Nature does nothing in vain

-Aristotle

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

- Billy Joel

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

--Seneca

Quote:And if you're going to point to other stuff and say "but you didn't nerf this thing or that thing" I would invite you to consider that I also did not nerf your face.

-- Jick

Quote: We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.

Dwight L. Moody

Which reminds me of

Quote:
And the wind whips away at my walls night and day,
I’m near constantly frozen and drenched in salt spray.
I’ve been battered and beaten and near washed away,
Here I am, I’m your man, I’m your lighthouse.

-- Traditional Yorkshire ballad (*)



(*) Citation needed. Nobody seems to know where it sprung up from in reality.

Nice one AM & BR. Both quotes are very apt.

"No matter how sharp your teeth are, you can never bite water."

African Proverb

Quote:Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quote:On GM crops: I think we've missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of velcro, to catch whatever it is that's forming those crop circles. But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding velcro so it's a bit of a long shot.

-- Bill Bailey

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

- Seneca the Elder

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove that the hunger for bread.

- Mother Teresa

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

- Elias Canetti

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

--Hugh Downs

Quote:Show kindness to parents, and to kindred, and orphans, and the needy, and to the neighbor that is a kinsman and the neighbor that is a stranger, and the companion by your side, and the wayfarer, and those whom your right hands possess.

-- The Koran

hi guys
"a wonderful woman nobly planned to warn to command and comfort
wordsworth

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

- Voltaire

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

- Herbert Kaufman

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Fellow wrote:

“Your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.”

— Barbara Corcoran

The first person who came to mind after reading this quote is Novak Djokovic. Considered mentally fragile at the start of his career, he's now perhaps mentally the strongest player in men's tennis.