FYC
FYC = For Your Consideration
Here are some quotes that I find inspiring and thought-provoking. Enjoy!
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "holy shit ...what a ride!" (George Carlin)
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (A.A. Milne)
Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. (Harvey Fierstein)
You must be present to win. (a sign in a Las Vegas casino)
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. (Milton Erickson)
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough...brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. (Melody Beatty)
It's not the perfect but the imperfect that is in need of our love. (Oscar Wilde)
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. (Audre Lorde)
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. (Colette)
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation. (Andre Gide)
A man told Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are - objective pictures. When Picasso said he did not understand, the man produced a picture of his wife from his wallet and said, "There, you see, that is a picture of how she really is." Picasso looked at it and said, "She's rather small, isn't she? And flat." (Jack Kornfield)
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. (George Bernard Shaw)
My fiftieth year had come and gone, I sat, a solitary man, in a crowded London shop, an open book, an empty cup on the marble tabletop. While in the shop and street I gazed, my body of a sudden blazed! And twenty minutes - more or less - it seemed so great, my happiness, that I was blessed - and could bless. (W.B. Yeats)
A point worth pondering: Upon completing the Universe, the Great Creator pronounced it "very good". Not "perfect". (Sarah Ban Breathnach)
The universe is made of stories, not atoms. (Muriel Rukeyser)
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. (Henry Miller)
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars...and the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven...and a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels. (Walt Whitman)
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "thank you", that would suffice. (Meister Eckhart)