October tftd's
"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad
judgment."
-- Barry LePatner
"Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the
things he possesses."
Jesus Christ
Prison From The Cradle To The Grave
Author: H.G. Wells
But when a man has once broken through the paper walls of everyday circumstance, those unsubstantial walls that hold so many of us securely
prisoned from the cradle to the grave, he has made a discovery. If the world does not please you, you can change it. Determine to alter it at any
price, and you can change it altogether. You may change it to something sinister and angry, to something appalling, but it may be you will change it
to something brighter, something more agreeable, and at the worst something much more interesting. There is only one sort of man who is
absolutely to blame for his own misery, and that is the man who finds life dull and dreary. There are no circumstances in the world that determined
action cannot alter, unless, perhaps, they are the walls of a prison cell, and even those will dissolve and change, I am told, into the infirmary
compartment, at any rate, for the man who can fast with resolution.
In the name of the best within you,
do not sacrifice this world to those who
are at its worst. In the name of the values
that keep you alive, do not let your vision of
man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the
mindless in those who have never achieved his title.
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate
is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a
step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your
fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the
hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite,
the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in
your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the
life you deserved, but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world
you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it's yours.
From Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." --Aesop
"Fine clothes may disguise, but foolish words will disclose a fool." --Aesop
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. - Aesop
Any excuse will serve a tyrant--Aesop
"We often despise what is most useful to us."--Aesop
"If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs."--Aesop
"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth." --Aesop
"Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield." --Aesop
"Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future."
- Marilyn Ferguson
Commencement address by Sir Winston Churchill at a graduation ceremony:
"Never give up. Never give up. Never, never, never."
- this was his entire speech.
Do Something,
If It Works,
Do More Of It
If It Doesn't,
Do Something Else.
- FDR
Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!
-unknown
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
- Napoleon Hill
Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.
-unknown
People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed
only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
The harder you fall,
the higher you bounce.
Anonymous
If you learn from your suffering, and really come to
understand the lesson you were taught,
you might be able to help someone else
who's now in the phase you may have just completed.
Maybe that's what it's all about after all...
Anonymous
" 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
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean
Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
Anonymous
Email: emiller7@bellsouth.net
