Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.
–Frank Crane
How true this is! How many times have I been prevented from doing something simply because of a [...]
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[Quote] The Mind is Powerful!
Posted in Life, Quotes, tagged Quotes on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
[Quote] Living in the Present
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on February 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come.
–Charles C. Colton
[Quote] Challenging the Status Quo
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really was true, there would be little hope of advance.
–Orville Wright
How different would all our lives be if Mr. Wright hadn’t challenged assumptions about the possibility of flight?
[Quotes] Bradbury on Lives Effecting Change
Posted in Life, Quotes, tagged bradbury, literature, Quotes on March 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you [...]
[Quotes] Wealth as a Curse?
Posted in Life, Quotes, tagged Quotes, scripture on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Proverbs 30:8-9
Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you
and say, ‘Who is the LORD ?’
Or I may become poor and steal,
and so dishonor the name of my God.
[Quotes] Time Management
Posted in Quotes, tagged time management on February 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
–Jeanee-Marie Roland
Interesting. If you know how to apply yourself and you actually do apply yourself (proactive), you’ll get meaningful things done. However, if you don’t do anything (reactionary), you’ll never find a free moment.
[Lyrics & Quotes] Life in Perspective
Posted in Quotes, Spirituality, tagged Life, lyrics, Quotes on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Poverty
by Jason Upton
There’s a power in poverty that breaks principalities
And brings the authority’s down to their knees
There’s a brewing frustration and ageless temptation
To fight for control by some manipulation
But the God of the kingdoms and the God of the Nations
The God of creation sends his revelation
Thru the homeless and penniless Jesus the son
The poor will [...]
More Quotes…
Posted in Quotes, tagged Life, Quotes on March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Usually I try to stay away from motivational posters and quote-strewn notepads. Most of the time, the sayings are generic to a point of meaninglessness. Since I’ve started actually using the ‘expensive’ leather planner my company provided me with, I have found a few gems:
A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
– Fanny [...]
