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Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
Speaker: Tim HanselSource: twitter postPosted: 20 Nov 2011 at 6:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most endeavors are like learning to speak a foreign language: to be correct 95% of the time requires six months of concentrated effort, whereas to be correct 98% of the time requires 20-30 years. Focus on great for a few things and good enough for the rest. Perfection is a good ideal and direction to have, but recognize it for what it is: an impossible destination.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 07 Oct 2009 at 7:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If it’s to be it’s up to me.
Speaker: unknownPosted: 27 Nov 2007 at 3:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity. When a man wages war against his weakness, this is the most holy war he can ever enter… and the joy of accomplishment is the most exquisite.
Speaker: Marion G. RomneyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the harvest and not the Master that will accuse the slothful servant.
Speaker: AnonymousSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.
Speaker: Lillian HellmanSource: bookPosted: 24 Feb 2012 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“There is but one quality necessary for the perfect understanding of character, one quality that, if man have it, he may dare to judge—that is, omniscience. Most people study character as a proofreader pores over a great poem: his ears are dulled to the majesty and music of the lines, his eyes are darkened to the magic imagination of the genius of the author; that proofreader is busy watching for an inverted comma, a misspacing, or a wrong font letter. He has an eye trained for the imperfections, the weaknesses. …
“We do not need to judge nearly so much as we think we do. This is the age of snap judgments. … [We need] the courage to say, ‘I don’t know. I am waiting further evidence. I must hear both sides of the question.’ It is this suspended judgment that is the supreme form of charity”
Speaker: William George JordanSource: “The Supreme Charity of the World,” The Kingship of Self-Control [n.d.], 27–30Posted: 27 Feb 2011 at 12:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ce n’est pas parce que les choses sont difficiles que nous n’osons pas, c’est parce que nous n’osons pas qu’elles sont difficiles.
Speaker: SénèquePosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 4:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What is past is prologue.
Posted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Do NOT try & live everyday as though it’s your last. Look at everyday like it’s a new place you have never been before. That way, life is more worthwhile. Get high on life.”
Speaker: Budger CamSource: MyselfPosted: 14 Jun 2011 at 1:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No-one of any sense has ever bet against the scorn and resourcefulness of young men
Speaker: TychoPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 8:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have always been fascinated by the abnegation with which we human beings are capable of devoting a great deal of energy to the quest for nothing and to the rehashing of useless and absurd ideas. I spoke with a young doctoral candidate in Greek patristics and wondered how so much youth could be squandered in the service of nothingness. When you consider that a primate’s major preoccupations are sex, territory and hierarchy, spending one’s time reflecting on the meaning of prayer for Augustine of Hippo seems a relatively futile exercise.
To be sure, there are those who will argue that mankind aspires to meaning beyond mere impulses. But I would counter that while this is certainly true (otherwise, what am I to do with literature?), it is also utterly false: meaning is merely another impulse, an impulse carried to the highest degree of achievement, in that it uses the most effective means – understanding – to attain its goals. For the quest for meaning abd beauty is hardly a sign that man has an elevated nature, that by leaving behind his animal impulses he will go on to find the justification of his existence in the enlightenment of the spirit: no, it is a primed weapon in the service of a trivial and material goal. And when the weapon becomes its own subject, this is the simple consequence of the specific neuronal wiring that distinguishes us from other animals; by allowing us to survive, the efficiency of intelligence also offers us the possibility of complexity without foundation, thought without usefulness, and beauty without purpose. It’s like a computer bug, a consequence without consequence of the subtlety of our cortex, a superfluous perversion making an utterly wasteful use of the means at our disposal.Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
Speaker: Paula PoundstoneSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I remember what it is I like about sex: what I like about sex is that I can lose myself in it entirely. Sex, in fact, is the most absorbing activity I have discovered in adulthood. When I was a child I used to feel this way about all sorts of things—Legos, The Jungle Book, The Hardy Boys, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Saturday morning cartoons… I could forget where I was, the time of day, who I was with. Sex is the only thing I’ve found like that as a grown-up, give or take the odd film: books are no longer like that once you’re out of your teens, and I’ve certainly never found it in my work. All the horrible pre-sex self-consciousness drains out of me, and I forget where I am, the time of day…and yes, I forget who I’m with, for the time being. Sex is about the only grown-up thing I know how to do; it’s weird, then, that it’s the only thing that can make me feel like a ten-year-old.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Speaker: EpictetusPosted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!