inspirational quotes

[J. A.]

To live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die. Thomas Campbell

 

[J. A.]

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Jack Benny

 

[Deleted member 247820]

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~ Marshall McLuhan

Hello JA.
What about spongers?
Can they be considered passengers?

 

[J. A.]

Hello JA.
What about spongers?
Can they be considered passengers?

They also use up earth's resources. In a way, I'm thinking of them as crew members.
But feel free to make up your own mind on it.

 

[Deleted member 247820]

Hi JA.

I guess you are a tad more generous than I am.
So I'm guessing you would make a good boss!

 

[J. A.]

Hi JA.

I guess you are a tad more generous than I am.
So I'm guessing you would make a good boss!

Maybe I'm generous. I hope I'm a good mother, friend, colleague, teacher, ... But I certainly wouldn't be a good boss. You need more other qualities than generosity to overcome a challenge like that.

 

[Deleted member 247820]

Hello JA.

Thanks for a nice chat!

 

[J. A.]

Hello JA.

Thanks for a nice chat!

My pleasure!

 

[i2030]

[h=1]“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” - Bill Gates
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[Asharp]

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

"Still I Rise" except by Maya Angelou

 

[zstairlessone]

The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off and on for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers
John Dos Passos

 

[zstairlessone]

I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle.
Frank Sinatra

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.
Dean Martin

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
Pat Boone

And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.
Buddy Rich

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
Maurice Ravel

 

[scifan57]

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." - Isaac Asimov

 

[Kaykaykay]

Hello JA.
What about spongers?
Can they be considered passengers?

They also use up earth's resources. In a way, I'm thinking of them as crew members.
But feel free to make up your own mind on it.

They're like stowaways, along for a free ride.

 

[J. A.]

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. Frederick Keonig