quotes of wisdom

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Quote an interesting meditation

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sidney J. Harris

This rings true to me, though I am not sure it actually is. And since I am the queen of things left undone in my personal goals (or at least part of the royal family) this could be considered tragic.

Wishes are like...

Wishes are like dandelions, there must be fertile ground and no anxious gardener around
-Tanya Green

Those moments

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
- Kurt Vonnegut

When stress shouldn't be a problem but apparently rules your life? Yuck. I lost my keys today. I found them again too, but for an hour fear ran my stomach. Its ridiculous. All the keys were replaceable. But I was still driving myself nuts. Thank the Lord that the car rental place had them from yesterday. I guess I was so focused on leaving and getting away from the sketchy 5 foot tall high pressure sales guy that I just booked it out of there. All worked out to everyone's satisfaction.

MCAT study continues. I went to Georgetown for class last night instead of Howard and found the smaller class size incredibly helpful. It really increased the interaction available. It will foul up my time schedule a bit in taking the test, but I think I will learn and remember more. The class is older as a whole, so I am thinking that will help as well. More my peer age group.

Samantha is coming down this weekend to look at apartments since she received a job offer this week. I think she is pleased about moving down here, but this job sound high stress. Another teaching job. Hopefully we will all survive. Moving in with her will definitely save us both moving for long term living and make commuting easier for me, but I will miss the family interaction and discount living I am getting at Hope's. Cross your fingers and pray (which ever you do) and hope that this living situation, everything life-related, is the right decision. I still have lots of nerves. Yuck, again.

Lonely places

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
- John le Carre

Quote

Bertrand Russell

"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Quote

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." Robert X. Cringely

Quote

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- GK Chesterton

May I always remember that truth.

Always know who you are quoting

I recently placed a quote on my blog by the author, Anais Nin. I guess this just goes to show that wisdom can come from some spectacularly unwise people. While looking something else up, I came across her name for something else and followed the wikipedia lead to a summary of her life. While I can applaud her efforts to break traditional writing guidelines, her topics were less than savory for the average discerning reader. And her life followed a pattern of seeking other people to fulfill herself, at the destruction of any sense of morality and acceptability. Ok, that is mostly my viewpoint (and judgment) on her. Which is a subjective thing. What can be stated without question is that I doubt that there are many people who would state that hers is a lifestyle to be emulated.

That said, it just goes to show that you can learn for all types of people, and all sorts of sources. I hope I am open to learning lessons from all sources in my life.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Funny

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain,

Random funny

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
- Mae West

Life shrinks or expand in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Quote

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
- Evan Esar

Poignant quotes . . .

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." Marie Curie
That is definitely very true. We need to understand more so we may fear less.

Humorous rather than thoughtful. . ..
"He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet." Benjamin Disraeli
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." Ronald Reagan

Friendly Reminder

Side note in organic chemistry textbook next to section disgussing properties of ethanol (grain alcohol) was this "Friendly Reminder".

"Everything is toxic in large enough amounts."

So true.

Something to think about . . .

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Sometimes

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
- Philip K. Dick

Another round of quotes

"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it." Doug Larson
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." Douglas Adams
"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can." Cullen Hightower

My love of quotes

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Mark Twain

My new quote

Borrowed from google quote of the day. "The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." - AA Milne

I thought this was a particularly excellent quote. I hope I am the last not the first two.