My Magnificent Moments/Quotes and Proverbs 1 Flashcards
Quotes 1
“Stupidity knows no boundaries, however it does know a lot of people.”
- We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe.
- You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination. –Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 1809-94
- We live in a world of many illusions and much of human belief and behavior is ritualized nonsense. –Wes “Scoop” Nisker
- A great many people think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices. –William James 1842-1910
- The truth will set you free. But before it does, it might make you angry. –Jerry Joiner, adapted
- For Geri’s work__ If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you. Don Marquis 1878-1937
- A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. Oscar Wilde 1856-1950
- What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you. Seneca 4
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody. Herbert Swope 1882-1958
- Do what you feel in your heart to be right for you will be criticized anyway. You will be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962
- Either control your own destiny, or someone else will! John F. Welch, Jr.
- Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion. Leo Buscaglia
- Enjoy life. There are no re-runs. Shirl Lowery.
- First I was dying to finish high school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Then I was dying to marry and have children. Then I was dying for my children to grow old enough so I could return to work. Then I was dying to retire. Now I am dying and suddenly realize I forgot to live. Unknown.
- Life is not lost by dying. Life is lost minute by minute. Stephen Vincent Benet
Water too pure has no fish. Ts’ai Ken T’an - Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying. Charles F. Gellert
- Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you are going to miss in the years ahead. Unknown.
- All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath, so what does that make today worth? Og Mandino
- The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude of mind. William James. 1842-1910
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. Wm. James 1842-1910
Quotes 2
- To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. Confucius 551-479 BC
- One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the nab who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. Edward B. Butler 1612-80
- A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. Charles Schwab
- Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again. Unknown.
- It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon 1834-92
- A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be its slave. Publilius Syrus 1st century BC.
- Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge
- Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you are tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired. Robert Strauss
- This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible? Dale Carnegie
- To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving. No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting. Joseph Fort Newton 1880-1950
- There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith,1865-1946
- Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but wanting what you have. Confucius
- Few things are needed to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool. This is the reason so many of mankind are miserable. Francois La Rochefoucauld 1613-80
- I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
- Like it or not, life is lived in and through the mind. Unknown.
Quotes 3
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller
If you cannot be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape. Unknown
Take a mental walk through the cancer wards, the insane asylums, the homeless ghettoes, the children’s hospitals, and then re ask yourself what is bothering you. GWF the author of book.
How dare you waste your life in self pity. Billions of people gratefully would trade places with you! Unknown
All unhappiness is the result of excessive expectations. Buddhist saying
“A good person pays back favors. A smart person pays them forward.” __ Blue Bloods
- Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its joy. Unknown
- One hour of worry is one hour of hell. James Dodd
- The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears. A C Benson
- When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened. Churchill 1874-1965
- It is just a bad day, not a bad life. Patti Hegdal
- That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. Emily Dickinson 1830-86
- What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us. What we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal. Robert Pine
- The biggest lesson I have learned was that if you have all the food and water you need, you ought never to complain about anything. Eddie Rickenbacker after being adrift in the Pacific Ocean for 21 days.
There are problems and there are real problems. The vast majority of us don’t have real problems. Our failure to appreciate the difference constitutes a colossal distortion of thinking,
Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer much more in apprehension than in reality. Seneca 4 BC-AD 65
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. Dale Carnegie
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren
The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James 1842-1910
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. Gene Fowler
Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor’s son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor’s son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child. Lao-tzu 604-531 BC
I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Sri Sarada Devi 1836-86
Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them back; and then you destroy yourself. Nixon 1919-94
He who angers you, conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny 1886-1952
Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude. Confucius
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. Mark Twain
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke 1729-97
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. Laurence J. Peter
“You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site. “ – Frank Lloyd Wright
Praying is like being in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but you go nowhere. – Gypsie Rose Lee
“The highest result of education is tolerance.” Helen Keller
“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the unknowable.” Ambrose Bierce
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” Alexander Graham Bell
“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” Anne Frank [Killed at age 14 by the Nazis]
“Fools always rush in because they are rash.” Baltasar Gracian
“The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.” Napoleon Bonaparte
“Going to live happily ever after” is not going to happen. BN
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. “ Mark Twain
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” Moliere
“Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.” Moliere
“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously” Henry Kissinger
“We’re so busy watching out ofr what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.” Calvin & Hobbes
“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” Henry David Thoreau
“All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.” Otto von Bismarck
Quotes of Ludwig Fuerbach
“As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach
“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Lectures on the Essence of Religion
“Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Lectures on the Essence of Religion
“To theology, … only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Lectures on the Essence of Religion
“Consciousness in the strictest sense is present only in a being to whom his species, his essential nature, is an object of thought.” //“To suffer is the highest command of Christianity – the history of Christianity is the history of the passion … [T]he ancient Christians … rendered the highest honour to their God by … tears of repentance and yearning. … If God himself suffered for my sake, how can I be joyful, how can I allow myself any gladness, at least on this corrupt earth, which was the theatre of his suffering?”
The Feuerbach Principle: “To every religion the gods of other religions are only notions concerning God, but its own conception of God is to it God himself, the true God.”
“Everybody makes his own god(s).”
“[P]rayer is the … certainty that the power of the heart is greater than the power of Nature, … Prayer is the absolute relation of the human heart to itself, to its own nature; in prayer, man forgets that there exists a limit to his wishes, and is happy in this forgetfulness.” //“Religion … denies goodness as a quality of human nature; man is wicked, corrupt, incapable of good; … on the other hand, God is only good[.]”
“God is the mirror of man.”
“Wherever this idea, that the religious predicates are only anthropomorphisms, has taken possession of man, there has doubt, has unbelief, obtained mastery of faith.”
“[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]”
“The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists[.]”
“The Jewish people trusted thmself to do nothing except that what was commanded by God; they were without will even in external things; the authority of religion extended itself even to their food. The Christian religion, on the other hand, in all external things made humankind dependent on itself, i.e. placed in it what Judaism placed out of it. … Thus do things change. What yesterday was still religion is no longer such to-day; and what to-day is atheism, to-morrow will be religion.”
“[O]mnipotence is nothing else than subjectivity exempting itself from all objective conditions and limitations[.]”
“[L]et any one transport himself to the time when living, present miracles were believed in; … when they lived only in the rapturous prospect and hope of heaven … (for whatever heaven may be for them, so long as they were on earth, it existed only in the imagination); … a principle to which men joyfully sacrificed real life, the real world with all its glories; … It is no valid objection that miracles have happened, or are supposed to have happened, in the presence of whole assemblies: no man was independent, all were filled with exalted supranaturalistic ideas and feelings; all were animated by the same faith, the same hope, the same hallucinations.”
“Man … has the wish not to die. This wish is originally identical with the instinct of self-preservation. … Subsequently, … this primary negative wish becomes the positive wish for a life, and a better life, after death. … [T]his wish involves the further wish for the certainty of its fulfilment. Reason can afford no such certainty. … Such a certainty requires an immediate personal assurance, a practical demonstration. This can only be given to me by … a dead person … rising again from the grave; and he must be no indifferent person, but … representative of all others, so that his resurrection also maybe the … guarantee of theirs. The resurrection of Christ is … the satisfied desire of man for an immediate certainty of his personal existence after death[.]”
“[Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach
“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Lectures on the Essence of Religion
“The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.”
“Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate the idealism that wrenches man out of nature; I am not ashamed of my dependency on nature; I openly confess that the workings of nature affect not only my surface, my skin, my body, but also my core, my innermost being, that the air I breathe in bright weather has a salutary effect not only on my lungs but also on my mind, that the light of the sun illumines not only my eyes but also my spirit and my heart. And I do not, like a Christian, believe that such dependency is contrary to my true being or hope to be delivered from it. I know further that I am a finite moral being, that I shall one day cease to be. But I find this very natural and am therefore perfectly reconciled to the thought.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Lectures on the Essence of Religion
“God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Lectures on the Essence of Religion
“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Principles of the Philosophy of the Future
“The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“To theology, … only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Lectures on the Essence of Religion
“[Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“[T]he object of any subject is nothing else than the subject’s own nature taken objectively.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“Whatever kind of object … we are at any time conscious of, we are always at the same time conscious of our own nature[.]”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
“The consciousness of the infinite is nothing else than the consciousness of the infinity of the consciousness; … in the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.”
My Magnificent Moments
- In Italy, watching a glass blower turn a glob of molten glass into a red Stallion right before my eyes! MAGIC.
- Germany. Sailing with Geri on our river cruise, the Rhine river, watching the sunset at 10:00 at night. Glass of wine in hand sitting on the open air top deck of the riverboat. Having a cell phone conversation with my daughter, Amanda, back home in Texas. Telling her about all the castles we saw on the river and about how our bike riding along the river reminded me so much of the Sound of Music bike ride that I was singing the song as we rode!
- The Top of Europe, the Swiss Alps. Walking on the top of the Alps [bitter cold and snowing in July] then going down to the bottom of a 900 meter [think almost three Empire State buildings] glacier that was carved out circa 1890. Inside the glacier the temperature was zero and we walked through the ice tunnel looking at all the magnificent ice carvings these Italian wood carvers made 127 years ago. And they are still there, frozen in time for the people in the 21st century to look at and marvel.
- In my youth, watching both my children being born!
- Hawaii. Climbing up Diamond Head Volcano with Geri on our honeymoon. We get to the top and marvel at the ocean and beauty all around. Then it hits me. Where is the volcano we just climbed? All i see is a long circle of mountains on the horizon. Then I get it. We are inside the volcano! We parked the car inside the volcano then climbed endless stairways to the top. The circle of mountains on the horizon IS THE VOLCANO. Yes, it’s that big!
- Texas. Playing with my granddaughters when they were toddlers.
- Colorado. Eight ski trips. Skiing China Bowl in a blizzard. Getting stuck on the mountain in a white out. Visibility near zero. We didn’t even know which way was down. Worked our way trying to listen for people when we suddenly heard them overhead talking. We knew there was a ski lift above us. So we skied slowly down the mountain using the voices above for our bearing until we finally cleared the white out at the base of the mountain.
- Touring the United States by motorcycle. Toured every state except North Dakota in the contiguous United States. Exhilarating, exciting, nothing like it. Hundreds of memories. Rode motorcycles for 40 years off and on. Always felt like I was a cowboy touring out West.
- First hand witnessed the “Bubble Net” feeding of Humpback whales on an Alaskan whale watching tour.
“Fooling you is what your brain does for a living.”
“If the evidence supports a view, then I will accept that view in proportion to the evidence.” – Skeptic’s guide to the universe
“I not ony use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.” —Woodrow Wilson.
“Hijacking your brain.” Buzzword for Theology
“You live in a theology bubble.” Buzzword for Theology.
“I question it’s relation to reality.”
“What you dont know is more important than what you do know.” – Peterson
“You don’t want to defeat your wife in an argument. You have to live with that bitterness the rest of your life. What you want to do is fix the problem.” – Jordan Peterson
“A lie circles the Earth before the truth can get it’s boots on.” – James Watt
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” Adam Smith
“The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“One is very crazy when in love.: – Sigmund Freud
“The oldest, shortest words - “Yes” and “No” are those which require the most thought.” – Pythagoras
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you are alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.” – Unknown
“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. – Benjamin Disraeli
“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. – Honore de Balzac
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. – Mark Twain
“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.” – Oscar Wilde
“An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. – Thomas Jefferson
“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. –Henry Ward Beecher
‘Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.” – Hippocrates
“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.” – Sigmund Freud
“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.” – arthur Schopenhauer
“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.” – Robert E. Lee
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“A picture is a poem without words.” –Horace
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” – Maximilien Robespierre
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” – Plato
“He was a wise man who invented beer.” – Plato
“Just remember, once you are over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” –Arthur Schopenhauer
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
“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
“It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.” – Honore de Balzac
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“A home without books is a body without soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” – Mark Twain
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.” – Thomas Fuller
“There is no education like adversity.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
A well-spent day brings happy sleep. –Leonardo da Vinci
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. –Nelson Mandela
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written, and guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. – Henri Frederic Amiel
Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else’s projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle.–Jack Canfield
“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” – William Tecumseh Sherman
“In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.” – Galileo
“Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you wil be surprised what a happy life you will lead.” – Charles M. Schwab
“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.” – Linus Pauling
“A mind that is Stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein
“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn’t stop until you get to the office.” – Robert Frost
