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“Do you always think this much, Charlie?”
“Is that bad?”
“Not necessarily. It’s just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
“Is that bad?”
“Yes”Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The tangible effect of pornography is roughly the same as the tangible effect of Ozzy Osbourne’s music on stoned Midwestern teenagers: It prompts a small faction of idiots to consider idiotic impulses, which is why we have the word 'idiocy.’
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 7:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Luck never made a man wise.
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 04 Sep 2009 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
To make a poem of the human conscience, even in terms of a single man and the least of men, would be to merge all epics in a single epic transcending all… To peer at certain moments into the withdrawn face of a human being in the act of reflection, to see something of what lies behind their outward silence, is to discern struggle on a Homeric scale, conflicts of dragons and hydras, aerial hosts as in Milton, towering vistas as in Dante. The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movements of his spirit with the acts of his life, is an overpowering thing.Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The highest possible reward for any man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
Speaker: John RuskinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We cannot fake love. It must become part of us.
Speaker: John H. GrobergPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Think as wise men do but speak as the common people do.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad. Just like what my sister said when I had been in the hospital for a while. She said that she was really worried about going to college, and considering what I was going through, she felt really dumb about it. But I don’t know why she would feel dumb. I’d be worried, too. And really, I don’t think I have it any better or worse than she does. I don’t know. It’s just different. Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said, Because it’s okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Live as if you will be here forever yet also live each day as if it were your last.
That way you will have no regrets for things left undone and you will not do things that you shouldn’t do.Speaker: GayPosted: 21 Nov 2007 at 11:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Speaker: FRANCIS BACONPosted: 24 May 2009 at 12:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To be forever reaching out, to remain unsatisfied, is the key to spiritual progress.
Speaker: Arden EngebretsenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Speaker: Bob DylanPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When people talk about you now you know they are talking about a secondary character in their story who represents you. They are talking about an image they create for you. You know that it has nothing to do with you. Nut if you agree, if you believe what they say, then their story becomes a part of your story. If you take it personally, it modifies your story. If you don’t take it personally, the opinions of others do not affect you the way they used to, and you have more patience with people.
Speaker: Don Miguel RuizPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Retirement does not mean not working. To my wife and me, it means that barring unforseen cataclysmic changes, we can work or not work, and our wealth grows automatically, staying way ahead of inflation. I guess it means freedom. The assets are large enough to grow by themselves. It’s like planting a tree. you water it for years and then one day it doesn’t need you anymore. Its roots have gone down deep enough. Then, the tree provides shade for your enjoyment.
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What gets measured gets managed.
Speaker: Peter DruckerSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most important position in the church is the one you presently hold.
Speaker: Antoine R. IvinsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People pay very little attention to what you say about your religion. they’re too busy watching what you do about it.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It has been said that every good teacher should be something of a pack rat, collecting poignant ideas and powerfully expressed sentiments from the sources he or she encounters day by day. Daily living, when viewed through the eyes of a teacher, is full of experiences that spring to life as stories, analogies, and illustrations when it is time to teach.
Speaker: Glen M. RoylancePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[Keeping the commandments] is at once the most universally needed yet the most individualistic instruction possible.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!