August 18th, 2007: Thoughts for the day
“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.”
Edgar Cayce
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For you PB:
“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.”
Donald Miller
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“Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(A very good Quote, What is this man telling you that can happen if your not careful?)
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“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.”
William Arthur Ward
And the flip side:
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions”
Rainer Maria Rilke
Do you understand the differences these two quotes possess?
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“What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.”
William E Rothschild
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“A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free”
(LOL, yea, right)
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“The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept”
George Carlin
(LOL, this is both good and bad)
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“As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.”
Erich Fromm
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“To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.”
W. Clement Stone
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one
Felix Frankfurter
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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
by Martin Luther King Jr
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If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
by Edward Hodnett
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of
responsibility that comes with his freedom."
Bob Dylan
(Think about this one. WE have freedom of choice, and this freedome of choice along with other freedoms, is what makes are journey difficult, but at the same time, this same freedom can see you free if the inner degree of responsibility to this freedom is correct in conjunction to your goals you seek)
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
(lol, Im confused)
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Soren Kierkegaard:
Where am I? Who am I?
How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director?
I want to see him.
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You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
Jim Rohn quotes
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“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand
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“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”
Lloyd Alexander quotes
(how true this actually is, folks!)
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Edward Everett Hale:
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt:
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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Goethe:
Knowing is not enough; we must apply!
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Jimmy Carter:
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
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John Andrew Holmes:
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
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John Dewey:
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
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John Locke:
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Haitian proverb:
Beyond the mountains there are mountains again.
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Tom Lehrer:
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
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Brian Tracy:
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Henry David Thoreau:
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
(I adore the wisdom in this philosopher!)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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Ecclesiastes:
For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
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Bernadette Devlin:
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
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Look people you have it in you to do anything.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. (Wendel)
There is nothing you can do. Dont ever forget the abolute prize within yourself. Dont let yourself down. ROCK ON!
Best regards,
Chillen
