ecfcno1’s most recent Quotables

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

People should get out of their comfort zones on a daily basis. Take up knitting and boxing. It will make you so much more interesting.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

Well done is better than well said.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

When in doubt, do it.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

Cowardice asks the question- Is it safe?
Expediency asks the question- Is it politic?
Vanity asks the question- Is it popular?
But conscience asks the question- Is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
That is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
But one must take it because it is right.

I think the problem with reasonable and societally-accepted behavior is that we train ourselves to pursue planned paths and stable foundations. As a result, we never have the opportunity to discover and chase what makes us truly feel alive. Solution: Be unreasonable in the pursuit of your dreams.

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you.