tragically unhip | quotes

"when everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." ( via ) {henry ford}

some mornings it just doesn't pay to gnaw through the leather straps. {emo philips}

if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. now, quiet! they're about to announce the lottery numbers... {homer simpson}

the older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball -- the further I am rolled, the more I gain. ( via ) {susan b. anthony}

your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. who looks outside dreams. who looks inside awakens. {karl jung}

in a certain sense, every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. {nicholas berdyaev}

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: We are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams. We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams. I'm a dreamer. ( via ) {herb brooks}

as for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that {henry david thoreau}

the afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. {swedish proverb}

creativity is contagious. pass it on. {albert einstein}

the soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience {emily dickinson}

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive. {joseph campbell}

Our own success, to be real, must contribute to the success of others. {eleanor roosevelt}

Q: You've also had a couple dozen buyout offers for craigslist. Aren't you tempted to cash out, move from your foggy neighborhood, and buy an island somewhere? A: I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values : Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world. {craig newmark, founder of craigslist , in Wired }

"I can say I've had a great run at all of my Olympics. You have to be tough, and if you set a goal for yourself and keep the dream alive, nobody can stop you. It does not mean you have to be No. 1. That's what excellence is. That doesn't always mean you'll get to what other people think is excellent . That's the gold medal that everybody says has eluded me. Do I think I'm a failure? I'm nowhere near being a failure because what God has blessed me with is endurance and mental strength. And regardless of obstacles I'm faced with, I'm going to conquer them.'' {gayle devers, Athens 2004 Olympian}

It seems someone else knows the concept of team. Michael Phelps could have opted to swim the 4x100 Medley Relay tomorrow, but instead wants Crocker to have the chance and a medal as well: "We came into this meet as a team and we're going to leave it as a team," Phelps said. "It's the right thing to do." { scott goldblatt , Athens 2004 Gold Medalist}

"How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now." {gerald jampolsky}

" PAUL HAMM'S fall and rise are what make the Olympics so much more than a sports event. The US gymnast who spun despair into gold on Wednesday gives hope to the whole human endeavor by defusing the word loser ." {Boston Globe, Paul Hamm's Example }

"From our earliest days, we understand that there are tasks ahead of us to accomplish and landmarks to achieve. Life often looks like an obstacle course. In order to maximize success, we spend a good deal of time discussing what stands in the way of it. 1. Declare yourself to be a contribution 2. Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why When you play the contribution game, it is never a single individual who is transformed. Transformation overrides the divisions of identity and possession that are the architecture of the measurement model, recasting the tight pattern of scarcity into a widespread array of abundance." {benjamin zander, The Art of Possibility }

Please sir you would not understand, What's going on Is magical, can't you see That some of us do more than dream Every time I try to leave this place Something inside says, "Keep on keeping, on and on...." Around here {george michael, Patience }