Saturday, December 11, 2010

wisdom trinkets continued

  • A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one ~ Thomas Carlyle 


  • If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much ~ mark twain

  • Each human contact is so rare it should be protected ~ Anais nin


  • Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ~ John Drinkwater

Trinkets continued

  • People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~ Dale Carnegie






  • i think therefore i am ~ Rene' Descartes






  • the past is a foreign country they do things differently there~ Leslie poles Hartley






  • forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future~ Paul Boese






  • you have to know the past to understand the future ~ Carl Sagan 




   

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

More trinkets of wisdom


  • Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. -  Napoleon Hill 

  • patience is the companion of wisdom. -  Saint Augustine


  • Bravery never goes out of fashion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

  • No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus 

A trinket of quotes from great people

·        Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. - Cicero
 
·        simplicity is the utmost sophistication. - Da Vinci
 
 
·        Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. - Og Mandinoout
 
 
·        Out of suffering has emerged the strongest of souls ,the most massive characters are seared with scars - Khalil Gibran
 
 
 
·        Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C Clarke