Favorite Quotes and Poems
Quotes
"It's not about victory or defeat. It's about the challenge to one's self." Elvis Stojko, Figure Skater
"To be an artist you have to have your own perception, and you have to draw your own picture." Elvis Stojko
"Paradise is not some place you can look for, because its not where you go; it's how you feel for a moment in your life when you're a part of something; and if you find that moment, it lasts forever." Leo Dicaprio, from the movie, The Beach.
"Go Big or Go Home." From Disny's movie, Jonny Tsunammi
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves." Karl Jung
"Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game."
From: A Cinderella Story
"You got to have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?"
Words of Wisdom from Rosemary Post, a lovely Auzzie in Steamboat Springs, Co. Think the words are actually from a song.
"That which does not destroy me makes me stronger"
Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher (1844-1900)
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and
the refreshment of the soul.
If heed is not paid to this, it is not true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging."
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Dreamers
bSoldiers are the citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
In the great hour of destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.
Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win
Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives.
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives.
I see them in foul dug-outs, gnawed by rats,
And in the ruined trenches, lashed with rain,
Dreaming of things they did with balls and bats,
And mocked by hopeless longing to regain
Bank-holidays, and picture shows, and spats,
And going to the office in the train. Sigfried Sassoon