Words of Wisdom 01 (May 08 - Oct 08)

[winston]

Worth Quoting: Paul Newman on Giving Back

"We are such spendthrifts with our lives. The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I'm not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out."

(Source: The New York Times)

[winston]

It is your rules that make unlawful beings. You would get a long better if you would just trust each other to treat each other appropriately, but you don't. So you keep making laws -- until you make criminals of everyone.

Excerpted from a workshop in Chicago, IL on Sunday, April 25th, 1999

All Is Well

[winston]

Word to the Wise: Embonpoint

"Embonpoint" (ahm-bone-PWAN) - literally French for "in good condition" - is a person's plumpness or stoutness.

Example (as quoted in Goethe: The Poet and the Age by Nicholas Boyle): "His embonpoint expands by the day and his eyes are buried in the fat of his cheeks."

[winston]

Remember always that it is easy to do what is pleasant; but it is difficult to be engaged in what is beneficial. Not all that is pleasant is profitable. Success comes to those who give up the path strewn with roses and brave the hammer-blows and sword-thrusts on the path fraught with difficult choices.

12-8-63

[winston]

On Belief :-

If you have faith when you pray, you will be given whatever you ask for.

Matthew 21:22

[millionairemind]

On Failure

Anais Nin:
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Ashley Montagu:
The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

Corita Kent:
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Edward de Bono:
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Elaine Maxwell:
My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

[winston]

There is no Truth without Goodness. Truth alone can confer Beauty and Auspiciousness. Truth is beauty, joy is beauty.

Grief and falsehood are ugly because they are unnatural. Do your actions, that are approved by higher wisdom. Stay away from those actions that are born of ignorance. Then all actions will be beneficial and blessed.

7-7-1963

[winston]

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.- Henry David Thoreau

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.- Whitney Young

[winston]

Word to the Wise: Cant

"Cant" (KANT) - from the Latin for singing/chanting - is empty, insincere talk, implying what is not felt.

Example (as used by Benita Eisler in Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame): "[Lord Byron's poem] Don Juan delighted London gossipmongers with plentiful allusions to the scandal surrounding the poet's divorce from his young wife of one year and his subsequent flight from English 'hypocrisy and cant.'"

[millionairemind]

"We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history."
Sonia Johnson

"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."
Denis Waitley

"If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen."
Cher

"It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge."
John J. Watson

"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."
Dr. Thomas Fuller

"I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win."
Arnold Palmer