More Quotes

"You have to give up the life you have to get the life that is waiting for you." - James Hilman

"A contract isn't about saying what you mean. It is about meaning what you say." - Olive Wendell Holmes

"Never confuse having a career with having a life." - ?

friends... charlie brown... christmas

"A friend is someone who knows the song to your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."

"It's the friends that you can call up at 4 am that matter."



I was sorting through some papers I had stacked up for a long while and found a Charlie Brown Christmas card from about two years ago from my best friend. The quotes above are ones she added to the card. The card had printed in it:

"Christmas seems so much warmer when you share it with a friend."

Quotes: Goals

"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals- that is, goals that do not inspire them." - Anthony Robbins

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes." - Andrew Carnegie

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. "- T.S. Eliot

"Winning starts with beginning." - Anonymous

"When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. " - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Limited goals create limited lives." - Anthony Robbins

"When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible." - Nido Qubein

"If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time." - Anonymous

*Additions*

"Wisdom denotes pursuing of the best ends by the best means possible." - Francese Hutcheson

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." - Warren Bennis

"So many people are expecting a miracle instead of being a miracle." - Wayne Dyer

"No one knows enough to be a pessimist."

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

the stronger the wind

"Good timber does
not grow with ease;
the stronger the wind,
the stronger the trees."
-J.Willard Marriott

Video Lecture: Subject *<3 Talk*

UPDATE: The name of the speaker is Leo F. Buscaglia

***Last class in organizational behaviour (*giggles* English looks so funny; many versions), we watched a lecture (a tad ancient however still true to today). Anyways, there were a few things that caught my hear.***

Helen Keller said: 'Before my teacher came to me, I lived in a world that was a no-world. I cannot hope to describe adequately that unconscious yet conscious time of nothingness. I did not know that I knew aught, or that I lived or acted or desired'.

Words... they are nothing but phonetic symbols until you assign meaning. Meaning is the emotional and intellectual content around a word. It isn't necessarily universal. Love doesn't need words; it's expressed in your hugs, smiles, laughter, action and listening. There are more actions to express love than words.

We can process more than two to three times more words than we can speak per minute. So what happens in between? We think. What about? Our counter arguments, all the things we have left to do, why the grass is green?

Why not think about what they really mean or too afraid to say. There are good theories of why prayer is so effective... your higher self, God, ancestors etc... are silent. They allow self determination (so do plants, dogs, etc).

Why do we so often dish out advice right away... "if I were you..." but you're not me. Denying one's experiences is a tragedy. Each and every experience is unique to each individual person. You can empathize but you'll never truly know unless I tell you how I honestly feel. Why not ask? Why not just listen.

Why are haters always so vocal and lovers not so much? Why don't people hug more? Are their arms going to fall off? Love truly doesn't hurt... it's what people do in its name.



(I laughed when I heard this next part but it's so true)

[Joe] "Hello! How are you doing?" with a smile and upbeat attitude
[Mike] in monotone "Fine."
[Joe] "Then why the hell don't you tell your face???"



Life is about creating yourself.

Television helps us become more passive in person (same can be said about the Internet). If we didn't have TV... what would we do, where would we be? Many conversations are simply a monologue disguised as a dialogue. Real dialogues are selfless, rare and oh so marvelous; people actively listen.

Cards are so impersonal; dare to be original and write your own. "Roses are red and violets are blue and you're a sweetie (it wasn't meant to rhyme)." What's up with the whole "whose on my Christmas card list" war? Christmas kinda takes the fun out of gift giving the rest of the year. You give and receive so many at once. Why not give less more often?

What's up with inviting people that you don't really want to be around? Why not respect them enough to let them be where they are wanted and respect yourself enough to do what you really want to do?

People who love you will care and have expectations. It's how you know that they love you. People never tire of being told that they are loved, that they are appreciated.

Why do we wait until people are dead
to tell them how much we care,
to tell them "I love you"?

more than words can say

I don't know why I went into the hardware store today but I did. I wasn't looking for anything in particular nor did I need anything but I found this card. The photo drew me in but the words kept me. *

"Some people will be missed more than words can say.

[open card]

And more than hearts should have to feel."

* I don't personally know anyone who died recently. **
** However, this card doesn't need to be taken literally either.

It ain't broke...

I was reading the quotable quotes in Reader's Digest and this one stood out. It reminded me of my dad.

"Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." - Scott Adams in the Dilbert Principle

To fathers out there (past, present or future), HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! ;)