When I was in college I started collecting thoughts that I found to be insightful, motivational, or powerful in some way. Once I reached over 400 in my notebook I realized that I had to organize them or the collection would lose it's usefulness. So I started a MSWord document categorizing them. That document is now nearly 54,000 words long.
Here, I will post some of the choicest gems.
Adversity
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus
My Dad taught me this:
"Buy tools that will last longer than you."
(Hope that's ok I post here)
One thing my dad told me, that I just learned to hold close, since it's really true.
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe- Albert Einstein.
A small ditty from a favourite author ...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
It is by smiting that you become smith.
in french
C'est en forgeant que l'on devient forgeron
"The large print giveth, & the small print taketh away."
-Tom Waits
"It's a crazy world because everyone in it is insane. Anyone who can't see that is simply out of their effing mind."
-Me
One of my favs
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." - Bob Dylan
"Whatever is or was began with a dream"-author unknown.
"I don't know what the keys to success are but I do know that the key to failure is trying to please everyone"-Bill Cosby
Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect. -Robert A. Heinlein