January 2012
3 posts
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety...”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Men anpil, chay pa lou
(With many hands, the burden is light)”
– Haitian proverb
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave...”
– Anatole France
November 2011
2 posts
“Another flaw in the human character is that everyone wants to build, but no one...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 2011
6 posts
“Se só me faltassem ou outros, vá; um homem consola-se mais ou menos das pessoas...”
– do livro Dom Casmurro ~ Machado de Assis
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not...”
– Ayn Rand
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
– Buddha
“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of...”
– Abraham Lincoln
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
– Anais Nin
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats...”
– Sirius Black (from Harry Potter, of course :))
September 2011
10 posts
“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”
– George Eliot, English novelist
“I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.”
– Ayrton Senna
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
– Max Lucado
“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we...”
– Cullen Hightower
“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.”
– Charles Kettering
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you...”
– Gandhi
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
– Epictetus
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be...”
– Albert Einstein
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin
October 2010
3 posts
“If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have...”
– Daniel Goleman
“I’m cursed with empathy. I’m also by nature way too opinionated.”
– John Shirley (that is so true)
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people...”
– Bonnie Jean Wasmund
August 2010
1 post
“If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind...”
– Mother Teresa
April 2010
1 post
“I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
– Antonio Gramsci
January 2010
1 post
“Para ter algo que nunca teve, é preciso fazer algo que nunca fez.”
December 2009
6 posts
“Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue...”
“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is...”
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and...”
– Maria Robinson
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude,...”
– Charles R. Swindoll
pinkricepudding:
“This is how it works You peer inside yourself. You take the things you like, And try to love the things you took. And then you take that love you made And stick it into some - Someone else’s heart Pumping someone else’s blood. And walking arm in arm, You hope it don’t get harmed. But even if it does You’ll just do it all again”
November 2009
9 posts
“The words I have to say may well be simple
But they’re true
Until you...”
– If you haven’t yet, check this delicious “Love Song”, on the soft voice of Kelly Sweet.
“The words I have to say may well be simple, but they’re true…”
“O que é, exatamente por ser tal como é, não vai ficar tal como está.”
– Bertolt Brecht
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to...”
– Buddha
“Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown — but the...”
– Maxwell Maltz
“If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it’s yours....”
– (easier said than done, but still true…)
“Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it’s breaking
When...”
– “Smile” - music by Charlie Chaplin, lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons
“Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same”
– Emily Brontë
“But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was,...”
– from “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
“You can blow out a candle
But you can’t blow out a fire
Once the flames...”
– excerpt from the song “Biko”, by Peter Gabriel, performed by Playing For Change
October 2009
9 posts
“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get,...”
– Norman MacEwan
“Trinity: Please, Neo. You have to trust me.
Neo: Why?
Trinity: Because you...”
– The Matrix
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don’t walk behind me, I...”
– Albert Camus
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow
“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we...”
– Brother David Steindl-Rast
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past...”
– Marcel Pagnol (via littlemiss) (via thechiefactor)
[Amen]
Some days
Some days you feel tired
Some days you feel lonely
Some days you feel lost
Some days you feel a lot of things
Thank God tomorrow is always another day