our training"

"Short of dieing, the biggest failure is not to learn from your mistakes"