12/12/09

Yesterday, Present, Future

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."-- B. Olatunji

Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books. Walt Whitman

The history of states and nations has provided some income for historiographers and book dealers, but I know no other purpose it may have served. Borne

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. Max Beerbohm


History is philosophy teaching by examples. ~Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from. ~John Still, The Jungle Tide

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.-- Will Durant

Unknown:
Rosa sat so Martin could walk, Martin walked so Barack could run, Barack ran so we all can fly.


History: gossip well told. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary


Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree. ~Michael Crichton, Timeline

History is herstory, too. ~Author Unknown


History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole. Alfred Kazin

12/4/09

Helping People


..... Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.Princess Diana

11/7/09

Comfort Zone

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you arewilling to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."-- Brian Tracy

10/24/09

Reflection Quotes


Lao Tzu:
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.


John Quincy Adams:
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. Frederick Douglass

Confucius: By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living. Rudolf Steiner

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” Thomas Merton

H. L. Mencken:
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. Maynard James Keenan

10/21/09

Success and Greatness



"There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet." William F. Halsey

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley


"Creativity means believing you have greatness." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso

"The price of greatness is responsibility." Winston Churchill

"Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down." Hitopadesa

"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be." Henri Frederic Amiel

"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." William Shakespeare

"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men." Thomas Carlyle

"Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions." Benjamin Disreali

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Erma Bombeck

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie

“I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." Lou Holtz

"Don’t wait until you’re a man to be great. Be a ‘great’ boy."Anonymous


"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude." Arthur Schopenhauer

"Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great." Harry S. Truman

"It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age."Joseph Addison