Catalog yummy quotes

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

“We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty,
some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all
have learned to live together in the same box.”

Robert Fulghum (b. 1937)
author, pastor

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

As a not-very-biblical girl, I find it interesting when certain texts resonate with me as deeply as they do, sometimes…

“Thou shall not stand idly by the shedding of the blood of thy fellow man.”—Leviticus 19:16

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Thees-a Won, Gump?

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently—they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.”

“Do good, and disappear.”

“There is no duty we underrate so much as the duty of being happy.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson

“Every moment of every day, powerful changes take place. This is one of those moments”

Don’t know where this came from. Just a random thought, I guess.

I’m making a clock, thinking of putting this on it somewhere. Nice little reminder, me thinks.