For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

 

[the GOAT]

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

 

[the GOAT]

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

 

[the GOAT]

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

 

[the GOAT]

You, yourself, have got to see that there is no just interpretation of life except in terms of life's best things. No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.

 

[the GOAT]

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

 

[the GOAT]

It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

 

[the GOAT]

The river is everywhere at the same time ... everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.

 

[the GOAT]

Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

 

[the GOAT]

An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.

 

[the GOAT]

Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.

 

[RCBS]

What if 'C-A-T' really spelled "dog"?

 

[the GOAT]

I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving.

 

[the GOAT]

This seems to be one of the many cases in which the admitted accuracy of mathematical processes is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

 

[the GOAT]

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

 

[the GOAT]

Taking risks means reaching out in spite of fears and anxieties. We cannot expect our anxieties to just disappear. Only after we experience reaching out are anxieties and fears apt to diminish.

 

[the GOAT]

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

 

[the GOAT]

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

 

[the GOAT]

I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.

 

[the GOAT]

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.