These have been great. I don’t know who said this and I probably will butcher it, but this has always stuck with me:
“My goal isn’t to be right but to get it right.”
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I read that one at my mother’s funeral.
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“I find I’m so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel. A free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.”
—Red, The Shawshank Redemption
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“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
- Carl Sagan on the picture of Earth above
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“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”
- Khalil Gibran
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“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
-Anne Frank
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“It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.”
-Byron Katie
I was thinking about some poor judgment I exercised not too long ago, and was reminded of this Will Rogers quote:
“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
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Also this one. Lol.
“There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”
-Abraham Lincoln
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“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.“
Chuck Palahniuk
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I understand. I think you are right that it just depends on the person and their particular experience. Chuck is particularly morose. He’s not my favorite. I will say that our struggles are often our greatest teachers. Maybe think of the gay kid who was bullied at your high school, or the kid with severe mental illness? That helps me put things in perspective.
“There is nothing so strong as gentleness, and there is nothing so gentle as real strength.”
–St. Francis de Sales
“Books are liberal and free- they give to all who ask- they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.” -inscribed in L.A. Library-
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.”
-Emily Dickinson
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Widely attributed to Einstein, and sometimes Ben Franklin, but it’s been around for 200 years.
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“Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. “But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.” A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
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In duty, valorous;
In all things, noble;
To the heart’s core, clean.
Canon Frederick Scott
This is what is written on the grave of my grandfather who was killed in action on this day, September 17, 1944, at Bray Dunes Plage, France
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“Shame is the shadow of love.”
-Polly Jean Harvey