Words of Wisdom

[Annarchy]

...because I am cleaning clutter, (went through boxes of paperwork today, from 1980-2004 before it goes to the shredding company). I came across a plethora of stuff I 'horded' over the years, thinking "someday, I will use this stuff". Well, it is time to throw it away! But, I want to still use it.... Soooooooo.... here is the first piece... and it will hit the garbage after it is posted.

 

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent. - Abraham Lincoln

[Cat]

Don't we all have gems like this that we like? I'm going to move this post to "Where the Heart Is" and all of us can add to it. That way it's less likely to get buried... maybe?

 

Who knows how we can help each other by encouragement and wisdom from those who came before us...?

[The WE2's]

Reminds me of one of my own favorites, when someone finds out where my goat is tied! ..."you don't pay me enough to occupy my mind all the time".

[Annarchy]

There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. - John Stuart Mill

[Dee]

I was always mad at DH because after he retired I wanted to travel....he didn't. I finally read a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt that made me grow up and accept that he isn't going to travel and I was on my own. Which I do now w/o him like DD and I taking a cruise to Alaska last spring AND having a great time.

 

"Misery is a choice" I was choosing to be miserable and now I'm not

I also heard an ex-super model on Oprah one day saying she will NOT have plastic surgery because she was taught by her mother that she has earned every line, winkle and grey hair she has and that "old age is a privledge, not a right". She was just so cool!

[Jeepers]

You teach people how to treat you. Dr. Phil

How's that working for you! Dr. Phil

 

 

I don't follow him and I'm not sure when or how I heard those things.

Maybe I should have paid more attention to him.

[Annarchy]

I like those, I know a few people who need to hear "Misery is a choice"

 

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

....and another piece of paper hits the trash....

[out_of_the_ordinary]

I don't remember who said it. I don't remember if I'm quoting it exactly, but...

 

"Every time an old man dies, we lose a library of information."

 

 

I grew up close to my grandparents and close to my great-grandparents' generation (brothers and sisters of my great-grandparents) . They've all passed now, so when I first heard that quote, it really hit home!

[Annarchy]

It gives me a deep, comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal." - Helen Keller

[Cat]

out_of_the_ordinary, apparently that is an African Proverb. I found it here

 

http://timelines.ws/subjects/PROVERBS.HTML

 

Here it is, with a couple more...

 

African proverb: "When an old man dies, a library burns down."

 

African saying: "Somewhere the Sky touches the Earth, and the name of that place is the End."

 

African saying: "When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled. Don't be the grass."

 

[out_of_the_ordinary]

out_of_the_ordinary, apparently that is an African Proverb. I found it here

 

http://timelines.ws/...s/PROVERBS.HTML

 

 

 

Thanks, Cat!

[Annarchy]

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles

[Annarchy]

The universe is change; life is what thinking makes of it. - Marcus Aurelius