Quote Day.

Song of the blog: Don't Know Why_ Norah Jones

Today I want to just do quotes. Lotsa quotes. My life is awesome and everything, but I'm tired of talking about it. So today, we shall soak up the wisdom of others, leave our bubble, step outside of our norm. This is something I encourage in my life often.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. 

Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) 

 

Not quite sure if I agree, but it's funny. haha

 

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.

Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923) 

 

How true is this!! Regret nothing, just learn from it.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980

 

So many people have many views of what it is to be an adult. I'm not sure if we'll ever really pinpoint a definition, but this I think is part of it. 

 

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) 

 

You know I've never really believed in luck. This proves it.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. 

Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

 

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. 

Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)

 

Hahaha! I enjoy this one. So true.

 

Let the world change you and you can change the world. (Deje el mundo cambiarle y usted puede cambiar el mundo.)

Che Guevara (1928 - 1967)

 

RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

I enjoy The Devil's Dictionary because it displays the ugly truth. This is what people actually do. (Not what they SHOULD do, but they ACTUALLY do. These are very different things sadly.)

There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning. 

Jimmy Buffett, "Fruitcakes"

 

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. 

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

 

I do this too much I think. I don't think enough about the future. But when I look back, man I have some great moments. =)

 

 

You do not lead by hitting people over the head--that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

 

Hahaha!!!

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.' 

Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)

 

Not that Marilyn Monroe is the greatest role model, but this quote is wonderful. It applies to everything.

 

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities. 

 Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), from his report to the King of France on Animal Magnetism, 1784

 

I don't know what he really wanted people to think when they heard this, or I guess what he wanted the King of France to think when he read it, but personally I think of how wonderful the human mind is. I really love the last line. I love people's interesting extravagancies and absurdities. They are the best part of a human I think. =)

 

There are all sorts of kisses... from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell is she means it or if she's just practicing?

Ruth Gordon

 

I, sadly, have way too much experience with these stupid actors.

 

 

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

 

Welcome to my view on dating. hahaha

 

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Dr. Frank Crane

 

Exactly?....

 

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God. 

Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Five, 1842–43, p. 255

 

Wow... This fit with what I learned in conference this weekend so well. I need to just concentrate on the gospel, on obeying the commandments, and my life will fall into place. 

 

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. 

Michael Jordan (1963 - )

 

This is my view on life in general.

 

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

Jan Ehrenwald.

 

See? Just cuz I suck at math doesn't mean I can't be a genius!