If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Well, of course I couldn't find the ones I was looking for, but in the process of looking, found some others:

"To forget the lessons of the last war is to invite the next war." (or problem, conflict, etc.)

Have we forgotten this one:
"I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility agaisnt every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - on the rotunda of the Jefferson Memorial.

"She (a marathon runner) posseses a tolerance fo pain, isolation, and deferred gratification that a spectator may confuse for masochism. If she drops out of the race, then, it is not because a boulder landed on her head, but because she has been plodding for twenty miles with the same pebble in her shoe."
Freedman, 1990.

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of these years, wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have a clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule." JRR Tolkien

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, especially arduous in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Emerson, first essays.

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." Margaret Thatcher

"It is always safe to assume that people are always more subtle and less sensitive than they seem." Eric Hoffer

"After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities." Isaiah 53:11 - I take this to mean, in our suffering, we learn to be compassionate and not judgemental.

Listen with your eyes. - Advice from one of my therapists. Actions speak louder than words.

"Here's my 'Golden Rule' for a tarnished age: Be fair with others but keep after them to be fair with you." Alan Alda

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

"The only way to make a difference in this world is to put ten times as much effort into everything as anyone thinks is reasonable." Admiral Hyman Rickover, developer of nuclear submarines

"The attempt to produce competence through escelation of consultation holds no more promise of success than does any other form of escelation. Even when experts all agree, they may well be mistaken." B. Russell

"Well timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

"It's not about who is right or wrong, it's about what is effective." (regarding problem resolution)

"If you keep doing what you're doing, you'll keep getting what you're getting."

"If your mind goes blank, don't forget to turn off the sound!"

"We generate the results in our life we feel we deserve."

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke

Always remember grandpa's sage advice: "The fastest way to double your money is to fold it once and put it back in your pocket."

One of my all time favorites:

"He that is in perfict peace suspects no one, but he that is discontented and disturbed is tossed about with various suspicions' he is neither quiet himself nor does he allow others to be quiet." Thomas A. Kempis

And one of my own creations:

"It is easy to find commonalities you have with people you like and get along with. It takes effort, however, to find commonalities with people you dislike and conflict with. That, however, is how you find the missing pieces of yourself."

when i feel particulary down, i always think of the quote a friend once said to me 'where there is life there is hope'

too many men too little time!

Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

when things are going rough...

"Ladies and gentlemen take my advice,
pull down your pants and slide on the ice."

When the going gets tough the tough get going

"Ambition without knoweledge is like boat on dry land"

To err is human, to forgive, devine.

A man who tries and fails is not a failure. The failures are only the ones who failed to try.

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I looked and saw a man with no feet.

Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake!

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Action without thought is like shooting without aim.

And there is even a happiness that makes the heart afraid. Thomas Hood

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

The grace of God is courtesy. Hilaire Belloc

In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountains start,
In the prison of his days,
Teach the free man how to praise.
W. H. Audon

Lolo8, where are some of your collected quotes? This is a great topic! Thanks

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

how bout i am ugly hear me roar

Tommorow is a brand new day with no mistakes in it.

"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are"
-The Talmud

"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are"
-Anyomous

"I'm happy and content because I think I am"
- Alain-Rene Lesage

The proverb warns, "You should not bite the hand that feeds you" - But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yorself.
-Thomas Szasz

"Forget failures. Forget only what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your luck day."
-Will Durant

sorry it took me so long to share my favorites, but here they are!

i hope today finds you all with strength and happiness. :]


"Didn't have a camera by my side this time. Hoping to see the world with both my eyes. Today I finally overcame trying to fit the world inside a picture frame."