Quote for the day

[Ava]

Be concerned less with position than being worthy of position. Be concerned less with people knowing you than developing qualities worth knowing.---Confucius

 

[Gracie]

btw..I am not buddhist. I just like the quotes.

 

[Gracie]

 

[Gracie]

 

[Gracie]

 

[MisterBeale]

 

[MisterBeale]

 

[Ava]

Know the difference between instinct and habit. Trust your instincts--question your habits. ---Unknown

 

[Esmeralda]

"I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind..." Leon Battista Alberti

 

[BDBoop]

Already raised mine, and she's raising hers.

 

[Ropey]

"Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good."

-Gamaliel Bailey

 

[Esmeralda]

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." ~ Aristotle

 

[Esmeralda]

"Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.” ~ Oscar Wilde

 

[TemplarKormac]

As I am all too familiar, I became the very thing I fought against the past few days or so:

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[WelfareQueen]

As I am all too familiar, I became the very thing I fought against the past few days or so:

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

A little dramatic....don't you think?

 

[Esmeralda]

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they would die for.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

 

[TemplarKormac]

As I am all too familiar, I became the very thing I fought against the past few days or so:

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

A little dramatic....don't you think?

Nope. Quite befitting for what happened over the past few days. Can't blame me for being a bit melodramatic. Besides, my father always quoted that to me as a teenager. So it has sentimental value as well.

 

[Esmeralda]

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

 

[Esmeralda]

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

 

[Ropey]

Jesus was a Jew, yes, but only on his mother's side.

- Archie Bunker