Favorite Quotes

03-09-2026

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.---Irish Proverb

03-09-2026

Good one^

03-14-2026

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it".

-Leo Tolstoy

03-14-2026

I tell this to my teenage kids all the time.

If people knew how little others spend thinking of them, they would not be so concerned what others think.

Be kind, as a white middle class Australian you have a privilege and life that most of the world does not.

03-14-2026

You’ll never have a bad day as long as there’s a door knob on
the inside of your door.

- Hanoi Hilton POW

03-14-2026

“Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part”
Bob Carter

03-14-2026

"Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” --Anon.

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. --Mignon McLaughlin

03-15-2026

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. --Walter Anderson

03-16-2026

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.” -- Adlai Stevenson

03-16-2026

“I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, because I intend to go into harm’s way.” - Commodore John Paul Jones, 1778

“Do not accept that the divisive and demeaning speech towards others, which seems to be so common place today, is normal, or right, or acceptable. It is not. It is beneath you and it is certainly beneath those that seek to lead.”
- Unattributed, but critically important

03-16-2026

“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” Orwell

03-17-2026

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. --Marcel Proust

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. --Marcus Aurelius

03-18-2026

When you make a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm. --Sherrie R.

03-18-2026

"Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." --Henry Ward Beecher

03-21-2026

"She's not that ugly." - - - Jack Daniel

03-22-2026

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. --M. C. Richards

03-22-2026

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. --Les Brown

03-23-2026

There’s a divinity that shapes our ends rough-hew them how we will.

Shakespeare - Hamlet

03-23-2026

Bluerooster wrote
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. --Marcel Proust

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. --Marcus Aurelius

I’m a great fan of Marcus Aurelius. I’ve been to a few of his live shows.

03-23-2026

Urbane Legend wrote
I’m a great fan of Marcus Aurelius. I’ve been to a few of his live shows.

Who opened for him? Commodus? Or was it Hadrian?

03-24-2026

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less. --Ken Blanchard

"The two major sources of value today are time and knowledge. Find new ways every day to use them better.” --Brian Tracy

Action is the antidote to despair. --Joan Baez

"Language is the light of the mind.” — John Stuart Mill

03-24-2026

Dad: “Cesna 43Xray 3 mile final, runway 29.”

Tower: “Cessna 43Xray, runway 29, cleared to land. Check landing gear down.”

Dad: “Down and welded, 43Xray.”

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