Enduring philosophies and favorite quotes

It’s you who has to change, not your circumstances—you carry your fate with you.

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It all depends on whether we are watching it dissolve or fade in and begin.

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It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.
And it’s not about the things you’ve done, it’s what you’re doing now.
Everybody gets knocked down — how quick are you gonna get up?

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Excuse me, are you lost? Perhaps you would care to visit the site map

“Yes to everything.”

D.S. 22Jun06 #link

The eyes see things that are, the mind sees things that are, that were and that that could be.

Burt Goldman 21Jun06 #link

When the ground starts moving beneath their feet, they reach for answers that seem solid, even if they are simplistic.

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Joel Garreau 21Jun06 #link

I think the real political divide increasingly is not between left and right, but between those who are intrigued by what is happening and wish to shape it, and those who fear the future, and want to stop it.

Joel Garreau 21Jun06 #link

“Someday after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will discover fire.”

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 3 comments 21Jun06 #link

Life’s simple. You make choices and you don’t look back.

Kang/Han - The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 17Jun06 #link

Chasing success is like trying to squeeze a handful of water. The tighter you squeeze, the less water you get. When you chase it, your life becomes the chase, and you become a victim of always wanting more.

Wayne Dyer 31May06 #link

“Maybe doing nothing’s better than doing this.”

Lord of War 29May06 #link

most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

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Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - Good Omens 1 comment 7Feb06 #link

“Wait a minute, Juanita. ...is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”
Juanita shrugs. “What’s the difference?”

Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash 4Feb06 #link

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.

St. Augustine - City of God 12Jan06 #link

Every moment is another chance to turn it all around.

unknown 3Jan06 #link

“I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.”

Crash 17Dec05 #link

‘‘The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil.’‘

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Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani - NYTimes article The Breaking Point 1 comment 31Aug05 #link

“Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

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Albert Einstein 1 comment 19Aug05 #link

“Idleness … does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class.”

Robert Louis Stevenson 17Aug05 #link

..the alarm clock. Heavens! What evil genius brought together those two enemies of the idle—clocks and alarms—into one unit?

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Tom Hodgkinson 17Aug05 #link

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel"

Maya Angelou 16Aug05 #link

“Platonic friendship: the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.”

Sophie Irene Loeb #link

Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are.

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