"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." ~Theodore Roosevelt
"Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world - 'No, you move.”
~Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man #537
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Saturday, August 6, 2011
Friday, November 20, 2009
To know who you are...
"To know who you are, it is less important to find who you were then to decide who you will become."
-T.A. Barron: Merlin's Dragon, intro to ch. 12
-T.A. Barron: Merlin's Dragon, intro to ch. 12
Monday, January 5, 2009
New Year! And a few quotes...
I don't really feel like saying anything, but I feel left out being the only one who hasn't blogged in the new year... Well, last of this little slot in the webbing that is the net...
I feel like I should have some big grand thoughts in this new year... And for the life of me I can't think of any... Mauve maybe... Aqua... Puce... But nothing awe inspiring...
As far as the new year, I think it will be a time of change. Don't know good, bad or ugly... but change. We're getting a new president and such. Our economy isn't looking too good. Stuff like that.
Also lots of change for me personally. I plan to move this year. Like out... Like out of the house... on my own... O.O That's a tiny bit of a change... ^.^;
So yeah... Big changiness...
Anyway... since I have no real thoughts I figure I'll pretend like I planned this and post some of my favorite quotes from the quote book I keep. I'll just pretend that I wanted to start off the new year with great words from great people. ^.^ You'll believe that, right?? Sure ya will. ^.^ 'Cause if it's on the Internet it must be true!! (plus I'll number them in case you wanna talk about them in the comments or something)
1"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits."
-Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
2"Nothing happens unless first a dream."
-Carl Sandburg
3"Knowledge is Power. Power is corruptive. Study hard, be evil!"
-sign somewhere... dunno where, but I liked it. ^.^
4"There are some who never seem to believe themselves capable of anything; they see others press forward to attempt and achieve, and shrink back into a despoding inactivity. Having no faith in themselves, they undertake nothing and affect nothing. If they are convinced of some fault or bad habit, they have so little hope of being able to cure it that they scarcely make and effort. If some avenue of usefulness and honor opens before them, they drive back, almost sure they should not succeed, and decline to enter. If some duty presses urgently upon their conscience they try to quiet its promptings by pleading inability. Thus their lives pass away in uselessness, their faculties do not develop or their characters improve, their abilities are wasted, they dwindle into insignificance, and all this, not for lack of power, but or the want of a confidence and courage that would set that power into practical working order."
-dang... I wish I knew...
5"To live your life in your own way, to reach for the goals you have set or yourself, to be the you that you want to be- that is success."
-...?
6"We sow our thoughts, we reap our actions.
We sow our actions, we reap our habits.
We sow our habits, we reap our character.
We sow our character, we reap our destiny."
-I don't know... but I got it in young womens...
7"There is no one who does not carry scars on his heart. If there was someone in the world like that, he would be a shallow soul"
-Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho ^.^
8"Those who discourage your dreams, likely have abandoned their own."
-...
9"To truly convince someone, you must play their game by your rules."
-Me ^.^ (that's right, I have a thought now and again... ;P)
10"One who makes no mistakes, never makes anything."
-English proverb
11"I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given."
-Oscar Whilde ^.^
12"Always love your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much."
13"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone... He seems to have written to much- all of it wrong."
Emperor Mage pg 25
14"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
-Wilde
15"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible."
-T.E. Lawrence
16"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing."
-Feynman
17"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend."
-anon
18"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 oz of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life."
-Christopher Morley
19"Our feelings are determined by the way we react to them."
20"Teaching is the profession that inspires all others."
-I think I read it on a magnet somewhere...?
21"She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, where more educated and even more intelligent than college professors."
-"Mrs. Flowers"
22"The World is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair. Though in all lands love is mingled with grief, love grows perhaps the greater."
-The Hobbit
23"I would rather be ashes then dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than to be stiled by dry rot. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall use my time."
-Jack London
24"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it will soon be so."
-Edgar Allen Poe
25"The differences in this world are what divide us, and unite us."
-Friend of mine. We'll call him Sunshine.
26"As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will- something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression."
-Fred Rogers
27"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than be false, and incur my own abhorrence."
-Fredrick Douglass
28"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
29"...In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love- they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
-The Third Man
30"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of western science."
-Dunno, but I told my science teacher this and she laughed. ^.^ (The one in high school, with the curly hair? The cool one? Yeah, her. She liked it. ^.^)
31"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane."
-Philip K Dick
32"Art is something into which you place a portion of your soul. Art succeeds when another person can find and feel that piece of soul it carries within it."
-Th, when we were talking about art on Schmetter's blog. I can't find it... but I know it's there...
33"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
-Groucho Marx
34"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive o the environment in which you first ind yourself."
-Mark Caine
*phew* Well, enjoy. ^.^;
I feel like I should have some big grand thoughts in this new year... And for the life of me I can't think of any... Mauve maybe... Aqua... Puce... But nothing awe inspiring...
As far as the new year, I think it will be a time of change. Don't know good, bad or ugly... but change. We're getting a new president and such. Our economy isn't looking too good. Stuff like that.
Also lots of change for me personally. I plan to move this year. Like out... Like out of the house... on my own... O.O That's a tiny bit of a change... ^.^;
So yeah... Big changiness...
Anyway... since I have no real thoughts I figure I'll pretend like I planned this and post some of my favorite quotes from the quote book I keep. I'll just pretend that I wanted to start off the new year with great words from great people. ^.^ You'll believe that, right?? Sure ya will. ^.^ 'Cause if it's on the Internet it must be true!! (plus I'll number them in case you wanna talk about them in the comments or something)
1"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits."
-Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
2"Nothing happens unless first a dream."
-Carl Sandburg
3"Knowledge is Power. Power is corruptive. Study hard, be evil!"
-sign somewhere... dunno where, but I liked it. ^.^
4"There are some who never seem to believe themselves capable of anything; they see others press forward to attempt and achieve, and shrink back into a despoding inactivity. Having no faith in themselves, they undertake nothing and affect nothing. If they are convinced of some fault or bad habit, they have so little hope of being able to cure it that they scarcely make and effort. If some avenue of usefulness and honor opens before them, they drive back, almost sure they should not succeed, and decline to enter. If some duty presses urgently upon their conscience they try to quiet its promptings by pleading inability. Thus their lives pass away in uselessness, their faculties do not develop or their characters improve, their abilities are wasted, they dwindle into insignificance, and all this, not for lack of power, but or the want of a confidence and courage that would set that power into practical working order."
-dang... I wish I knew...
5"To live your life in your own way, to reach for the goals you have set or yourself, to be the you that you want to be- that is success."
-...?
6"We sow our thoughts, we reap our actions.
We sow our actions, we reap our habits.
We sow our habits, we reap our character.
We sow our character, we reap our destiny."
-I don't know... but I got it in young womens...
7"There is no one who does not carry scars on his heart. If there was someone in the world like that, he would be a shallow soul"
-Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho ^.^
8"Those who discourage your dreams, likely have abandoned their own."
-...
9"To truly convince someone, you must play their game by your rules."
-Me ^.^ (that's right, I have a thought now and again... ;P)
10"One who makes no mistakes, never makes anything."
-English proverb
11"I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given."
-Oscar Whilde ^.^
12"Always love your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much."
13"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone... He seems to have written to much- all of it wrong."
Emperor Mage pg 25
14"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
-Wilde
15"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible."
-T.E. Lawrence
16"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing."
-Feynman
17"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend."
-anon
18"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 oz of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life."
-Christopher Morley
19"Our feelings are determined by the way we react to them."
20"Teaching is the profession that inspires all others."
-I think I read it on a magnet somewhere...?
21"She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, where more educated and even more intelligent than college professors."
-"Mrs. Flowers"
22"The World is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair. Though in all lands love is mingled with grief, love grows perhaps the greater."
-The Hobbit
23"I would rather be ashes then dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than to be stiled by dry rot. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall use my time."
-Jack London
24"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it will soon be so."
-Edgar Allen Poe
25"The differences in this world are what divide us, and unite us."
-Friend of mine. We'll call him Sunshine.
26"As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will- something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression."
-Fred Rogers
27"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than be false, and incur my own abhorrence."
-Fredrick Douglass
28"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
29"...In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love- they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
-The Third Man
30"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of western science."
-Dunno, but I told my science teacher this and she laughed. ^.^ (The one in high school, with the curly hair? The cool one? Yeah, her. She liked it. ^.^)
31"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane."
-Philip K Dick
32"Art is something into which you place a portion of your soul. Art succeeds when another person can find and feel that piece of soul it carries within it."
-Th, when we were talking about art on Schmetter's blog. I can't find it... but I know it's there...
33"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
-Groucho Marx
34"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive o the environment in which you first ind yourself."
-Mark Caine
*phew* Well, enjoy. ^.^;
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
DA news/Freckles
I am always lerning... Today, I found out how to delete an entire post... ^.^; I had a beautiful post almost ready, and I deleted it! >.< ARGH! ... *sigh* Well... the bulk of it I'm gunna leave for later 'cause I'm annoyed from loosing it... But I'll post part of it now.
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Someone favorited one of my pics on DA!! *bounces around in girlish delight* ^.^
http://cfisawesome.deviantart.com/favourites/
See! See!! Those eyes right there are MINE!! Well... not mine mine... but I drew them!! ^.^ And I just posted that yesterday! Really brightens up my day. ^.^
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Now, I promise to not put up too much stuff I get in email... But this is just so sweet I thought I'd share. ^.^
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Freckles
An elderly woman and her little grandson, whose face was sprinkled with bright freckles, spent the day at the zoo. Lots of children were waiting in line to get their cheeks painted by a local artist who was decorating them with tiger paws. "You've got so many freckles, there's no place to paint!" a girl in the line said to the little fella.
Embarrassed, the little boy dropped his head. His grandmother knelt down next to him. "I love your freckles. When I was a little girl I always wanted freckles," she said, while tracing her finger across the child's cheek. "Freckles are beautiful."
The boy looked up, "Really?"
"Of course," said the grandmother. "Why, just name me one thing that's prettier than freckles."
The little boy thought for a moment, peered intensely into his grandma's face, and softly whispered, "Wrinkles."
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Someone favorited one of my pics on DA!! *bounces around in girlish delight* ^.^
http://cfisawesome.deviantart.com/favourites/
See! See!! Those eyes right there are MINE!! Well... not mine mine... but I drew them!! ^.^ And I just posted that yesterday! Really brightens up my day. ^.^
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Now, I promise to not put up too much stuff I get in email... But this is just so sweet I thought I'd share. ^.^
- - - - - - - -
Freckles
An elderly woman and her little grandson, whose face was sprinkled with bright freckles, spent the day at the zoo. Lots of children were waiting in line to get their cheeks painted by a local artist who was decorating them with tiger paws. "You've got so many freckles, there's no place to paint!" a girl in the line said to the little fella.
Embarrassed, the little boy dropped his head. His grandmother knelt down next to him. "I love your freckles. When I was a little girl I always wanted freckles," she said, while tracing her finger across the child's cheek. "Freckles are beautiful."
The boy looked up, "Really?"
"Of course," said the grandmother. "Why, just name me one thing that's prettier than freckles."
The little boy thought for a moment, peered intensely into his grandma's face, and softly whispered, "Wrinkles."
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