well, I do enjoy quotes, Grains of wisdom from others who have thru experience and time harnessed some real truths....
thinking and mulling over this, I am pasting in some more quotes...sorry,....just my insy winsy way to help me think clearer...
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http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_confusion.htmlHelen Keller:
It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.
Henry David Thoreau:
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Maurice Chevalier (attributed but unverified):
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Robert Louis Stevenson:
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
Thomas Jefferson:
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
Whitney Young:
Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.
Anaïs Nin:
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Demosthenes:
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Elias Canetti:
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Garrison Keillor:
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
James Thurber:
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Jessamyn West:
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
The Quaker Reader, 1962
Nietzsche:
'I have done that,' says my memory. 'I cannot have done that' -- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last -- memory yields.
Alan Bennett:
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
Chinese proverb:
One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Gilda Radner:
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity
Henri Nouwen:
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Jane Haddam:
People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.
Rainer Maria Rilke:
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
Letters to a Young Poet
Salvador Dali:
I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.
Thomas A. Edison:
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Tom Peters:
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
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