We are not a nation that says, “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” We are a nation that says, “Out of many, we are one.” We are a nation that welcomes the service of every patriot. We are a nation that believes that all men and women are created equal. Those are the ideals that generations have fought for. Those are the ideals that we upheld today.

–Barack Obama

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it, and appropriately act on it.
—Stephen R. Covey First Things First

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
—Helen Nielsen

The inexhaustible resource of spirit is equal to every demand. There is no reality in lack. Abundance is here and now manifest.

Charles Fillmore

"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll all go out and spend more, and then it will trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on." —Warren Buffett

"Through the rise of proprietary trading at our nation's banks and the largest non-bank financial firms, firms doubled down on the accumulation of risk, much of it with little benefit to the real economy."  —Joseph Stiglitz

It seems to me that everything I am going to paint I have already painted. Something will "click" and an entire image will flash in my head. I then just have to remember what all the specific details of the image are supposed to be. I will often get stuck on a minor detail like the pattern on a curtain or the species of a background animal. It is very clear when I have the correct answer and resolve all the pieces of a work successfully. I just come as close as possible to what is supposed to be there.  — Mark Ryden

 

 Exit2Eden wrote: 
Profound.

 Exit2Eden wrote: 
Fundamental...and quite applicable to me, currently...

 beamends wrote: 

The author of that bit of insight is quite a famous German poet. That probably isn't enough to change your opinion,
 but a little research on the man might give him relevance in your opinion. Either way, don't strangle.

 Exit2Eden wrote: 
I don't know if I'm alone in this (very likely!) - but that's just a load of pseudo intellectual psychobabble to me. It might motivate me to strangle the speaker, but if an employer had caused me to listen to it, I'd be looking for another job!

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions” (Rainer Maria Rilke)

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. 
Nelson Mandela 

"If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn't that the point of free will? You get to choose."
—- Abraham

"Love many, trust few, but learn, learn to paddle your own canoe." — Ross Clay

“Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision?”

MARILYN MONROE

 Zep wrote: 

Dang It!

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 

 Manbird wrote: 
Wait - watch big sponge

 cookinlover wrote: 
I bet you say that to all the crabby, nasty bitches, don't you, sailor?

 cookinlover wrote: 

nicest, babiest bra stitch.