| Words Of Wisdom |
| Everyone has a soft side, even me. Despite my seemingly obtuse and arrogant exterior, I find it very difficult to get through the day-to-day rat race of today's fast paced world. Im sure that I am not alone in thinking this. Contained herein is a collection of quotes, passages, and poems that have helped me through, helped me see that there is purpose to existance and that all our efforts in life are not in vain. The words of these wise men and women have inspired me, and I feel, have help make me a better person in all aspects. Maybe they will help you to.... Enjoy.... |
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| Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) |
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| If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look to good, nor talk to wise; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch and toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on"; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son! |
| "The secret of success is the consistancy of purpose" |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
| "When you are content be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you" |
| Lao-Tzu |
| "When you ae required to exhibit strength, it comes" |
| Joseph Campbell |
| "It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart" |
| Confucius |
| "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end." |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
| "What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?" |
| George Eliot |
| "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus" |
| Mark Twain |
| "What we do in life, echoes in Eternity" |
| Russell Crowe as Maximous in "Gladiator" |