FYC
FYC = For Your Consideration
Here are some quotes that I find inspiring and thought-provoking. Enjoy!
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. (Albert Einstein)
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin)
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)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)
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)
You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid...You're afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity...Well, you may go on and live until you are 90, but you're just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke)
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. (Colette)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)
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)
I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. (Helen Keller)
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. (Katharine Hepburn)
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. (Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions)
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience and compassion. (Lao-Tse).
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)Stop swimming so hard and climb in the boat. (Rumi)
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)