Wisdom

"What I know for sure...
is that what you give comes back to you."


- Oprah Winfrey

Quotes For Today

Max out the time with the people you love. - Tony Soprano




Depression is rage turned inward. - Dr. Melfi to Tony Soprano

Quotes and Stuff

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
Abraham Lincoln

I often quote myself. I find it adds spice to the conversation.

George Bernard Shaw

 

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.

Albert Einstein

 

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Isaac Asimov

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A couple of jokes -

Question: Why is it unpleasant to eat a meal next to a group of basketball players?
Answer: They dribble far too much.


Question: What would you have if you crossed a panther with a beef burger?
Answer: Really fast food.

Don't forget to watch!!

 

 

Quotes for Today

Better to slip with your feet than with your tongue.
- Unknown

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
- Victor Hugo

May your light become a living universal light.
- Unknown

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
- William Shakespeare

Barbados
 

More Good Quotes

Here are a few quotes I like -

Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
- Unknown

Without music, life would be a mistake.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 

What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.  The only consequence is what we do.

- John Ruskin

 

 

 

Quotes for the Day

Here are some quotes I like...

Every day, even for a moment, find your own sense of calm.

May this day bring you peace, tranquility and harmony.

Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.

When the mind is backed by will, miracles happen.

May you have faith in your worth and act with wisdom.

Have wisdom in your actions and faith in your merits.

True understanding is found through compassion.

Life is a chance.  Love is infinity.  Grace is reality.

To learn, read.  To know, write.  To master, teach.

Awww...
 

Some Good Quotes

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."

- A.A. Milne

"I think that if women and children were in charge, we would get somewhere."

- James Thurber

Famous Valentine's Day quotes

I found these quotes in the Parade magazine that came with the newspaper today -

"Look to the great romantics for inspiration!

My blind eyes are desperately waiting for the sight of you. You don't realise of course, E.B., how fascinatingly beautiful you have always been, and how strangely you have acquired an added and special and dangerous loveliness.
—Richard Burton to wife Elizabeth Taylor, excerpted from Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger.

I shall see you in three hours. Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.
—Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine, two months before their wedding

I cannot better explain to you what I felt than by saying that your unknown heart seemed to pass into my bosom—there to dwell forever—while mine, I thought, was translated into your own. From that hour I loved you.
—Edgar Allan Poe to poet Sarah Whitman

You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.
—Woodrow Wilson to wife Edith

[W]ith an indescribable pleasure, I have seen near a score of years roll over our heads with an affection heightened and improved by time, nor have the dreary years of absence in the smallest degree effaced from my mind the image of the dear untitled man to whom I gave my heart.
—Abigail Adams to husband John"
                                                        

 Sweet Peas

                                                 Happy Valentine's Day!

Today's Quote

Finish each day and be done with it...
You have done what you could;
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in

Forget them as soon as you can
Tomorrow is a new day;
You shall begin it well and serenely.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

New Year Quote

Here is a good quote for New Year's Eve from Ogden Nash -

“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!” 

 

 

Good Quote

This quote is from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" -

"When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."

Thanksgiving Quote

Here's a good quote from actress Gwyneth Paltrow on what to be grateful for this Thanksgiving -


"Mostly, make sure that no matter what type of meal you are having, you take a moment to think about how much you do have (health, love, friendship, passion, perspective, appreciation, intellect, reason, kindness) and reflect on how you can share more of it with others."

Quotes for Today

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Nelson Mandela


"Do not wait for your ship to come in -- swim out to it."
- Unknown author

"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play."

- Warren Beatty 

 

Good Quote

Here is a great quote from The Sopranos, one of my favorite TV shows of all time -

"They say every day is a gift.  But why does it have to be a pair of socks?" - Tony Soprano

Tony & Carmela Soprano

Quote of the Day

Today's quote is from Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life by Max Ehrmann -

“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.


If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.


Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.


Strive to be happy.”  

Desiderata is Latin for "things desired as essential" and this poem was written in 1927.  It is timeless and beautiful.

Quote of the Day

Here is a quote I like from John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "Maud Muller" -

God pity them both! and pity us all,
Who vainly the dreams of youth recall.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

Quote of the Day

Life is like a bicycle.  To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

- Albert Einstein

Quote of the Day

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

- Margaret Mitchell

According to wwwgoodreads.com, Margaret Mitchell died on August 16, 1949, at age 48, her life cut short by a speeding car in Atlanta, Georgia. Gone with the Wind, her only major work, is one of the best-selling debut novels ever published. 

Words of wisdom

In the book The Best Advice I Ever Got by Katie Couric, Lisa Ling's contribution called Give of Yourself includes an email her husband sent her with this story -

"On a street corner I saw a cold, shivering girl in a thin dress, with no hope of a decent meal.  I got angry and said to God, 'Why did you permit this?  Why don't you do something about it?'  God replied, 'I certainly did something about it.  I made you.'"  I thought that was a good reminder to help others when you can.

Here is a great quote from Groucho Marx -

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.  I can choose which it shall be.  Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet.  I can have just one day today and I'm going to be happy in it."

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.  - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Quote of the Day

Today's quote is from www.goodreads.com -

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.  You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

- Natalie Babbitt