Quote for the day

[TemplarKormac]

"Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you, and keep away from people who bring you down."

- Steve Maraboli

 

[Esmeralda]

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ~ Plato

 

[Esmeralda]

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Abraham Lincoln

 

[Ava]

Expecting someone else to make you happy will ultimately have the opposite effect.----Eastern Wisdom

 

[Ropey]

Standing tall is hard to do while in a group of sitters.

 

[Jroc]

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

Winston Churchill

 

[Mertex]

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.​

~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894​

 

[Mertex]

Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.​

~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com​

 

[Ava]

"When you are selflessly generous with no concern for receiving in kind, all you have given will return to you ten-fold."...Eastern Wisdom

 

[Ava]

"There are two things you should never worry about---things you can help and things you can't."

 

[Jroc]

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.

Jewish proverb

 

[Ava]

"Your attraction to a type of person reveals less about your desire for that person and more about your desire to be like that person."

 

[Ava]

"Ones reaction to fortune often reveals more about ones character than ones reaction to misfortune."

 

[Ropey]

"Ones reaction to fortune often reveals more about ones character than ones reaction to misfortune."

For sure. It's a great tool to discover the inner workings of man.

 

[Esmeralda]

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

 

[Esmeralda]

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

 

[Esmeralda]

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Edith Sitwell

 

[Mertex]

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.​

~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665​

 

[Mertex]

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein

 

[Ava]

No reality is to be found other than in our hearts and minds.-----Nichiren