Interesting Quotes

[Rose of Tralee]

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln

[GodSmacked]

“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”

Robert Quillen

[GodSmacked]

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

Helen Keller

[GodSmacked]

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”

Unknown

[GodSmacked]

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

Marcus Aurelius

[GodSmacked]

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit

Aristotle

[GodSmacked]

Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching

Unknown

[GodSmacked]

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

André Gide

[GodSmacked]

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

Aristotle

[GodSmacked]

“The unexamined life is not worth living”

Socrates

[I fish]

The chapters follow one another like the consecutive blows of a hammer so that the reader begins to understand that psychology is not scientific, is not effective, is not motivated by compassion, is not trustworthy, does not provide meaningful labels or categorizations, and finally cannot heal the past

[GodSmacked]

"Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure."

Albert Bandura

[GodSmacked]

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

[Always Wary]

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Zhuangzi

[Old Sam]

"Mekka lekka hi mekka hiney ho. Mekka lekka hi mekka chiney ho. Mekka lekka hi mekka mola minna hay."

Jambi

[Debra27]

"To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny"

Alan Cohen

[I fish]

I never watched this...I just spent some time readinglots of the dialogue...tooo weird.
[Rose nods, barely able to speak] My head...
The Doctor: Come here.
Rose Tyler:...is killing me.
The Doctor: I think you need a Doctor.
[He leans down and kisses her, and the golden light transfers from her to him through their lips]

[GodSmacked]

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

[GodSmacked]

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Helen Keller

[GodSmacked]

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

Epictetus