If I tell you I love you can I keep you forever?
-- Casper

“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
-- Epictetus

“The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.”
--Charles DeLint

“Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.”
--Ann Landers

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”
--W. Edwards Denning

"The most damaging phrase in the language is: `It's always been done that way.'"
--Grace Hopper

"If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got."
--Anon.

"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."
--Eric Butterworth

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
--Michael Jordan

"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
--Helen Keller


"What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order."
--Auguste Preault

"A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time."
--Arthur Schopenhauer

"The race of men, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity."
--Carl Van Doren

"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."
--Maya Angelou

"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they were willing to actually remain fools."
--Alice Walker

"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."
--Margaret Mead

This thread was very enjoyable to read.Thanx for starting it.
Angel

"The danger is not in aiming too high and not reaching your goal, but in aiming too low and achieving it."
-Michelangelo

"Love people and use things instead of loving things and using people."
-Unknown

"Life may be a bed of roses, but you still need to watch out for the pricks."
-unknown

Seen on a bumper sticker: "Warning: I'm out of estrogen and I have a gun."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
-Oscar Wilde

"And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
-Grandma Moses

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself. -Michael De Montaigne

Life does not need to be changed. Only your intent and actions do. -Swami Rama

Each dewdrop and raindrop has a whole heaven in it. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

=)
Cori

"The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor, and style."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- Maya Angelou

and

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."~ eppur si muove~~~~ - Galileo

Mine are attitudinal. For me they definitely relate to low-carbing as a WOE/L.

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." (Albert Einstein)

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." (Sir Winston Churchill)

"A realist sees things for what they are, a cynic sees things for what they are not." (Me)

And my favorite is from Robert A. Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

"A rational anarchist believes that ... it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame. . . as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, [s]he knows that not all individuals hold [her]his evaluations, so [s]he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world. . . aware that [her]his effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure."