Live Life – Your Way!
When you live life on your own terms and without conditions, life likes it.
Thanks to Murtaza Rashid for this Guest Post!
Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
In general, every country has the language it deserves. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Life and death have been lacking in my life. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Life itself is a quotation. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Reality is not always probable, or likely. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
The central problem of novel-writing is causality. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Politics and Leadership Quotes
A leader is a dealer in hope. – Napoleon
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. – John F. Kennedy
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke
The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, “What a dust do I raise!” – Aesop
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. – Aesop
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. – Great Law of the Iroquois
There is a tide in the affairs of men. – Julius Caesar
The truth is treason in the Empire of Lies. – Ron Paul
One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity. – Theodore Levitt
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. – Ronald Reagan
Superficial goals lead to superficial results. – Attila the Hun
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. – Winston Churchill
Honor is doing the right thing, even when nobody is looking. – Unknown
If a man is to shed the light of the Sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. – Romain Rolland
Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem. – Howard Zinn
Man is free at the instant he wants to be. – Voltaire
Great ideas alter the power balance in relationships. That’s why great ideas are initially resisted. – Hugh MacLeod
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. – Theodore Roosevelt
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. – Laozi
If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me! – Francois De La Rochefoucauld
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. – Andrew Carnegie
A group becomes a team when all members are sure enough of themselves and their contributions to praise the skill of others. – Norman Shidle
Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. – Vince Lombardi
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. – Aristoteles
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. – Jim Rohn
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. – Plato
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. – Isaac Asimov
Kick in the Teeth
“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” – Walt Disney
Inspirational Images Quotes
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us” – Joseph Campbell
“Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but doesn’t get you anywhere” – Anonymous
“The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Pablo Picasso on Inspiration
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. – Pablo Picasso
August Love Quotes
“Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.” ~ Unknown
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” ~Thomas Fuller
“Love is blind but after experiencing it for a long time you should become familiar with some particular spots.” ~Unknown
“Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.” ~Rusty Silvey
“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” ~John Keats
“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.” ~Victor Hugo
“Love – a bare whisper that makes your body ignite with such uncontrollable curiosity.” ~Unknown
“Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.” ~ Stacie Cunningham
“I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” ~ Roy Croft
“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.” ~ Robert Browning
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…” ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The closer I’m bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.” ~Robert G. Ingersoll
“Those who love deeply never grow old.” ~Anonymous
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” ~Janos Arnay
Someone sent me this, “He is the only reason I get up in the mornings” ~Unknown
“There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.”~Victor Robinson
“The only true gift is a portion of yourself.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love is just a word until it is proven to you.” ~Unknown
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” ~Mignon McLaughlin
“Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can’t have one without the other.” ~Sammy Cahn
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” ~Plato
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” ~Barbara De Angelis
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” ~Jane Austen
“You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.” ~Melanie Clark
“She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes…” ~ Lord Byron
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” ~H. L. Mencken
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” ~Erich Segal
“We can only learn to love by loving.” ~Iris Murdoch
“It is impossible to love and be wise.” ~ Francis Bacon
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” ~Ingrid Bergman
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” ~Albert Einstein
“Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.” ~Ambrose Bierce
“Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.” ~Erich Fromm
“That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.” ~Emily Dickinson
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.” ~Amelia Burr
“When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.” ~Euripides
Short Heartbreak Quotes
“The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness.” – Uniek Swain
“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.” – Cicero
“They say that time heals all wounds but all it’s done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you.” – Ezbeth Wilder
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Violeta Parra
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
“Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.” – Rosa Parks
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.” – Unknown
“Heart is the only broken instrument that works.” – T.E. Kalem
“As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you.” – Toto
“Love is like a puzzle. When you’re in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.” – Unknown
“Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.” – The Wonder Years
“You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless” – Stelle Atwater
“The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.” – Gwyneth Paltrow
“God is closest to those with broken hearts.” – Jewish saying
Life is a Roller Coaster
“Life is a Roller Coaster. You can either scream every time you hit a bump or you can throw your hands up in the air and enjoy it.”
Top 20 Dwight Schrute Quotes
When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had adsorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No, I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.
I am faster than 80% of all snakes.
I don’t care what Jim says, that is not Benjamin Franklin. I am 99% sure.
I don’t believe you, continue.
Reject a woman, and she will never let it go. One of the many defects of their kind. Also, weak arms.
When I die. I want to be frozen. And if they have to freeze me in pieces, so be it. I will wake up stronger than ever, because I will have used that time, to figure out exactly why I died. And what moves I could have used to defend myself better now that I know what hold he had me in.
The eyes are the groin of the head.
My feelings regenerate at twice the speed of a normal man
Before I do anything I ask myself “Would an idiot do that?” And if the answer is yes, I do not do that thing.
You know whats better than a triceratops. Only every other dinosaur that has ever existed.
Dolphins get a lot of good publicity for the drowning swimmers they push back to shore, but what you don’t hear about is the many people they push farther out to sea! Dolphins aren’t smart. They just like pushing things.
There are 40 rules all Schrute boys must learn by age 5. Rule #17- There are 3 things you never turn your back on- bears, men you have wronged, and a dominant male turkey during mating season.
I train my major blood vessels to retract into my body on command. Also, I can retract my penis up into itself.
Question…
Would I ever leave this company? Look, I’m all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I’m being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I’m going wherever they value loyalty the most.
How would I describe myself? Three words: hard working, alpha male, jackhammer…merciless…insatiable…
I am fast. To give you a reference point I am somewhere between a snake and a mongoose…and a panther.
The problem, Jim, is that people who are really suffering from a medical condition won’t receive the care they need because someone in this office is coming up with ridiculous stuff. Count Choculitis….Why did you write that down, Jim? Is it because you know I love Count Chocula?
I grew up on a farm. I have seen animals having sex in every position imaginable. Goat on chicken. Chicken on goat. Couple of chickens doing a goat, couple of pigs watching.
Security in this office park is a joke. Last year I came to work with my spud-gun in a duffel bag. I sat at my desk all day with a rifle that shoots potatoes at 60 pounds per square inch. Can you imagine if I was deranged?