<p>Man at his best, like water
Serves as he goes along:
Like water he seeks his own level,
The common level of life,
Loves living close to the earth,
Living clear down in his heart,
Loves kinship with his neighbors,
The pick of the words that tell the truth,
The even tenor of a well-run state,
The fair profit of able dealing,
The right timing of useful deeds,
And for blocking no one’s way
No one blames him. </p>
<p>Lao Tzu.</p>
<p>I love that one! Here is my favorite:</p>
<p>Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. </p>
<p>Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953</p>
<p>I have used this quote from Wayne Dyer time and time again, for relationship, parenting, professional, etc. challenges in life…</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>…a close second is Langston Hughes’ poem, “Dreams”:</p>
<p>Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.</p>
<p>“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” Robert Heinlein</p>
<p>“Aim low and avoid disappointment.” Moe Tibbs</p>
<p>And a quote for our children from Dr. Seuss:</p>
<p>You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.<br>
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.<br>
You’re on your own.<br>
And you know what you know.<br>
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.</p>
<p>Rahilly’s Law of Academic Administration:
Remember that not all the faculty have all their faculties.</p>
<p>When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. - Heinlein</p>
<p>“either do or do not, there is no try.” Master Yoda</p>
<p>and “courage is not the absence of fear, it is deciding that something else is more important.”…unknown to me</p>
<p>“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”-Flannery O’Connor</p>
<p>Too many…I save them. For starters (Sorry, where I do not have the credits):</p>
<p>Triumph is just the “umph” added to “try”.</p>
<p>No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.</p>
<p>You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?" (Roger’s & Hammerstein’s “Happy Talk”)</p>
<p>The best way out of a difficulty is through it.</p>
<p>Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools.<br>
George Chapman</p>
<p>The less men think the more they talk.
Montesquieu</p>
<p>Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery</p>
<p>The reason why worry kills more people than work, is that more people worry than work.
Frost</p>
<p>“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” james dean</p>
<p>“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Roosevelt</p>
<p>“Well, I guess it would be nice if I could touch your body” gorge Michael</p>
<p>“100% of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.” Wayne Gretzky</p>
<p>"I don’t think it’s meant to be…For she loves her work more than she does me…And honestly at 23 I would probably love my work MORE than I did she…So we ain’t we, it’s me and her…Cause what she prefers over me is work…And that’s where we differ, so I have to give her…Free time…even if it hurts…So breathe, girl, it’s deserved…You’ve been put on this Earth to be all you can be like the Reserves …And me? My time in this army is served…So I have to allow she, HER, time to serve…The time’s now for her, in time she’ll mature…And maybe we can be we again, like we were…Finally, my time’s too short to share…And I ask her now it aint fair…So yea she lost one</p>
<p>^^favorite lyrics- Jay-z</p>
<p>"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.’ – Dorothy Parker</p>
<p>There are days when my words to live by are nice and lofty, like Ghandi’s “Be the change you want to see in the world.”</p>
<p>And then there are days when this one fits better:</p>
<p>A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.</p>
<p>This was from a minister I knew who was officiating the marriage ceremony of one of my former students.</p>
<p>“You have to love each other enough to get you through the times when you don’t like each other.”</p>
<p>In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.</p>
<p>Long but good…</p>
<p>"A moment. If you please. Moments can be short, moments can be long. There are moments of joy …moments of sorrow…. Moments of passion, moments you’ll never forget…moments you have already forgotten…moments you didn’t get…There are awkward moments…senior moments…Moments of truth and momentary lapses in judgment….people will ask for a moment ….share a moment…I need a moment…hey you got a moment?..hey wait a moment!..you can take a moment, make a moment, spoil a moment, and of all the stars lined at just the right moment…that moment can be perfect…moments can define you…moments can delight you…and moments can change your life….HERES to the moment and squeezing all you can out of every last single one of them…Live for the moment that defines you!!!</p>
<p>“If you think you can, YOU CAN”</p>
<p>“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”
–Douglas MacArthur </p>
<p>“Rule Number 3: Don’t be Dumb” --Football coach</p>
<p>“I want an officer for a secret and dangerous mission. I want a West Point football player.” --George C. Marshall</p>
<p>“On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory” --General Douglas MacArthur</p>
<p>“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” - Alexander Pope</p>
<p>“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” - Braveheart</p>
<p>“I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.” - Michael Jordan</p>
<p>“Life is understood looking backwards but it must be lived forwards.” - Soren Kierkegaard</p>
<p>“I am not young enough to know everything” - Oscar Wilde</p>
<p>“Always do what you are afraid to do.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson</p>
<p>Samuel Beckett:</p>
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