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WHATS YOUR FAVORITE SPIRITUAL OR PHILISOPHICAL SAYING??

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Sorry, didn't mean to offend anyone. Thanks.

A champion's greatness is not derived from his victories, but how he recovers from defeat.
 
Failure is an honor and a privilege reserved for those who've tried. (origin unknown)

The journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. -Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu. Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)


That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche
 
those who think it is permissable to tell "white lies" soon grow color blind




im a firm believer in the theory that people only do the best at things they truely love

Jack Nicklaus
 
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors.
Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Gandhi~​
 
those who love to talk reap the consequences, for the tongue can bring both life and death
proverbs 18-verse 21


when arguing with a fool always give them an answer or through your silenece they will become wise in there own estimation
proverbs 26-verse 5
 

"A certain swordsman in his declining years said the following: In one’s life. there are levels in the pursuit of study. In the lowest level, a person studies but nothing comes of it, and he feels that both he and others are unskillful. At this point he is worthless. In the middle level he is still useless but is aware of his own insufficiencies and can also see the insufficiencies of others. In a higher level he has pride concerning his own ability, rejoices in praise from others, and laments the lack of ability in his fellows. This man has worth. In the highest level a man has the look of knowing nothing.​

These are the levels in general; But there is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way arid never thinks of himself as having finished. He truly knows his own insufficiencies and never in his whole life thinks that he has succeeded. He has no thoughts of pride but with self-abasement knows the Way to the end. It is said that Master Yagyu once remarked, “I do not know the way to defeat others, but the way to defeat myself. ”​
"Hagakure", Yamamoto Tsunetomo​
 
it is not nessisarilly the size of the dog in the fight,but the size of the fight in the dog

DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
 
Franklin is a personal hero. The man was brilliant and had a life that sounds like a Hollywood fiction on steroids - yet it's all true. He was also a literal fountain of quotable statements.

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."


"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges"

"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."


"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones"

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."

There are hundreds more. If we had a politician this wise today he'd be elected God, completely bypassing the presidency.

If you have a chance to read a Franklin biography, I highly recommend this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Benjamin-Franklin-American-Walter-Isaacson/dp/074325807X/ref=sr_1_26?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329940741&sr=1-26
 
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not." - C.S.Lewis

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." - C.S.Lewis
 
LDHS, I feel much the same way about Mark Twain.....

"it shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth".

"wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been"

"Golf is a good walk spoiled"

"get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"

"Do not tell fish stories where the people know you, but particularly,
don't tell them where they know fish"

"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself,
and never refuse a drink under any circumstances."

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry".
 
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