ON IDEALS TO WHICH A PERSON MIGHT ASPIRE:
>>For when the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name,
He marks not that you won or lost, but how you played the game. (Grantland Rice)
>>I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. (Stephen Grellet)
>>It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
>>Always remember, others may hate you--but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. (Richard Nixon)
>>Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not. (Robert F. Kennedy)
>>This above all--to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. (Shakespeare Hamlet Act I, scene iv, verses 79-81)
ON ACCEPTING LIFE AS IT COMES:
>>L A is a great big freeway; put a hundred down and buy a car. In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star. Weeks turn into years; how quick they pass, and all the stars that never were are parking cars and punping gas.... Fame and fortune is a magnet. It can pull you far away from home. With a dream in your heart you're never alone. Dreams turn into dust and blow away, and there you are without a friend. You pack your car and ride away. (Do You Know the Way to San Jose? sung by Dione Warwick)
>>For all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!" (John Greenleaf Whittier)
>>If, of all words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are, "It might have been,"
More sad are these we daily see:
"It is, but hadn't ought to be!" (Bret Harte)
>>The other man's grass is always greener.
The sun shines brighter on the other side.
The other man's grass is always greener.
Some are lucky; some are not.
Just be thankful for what you've got. (The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener sung by Petula Clark)
One might as well accept the inevitable when the inevitable is the only offer one's got. (a line from Nanny and the Professor 6/25/71)
A FEW THOUGHTS ON BEING CONFUSED:
>> The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. (Mark Twain)
>>Some of these people are so far out to lunch that they might as well just come into their offices in the morning and hang an "out to lunch" sign on the door. (Bill Perry)
>>How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
AND A CLOSING THOUGHT:
>>If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)