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petak, 09.10.2009.

Be honorable yourself

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Never eat more than you can lift.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

09.10.2009. u 23:26 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

How to Raise your I.Q.

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
All movements go too far.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

09.10.2009. u 22:26 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The ones who will drive you are your true friends

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

09.10.2009. u 21:25 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Anger is never without Reason

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
My head rang like a gong.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

09.10.2009. u 20:24 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
A joke's a very serious thing.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

09.10.2009. u 19:24 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I never met

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
What's another word for Thesaurus?

09.10.2009. u 01:17 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Better by far you should forget

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

09.10.2009. u 00:16 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

četvrtak, 08.10.2009.

I feel like a tiny bird

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

08.10.2009. u 23:16 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It is better to offer no excuse

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

08.10.2009. u 22:15 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The people who are regarded

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

08.10.2009. u 21:37 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

srijeda, 07.10.2009.

Up ahead, I saw someone

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
[M>aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

07.10.2009. u 23:40 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Always be nice to those younger than you

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

07.10.2009. u 22:40 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

A boy can learn a lot

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Well done is better than well said.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

07.10.2009. u 21:39 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

You have to recognize

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

07.10.2009. u 20:38 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I prefer the company

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

07.10.2009. u 19:37 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

ponedjeljak, 05.10.2009.

Never fear the want of business

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

05.10.2009. u 23:10 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Because we don't think about future

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

05.10.2009. u 22:09 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The supreme irony

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Well done is better than well said.

05.10.2009. u 21:09 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Learn the art of patience

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
My friends are my estate.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Love truth, and pardon error.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

05.10.2009. u 20:08 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I've been on a diet

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

05.10.2009. u 19:07 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

nedjelja, 04.10.2009.

Anger at lies

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

04.10.2009. u 23:43 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I guess we'd be

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

04.10.2009. u 22:42 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Never read a book

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
My home is not a place, it is people.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

04.10.2009. u 21:42 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The reason grandparents

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

04.10.2009. u 20:41 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Whatever you do

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

04.10.2009. u 19:40 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

subota, 03.10.2009.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

03.10.2009. u 06:34 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Lack of money is no obstacle

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

03.10.2009. u 05:32 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

A wise man can see more from the bottom

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
All movements go too far.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

03.10.2009. u 04:31 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

My home is not a place, it is people

My home is not a place, it is people.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

03.10.2009. u 03:31 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Work saves us from three great evils

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
People fail forward to success.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

03.10.2009. u 02:33 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The scornful nostril and the high head

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

03.10.2009. u 01:30 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Hares can gambol over the body

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

03.10.2009. u 00:29 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

petak, 02.10.2009.

Keep cool and you command

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

02.10.2009. u 23:28 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Every moment of one's existence

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

02.10.2009. u 21:27 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Sometimes love will pick you up

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

02.10.2009. u 20:26 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Failures are finger posts

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

02.10.2009. u 02:28 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

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Our chains stretch a little sometimes

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

01.10.2009. u 07:18 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

and you're prepared for

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

01.10.2009. u 06:13 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Wisdom is knowing

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

01.10.2009. u 05:12 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I despise the pleasure

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

01.10.2009. u 04:11 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

At my lemonade

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Our lives teach us who we are.

01.10.2009. u 03:10 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

To be able to

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

01.10.2009. u 02:10 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

but they do make me sleepy

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.

01.10.2009. u 01:09 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

When the gods wish

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

01.10.2009. u 00:08 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

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