Quotes

"I have always believed that there were three stages of enjoying life: looking forward to something; experiencing it; and then having the memory of it"
-Edward M. Kennedy, True Compass

"Legend has it that in the ancient world, a poetry contest was held each year. The third-place winner received a rose made out of silver. The second-place winner received a rose made out of gold. But the first-place winner received a real rose, a beautiful living rose that soon wilted, dried up, and died. I ask you, is there a single one among us who would not choose the living rose?"
-Edward M. Kennedy, True Compass
(A play on Tennyson's romantic notion: "Tis better to have loved and lost", excluding Tennyson's true 'player' status.)


What are you waiting for?
for the candle to burn out
for the evanescence to obtain permanence
for the sky to teach me infinity
for the grass to teach me humility
for the strength to accept its weakness
for the weakness to recognize its strength
for the chaos to realize its order
for the control to welcome its collapse

Watch your thoughts, they become words
Watch your words, they become actions
Watch your actions, they become habits
Watch your habits, they become character,
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.

Why limit oneself when the whole world is there waiting to be experienced? bliss*

Hope, Believe, Tenacity

There can be no life without change. To be afraid of what is different is to be afraid of life.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Dream as if you'll forever, live as if you'll die today. - James Dean

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness - mother teresa

learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Love as though you have never been hurt before.
Live as though heaven is on earth.

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you; -e.e. cummings

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping stars apart
-e.e. cumming

To Love Someone is
Something, but to be
loved by the one you love
is everything
-S.D. Stavropoulos

"Give to the World the best you have and the best will come back to you!"

Try to be fearless, because fear can inhibit you and keep you from a life.

I came, I saw, I did, but most importantly I did it all better than the rest.

Do not be concerned if the next person is not doing his or her best.

Instead, focus on how you yourself are doing.

Do not wait till you find

the perfect place to

be calm and content.

Where you are

is already perfect.

"Success is a choice

Success won't happen unless you choose to make it happen. Success is not a lucky break. It is not a divine right. It is not an accident of birth. Success is a choice. If you want to succeed, then succeed. Deserve it. How? Outwork everybody in sight. Sweat the small stuff. Sweat the big stuff. Go the extra mile. Put your heart and soul into everything you do."--rick pitino