Favorite quotes

catholic priests are famous for their missionary work, but i bet they squeeze in a little doggystyle here & there....
 
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." -George Washington Carver
 
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity." -Malcolm X
 
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.” - Voltaire

“The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.” - Voltaire

“I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.” - Voltaire
 
“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. - Jules Renard

“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.” - Madame de Stael

Love that quote.
 
Joseph Campbell:

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
 
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." - John F. Kennedy

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Thoreau
 
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
-Helen Keller​
 
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