Pithy sayings - 7

Life is pain, princess. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

"I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains." (Anne Frank)

When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result his crew was well motivated.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.

Pithy sayings - 6

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Why, they couldn't hit a barn at this dist

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is you have a choice every day regarding the attitude you will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. And so it is with you. You are in charge of your attitude. (Charles R. Swindoll)

Feelings come and feelings go

and feelings are deceiving. 

I’ll rest upon the Word of God,

none else is worth believing.

 Martin Luther 

Pithy sayings - 5

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one sees rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

By three methods we may learn wisdom. First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and who manages to avoid them.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to love.

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Pithy sayings - 4

Love is not blind -- it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

"When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer." - Corrie Ten Boom

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble and attempts what is above its strength.

Pithy sayings - 3

Friends love through all kinds of weather (Prov 17:17a).

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you!

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we have no idea where she is.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. (Jane Austen)

When words leave off, music begins.

I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone.

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." (Plutarch)

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Don't sweat petty things...or pet sweaty things.

He who hesitates is probably right.

"We read to know that we are not alone." (CS Lewis)

Pithy sayings - 2

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

You have to decide even to hesitate.

We're all funny. Some of us just don't know it yet.

The more you judge, the less you love.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool usually has his suspicions.

Love begins with love.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

The one important thing I've learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously: The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. (CS Lewis)

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. (Winston Churchill)

Pithy sayings

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

Love is a friendship set to music.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

If music be the food of love, play on.