http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll salvete • 欢 迎 • bienvenue • willkommen • bienvenido Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:07:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.—Eric Hoffer http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/06/01/quote-of-the-week-77/ Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave.—Muhammad http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/05/25/quote-of-the-week-76/ Who are you upsetting? Who are you connecting? Who are you leading?—Seth Godin (in recent TED talk) http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/05/18/quote-of-the-week-75/ Shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.—Swedish proverb http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/05/11/quote-of-the-week-74/ I pretend ivry man is honest, and I believe non iv them ar-re. In that way I keep me friends an' save me money.—Finley Peter Dunne http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/05/04/quote-of-the-week-73/ Don't be too worthwhile. Always keep a few character defects handy. People love to talk about your frailties. If you must be noble, keep it to yourself.—Edward D. Stone http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/04/27/quote-of-the-week-72/ Friendship is a plant we must often water.—German proverb http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/04/20/quote-of-the-week-71/ There's an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.—Irving Berlin http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/04/13/quote-of-the-week-70/ Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. —Thomas Alva Edison http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/04/06/quote-of-the-week-69/ There is no escape—man drags man down, or man lifts man up.—Booker T. Washington http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/03/30/quote-of-the-week-67/ Strength, joy, wisdom are only available to those who produce their own lives; never to those who merely consume the production of others.—John Taylor Gatto http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/03/09/quote-of-the-week-68/ I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.—Leonardo da Vinci http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/03/02/quote-of-the-week-66/ Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.—Ralph Waldo Emerson http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/02/23/quote-of-the-week-65/ I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.—Anatole France http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/02/16/quote-of-the-week-64/ The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.—William Blake http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/02/09/quote-of-the-week-63/ The outstanding characteristic of America is the refusal of Americans to accept defects in their society as irremediable.—Lewis Galantiere http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/02/02/quote-of-the-week-62/ Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.—Dr. Howard Thurman http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/01/26/quote-of-the-week-61/ What a person builds is more important than what a person knows. If our time is spent merely knowing things, we squander our gifts. Commit to building something new every day, even if it's small. Write something, improve something, invent something. Live. http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/01/19/quote-of-the-week-60/ Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environments; of these, if you but remain true to them, your ... http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/01/12/quote/ Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. —Anonymous http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2009/01/05/quote-of-the-week-59/ Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as if you were him. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding.—Obert C.Tanner http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/12/22/quote-of-the-week-58/ Without perseverence talent is a barren bed.—Welsh Proverb http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/12/15/quote-of-the-week-57/ It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's heighbor.—Eric Hoffer http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/12/08/quote-of-the-week-56/ Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.—Melody Beattie http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/11/27/quote-of-the-week-55/ Don't wait for your ship to come; swim out to it.—Anonymous http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/11/24/quote-of-the-week-54/ Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. p.s. Check out the visual representation of this phrase I did with PeopleSketch. Kinda fun. http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/11/17/quote-of-the-week-53/ It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.—Wally "Famous" Amos http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/11/10/quote-of-the-week-52/ Patience can break through iron doors.—Yugoslav Proverb http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/11/03/quote-of-the-week-51/ My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.—Henry Ford http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/10/27/quote-of-the-week-50/ It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. —Chinese Proverb http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/10/20/quote-of-the-week-49/ It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. —Somerset Maugham http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/10/13/quote-of-the-week-48/ By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. —Thomas Browne http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/10/06/quote-of-the-week-47/ The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech. —Ralph Waldo Emerson http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/09/29/quote-of-the-week-46/ There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving. —John Greenleaf Whittier http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/09/22/quote-of-the-week-45/ Diamonds are only chunks of coal, That stuck to their jobs, you see. —Minnie Richard Smith http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/09/15/quote-of-the-week-44/ To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. —Benjamin Franklin http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/09/08/quote-of-the-week-43/ We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through what we refuse and keep. —Anne-Sophie Swetchine http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/09/01/quote-of-the-week-42/ I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. —Stephen Leacock http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/08/25/quote-of-the-week-41/ Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder, To the faults of those around me, Let me praise a little more. —Edgar A. Guest http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/06/10/quote-of-the-week-40/ In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. —Karl Reiland http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll/2008/06/02/quote-of-the-week-39/