The misguided opinion of others about me will not breach the borders of my self-worth. -by Dodinsky


I have lots of them that I love, how about you?

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
- Malcolm Forbes

On Songwriting:

"Don't write down a line just because it rhymes. There's only one right line, and no other can replace it." - Hank Williams, SR.

The objects in your vision may be larger than they appear.

I read it on a right mirror of a vehicle. I am not sure who to thank for the quote but it sure has helped me with hindsight.

Don't go searching for your destiny, your destiny will find you

"If you don't like Arizona's laws, go back where you came from!"

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success.

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams

i know people look at you like you're a little weird.
that’s okay cuz as artists we can do anything.
people expect us to be a little different.
they expect it.
don't let them down.
-bob ross.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
-Anais Nin-


If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

-Rudyard Kipling (applies to being a grown up in general)

He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
Benjamin Franklin

Gotta do it!!

"You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong...You cannot help small men by tearing down big men...You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich...You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer...You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income...You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do themselves..."

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy…” F.A. Hayek

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
—C. S. Lewis, 1953

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

This has "very" special meaning to me! Thanks for posting it Conrad!

You are welcome!

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln


As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.
Dom Helder Camara

"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."

HENRY WARD BEECHER