“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

 

The irony of bragging is what it communicates -- you're a needy guy who craves approval. Why else would you have to talk yourself up like that?

JOHN ALEXANDER, How to Become an Alpha Male

 

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” 

― Albert Einstein

 

"In toxic cultures, people prove their intelligence by tearing others down. In healthy cultures, people use their intelligence to build others up."

 

“Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.” 

~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

 

OPEN EYES WITH A CLOSED MIND IS STILL BLIND

 

"Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible." 

- Carl Jung

 

“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you lived through it. Honor your path. Trust your journey. Learn, grow, evolve, become.” 

~Creig Crippen

 

“You can learn a lot from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.”

― Oscar Auliq-Ice

 

"Be careful how you treat people on your way up... You will meet them on your way down."

 

"A Man is Defined By His Actions Not By His Words"

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President." 

- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

“Secret ‘O Life”

 “The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time...

    Now the thing about time is that time

    Isn't really real.

    It's just your point of view.

    How does it feel for you?”

                - James Taylor

 “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” 

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“When someone is telling you their story over and over, they are trying to figure something out.”

― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

 

“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.” 

~Henry David Thoreau

 

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

 

 

"There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter."

 

"Evil prevails when good people do nothing."

 

“Progress is impossible without change.” 

~Walt Disney