NATIONAL HORROR MOVIE DAY!
OUR SCIENTIFIC POWER has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King Jr.
YOU CAN ALSO COMMIT INJUSTICE BY DOING NOTHING. AURELIUS
WE THINK TOO MUCH AND FEEL TOO LITTLE. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness. Chaplin
RANDY PAUSCH 1960-2008—-PROFESSOR. “The Last Lecture”.
LUCK IS INDEED WHERE PREPARATION MEETS OPPORTUNITY.
YOU’RE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR WORD.
WE CANNOT CHANGE the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
THE KEY QUESTION TO KEEP ASKING IS, ARE YOU SPENDING YOUR TIME ON THE RIGHT THINGS? BECAUSE TIME IS ALL YOU HAVE.
BETTER TO FAIL SPECTACULARLY THAN DO SOMETHING MEDIOCRE.
SHOWING GRATITUDE is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.
EXPERIENCE is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
FOLLOW YOUR PASSIONS, believe in karma and you won’t have to chase your dreams they will come to you.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING FUN.
WHEN WE’RE CONNECTED TO THERS, WE BEOME BETTER PEOPLE.
GO OUT AND DO FOR OTHERS WHAT SOMEBODY DID FOR YOU.
FIND THE BEST IN EVERYBODY. Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.
IF I could only give three words of advice, they would be, ‘Tell the truth.’ If I got three more words, I’d add:’All the time.’
WE DON’T BEAT THE REAPER by living longer, but by living well and living fully — for the reaper will come for all of us. the question is: what do we do between the time we’re born and the time he shows up.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON 1961—-“Speak” “Chains” “Twisted”
CENSORSHIP IS THE CHILD OF FEAR & THE FATHER OF IGNORANCE.
I AM BEGINNING to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
YOU HAVE TO KNOW what you stand for, not just what you stand against.
WRITE ABOUT THE EMOTIONS YOU FEAR THE MOST.
DON’T EXPECT to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.
A SCAR IS A SIGN OF STRENGTH . . . THE SIGN OF A survivor.
WHEN people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
I REACH FOR FUNNY BOOKS ALL THE TIME TO HELP ME GET THROUGH LIFE.
I AM LEARNING how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.
CAN’T ESCAPE PAIN, KIDDO. BATTLE THROUGH IT & YOU GET STRONGER.
SCHOOL LIBRARIES ARE THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR CULTURE — NOT LUXURIES.
YOU CAN TELL A BOOK IS REAL WHEN YOUR HEART BEATS FASTER. Real books make you sweat. Cry, if no one is looking. Real books help you make sense of your crazy life. Real books tell it true, don’t hold back and make it stronger. But most of all, real books give you hope. Because it’s not always going to like this and books — the good ones — show you how to make it better. Now.
JOHN BURROUGHS 1837-1921. “Note on Walt Whitman”.
ONE OF THE HARDEST LESSONS we have to learn in this life and one that many persons never learn is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand — to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.
WE ARE MADE STRONG BY WHAT WE OVERCOME.
I FIND each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.
I GO TO NATURE to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.
LOOK UNDERFOOT. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don’t despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.
A SOMEBODY WAS ONCE A NOBODY WHO WANTED TO AND DID.
I AM IN LOVE WITH IS WORLD . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.
HOW BEAUTIFUL the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
THE LONGER I live, the more my mind dwells upon
the beauty and the wonder of the world.
TO FIND THE UNIVERSAL ELEMENTS ENOUGH; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter . . . to be thrilled bye the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
HAPPINESS comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
IF I WERE TO NAME the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, nature.
LOVE is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.