Quote Of The Day

[Friday]

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

schopenhauer

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

Her words have had a profound effect on me, @Teasel . I got a copy of her book, Belonging, and couldn't put it down. Glad you enjoy her, too.
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"If you can do bad good, you can do good better." ~Luis Rivera

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

“One farmer says to me, ‘You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;’ and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking, all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.” ~Henry David Thoreau

 

[Let It Be]

"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher" - William Wordsworth

(Taken from my calendar for the month of July)

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"You can't punish yourself into change. You can't whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well-being." ~Susan Skye

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"We do not describe the world we see. We see the world we can describe." ~Rene' Descartes

"Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container." ~Wallace Stevens

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research." ~Steven Wright

 

[Freddyt]

I believe if life gives you lemons make lemonade, then go looking for somebody whose life gave them vodka and have a party. Ron White

 

[FauxLiz]

I found this on LinkedIn today and thought it was relevant for all of us: Behind every STRONG person is a story that gave them no choice. It wasn't attributed to anyone but I thought it resonated.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"You were never hard to love. You were just getting harder to manipulate." ~Megan Dorty

 

[Teasel]

And I am out with lanterns looking for myself
Emily Dickinson

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean." ~Laurence J. Peter