Introspective Scrapping

The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize it’s possibility.—Leland Kaiser

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. –-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. --Norman Cousins

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.—Helen Keller

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep foundation.__Goethe

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.--Izaac Walton

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.--Leonardo Decaprio

You can’t stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.–Jay Leno

Wit is the key to anybody’s heart.Show me a person who doesn’t like to laugh and I will show you a person with a toe tag.–Julia Roberts

The grass may be greener on the otherside, but it’s just as hard to cut.--Little Richard

There is no such thing as an attention span. People have infinite attention if you are entertaining to them.--Jerry Seinfeld

Everybody, no matter how old you are is around 24 or 25 in their heart.–Bruce Willis

The best mind altering drug is the truth.__Lily Tomlin

Wrinkles only go where smiles have been.–Jimmy Buffett

Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.–Tony Buzan

Push yourself again and again. Never let up until the final buzzer sounds.–Larry Bird

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.–Helen Keller

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.–Arnold Palmer

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action to take–choose the bolder.--William Joseph Slim

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.–Carl Sandburg

It is never too late to be what you might have been.– George Eliot

We may make mistakes–but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.--Elizabeth Kenny

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.–Charles Schwab

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.–Robert Frost

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.–Earl Wilson

If you have ajob without aggravations, you don’t have a job.--Malcolm Forbes

The fisherman know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason to remain ashore.–Vincent Van Gogh

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.–George Bernard Shaw

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Waiting until everything is perfect before making a move is like waiting to start a trip until all the traffic lights are green.
- Karen Ireland

Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.
- Edmund Rouse

When life is kicking others in the teeth, become a dentist.
- Kevin Meyers

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
- Walter Winchell, 1897 - 1972

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
- Raymond Chandler, 1888 - 1959

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
- Salvador Dali, 1904 - 1989

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
- Barry Goldwater, 1909 - 1998

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. –THUCYDIDES

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
- Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1808 - 1890

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.
- Johannes Eckhart, 1260 - 1328

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
- W. T. Purkiser, 1910 - 1992

I may not be where I want to be, But thank God I’m not where I used to be.
- Ainsley CarryQ    3`1
When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy.
- Ferdinand Hodler, 1853 - 1918

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.
- Kaethe Kollwitz, 1867 - 1945

We all live under the same sky, but we don’t have the same horizon.
- Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
- Booker Taliaferro Washington, 1856 - 1915

Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth.
- Delores Seats

Rise above principal and do what’s right.
- Joseph Heller, 1923 - 1999

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
- Nancy Kerrigan

Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
- Washington Irving, 1783 - 1859

Reality is something you rise above.
- Liza Minnelli

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung, 1875 - 1961

Breaks balance out. The sun don’t shine on the same old dog’s rear end every day.
- Darrell Royal

Life’s unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
- Hubert H. Humphrey, 1911 - 1978

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
- Kate Seredy, 1899 - 1975

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
- Peter Ustinov, 1921 - 2004

The politician is an acrobat; he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.
- Maurice Barrès, 1862 - 1923
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Whilst there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
- All from Herbert George Wells, 1866 - 1946