neitzsche

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), The Gay Science, section 41

drinking

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

Barbra Tober

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W.C. Fields

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
Homer (800BC-700BC), The Odyssey

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant (1906-1972)

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), In the Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
Roberty Benchley (1889-1945)

inspiration

"you can't wait for inspiration. you have to go after it with a club." - jack london

"procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." don marquis

sad but true

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Adolf Hitler

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley

happiness

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness

Robert Davies

part 6

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Clare Booth Luce

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian Hellman

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton

part 4

I shall not feel my long separation from you, if I find that my absence has been of no injury to you, and that you have grown in goodness and knowledge, as well as stature. But, ah! How much I will suffer on my return, if the reverse has occurred! You enter all my thoughts, into all my prayers; and on you, in part will depend whether I shall be happy or miserable, as you know how much I love you. You must do all in your power to save me pain.
Robert E. Lee

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sidney J. Harris

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
Margo Kaufman

To accept favor is to sell one's freedom
Syrus

Wrinkles meerly indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

Victories that are easy are cheap
H.W. Beecher

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Jefferson

But out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one miss whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth or race.
Booker T. Washington

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

It is seldom that anything is permanently gained by holding back a fact.
Booker T. Washington

If there is a person whom you dislike, that is the one of whom you should never speak.
Cecil

He who begins many things finishes nothing.
C. Simmons

part 3

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Freidrich Nietzsche

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do...?
Freidrich Nietzsche

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Only the devil wishes everyone to be his friend.
Nicholas Venturella

If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.
William Shakespeare

And he whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.
Freidrich Nietzsche

Part 2

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin (1870-1924)

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Noel Coward (1899-1973)

Part 1

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us. -- Nena O'Neil

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -- Thomas L. Holdcroft

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. -- Buddha

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.-- Shari R. Barr

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway. -- Steven Coallier

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. -- Buddha

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways. -- Anonymous

"It's easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are also thankful for the setbacks.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles, and they can become your blessings."

"Some of us have emerged from the most painful circumstances with strong insights about who we are and what we want. Our mistakes? Necessary. Our frustrations, failures, and sometimes stumbling attempts at growth and progress? Necessary too. Each step of the way, we learned. We went through exactly the experiences we need to, to become who we are today. Each step of the way, we progressed. Is our past a mistake? No. The only mistake we can make is mistaking that for the truth."

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish . . . courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced. --Margaret Truman

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others She does not care to be herself. --Anais Nin

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions --Earl Gray Stevens

Unity without verity is no better than conspiracy --John Trapp

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. --Mahatma Gandhi

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love. --Mahatma Gandhi

“Excuses are monuments of nothingness. They build bridges to nowhere. Those who use these tools of incompetence, seldom become anything but nothing at all."

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it Autograph your work with excellence. --Unknown

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. --Rainer Maria Rilke

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. --Indira Gandhi

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. --Albert Einstein

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy --Bette Davis

Accomplishment and success are often the result of commitment and perseverance rather than skill or talent --George Van Valkenburg

"Quotes of others, unless internalized, rationalized and applied have no influence...in the end they merely become words." -- Paul Motley

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Destiny...is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved William Jennings Bryan