Just some quotes

Courage vs Honor

2010-01-16T21:56:00.000-08:00

"Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or a mistake, but you’re not supposed to question adults, or your coach, or your teacher because they make the rules. Maybe they know best but maybe they don’t. It all depends on who you are, where you come from. Didn’t at least one of the six hundred guys think about giving up and joining with the other side? I mean, Valley of Death, that’s pretty salty stuff. That’s why courage is tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you’re doing something. I mean, any fool can have courage. But honor, that’s the real reason you either do something or you don’t. It’s who you want to be. If you die trying for something important then you have both honor and courage and that’s pretty good. I think that’s what the writer was saying; that you should try for courage and hope for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too." The Blind Side the movie Michael Oher

Lift yourself

2009-04-16T18:30:00.001-07:00

"If you want to lift
yourself up, lift up
someone else."
Booker T. Washington

Steering

2009-04-16T18:25:00.000-07:00

"He is the best sailor who can steer
within fewest points of the wind,
and exact a motive power out of
the greatest obstacles."
Henry David Thoreau

Obstacles

2009-04-16T18:23:00.000-07:00

"Obstacles are those frightful
things you see when you take
your eyes off the goal."
Author Unknown

Courage

2009-04-16T18:20:00.000-07:00

"Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear--not
absence of fear."
Mark Twain

Fear

2009-04-16T18:18:00.000-07:00

"No passion so effectually robs
the mind of all its powers of
acting and reasoning as fear."
Edmund Burke

Tomorrow

2008-12-15T19:54:00.000-08:00

Everything I Do...
Everything I say...
Changes the world in some small way.
...Am I making it better?...

What will I do today that will matter tomorrow?

Smile

2008-11-04T10:45:00.001-08:00

"If you're not using your smile,
you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook."
Les Giblin

Hero

2008-11-04T10:42:00.000-08:00

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life
to something bigger than oneself."
Joseph Campbell

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength
to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
Christopher Reeve

Muisc to my ears

2008-11-04T10:38:00.000-08:00

"Music is only love looking for words."
Lawrence Durrell

mental wellness

2008-11-04T10:37:00.001-08:00

"The ability to be in the present moment
is a major component of mental wellness."
Abraham Maslow

The Now

2008-11-04T10:36:00.001-08:00

"There is never time in the future
in which we will work out our salvation.
The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now."
James Baldwin

Virtue

2008-11-04T10:33:00.000-08:00

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
—George Washington

"How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey
if you take the road to another man's city?"
Thomas Merton

The Great Debaters

2008-05-19T19:09:00.000-07:00

We do what we have to do so we can do what we want to do.

Dr. Mardy Grothe

2008-03-10T20:15:00.000-07:00

"If you want to have love in your life,
don't forget to put some life in your love."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2008-03-10T20:13:00.000-07:00

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth."

Virginia Woolf

2008-03-10T20:10:00.000-07:00

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people."

Henry David Thoreau

2008-03-10T20:08:00.000-07:00

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Thomas Carlyle

2008-03-10T20:07:00.001-07:00

"If what you have done is unjust,
you have not succeeded."

Rita Mae Brown

2008-03-10T20:05:00.000-07:00

"If the world were a logical place
men would ride side-saddle"

Henry Ward Beecher

2008-03-10T20:00:00.000-07:00

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without
springs; jolted by every pebble in the road."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,
and paints his own nature into his pictures."

Charles Bukowski

2008-03-10T19:55:00.000-07:00

"My ambition is handicapped by my laziness."

"Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality."

"Of course, it's possible to love a human being--
if you don't know them too well."

"If you're losing your soul and you know it,
then you've still got a soul left to lose."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way.
An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

Wayne Gretzsky "The Great One"

2008-01-21T18:28:00.000-08:00

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you
never take."

Edith Wharton

2008-01-21T18:23:00.000-08:00

"There are two ways of spreading light:
to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it."

Mohandas K. Gandhi

2008-01-21T18:20:00.000-08:00

"Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.
 The weak can never forgive."

Peaceful Warrior

2008-01-19T23:20:00.000-08:00

Socrates: I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles
we fight are on the inside
Dan Millman: The journey is what brings us happiness not
the destination
Dan Millman: The ones who are hardest to love are usually
the ones who need it the most.

The Illusionist

2008-01-19T23:15:00.000-08:00

Eisenheim: i thought we might end this evening with a discussion
of the soul. All of the greatest religions speak of the soul’s
endurance before the end of life. So what then does it mean to die? Eisenheim: From the moment we enter this live we are in the flow of it. We measure it and We mock it, but we cannot defy it. We cannot even speed it up or slow it down. Or can we? Have we not each experienced the sensation that a beautiful moment seemed to pass to quickly, and wished that we could make it linger? Or felt time slow on a dull day, and wished that we could speed things up a bit?

American History X

2008-01-19T23:08:00.000-08:00

Danny Vinyard: So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned
- my conclusion, right? Well, my conclusion is: Hate is baggage. Life's too
short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. Derek says it's
always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already
said it best. So if you can't top it, steal from them and go out strong.
So I picked a guy I thought you'd like. 'We are not enemies, but friends.
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must
not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will
swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.'

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

2008-01-14T18:40:00.000-08:00

Own only what you can carry with you; know language,
know countries, know people. Let your memory be
your travel bag.

Ingrid Bengi

2008-01-14T18:39:00.001-08:00

For me, words are a form of action, capable of
influencing change.

Edward Cole Bucket List

2008-01-14T18:36:00.000-08:00

Here's something to remember when you're older
Thomas - never pass up a bathroom, never waste a
hard-on, and never trust a fart.

Bucket List - Edward Cole

2008-01-14T18:33:00.000-08:00

You measure yourself by the people who measure
themselves by you.

Albert Schweitzer

2008-01-14T18:27:00.000-08:00

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those
people who rekindle the inner spirit.