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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2f4f693 | no matter where you are, only you have dominion over your mind, your beliefs, and your attitudes. So if you look at your situation and let go of excuses or blame, and you choose to believe that you can alter your position on your own, you'll deprive the system, the man, or the ism controlling you. First, | Chris Gardner | ||
| 852360b | As children, very few of us have the capacity to fend off demeaning, negating comments, even the ones that are made without malice. Our work as adults is to make the choice to not pass those words on to our kids and to reject cruel or unthinking remarks about ourselves--to flick 'em off our shoulders like dandruff! | Chris Gardner | ||
| c5b81d3 | if anybody asks you who you are, tell them you are a child of God." That message translated in such a way that you would never call yourself a slave or tell anyone that you were a child of slaves or that you belonged to a slave owner. As a child of God, you were not a mistake, or a product of lust or rape, but you were meant to be here, to learn, love, and be loved." | Chris Gardner | ||
| e359d8a | Now I know a lot of us would rather skip over whatever happened back in the day, because it's painful or obsolete (as some would say), because there's nothing to do to change it, other than to let it go or get over it. But if we do that, we risk losing our knowledge of what really makes us happy: the pure essence of joy that we knew as children. And if we don't take the time to reclaim the dreams that we may have left back there in the thor.. | Chris Gardner | ||
| 7be5f73 | Don't listen to them," I said. "In fact, don't ever let anybody tell you that you can't do something. Not your parents, your teachers. Nobody." | Chris Gardner | ||
| d281344 | we all have the power of choice in determining who we ultimately become. This | Chris Gardner | ||
| 620f326 | until you are at home in yourself, familiar with the knowledge of the gold of who you are, where you come from, where you've been, and who you were meant to be, you'll be basically "homeless." In other words, until you can come to value all experience, and find some happyness in everything you've lived and will live, you will be without your ultimate riches." | Chris Gardner | ||
| ee96db4 | I wish my parents took good care of their grow-op." | Douglas Coupland | ||
| c5ce3ec | Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal. | Age | ||
| e3e3c1d | Never respect years, only deeds. | Age | ||
| 7c126d8 | Will nature make a man of me yet? | Age | ||
| d940fc4 | Old age has its pleasures, which though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. | Age | ||
| 7cbdff5 | Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. | Age | ||
| cedb92d | The real affliction of old age is remorse. | Age | ||
| 3f0d6af | The first symptom is that hair grows on your ears. It's very disconcerting. | Age | ||
| 125848d | People don't grow up -- they just begin to overestimate their own importance. | Age | ||
| 44a4792 | Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. | Age | ||
| b1a28eb | Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals. | Age | ||
| ab10b5a | Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort. | Age | ||
| 96c1a67 | Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman. | Age | ||
| 767c251 | It is always in season for old men to learn. | Age | ||
| d48d238 | Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. | Age | ||
| 469aa23 | Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime. | Age | ||
| 080bcb2 | An old man in a house is a good sign in a house. | Age | ||
| bed4d71 | Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon. | Age | ||
| 6bc1c16 | Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo,Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe! | Age | ||
| 74c667a | I think every man is a fool or a physician at thirty years of age. | Age | ||
| d6de2af | His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. | Age | ||
| 532bb2e | Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. | Age | ||
| 1fe0802 | True artists, turned critics, think also less of rules than of values. | Henry Adams | ||
| afeaff5 | No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such graceAs I have seen in one Autumnal face. | Age | ||
| 2c7da2d | His hair just grizzledAs in a green old age. | Age | ||
| 32ec10a | Religion is, or ought to be, a feeling. | Henry Adams | ||
| 05e429d | Nature abhors the old. | Age | ||
| c50062b | Pascal touched God behind the veil of scepticism. | Henry Adams | ||
| 1fa553e | We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to count. | Age | ||
| f6b24b9 | what struck boys most was their type. Senators were a species | Henry Adams | ||
| d8293ce | In a good old age. | Age | ||
| ee4f387 | Old and well stricken in age. | Age | ||
| 34a7af9 | She may very well pass for forty-three,In the dusk with a light behind her. | Age | ||
| ecb11f0 | I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. | Age | ||
| 3161582 | They say women and music should never be dated. | Age | ||
| 6b5185b | Slow-consuming age. | Age | ||
| 7c9b428 | Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage. | Henry Adams |