“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” –Life’s Little Instruction Book

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

oh yea!
 

BE DARING, BE DIFFERENT, BE IMPRACTICAL,
BE ANYTHING THAT WILL ASSERT INTEGRITY OF PURPOSE AND IMAGINATIVE VISION
AGAINST THE PLAY-IT-SAFERS, THE CREATURES OF THE COMMONPLACE, THE SLAVES OF THE ORDINARY.

-CECIL BEATON

Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes... Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow...

What is allowed us is disagreeable.
What is denied causes us intense desire.

~Ovid

"When you chose to be a competitor, you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are. Competition trains you to accept risks and endure setbacks. By embracing it, you can enhance your life. But it will also pull you through those painful, frightening every-day battles that we all have to face at one time or another. Ask yourself, "Are you a competitor?"

-- Pat Summitt

The power to change our destinies lie within ourselves.-Unknown

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -John Stuart Mill


The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation. -Albert Einstein

Saw this on a picture message on a friend's facebook...

"DO NOT CROSS THIS PASTURE: Unless you can do it in 9 seconds, because the bull can do it in 10!" :pointing:

“All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist…It’s just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once that moment is gone it is gone forever.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

You are only truely in control of your life when you accept that you are not.

This was on a magnet...
"To fear is human. To arr is pirate" :pirate-steer:

Far better is it to dare mighty things and win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank among those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt


Often people fall short, not because they have tried and failed, but because the fear of failure kept them from trying at all . - Unknown


Knowledge often masters those who cannot master it.-The Clever librarian

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -Marilyn Monroe

"Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places." -unknown

If I wait to be
perfect
before I love myself
I will always be
unsatisfied
and ungrateful

if I wait until
all the flaws, chips,
and cracks disappear
I will be the cup
that stands on the shelf
and is never used.

Aynsley Bubbico