For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the U.S. The only thing is I could be just as proud for half the money.

 

[the GOAT]

Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be.

 

[the GOAT]

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

 

[the GOAT]

Life is a horse: either you ride it or it rides you.

 

[the GOAT]

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

 

[the GOAT]

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

 

[the GOAT]

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

 

[the GOAT]

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each; I do not think they will sing to me.

 

[the GOAT]

A man who has reformed himself has contributed his full share towards the reformation of his neighbor.

 

[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]

The prime source of nourishing interaction is authentic, intimate relating. Genuine relating is responding to the other and to his needs.

 

[the GOAT]

Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit ... Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and shall never pass away.

 

[the GOAT]

A believer must not hate his wife, and if he is displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with one that is good in her.

 

[the GOAT]

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

 

[the GOAT]

A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.

 

[the GOAT]

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

 

[the GOAT]

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

 

[the GOAT]

Stretch your vision. See what can be, not just what is. Practice adding value to things, to people and to yourself.

 

[the GOAT]

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

 

[the GOAT]

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.