Very few words of this post are my own. Some of the best information is from quotes. Here's a few of today's favorites:
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
--J. Krishnamurti
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing thier own soul.
-- Carl Gustav Jung
If you look close enough, you'll find everyone has a weak spot.
--Anthony Hopkins in "Fracture"
We shall not cease from exploring,
And the end of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
--T.S. Eliot
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude,without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
--Anthony Hopkins in "Fracture"
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry;
The philosophy which does not laugh;
The greatness which does not bow before children.
--Kahlil Gibran
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
--Chinese Proverb
By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
Third, by experience,which is the bitterest.
--Confucius
I don't want to bring another kid into this world, but how do you argue against loving one that's already here?
--John Cusack, "Martian Child"
"Is it good to be like everyone else?" "You know, that's a good question..."
--"Martian Child"
You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars;
you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no
doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.
--Max Ehrmann
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams.
For if dreams go,
Life is a barren field
Covered with snow.
--Langston Hughes
Today I shed my old skin which hath too long suffered the bruises of failure
and the wounds of mediocrity.
--Og Mandino
