Quotes & Sayings...

[gamzultovah]

“One of the things [Uncle Alex] found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when they were happy. He himself did his best to acknowledge it when times were sweet. We could be drinking lemonade in the shade of an apple tree in the summertime, and Uncle Alex would interrupt the conversation to say, “If this isn’t nice, what is?”

So I hope that you will do the same for the rest of your lives. When things are going sweetly and peacefully, please pause a moment, and then say out loud, “If this isn’t nice, what is?”

~ Kurt Vonnegut

 

[Bengel]

Still celebrating by being Thankful.

 

[North Pole piper]

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. Ernest Hemingway.

 

[Bengel]

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[Kapnosis1988]

"Audentes fortuna iuvat." -Virgil

Fortune favors the bold. or Fate aids the courageous.

 

[Zapasta]

Still celebrating by being Thankful.
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On tradition:

 

[gamzultovah]

“The enemy is the great and eternal adversary of mankind.

And if we demonize our brothers, our comrades-in-arms, do we not precisely call that dread spirit forth?

Have we not yet learned?”

~ Dr. Jordan Peterson

 

[gamzultovah]

"A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness."
~ Albert Einstein

 

[gamzultovah]

“There’s no point in having any knowledge if you’re not willing to share it with others”
~ Jim Amash (aka Jiminks)

 

[Bengel]

 

[Kapnosis1988]

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
-Emerson

 

[Bengel]

 

[Bengel]

 

[Pipeoff]

I’ve always found there to be great truth and power in pithy quotes and sayings. What are some of your favorites? Allow me to start the conversation:

“ He who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking.” ~ Michel de Montaigne

“ LORD. Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they pissed me off “
Author unknown.

 

[Kapnosis1988]

“ο χρονος τα αδηλα δηλοι”

Time clarifies the unclear things.

-Chase & Phillips

 

[Servant King]

"I'm a humanitarian and I hate humans. Imagine how much I could do for them if I liked them!" -My wife

 

[gamzultovah]

Your competition is not other people but:

- The time you kill,
- The ill will you create,
- The knowledge you neglect to learn,
- The connections you fail to build,
- The health you sacrifice along the path,
- Your inability to generate ideas,
- The people around you who don't support and love your efforts,
- And whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

~ James Altucher

 

[Kapnosis1988]

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

― Leo Tolstoy, from Anna Karenina

 

[Bengel]

Your competition is not other people but:

- The time you kill,
- The ill will you create,
- The knowledge you neglect to learn,
- The connections you fail to build,
- The health you sacrifice along the path,
- Your inability to generate ideas,
- The people around you who don't support and love your efforts,
- And whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

~ James Altucher

Ouch, thanks for this, bro!

 

[gamzultovah]

Ouch, thanks for this, bro!

It stung me too, when I first read it, but that’s the way truth goes…