michaelmcgee’s most recent Quotables

Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt, crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best as I can.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Love doesn't make the world go round, it makes the ride worthwhile.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

It is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Cowardice asks the question- Is it safe?
Expediency asks the question- Is it politic?
Vanity asks the question- Is it popular?
But conscience asks the question- Is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
That is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
But one must take it because it is right.