[HistorianChick]

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. ~Gilda Radner

[life1973happened]

In honor of Howard Metzenbaum, Ohio Senator, who past away last night in his home. He was a cantankerous firebrand who didn't need a microphone to hold a full auditorium spellbound while dropping rhetorical bombs on big oil companies, the insurance industry, savings and loans, and the National Rifle Association, to name just a few favorite targets.

“Give me a break, this move screams politics”

"No, we?re not looking at how to control criminals.... We?re talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns."

This conversation is a must read and good stuff...

Senator Metzenbaum to Senator Glenn: "How can you run for Senate when you've never held a "real job?"

Senator Glenn: "I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the Space Program. It wasn't my checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It was not a nine to five job, where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank. I ask you to go with me ...as I went the other day ... to a Veterans Hospital and look those men - with their mangled bodies - in the eye, and tell THEM they didn't hold a job!

You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to the widows and orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee ... and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their DADS didn't hold a job. You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch those waving flags. You stand there, and you think about this Nation, and you tell ME that those people didn't have a job? I'll tell you, Howard Metzenbaum, you should be on your knees every day of your life thanking God that there were some men - SOME MEN - who held a REAL job. And they required a dedication to a purpose - and a love of country and a dedication to duty - that was more important than life itself. And their self-sacrifice is what made this country possible.

I HAVE held a job, Howard! --- What about you?"

[life1973happened]

"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"
~ Calvin Coolidge

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
~ Mike Gafka

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.
~ Unknown

[isabelgopo]

Don't try to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and annoys the pig

[Clough]

I don't know if these two have already been listed here since we are now on page 33 of this thread. But, I do find the following quotes to be inspirational and maybe worth repeating.

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
George Bernard Shaw

[mafiaangel180]

“If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?” ~Stephen Wright

[life1973happened]

If Paul Revere had been a poor rider, Americans would be speaking with a British accent.
~ Unknown

Nobody talks so constantly about God than those who insist there is no God.
~ Heyward Brown

We all boil at different degrees.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

History repeats itself, I just wish it would do so at longer intervals.
~ Unknown

If a newspaper prints a murder, it's smut, but when the NY Times publishes it, it's an "sociological study."
~ Adlai Stevenson

[HistorianChick]

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~Author Unknown

But oh! The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound. ~Diana Cortes

[squeaks77]

"I may have been on the losing side, but I'm still not convinced it was the wrong one."
Capt'n Mal

"Taken out of context, I must seem so strange."
Ani Difranco

[mafiaangel180]

“I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.” ~Will Shriner

[friend4u178]

Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for You:

1. Jesus Christ.

2. Your countries Soldiers.


One died for your soul, the other for your freedom

[HistorianChick]

St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic. ~Adrienne Cook

Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don't want to press your luck. ~Author Unknown

A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. ~Author Unknown


For each petal on the shamrock
This brings a wish your way -
Good health, good luck, and happiness
For today and every day.
~Author Unknown

[Allheart]

We open our hearts without fear in order to love
We open our souls without fear in order to trust
We open our minds without fear in order to learn
We open our hands without fear in order to provide a gentle touch

May we continue to do all of this - without fear, even when hurt finds a place to call home.

Just some thoughts from Allheart

[in a state]

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, it is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver. ~Jack Handey

No one is listening until you fart. ~Author Unknown

[HistorianChick]

I may have put this one on here before, but today, this is for my Alty-girl. :)

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen

[Fashionista55]

"All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,"- Shakespeare

[HistorianChick]

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~Benjamin Franklin

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~James Openheim

[askahealer]

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission... not sure of source but I believe Elenor Roosevelt. It knocks the wind out of victim consciousness in my life when I remember it. I also love the quote by Terry Cole-Whitaker in one of her books about... may be paraphrasing... "Your opinion of me is none of my business."

[friend4u178]

"To the world you are just one person , but to one person you may just be the world"

[HistorianChick]

"Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels wing thee to thy rest."
~Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 2~

Such a beautiful vision, isn't it?