icarter’s Submitted Quotes

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not
expect to sit.

Don’t go with the flow. Don’t do what you’re expected to do. Say what you really want to say, and do what you really want to do. Embrace your black sheep-ness.

It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

“Excellence can be obtained if you care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is safe, dream more than others think is practical, expect more than others think is possible.

Passion and enthusiasm make things possible, not easy

We are each on our own journey. Each of us is on our very own adventure; encountering all kinds of challenges, and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go; these choices will stretch us, test us and push us to our limit; and our adventure will make us stronger then we ever know we could be.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we truly are.

For the man sound in body and serene in mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every day has its beauty and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously

If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.

Thanks to those who challenge us for they remind us of doors we have closed and doors we have yet to open

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

“I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”

“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

You have a choice.. are you going to focus on maintaining the past, or developing for the future? Reacting to the problems of today, or mitigating the problems of tomorrow? Positioning yourself to act on upcoming opportunities, or chasing those that have passed?