Tolerance

"Seeing the world thru eyes other than our own is worth the effort."
- Helen Mae Boudreau

The test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad ones.
- Wendell Willkie (1892 - 1944), corporate lawyer

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength:  one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), educator, author, orator & political leader

Take care of your thoughts when you are alone.

Take care of your words when you are with the people.

- Unknown

Lesson of time - KARMA

When a bird is alive, it eats ants. When the bird is dead, Ants eat the bird. Time and circumstances can change at anytime. Don't devalue or hurt anyone in your life. You may be powerful today, but remember time is more powerful than you! One tree makes a million match sticks. Only one match stick is needed to burn a million trees. So be good and do good because you'll never know what will happen.
- Unknown

We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.
- MLK (1929 - 1968)

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change,
The courage to change the one I can,
And the wisdom to know it's me.

Time

You only have 33,000 days.  Better make the most of them.
- - Dr. Xu (June 2015)

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
- - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

You’re never gonna be the same person you are right now. And promise and potential... are very fickle, and just might not be there anymore.
 - said Professor (Robert Redford) to student in 2007 Movie 'Lions to Lambs'  http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0033733/quotes

We have failed to recognize our one great asset: time. A conscientious use of it could make us into something quite amazing.
- - Friedrich Schiller, German writer (1759-1805)

Whatever you want to do, do it now.  There are only so many tomorrows.
- - Michael Landon (1936 - 1991; died at age 55)

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. 
- -JFK

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
- - Henry James

The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal.  Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
- - W.J. Davidson

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost part of your life.
- - Michael Leboeuf

Action

"Dare to grow, to thrive, to bloom. Even if you are alone in a seeming wilderness. Your beauty and your worthiness are not diminished, but enhanced."
 - - HMB 8/12/20 - caption to a photo she took of a blue wildflower spotted on one of her 15,000 steps/day walks during the 6th month of the COVID-19 pandemic

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
- - Robert Swan, quoted Goethe

First say to yourself what would you be, and then do what you have to do.

- - Epictetus

Whatever you want to do, do it now.  There are only so many tomorrows.
- - Michael Landon (1936 - 1991)

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It's not.  
- - Dr. Seuss

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
- - Alexis Carrell 

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
- - Henry James

I hear and I forget.  I see and I remember.  I do and I understand.

- - Confucious

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

- - Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1973)

If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.
- - Mike Zimmerman

The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it.
- - Chinese proverb

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.
- - Unknown

If you don’t like the road you’re on, start paving another one.
-2015 Film, ‘Our Brand Is Crisis.’  Originally said by Dolly Parton, when asked about her 60th birthday

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
-- Mario Andretti, former racing driver

If you don't ruffle some feathers, you can't fly.
- Robin M (Feb 2020)

Perception

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American Poet

Things aren't always as they appear. Sometimes what seems to be the end is really just a new beginning. Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.
- - Unknown

Better keep yourself clean and bright, you the window through which you must see the world.
- - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Irish Playwright

Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- - Albert Einstein

Your smile is your logo, your business card is your calling card and how you leave others feeling after an experience with you becomes your trademark."
- - Unknown

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
-- Stephen Covey

Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll

I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.
- Bill Murray

Parenthood

There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to their friend.
- - Unknown

Melancholy

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.
- - Janet Erskine Stuart

Love & Anatomy

Women are attracted to what they love.  Men love what they’re attracted to.

With a son, you have just one penis to worry about.  Without a daughter, you have... ALL penises to worry about!

Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.

Love me for who I am, not what you want me to be.

Love him/her for who he/she is, not what you want them to be.

Life

Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.

-- Danish proverb

Accept no one’s definition of your life but define yourself.
-- Harvey Fierstein

Live the life you've imagined.
- - Henry David Thoreau

There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.
-- Kurt Hahn

We learn the ropes of life by untying the knots.
- Unknown

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?
-- Parker Palmer

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
-- William James

Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives.  But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them or fought them.
- - Gregory David Roberts 

Life isn't always ideal or romantic. It's a series of triumphs and disappointments, and that's okay.  That best we can do is open our hearts and learn to appreciate and forgive.
- - Adrian Grenier, star of HBA series 'Entourage' ("Turning Point," Readers Digest, June 2007)

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
- Sir William Osler (1849-1919) Canadian physician

In the end, only three things matter:
How much you loved,
How gently your lived
and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
- Guatama Buddha

Listening

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
-- Stephen Covey

What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
- -Dickenson

Together, we shall write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity, not division. Of light, not darkness. A story of decency and dignity. Love and healing. Greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us.

- President Joe Biden, at his 2021 January Inauguration. This was two weeks after Trump supporter’s violent insurrection at the U.S. Capital building.

Leadership

Leaders think and talk about the solutions.  Followers think and talk about the problems.

- Brian Tracy, author and business coach

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
- James Humes

If your action creative a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader.
- Dolly Parton

Inspiration

The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-itiveness  and third, common sense. 

-- Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) American Inventor

There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.
-- Kurt Hahn

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
- Amy Poehler

Babe Ruth hit more home runs than anyone.  He also struck out more than often than anyone.

Act the way you want to be - and soon you will be the way you act.

This is your world. Shape it or someone else will.
- - Gary Lew

Whether you believe you can or can’t, you are right.

- - Henry Ford

To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities.
- - Grenville Kleiser (1868, Toronto-1935, NYC), Author

Aerodynamically the bumble bee should not be able to fly; but the bumble bee does not know it; so it goes on flying anyway.  
- - Mary Kay Ash (1918 - 2001)

Life begins... at the end of our comfort zone.
- - Unknown; but heard it in Ushuaia too - at pre-expedition (to Antarctica) lecture

Untitled

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, 

When the funds are low and the debts are high, 

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit-

Rest if you must, but don't you quit. 

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a fellow turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out.

Don't give up though the pace seems slow -

You may succeed with another blow. 

Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man;

Often the struggler has given up

When he might have captured the victor's cup;

And he learned too late when the night came down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out -

The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It might be near when it seems afar;

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -

It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

 - - Author unknown and sometimes mistakenly thought to be Greenleaf Whitter

Happiness

People tend to think of happiness as a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- - Unknown

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
- - Robert Brault

You are not happy because you are well.  You are well because you are happy.
You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed.
You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to
correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working. 
- - Emmet Fox

Friend

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- - Unknown

Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
- - Swedish proverb

Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if
you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time
with them.  
-- Unknown

A friend is someone who gives you total power to be yourself.
- Jim Morrison

 "...sealed inside this vulnerable little snow globe we call the present, life feels anything but forgettable and meaningless. And recognizing the starkness of it all, the course our straight line is taking, liberates us into the present. It imbues life with immediacy just like a disaster does. And just like a disaster it gives us a chance to expand those boundaries the only way we can be reaching out, by connecting our lives to the lives of others, by thatching our lives together like a net."
-'Genie Chance and the Great Alaska Earthquake,' New York Times podcast 5/22/2020 and "This is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together," 2020 book by Jon Mooallem.