Quotable quotes and sources~

[kyuusai]

"grant me the serenity to accept with patience the things that i cannot change;
the courage to change the things that i can; and the wisdom to know the difference" - st. francis of assissi

[ares623]

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, little minds discuss people."

[pongborro]

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one"--- bill gates

[bokiratx]

never fall inlove with your clostest friend of the opposie ***, cuz if you do youl have a hell of a hard time
-ako-

[hera_82]

Let your ears hear what your mouth says.
-- Jewish Proverb

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
-- [b]Mark Twain

[hera_82]

Other people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
-- Margaret Mead (1901-197; Anthropologist

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.
-- [b]E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977); Economist

[chromoflage]

Love tells me I am everything, wisdom tells me I am nothing and between the two my life flows. - Sri Nisargadatta

[totitot87]

He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened.

-Lao-tzu (604-531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu

[totitot87]

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Dawn, Sec. 297

[totitot87]

Plato is boring.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the Ancients