Quote of the day

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

---Dale Carnegie---

Totally agree with you. Ever since the rules were changed to allow unlimited contributions from corporations, I believe it changed our democracy for the worse. And there is no such thing as protection from monopolies.

The man of my dreams will now only be in my dreams. I'll miss you everyday, forever. I love you my Pa

--- Stevie Ryan ---

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“Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.”
― Anonymous

"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."
------- Tennessee Williams -------

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership

--- Dwight D. Eisenhower --- 

"To succeed in your Life's Destiny, is to follow and focus on your OWN Vision Conquest"

--Dominique De Vies, CBA--

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

"A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you."

------- Criss Jami ------

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes

--- Andrew Jackson --- 

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence. "

------- Buddha ------

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

--- Mahatma Gandhi ---

"...if there is such a thing as reincarnation, knowing my luck I'll come back as me!" 

Rodney, Only Fools and Horses (TV Show)

I create my own moral universe 

--- Sorel Mizzi --- 

To be prepated for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace

--- George Washington --- 

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

- Charles Bukowski 

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities

--- Voltaire ---

The quote of the day, if you are lucky in Love you are not lucky in Gambling.

So, which do you prefer lucky in love or lucky in gambling? lol

If I have to choose then I prefer to be lucky in gambling and love will come later:))

More people are interested in cartoons than CNN

--- Sebastian Gorka --- 

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver

--- Mahatma Ganghi --- 

So true eberetta1. Here's another one, very similar:

The first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow

--- Ecclesiastes 1:18 ---

A good name is better than precious perfume; and the day of death than the day of one's birth

--- Ecclesiastes 7:1 ---

Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs

--- Farrah Gray --- 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!

--- Audrey Hepburn --- 

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love 

 --- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ---

Any day above ground is a good one

--- Don Williams Jr ---

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight

 --- John Lennon --- 

Luck, bad if not good,
will always be with us.
But it has a way
of favoring the intelligent
and showing its back
to the stupid.

John Dewey

(1859 – 1952, American psychologist
and educational reformer)
 

"Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us."

---------- SOMEONE ---------

Yes but is what happens in between the worst and the best worth it?

Or for that matter will the best be good enough to compensate for the worst?

Just wondering if "someone" would have an answer to that somewhat rhetorical question?

The answer to such an existential query would of course vary depending on the individual circumstances of the personal situation involved.

Sometimes the answer would be yes and sometimes the words to the theme song of the MASH movie would apply.

Sorry if I sound cranky, but I suppose one man's ceiling is often another man's floor.

It is all subjective on some level of course.

And we are all of equal value on the human plane. 

If it  doesn't open, it's not your door.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

- Alexander Graham Bell

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

Jim Morrison

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. Most island universes are sufficiently like one another to Permit of inferential understanding or even of mutual empathy or "feeling into." Thus, remembering our own bereavements and humiliations, we can condole with others in analogous circumstances, can put ourselves (always, of course, in a slightly Pickwickian sense) in their places. But in certain cases communication between universes is incomplete or even nonexistent. The mind is its own place, and the Places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

Whover controls the media, controls the mind

 --- Jim Morrison ---

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”

Nelson Mandela  

You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep others warm.

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

---Theodore Roosevelt---

Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.

"DEAR GOOD LUCK,

We're not playing Hide & Sick,I searched for you for Many Years,Its times to come out now."

Save water. Shower together.

Rudeness is the weak person's imitation of strength.

Hard work beats talent when talent does not work hard

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

– Andre Gide

There is no elevator to success You have to take the stairs

Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.

"Strength brings "Good Actions" for one to Inspire "Good Actions" in others"

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful

--- Criss Jami ---