Quotes

My favorite quote is actually NOT a quote but a life worth quoting. In the meantime, I’ve created this page where I will be intermittently adding specific quotes that are impacting me in the moment… to live a life worth quoting of course.

JJ.

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06/19/08

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.  — Art Buchwald

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06/18/08

Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning. Truth and meaning, science and religion; but we still cannot figure out how to get the two of them together in a fashion that both find acceptable… if some sort of reconciliation between science and religion is not forthcoming, the future of humanity is, at best, precarious. — Ken Wilber

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06/11/08

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. — Charles de Montesquieu

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06/06/08

You are in trouble if you have been vaccinated by the church to have just enough of Jesus that you won’t ever CATCH Him. — David Ott

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05/23/08

When we turn our resources into a god, we can become obsessed with acquiring them, possessed by having obtained them and held captive by the fear of losing them. — Fredrick J. Streets

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05/16/08

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea. — Carl von Clausewitz

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05/09/08

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. — Helen Keller

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05/03/08

Marriage is a work of art that is never finished. It is the most challenging and complex of all the works a human being can create. It is not like painting, poetry, architecture, or a novel. We can never put down the tools of this art form, step back, and pronounce the work complete. Marriage is an ongoing project. — Unknown

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05/02/08

No one takes a bigger chance than when he or she marries. There’s nothing like being married. If you’re happily married, there’s nothing like it. If you’re unhappily married, there’s still nothing like it. — Dr. Richard Dobbins

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04/26/08

We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive. — William A. Ward

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04/16/08

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. — Anatole France

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04/06/08

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. — Dag Hammarskjöld
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04/02/08

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He IS praying for me. — Robert Murray McCheyne

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04/01/08

April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four. — Mark Twain

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03/24/08

It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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03/17/08

Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent,
nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the
Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before
the beginning of time. — Saint Patrick

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03/12/08

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
– Jack Kerouac

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03/11/08

Management is doing things right, Leadership is doing the right things. — Peter Drucker

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03/10/08

“If you want to go somewhere quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — old African proverb
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03/05/08

I’m telling you this ’cause you’re one of my friends.
My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!

So, on beyond Z!
It’s high time you were shown
That you really don’t know,
All there is to be known. - Dr. Suess

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02/29/08

The richest place of the world is not the oil fields of the middle east, or Wall St. in New York, or Fort Knox in Kentucky. The richest place of the world is the graveyard, because more treasure has been buried in the graveyard, more potential, more books that were never written, more dreams that were never realized, more songs that were never created, more God ideas that were never pursued, because people never tapped into the destiny of God over their lives. — Miles Munroe

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02/26/08

You will make mistakes when you’re growing, but you will not grow if you’re not making mistakes. – Jentezen Franklin

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02/24/08

“Ultimately, leadership requires action: daring to take steps that are necessary but unpopular, challenging the status quo in order to reach a brighter future. And to push for peace is ultimately personal sacrifice, for leadership is not easy. It is born of a passion, and it is a commitment. Leadership is a commitment to an idea, to a dream, and to a vision of what can be.” — Benazir Bhutto

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02/23/08

“You are no longer rewarded for the hours you put in, but what you put into those hours.” :: Brian Tracy

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02/22/08

“Time is the currency of life. Our life improves as we learn to invest it instead of spending it. This applies to leadership as well. Great leaders learn to invest their time into activities that multiply results.”

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02/17/08

“I don’t believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can’t sit still.” :: Ashton Kutcher

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