Quotes I have agreed to at some instant in the past :)
What is certain is not future.
Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something - Christopher Gardener (Will Smith) in Pursuit of Happiness
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.- Terry Pratchett
Good judgement is learned by experience. Experience is learned by bad judgement --Anonymous
"Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly." --Anonymous .
You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period. - Christopher Gardener (Will Smith) in Pursuit of Happiness
Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. -- Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win - Gandhi (One of the few things that he said which make sense to me)
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove. - Terry Pratchett
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett
There was a man who was drowning, and a boat came, and the man on the boat said "Do you need help?" and the man said "God will save me". Then another boat came and he tried to help him, but he said "God will save me", then he drowned and went to Heaven. Then the man told God, "God, why didn't you save me?" and God said "I sent you two boats, you dummy!"
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. -- Calvin Coolidge
You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.- Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise"
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
-Emily Dickinson
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