Best Quotes or Words to Live by.

Sun tzu:

Never fight a battle without something to win. ( paraphrasing of course)


Me:
A good leader isn't the guy who thinks up all the good ideas, he's the one who knows a good idea when he hears one.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight... It's the size of the fight in the dog.

Being small, I always took this quote to heart.

"no eternal reward shall forgive us now for wasting the dawn" Doors quote/lyric

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov

“They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.”
― Isaac Asimov

"It's outrageous to demand or even observe the poorest, most repressed people in the world taking the lead in trying to save the human species and in fact innumerable other species from destruction. So we should join them. That's the role of an anarchist movement."

Noam Chomsky

"Sh*t happens"

"Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. Some, are given a chance to climb, and they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb, is all there is."

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
~Sam Keen

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
~Alan Watts

Never regret yesterday.
Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow

Ron Hubbard.


Don't eat yellow snow.

My Dad

The wheel turn sometimes fast sometime slow.

Whatever bad things you do to people today will come back to one day when you are down.

To get more money than you need thus want to be rich you need to sacrifice give up something of you. That usually start with your respect.

F.I.D.O ... will leave it at that .. those who are ex-military will get it.

Mornin',

Time for a little Samuel L.
(No, not Jackson!)

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."

"Put all the eggs in one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET."

"Get your facts first, then you can distort 'em as much as you please."

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where a smile has been."

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

Just a few of my favorites.

-Peace-

Believe half of what you see & none of what you hear ( or read I suppose is more fitting these days ). I was always intrigued by this one as a youngster . Good advice for many situations in life I think.

KVJ

#1- My signature.
#2- The Pinterest board I have with 2000 other quotes, if number one fails to impress or resonate.

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The Golden Rule: "Do unto others, as you would have done to you".

No religion needed, just this simple rule.

" It's not wanting to win that makes you a winner, it's refusing to fail" - Peyton Manning

I wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.

-B. Franklin.

a reply to: ArtemisE

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley