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Friday, February 20, 2009

Quotable Quotes

Failure's hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever. It is so, so much harder to leave a good thing.
-Po Bronson

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
-Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
-Steve Jobs

Love cannot be learned in isolation. You have to be around people—irritating, imperfect, frustrating people!

They scoff at scars, those that have not felt the wounds.

Don’t try so hard! The best things come when you least expect them.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends.
-Richard Bach, "Illusions"

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
-Dave Tyson Gentry-

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
-Henry David Thoreau-

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.

The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to go through life and leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you had loved them.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it.

Missing someone gets easier everyday because even though it is one day further from the last time you saw each other, it is one day closer to the next time you will.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
-Mark Twain-

When a delay comes into your life, always ask yourself: How can I be blessed by this interruption? Life is too short to complain.
-Bo Sanchez-

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
-JK Rowling-

You cannot leave a footprint that lasts if you are walking on a tiptoe.
-Marion C. Blakey-

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