thought for the day

[brihacharan]

Hi M24,
> Those words of wisdom are out of "ZEN" - author unknown.
> Here's another one by the great Patanjali -
"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be".
-- Patanjali
Cheers
Brihacharan

[m24]

Thanks brihacharan.

"I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any way diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious, and the other increases his hatred of you, and makes him more persevering in his efforts to injure you"

- Niccolo Machiavelli

[m24]

‘‘Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? ... If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?’’

— Patrick Henry

[nagarifle]

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

[gunrunner]

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Really true,every bit of it.
GR

[Bruno22]

If you are denied weapons as tools then make your tools weapons.

Someone on the internet

[nagarifle]

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
— Woodrow Wilson, 28th American president (1856-1924)

[m24]

“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no Constitution, no Law, no Court can save it...Where do you stand Citizen?”
-Judge Learned Hand

[m24]

"What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the mind of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned but never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest."

-Judge Learned Hand

[m24]

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

:-Howard Thurman

[nagarifle]

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
— Beryl Markham, English adventurer and author (1902-1986

[m24]

"A golf course is the willful and deliberate misuse of a perfectly good rifle range." -Jack O'Connor

Regards

[nagarifle]

Character is simply habit long continued.
— Plutarch, Greek biographer (47-120 A.D.)

[nagarifle]

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting. ~
Aristotle

[nagarifle]

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew