What are your favorite quotes?

[Rindee]

"Scared money never wins." Jimmy 'The Greek" Snyder
"Scared money never loses either." Rindee Velez

 

[ohioboy]

Commenting on a suggestion that she delay publication of her poems by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

"If fame belonged to me I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase".

Emily Dickinson.

 

[BlueDragonfly]

"You don't have to attend every argument that you're invited to...."

 

[Rindee]

" Success doesn't change you, fame does." Whitney Houston

 

[Rindee]

"I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened." Will Rogers

 

[Rindee]

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." Helen Keller

 

[Rindee]

"We drive on parkways, and park on driveways." Steven Wright

 

[smiley]

beam me up scottie!!

 

[PurplePower]

It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.

 

[spectratg]

NewsNation's Robert Sherman was one of many reporters voicing questions for the new pope, and in a now-viral exchange, asked if Leo had “any message for the United States?” “Many,” the pope replied, before simply adding, "God Bless you all."

 

[Feelslikefar]

If you submit to the ocean, you drown.
If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded.
You learn how to live with the ocean.
You learn how to float, to swim, to be a part of it, to be with it.
That is the nature of the Pagan's relationship with nature. - Emma Restall Orr

 

[MACKTEXAS]

 

[DebraMae]

"But I'd rather be sorry for something I've done
Than for something that I didn't do" - Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge

 

[oslooskar]

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

 

[Rindee]

NewsNation's Robert Sherman was one of many reporters voicing questions for the new pope, and in a now-viral exchange, asked if Leo had “any message for the United States?” “Many,” the pope replied, before simply adding, "God Bless you all."

He had a golden opportunity to say to our politicians, "Stop starting and funding wars!", but he didn't.

 

[Rindee]

"Sometimes you have to lose yourself, before you can find anything." Burt Reynolds

 

[spectratg]

He had a golden opportunity to say to our politicians, "Stop starting and funding wars!", but he didn't.

But he did say, "Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others."

 

[Rindee]

But he did say, "Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others."

I think a statement concerning the never ending wars, would have been more important.

 

[spectratg]

I think a statement concerning the never ending wars, would have been more important.

On the contrary, he did. Pope Leo XIV, the first American to head the global Catholic Church, pledged on Wednesday to make "every effort" for peace and offered the Vatican as a mediator in global conflicts, saying war was "never inevitable". "The Holy See is always ready to help bring enemies together, face-to-face, to talk to one another, so that peoples everywhere may once more find hope and recover the dignity they deserve, the dignity of peace,"

 

[Rindee]

On the contrary, he did. Pope Leo XIV, the first American to head the global Catholic Church, pledged on Wednesday to make "every effort" for peace and offered the Vatican as a mediator in global conflicts, saying war was "never inevitable". "The Holy See is always ready to help bring enemies together, face-to-face, to talk to one another, so that peoples everywhere may once more find hope and recover the dignity they deserve, the dignity of peace,"

Thank you that's great to know he did, there is hope after all!

 

[Rindee]

"I do not live my life as an audition for the afterlife! I am not concerned about life after death; I am living the most out of life before death!" Rindee

 

[MACKTEXAS]

"Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out."
Zig Ziglar

 

[MACKTEXAS]

"If people are trying to pull you down, it is proof that you are above them." - Matshona Dhliwayo

 

[Victor]

Freedom is not doing what you want to do,
but in wanting what you can do.

paraphrased from original in French

 

[MoBeans]

The best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago
The second best time is today