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Quotes
"I do not need to understand the rules of life. I do need to know what they are and how they affect me. They do not necessarily have to make sense."
Karl Kolmetz - Chemical Engineer, Author and Educator (1955 to Present)
"The final result of answering evil with evil, is most often your personal unhappiness."
Karl Kolmetz (1955 to Present)
"Education, which is the pursuit of knowledge, it is the only way I know for a person, a country or a people to obtain better opportunities."
Karl Kolmetz (1955 to Present)
"To be able to enjoy the privileges of freedom, one must tolerate some abuse of the privilege. A small amount of immature people will abuse whatever privilege they acquire. Therefore, we have two choices, tolerate the abuses or limit the freedoms."
Karl Kolmetz (1955 to Present)
"Some of my instructors have taught me what to do and some what not to do. Each lesson is very important. You need to learn some of both and the difference."
Karl Kolmetz (1955 to Present)
"For democracy to be successful the majority of the voters need adequate education to assess issues that are good for the community as a whole, and the wisdom to vote for the greater good, even when the issue is possibly not in their own best interest."
Karl Kolmetz (1955 to Present)
"From the small amount of living that I have done, it seems the good things in life have moved towards me very slowly and have sometimes been difficult to obtain. The bad things that have hurt emotionally and financially seems to come very easily. If it is too good to be true, it probably is false."
"There are good people in the world, not very many, but they are there. Go find them and make them your friend - by you also being a good person."
Karl Kolmetz (1955 to Present)
"There are many kinds of friends. True friends are happy when you are doing good, and will try to help you succeed. You will only find a few of these true friends in your whole life."
Karl Kolmetz (1955 to Present)
"Everything thing of value that you wish to keep, that you do have have a strategy to keep secure, you are planning to loose."
Karl Kolmetz (1955 to Present)
Everyone will have bad experiences. Sometimes they are forced on us, sometimes they are a result of the decisions we make. How good our life will be is based on recovering from the bad experiences - they are coming - expect them. Some people never recover, but most people recover within two years, and many times their bad experience is far worse than yours.
Karl Kolmetz (1955 to Present)
Truth can be denied, but it cannot be avoided. Truth is the mapping of reality that corresponds to the way things actually are.
No one can navigate well through life without an accurate map by which to steer. Knowledge is the possession of such a map.
Most people value truth and knowledge as priceless, as they use it so sparingly.
Anonymous
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
Mark Twain
Life or marriage is not a fairytale. A fairytale is a kind of a story that starts with once upon a time and may involve a girl and a frog. They include myths, legends and fables. They feature fairies, princesses, goblins, elves, and even more. Some fairy tales are about witches, magic, and wizards. In this case the Good Witches and Bad/Evil Witches usually are fighting for more power and / or to defeat and destroy one another. Usually the Good Witch wins and The Evil witch looses, which seems not always to be the case in real life.
Real life is an obligation, a responsibility where we face many obstacles. Everyday it seems when one problem is solved, another one comes along to take its place. In real life it is up to us to handle challenges calmly, strongly, in a matured fashion with the ability to develop a solution to overcome the latest problem. Most of all, we must believe in ourselves and trust in God.
Lyn Escobar
Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Tecumseh
"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces."
Og Mandino
"Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instrument for bringing the many under the domination of the few."
James Madison
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
Muhammad Ali
" I don't know why he doesn't like me, I have never tried to help him"
Abraham Lincoln
"To succeed in life you need two things; ignorance and confidence"
Mark Twain
"Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please. They do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given, and transmitted from the past."
Karl Marx
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. "
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. "
George Burns
"Life's tough ....... it's even tougher if you're stupid"
John Wayne
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
"It may sound simple, but getting any organization or group of people to see the world the way it is, and not the way they wish it were, or hoped it will be, is not as easy as it sounds."
Jack Welch
"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest."
J D Holland
"Do not confuse success and fame. Madonna has one, Mother Teresa the other."
Erma Bombeck
"No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him."
Napoleon Hill
"I think it would be a good idea."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
"You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
Walt Disney
I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest asset or heaviest burden.
I will push you up to success or down to disappointment.
I am at your command.
Half the things you do might just as well be turned over to me,
For I can do them quickly, correctly, and profitably.
I am easily managed, just be firm with me.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with the precision of a
machine and the intelligence of a person.
You can run me for profit, or you can run me for ruin.
Show me how you want it done. Educate me. Train me.
Lead me. Reward me.
And I will then...do it automatically.
I am your servant.
Who am I?
I am a habit.
"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."
Mark Twain
"If you do not reach down and help pick up the less fortunate, the day will come when due to sheer weight of numbers, those less fortunate will reach up and pull you down."
Zig Ziglar
"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Be tender with the young,
Patient with the sick,
Respectful of the elderly,
Tolerant of those in error,
At some point in your life,
you will have been each of these.
Charles Schultz Philosophy
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