"Quotables"

[ojai22]

"What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top."

Ralph Marsten

[ojai22]

"You have a brain in your head,
You have feet in your shoes,
You can steer yourself
In any direction you chose."

From the movie: CHALET GIRL

[Flygirl]

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin

[Flygirl]

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. - The Declaration of Independence

[Flygirl]

For Dirk

“If I cannot drink bourbon and smoke cigars in heaven, then I shall not go.”
-Mark Twain

[Flygirl]

An old one, but I love it...

[LittleMonkeyDog]

Originally Posted by flyngirl5

An old one, but I love it...

Such wise words

[Flygirl]

"The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H.P. Lovecraft

[Michele Ann]

"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. " - the Dalai Lama

[ojai22]

"The right question is: What am I NOT to do? Negative questioning. It is only through negation that I come to the positive, not through the positive to further positiveness...So, the denial of the false is the uncovering of what is true. I don't have to seek truth."


Jiddu Krishnamurti

[ojai22]

"The budget should be balanced,

the Treasury should be refilled,

public debt should be reduced,

the arrogance of officialdom should be

tempered and controlled,

and the assistance to foreign lands

should be curtailed lest Rome become

bankrupt. People must again learn to work,

instead of living on public assistance." -

Cicero - 55 BC

[Flygirl]

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe." - Robert Service

[ojai22]

"In yourself lies the whole world, and if you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on Earth can give you either that key or the door to open except yourself."


Jiddu Krishnamurti

[ojai22]

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,

and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what

you believe is great work. And the only way to do

great work is to love what you do. If you haven't

found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all

matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."


Steve Jobs

[ojai22]

"The Great Depression, like most other periods

of severe unemployment, was produced by

government mismanagement rather than by

any inherent instability of the private economy."



Milton Friedman

[ojai22]

"The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and

the laborer... form the great body of the people

of the United States, they are the bone and

sinew of the country men who love liberty and

desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws."


Andrew Jackson

[ojai22]

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud

as that of a cannon, but its echo

lasts a great deal longer."



Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

[ojai22]

"To be yourself in a world that is

constantly trying to make you

something else is the greatest

accomplishment."



Ralph Waldo Emerson

[ojai22]

"No dream is too big.

No challenge is too great.

Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach."



Donald Trump

[ojai22]

"I love being married. It's so great

to find that one special person you

want to annoy for the rest of your life."



Rita Rudner

[ojai22]

"When you wake up every day,

it's like a new birthday: it's a new

chance to be great again and

make great decisions."


Poo Bear

[ojai22]

"A good dancer is not necessarily defined

by great technique, skill, or ability to pick

up choreography but by confidence. When

you feel the music, it penetrates to your soul.

Everybody's a dancer. The greatest dancer

is someone who is willing to dance, not afraid."



Alyssa Edwards

[ojai22]

"It is time to remember that old wisdom

our soldiers will never forget: that whether

we are black or brown or white, we all

bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all

enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and

we all salute the same great American Flag."



Donald Trump

[ojai22]

"Most people say that it is the intellect

which makes a great scientist.

They are wrong: it is character."



Albert Einstein

[ojai22]

"Anyone who knows anything of history

knows that great social changes are

impossible without feminine upheaval.

Social progress can be measured exactly

by the social position of the fair sex,

the ugly ones included."



Karl Marx