Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Fav Quotes

Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.
-Excerpt from an ancient Sanskrit poem

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication self-discipline, sacrifice and effort.

When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim - improve yourself."
Gilbert Arland

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
- J. K. Rowling

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
-Ernest Hemingway

Life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best
-SZ rephrasing some quote
Everyone is entitled to my opinion.
-SZ rephrasing some quote

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa.
They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land.
They said "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes.
When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible."
-Desmond M. Tutu