Category Archives: Quote

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —  Mark Twain

“A vision is a beacon, clear once you see it. A goal is what you set when you can’t see the vision.” Thomas Leonard

The Years Thunder By….. To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea… cruising, it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers ofContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #79”

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” & If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little. Edmund Burke (who’s mother, like mine, came from an impoverished but genteel Cork family….so mine told me)

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a  poet must write if he is ultimately to be at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.” Abraham Maslow

I am grateful to my friend Kathryn Thomas for sending me this week’s quote. “Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” —Unknown

“If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us” ~ Anon

“This is the true joy in life: the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world willContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #72”