Jan 06, 2007 00:06
"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not." -Akhenaton
Gideon: Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Reid: Samuel Beckett.
Morgan: Try not. Do or do not.
Reid: Yoda.
(Criminal Minds)
Legendary basketball coach John Wooden said: "It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it."
French poet Jacques Rigaut said: "Don't forget that I cannot see myself. My role is limited to being the one that looks in the mirror."
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still the will be a scar left behind." French writer François de la Rochefoucauld
"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." Rose Kennedy.
Philosopher Kahlil Gibran said "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"Although the world is full of suffering,it is also full of the overcoming of it." -Helen Keller.
"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves." - Jean Jacques Rousseau.
Emerson said, "All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle." - Jean Jacques Rousseau.
"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is. " -
"Courage is knowing what not to fear." - Plato
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green." Sir Francis Bacon
Confucius once said, "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is so common-place as the wish to be remarkable."
"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation." - Plato:
Nietzsche wrote, "The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." -Helen Keller
"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route." - François de la Rochefoucauld.
"Drive til you lose the road, or break with the ones you've followed." - "How To Save a Life" By: The Fray
"I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it." - François de la Rochefoucauld.
"Courage is a kind of salvation." - Plato
"Fear is only in our minds. Taking over all the time. Fear is only in our minds but it's taking over all the time." - "Sweet Sacrifice" By: Evanescence
"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. " - François de la Rochefoucauld.
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." -Helen Keller
"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite." Sir Francis Bacon
"Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind." - François de la Rochefoucauld.
"All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else." - Plato
"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them." - François de la Rochefoucauld