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[Daniel E.]

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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

"There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature."

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

[Daniel E.]

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("What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us" has also been ascribed to other authors including Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The actual author was probably Henry S. Haskins in Meditations in Wall Street published in 1940.)

 

[GaryQ]

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("What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us"

Hmmmm…. Wonder where I read that quote a thousand times before?

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Quotable Quotes 12

It's still a great quote, no matter who wrote it.

 

[Daniel E.]

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"Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."

Germaine de Staël

 

[Daniel E.]

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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”

“Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.”

“You cannot save people. You can only love them.”

“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”

- Anaïs Nin

 

[GaryQ]

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It's still a great quote, no matter who wrote it.

I missed this comment... I'm guessing mine flew over your head possibly????

My post was a rhetorical question … Wasn't it someone's signature for a looooooooooooooong time?

 

[Daniel E.]

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"Peace is accepting today, releasing yesterday, and giving up the need to control tomorrow."

~ Lori Deschene

 

[Daniel E.]

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“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Daniel E.]

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"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction."

- John F. Kennedy

 

[Daniel E.]

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Saying "thank you" is mostly an emotional act. It connects one person to another. Saying "thank you" doesn't just acknowledge someone's effort, thoughtfulness, intent, or action. It acknowledges the person himself.

~ Peter Bregman

 

[Daniel E.]

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“The grass is greener where you water it.”

~ Neil Barringham

 

[Daniel E.]

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“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

[Daniel E.]

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When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.

- Ethiopian Proverb

 

[Daniel E.]

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“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”

― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

 

[GaryQ]

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When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.

SPIDERS! UNITE! and double

I should ban your behind for that one!

 

[Daniel E.]

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FMN liked it, so you are overruled

 

[GaryQ]

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You win this time!

But May a rattlesnake lie on your bed just looking at you with his evil grin as you wake up one day

 

[Daniel E.]

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"Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again."

- unknown

 

[Daniel E.]

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"Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them."

~ Jack Canfield