<p>My fav one is: it is never too late for you to be someone you might have been.</p>
<p>…“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”
- George Washington Carver</p>
<p>“Start where you are.”
-Pema Chodron</p>
<p>Whenever I get bogged down worrying or lamenting about my past mistakes, I think of these words. Works every time . . .</p>
<p>the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosvelt</p>
<p>It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle</p>
<p>“The Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”</p>
<p>“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” - Carl Sagan</p>
<p>“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” - Carl Sagan</p>
<p>“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” - Machiavelli </p>
<p>“I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.” - Machiavelli </p>
<p>“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.” - James D. Watson (the geneticist who discovered DNA)</p>
<p>"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt. " - Traditionally attributed to either Mark Twain or Lincoln. Ha</p>
<p>“I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” - Thomas Jefferson</p>
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<p>And let’s not forget the immortal “expletive deleted.”</p>
<p>“Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to.” -The weird secretary of defense from Harold and Kumar. </p>
<p>“It is remarkable that persons who speculate most boldly often conforms with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society” -Hester Prynne, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. </p>
<p>“Never confuse motion with action” -Benjamin Franklin</p>
<p>“Time wounds all heals” -John Lennon</p>
<p>“You can see the stars but still not see the light” -The Eagles</p>
<p>“So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key.” -The Eagles</p>
<p>“Perception is just that… Perception.” -Me(:</p>
<p>Babe Ruth, when questioned by reporters about his just-signed $80,000 contract for the 1930 baseball season, comparing it to President Hoover’s $75,000 salary:</p>
<p>“What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.”</p>
<p>More Babe:</p>
<p>“I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”</p>
<p>“I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit [for a homer] and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.”</p>
<p>“Just one [superstition]. Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.”</p>
<p>(On a called strike, to the umpire): “That last one sounded kinda high to me.”</p>
<p>“All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”</p>
<p>“The termites [cancer] have got me.” (Said to Connie Mack, the day before the Babe died in 1948.)</p>
<p>“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.”</p>
<p>“I am made uncommon by the need to know you and thereby come to know myself.”
-Rod McKuen</p>
<p>“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.”
-Thoreau</p>
<p>I bookmarked this thread because I collect quotes, too! Here is one from my collection:</p>
<p>“The majority is not always right. Majority is right in the field of the relative, but not in the absolute. Truth does not win when numbers alone become decisive. Numbers alone can decide a beauty queen, but not justice. Beauty is a matter of taste, but justice is tasteless. Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is still wrong if everybody is wrong.”
~ Archbishop Sheen</p>
<p>And, because I turned 60 this month:</p>
<p>“For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</p>
<p>“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”</p>
<p>Thomas Edison</p>
<p>One my family lives by, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions!” Author unknown :)</p>
<p>Thanks, Hayden!</p>
<p>I also remember all the reaching and searching for the word “specificity.” Specificness was one attempt.</p>
<p>I didn’t see it on TV, but I listened to all of the hearings on the radio.</p>
<p>“No good deed goes unpunished.”</p>
<p>I have no idea who said this.</p>
<p>Paraphrasing Mark Twain:</p>
<p>“I’ve lived through some horrible experiences in my life. And some of them actually happened.”</p>
<p>Too soon old; too late smart.</p>
<p>(no idea where this came from, but my mother used to say it)</p>
<p>“If you don’t do it this year, you will be one year older when you do.”</p>
<p>-Warren Miller</p>
<p>“Could be worse. Could be raining?”</p>
<p>-Igor, Young Frankenstein movie</p>