Quotable Quotes 9

[David Baxter PhD]

"How we spend our days is how we spend our lives." ~ Annie Dillard

 

[HBas]

Nothing is stronger than habit ~ Ovid

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Choice determines direction, Decision determines destiny ~ Doug Firebaugh

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." ~ Mark Twain

 

[HBas]

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of all the road blocks that lay before you ~ Denis Waitley

 

[making_art]

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

Japanese proverb

 

[HBas]

Real success comes in small portions day by day
~ Denis Waitley

 

[Mari]

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

~ Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom



"We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?"
~ Nelson Mandela

 

[David Baxter PhD]

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
Rogers and Hammerstein, South Pacific
Original cast member Matthew Morrison sings

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!

 

[David Baxter PhD]

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them." ~ Leo Tolstoy

 

[desiderata]

" Anguish and heartbreak may not be distributed evenly throughout the world, but they are distributed very widely. Everyone gets his share. If we knew the facts, we would rarely find someone whose life was to be envied." ~ Harold S. Kushner in When Bad Things Happen to Good People

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." ~ James Thurber

 

[desiderata]

"The end never justifies the meanness."

"Be kind,for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

 

[HBas]

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand
~ Randy Pausch

 

[desiderata]

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

" A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."

 

[HBas]

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
~ Stephen R. Covey

 

[GDPR]

When you talk,you repeat what you already know;when you listen,you often learn something.
~Jared Sparks

 

[HBas]

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world. - Winston Churchill

 

[HBas]

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
~ Josiah Stamp.

 

[Mari]

"Some pursue happiness — others create it."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[HBas]

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive. ~ Elizabeth Taylor