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[Daniel E.]

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People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.

—John Maxwell

We conceptualize vulnerability in positive terms and perceive openness to the possibility of being emotionally hurt as a powerful position to take in life. Living a relatively undefended, vulnerable life implies a self-acceptance, inner strength, and the capacity to deal with uncertainty.

— Robert Firestone, Beyond Death Anxiety

 

[Daniel E.]

re: Quotable Quotes Part 6

"If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU."

~ Robert Holden, PhD

 

[Chain Lightning]

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“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
- Bruce Lee

 

[Daniel E.]

re: Quotable Quotes Part 6

Connection is why we’re here…it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. ~ Brené Brown

The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness. ~ David Steindl-Rast

Here's the secret. There are two things that you have to do. One of them is to not stop. And the other one is to keep going. ~ Frank Zappa

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. ~ Charles Spurgeon

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Quotable Quotes - Part 1

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[David Baxter PhD]

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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." ~ Anatole France

 

[Daniel E.]

Re: Quotable Quotes - Part 1

"It is how we think about our 'bad' days that affects their intensity and longevity." ~ Michael Sinclair, Fear and Self-Loathing in the City

 

[Daniel E.]

Re: Quotable Quotes - Part 1

For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.

-- T. S. Eliot

 

[David Baxter PhD]

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Quotes on Courage
by Beyond Blue
Tuesday January 3, 2012

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot Poet

“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – Robert G. Ingersoll

“We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller

“True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.” – John Petit-Senn

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle–the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.” – Douglas MacArthur

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“He conquers who endures.” – Persius

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”– Buddhist Saying

 

[Daniel E.]

Re: Quotable Quotes - Part 1

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has - or ever will have - something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression. ~ Fred Rogers


"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare." ~ G.K. Chesterton

 

[Daniel E.]

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"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." ~ G. K. Chesterton


"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people." ~ Philip Zimbardo

 

[Daniel E.]

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. -- Winston Churchill

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive." ~ Howard Thurman

 

[Daniel E.]

“You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.”

― Rumi

 

[desiderata]

"The whole universe is change, and life itself is but what you deem it." ~ Marcus Aurelius

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." ~ George Bernard Shaw

 

[desiderata]

"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow." ~ Buddha

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." ~ Victor Frankl

 

[Daniel E.]

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously." ~ Samuel Butler

"All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it." ~ Alan Cohen

All men should strive to learn before they die,
What they are running from, and to, and why.

~ James Thurber

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen." ~ Elizabeth Kubler Ross

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely acknowledge the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." ~ Maya Angelou

"Mistakes are a natural part of life. We learn by experimenting; mistakes and failure can be important parts of our learning process. Einstein flunked grade-school mathematics. Edison tried over 9,000 kinds of filaments before he found one that would work in a light bulb. Walt Disney went bankrupt five times before he built Disneyland. If we accept setbacks, we can continue to risk, learn, and move on with excitement and satisfaction." ~ California Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility

"There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don’t help them by doing the job yourself." ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ~ Winston Churchill

"The past has no power over the present moment." ~ Eckhart Tolle