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- Alfred Armand Montapert: “The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.”
- “The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.”
- Alfred Armand Montapert: “A FRIEND IS A PERSON ... With whom you can be sincere... To whom you never need to defend yourself... On whom you can depend whether present or absent... With whom you never need pretend... To whom you can reveal yourself without fear of betrayal... Who does not feel she owns you because you are her friend... Who will not selfishly use you because she has your confidence. I WOULD HAVE SUCH A FRIEND... AND I WOULD BE SUCH A FRIEND. I DO HAVE SUCH A FRIEND! ~ Y-O-U ~”
- “If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.” - Alfred Armand Montapert
- “To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan ... believe ... act!” - Alfred Armand Montapert
- People are like tea bags, you only know their strength when they are put in hot water
- "Your life is defined by its opportunities.. even the ones you miss" - Benjamin Button
- Sometimes your life can crumble, sometimes your soul might make a stumble, but you can't drown in your sorrow cause you might be found, you might be found tomorrow
- "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
- "Make things as simple as possible but no simpler.- Albert Einstein
- "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
- "I can resist everything except temptation" - Oscar Wilde
- "The greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fall" - Confucius
- "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog" - Dwight D. Eisenhower
- "Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body" - Elizabeth Stone
- "The harder you work, the luckier you get"
- R: Looks like I'm getting dumber, T: No, you're not. You're more courageous. - HIMYM Ep Dopplegangers
- Diligence, Surveillence - Why aren't you taking your CF medication? - Day-to-day creativity/Bedside knowledge
- We have a bell curve in medicine.. there is a wide gap between those who are great at what they do, those who are merely mediocre at what they do, and those that are at the bottom. Not only is there a wide gap, most of us are around the mediocre range with only a few at the top... The Shark's tail... we would cut off the bad apples at the knees.
- One day you'll ask me, what's more important to me, you or my life, and you will walk away not even knowing that you are my life.
- Too much time spent searching for happiness leaves to little time to recognise it.
- "People may not remember what you say to them, And people may not remember what you do for them, But people will always remember how you make them feel."
- "Put a price on yourself and don't let anyone bring it down."
- "You know you are in love when you see the world in his eyes, and his eyes everywhere in the world"
- It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant
- To reach our dreams we must at times run with the wind, at times against it, but certainly we must never stand still.
- "Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get."
- Life wasn’t meant to be touched. It was created to be felt.Search for the colours, the beauty, the love. Only the people that soar you above
- Sometimes, our best decisions are the ones that don't make any sense at all...I didn't give up on my dream house, because that's the thing about stupid decisions: we all make them, but time is funny -- and sometimes a little magical. It can take a stupid decision, and turn it into something else entirely. Because kids, as you know, that house... is this house. - How I Met You Mother, Wreckers
- I started because my mother taught me a long time ago that even when you have nothing, there's ways to give back. And what you get in return for that is tenfold. - Sarah Michelle Gellar
- When I look at you, I see a teacher. But when you look at me, you see a student. Because you like to run away. It's part of who you are. Because, in the end, a girl can't grow up until she looses a father and leaves an Archie. - Suburban Girl
- I came to tell you that I know what it feels like to be afraid to show who you are. I was, but I'm not anymore. And the thing is, I really don't care what people think about me... because I believe in myself. And I know that things are gonna be okay. - A Cinderella Story
- Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game - A Cinderella Story
- “Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” - Henri-Frederic Amiel
- the possibility of an alternate love story - alain de botton
- "Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required; and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more" (Luke 12:48)
- True leadership means being able to think for yourself and act on your convictions... Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself. You simply cannot do that in bursts of 20 seconds at a time, constantly interrupted by Facebook messages or Twitter tweets, or fiddling with your iPod, or watching something on YouTube...You do your best thinking by slowing down and concentrating...They can only be found within—without distractions, without peer pressure, in solitude... “Your own reality—for yourself, not for others.” Thinking for yourself means finding yourself, finding your own reality. Here’s the other problem with Facebook and Twitter and even The New York Times. When you expose yourself to those things, especially in the constant way that people do now—older people as well as younger people—you are continuously bombarding yourself with a stream of other people’s thoughts. You are marinating yourself in the conventional wisdom. In other people’s reality: for others, not for yourself. You are creating a cacophony in which it is impossible to hear your own voice, whether it’s yourself you’re thinking about or anything else. That’s what Emerson meant when he said that “he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.” Notice that he uses the word lead. Leadership means finding a new direction, not simply putting yourself at the front of the herd that’s heading toward the cliff...Second, most books are old. This is not a disadvantage: this is precisely what makes them valuable. They stand against the conventional wisdom of today simply because they’re not from today...But I’m talking about one kind of friendship in particular, the deep friendship of intimate conversation. Long, uninterrupted talk with one other person. Not Skyping with three people and texting with two others at the same time while you hang out in a friend’s room listening to music and studying. That’s what Emerson meant when he said that “the soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude.” Introspection means talking to yourself, and one of the best ways of talking to yourself is by talking to another person. One other person you can trust, one other person to whom you can unfold your soul. One other person you feel safe enough with to allow you to acknowledge things—to acknowledge things to yourself—that you otherwise can’t. Doubts you aren’t supposed to have, questions you aren’t supposed to ask. Feelings or opinions that would get you laughed at by the group or reprimanded by the authorities. This is what we call thinking out loud, discovering what you believe in the course of articulating it. But it takes just as much time and just as much patience as solitude in the strict sense. And our new electronic world has disrupted it just as violently. Instead of having one or two true friends that we can sit and talk to for three hours at a time, we have 968 “friends” that we never actually talk to; instead we just bounce one-line messages off them a hundred times a day. This is not friendship, this is distraction...How will you find the strength and wisdom to challenge an unwise order or question a wrongheaded policy? What will you do the first time you have to write a letter to the mother of a slain soldier? How will you find words of comfort that are more than just empty formulas? These are truly formidable dilemmas, more so than most other people will ever have to face in their lives, let alone when they’re 23. The time to start preparing yourself for them is now. And the way to do it is by thinking through these issues for yourself—morality, mortality, honor—so you will have the strength to deal with them when they arise. Waiting until you have to confront them in practice would be like waiting for your first firefight to learn how to shoot your weapon. Once the situation is upon you, it’s too late. You have to be prepared in advance. You need to know, already, who you are and what you believe: not what the Army believes, not what your peers believe (that may be exactly the problem), but what you believe. How can you know that unless you’ve taken counsel with yourself in solitude? I started by noting that solitude and leadership would seem to be contradictory things. But it seems to me that solitude is the very essence of leadership. The position of the leader is ultimately an intensely solitary, even intensely lonely one. However many people you may consult, you are the one who has to make the hard decisions. And at such moments, all you really have is yourself. - William Deresiewicz
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