I love quotes; motivational, inspirational, whatever!
I came across this one this morning…
This sums up the majority of people from the neighborhood.
“Nothing’s impossible for when my chin is on the ground I pick myself up, dust myself off and start all over.” -Dorothy Fields
-Steve
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I get knocked down, I get up again, you’re never gonna keep me down is a nieghborhood mantra..
I haven’t posted here in a long time. Life and obligations got in the way, I suppose.
I think Robert Frost said it best “…knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back…”
I too like a good quote. (And I always try to cite attribution, when possible.) Here are a few of my favorites:
*** “Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing.” It waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.” (Fulton J. Sheen)
*** “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
(Henry David Thoreau)…………..(I often re-read this while raising my children.)
(As someone who has spent more than a few hours on trout streams):
*** “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
(Henry David Thoreau)
*** “There are really only two things we can give our children; the first is Roots, and the second—Wings.”
(Hodding Carter)
*** “Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.”
(Stephen Levine, who has done more research on death and dying than perhaps anyone else, including Elizabeth Kubler Ross)
*** “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” (an old Rabbinic saying)
*** “If you aim to dispense with method, learn method. If you aim at facility, work hard. If you aim for simplicity, master complexity.”
(The Way of Chinese Painting)
*** “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
Kenji Miyazawa)…..(A nugget I have often re-read for myself.)
There are so many more, of course. But I’ll leave you with just one more:
*** “Some men have a little larceny in them, and some have a lot…”
(My Dad)
Great job, Steven! Hope all is well with you. Thanks!