Woody

There's a snake in my boot.

Ryan Olsen

"To try not to choose" is already to have made the wrong choice.

Mohandas Gandhi

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.

Frank Herbert

True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.

Carl Jung

All the greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insoluble…. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This “outgrowth” proved on further investigation to require a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest appeared on the patient’s horizon, and through this broadening of his or her outlook the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms but faded when confronted with a new and stronger life urge.

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself  You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look          through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in          books,

You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,

You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

Lockon Stratos

The only thing you can change about the past is the way you feel about it in the present.

David Starr Jordan

“[For] the basis of intemperance is the effort to secure through [thoughts first and then] drugs the feeling of happiness when happiness does not exist. Men destroy their nervous system for the tingling pleasures they feel as its structures are torn apart.”

The Qur'an

Whomever We grant old age, We cause to droop in figure; will they not be reasonable?

Neal A. Maxwell

Whereas the bird is at home in the air, we are clearly not at home in time—because we belong to eternity! Time, as much as any one thing, whispers to us that we are strangers here.

Some Guy Who Calls Himself "Rick"

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

Jonathan Swift

 "May you live every day of your life."

Charles de Gaulle

"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."

Ezra Taft Benson

“Cleansing the Inner Vessel,” Ensign, May 1986, 4

During the past few years a number of resources have been set in place in the Church to help us. [...]  We don’t need changed programs now as much as we need changed people!

Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr

“Nothing that is worth doing can be accomplished in your lifetime;
therefore you will have to be saved by hope.
Nothing that is beautiful will make sense in the immediate instance;
therefore, you must be saved by faith.
Nothing that is worth doing can be done alone, but has to be done with others;

therefore you must be saved by love.”

Try
Fail
Try Again
Fail Better

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

"Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt1767-1835, German Statesman

"Because creative people aren't always in charge.
And when they do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge.
They're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut, yelling Wheeeee!"
- Steven King, Everything's Eventual

"Real power is gained... on the thin edge between what one can do and what one can't." - Stephen E. Robinson (Believing Christ)

"One doesn’t discover new lands
without consenting to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time."
- Andre Gide

"We all have exactly the same amount of time, whether we're a millionaire or a pauper. All of us have 24 hours, every single day." - Zig Ziglar

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I'll give you a man who'll make history. But give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk." - J.C. Penny

The Timing is Never Right

"For all of the most important things [in life], the timing always sucks...Conditions are never perfect. 'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you...If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way."
- Timothy Ferris (The 4-Hour Workweek)

"The wise man ... rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains." - Cicero (de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum)

"Silently laughing at silly people is much more satisfying in the long run than rolling around with them in a dusty street, trying to knock out all their teeth. If nothing else, it's better on the clothes." - Belgarath (David Eddings)

"Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.”

Frederick Smith

This breakdown of social order - rules of dress, sexual controls, speech patterns, family structures - has been seen as a great victory for the individual ... These acts of personal freedom are irrelevant to the exercise of power. So in lieu of taking a real part in the evolution of society, the individual struggles to appear as if no one has power over his personal evolution. Thus victories won for these individual liberties may actually be an acceptance of defeat by the individual.

John Ralston Saul

'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' - Shakespeare

'We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.' - Winston Churchill

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. Henry David Thoreau

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, its a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and enables you to laugh at life's realities."
Dr. Seuss
(Theadore Seuss Geisel)

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive." - Harold Whitman

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~ Dr. Seuss

"...I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do..."
-from 'The Kite Runner'

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these." - Robert H. Goddard

We must love them both, those with whom we agree and those with whom we disagree. For both have labored in the search of truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it." Thomas Aquinas

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” - Ashley Smith

Chuck Norris can tie his shoes with his feet.

Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but on what happens inside of you. It is measured by the spirit with which you meet the problems of life.

-Harold B. Lee

"God will carry us in his arms until we are able to walk; he will carry us in his arms when we are weary from walking; he will not carry us if we will not walk."
-George Macdonald

"Is there a happy future for you and your posterity in these latter days? Absolutely! Will there be difficult times when those ominous latter-day warnings and prophecies are fulfilled? Of course there will. Will those who have built upon the rock of Christ withstand winds, hail, and the mighty shafts in the whirlwind? You know they will."

Jeffrey R. Holland

"Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
- Albert Camus

“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.” ~UNKNOWN

“Lay down true principles,
and adhere to them
inflexibly. Do not be
frightened into their
surrender…”

—Thomas Jefferson

"Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen.

If you don’t, you’ll never find time for the life-changing big things,
whether important tasks or true peak experiences."

- Four Hour Work Week

“To study the Way is to study the Self.
To study the Self is to forget the Self.
To forget the Self is to be enlightened by all things.
To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barrier between Self and Other.
-Dogen Zenji