When you can’t have what you want, it’s time to start wanting what you have. –Kathleen A. Sutton Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. –Pythagoras
Today’s Randomness
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. –Harriet Martineau Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and…
Conformity
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. –-Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy Good book. It may be about time for a re-read.
Plans
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. –Peter Drucker I need to go help some plans degenerate now 🙂
Loving
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. —Mary S. Calderone
Anger
If you keep thinking “That man has abused me,” holding it as a much-cherished grievance, your anger will never be allayed. If you can put down that fury-inducing thought, your anger will lessen. Fury will never end fury, it will…
Proverb/Doonesbury/SlashDot Down?
Welsh Proverb: Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. Today’s doonesbury is a hoot 🙂 I can’t get to /. today. Bah.
Quote & Geekery
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. -Alexis Carrel We put the new hard drive in the server. We…
Two Quotes and a Link
Important read: The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science I’m finding myself pondering this quote: The question for the child is not “Do I want to be good?” but “Whom do I want to be like?” – Bruno Bettelheim What…
Locke Quote
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. -John Locke