I am a man of quotes. I love cliches and short, witty sayings to the utmost. I try to adopt ones that align with my personal truths and incorporate them into my thinking and everyday way of life. I will use this space on my site to disseminate the quotes I have come to love and have come to agree with through both knowledge and personal experience. As a wise man once told me, “Knowledge is knowing a subject in theory, wisdom is knowing a subject in both theory and in the application of those theories.”
NotAverageJoe
The words and wisdom (or lack thereof) of a not your average Joe
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“For we cannot do great things, only small things with great love.” -Mother Theresa (passed on by Rudy Garcia)
By: jmromas on December 2, 2007
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I think I like this section the best and once I have a little bit of time I will add some that I like!
By: Stef on December 4, 2007
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“It’s not hard to be good from time to time… what’s tough is being good every day.” -Willie Mays
By: Amy Leisten on December 6, 2007
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“There is nothing in the world more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
LaoTzu
By: Doug Johnnston on December 7, 2007
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Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age….
Charles Caleb Colton
By: TDS on December 7, 2007
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There is only one security, and when you have lost that security, you have lost everything you have. And that is the security of confidence in yourself—to be, to create, to make any position you want to make for yourself. When you lose that confidence, you have lost the only security you can have. Yet a man, as he lives through life, postulates away to himself that self-confidence. Self-confidence is self-determinism—one’s belief in one’s ability to determine his own course. As long as one has that he has the universe in his pocket, And when he hasn’t got that, not all the pearls in China nor all the grain and corn in Iowa can give him security, because that is the only security there is.
L. Ron Hubbard
By: Doug Johnston on December 8, 2007
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“If you are not happy now, you never will be.”
–My smart grandma
By: 32B on December 10, 2007
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“The real leader has no need to lead–he is content to point the way” Henry Miller
By: Amber Hallam on January 4, 2008
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saw the coolest bumper sticker yesterday:
+ “Christ must increase, I must decrease”
By: Amy Leisten on February 13, 2008
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This is an excerpt from a book I read; “Bless Your Socks Off” by Sandra Aldrich.
“Realize that heaven is not on earth, not in the mountains, or at the beach, or even up North…as long as we keep looking for the perfect home, the perfect family, the perfect job, the perfect friends, we’re going to keep being disappointed. We are only on this pitiful earth for a short time and we need to do our best to serve the Lord by serving our fellowman. The heart longing we often feel within ourselves is actually a longing for our Father and heaven, and it will not be satisfied until we finally step on that celestial shore. Until we arrive there, we are to be content to do God’s bidding here.
By: julie romas on June 3, 2008
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