Ways of thinking

[pete5770]

Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.

unknown

[yat_chum]

”How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

[yat_chum]

"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

[yat_chum]

“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
Unknown

[yat_chum]

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky

[pete5770]

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright

[yat_chum]

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
Sydney J. Harris

[pete5770]

Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day,
expressed in M & M's: 250

Harpers Index

[yat_chum]

"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; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)

[yat_chum]

"Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times."
Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)

[yat_chum]

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

[yat_chum]

‎"Today, like every other day,
we wake up empty and frightened.
Don't open the door to the study and begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

Jelaluddin Rumi - Sufi mystic - 13th century

[yat_chum]

"Remember, you cannot take back a stroke of the brush, or a stroke of the sword."
Master Piandao, Avatar: The Last Airbender

[yat_chum]

"I am as serious as death itself when it comes to the
study and practice of martial arts."
Ga Ko

[pete5770]

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just
about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

[pete5770]

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man
knows himself to be a fool.

"Bill" Shakespeare

[pete5770]

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on
the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi

[caesar]

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

-Anthony De Mello

[yat_chum]

"Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain't no video game."
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

[pete5770]

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than
the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw