🌱Quotes

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on Mar 7, 2026, 10:06 PM

Baseball

Baseball “breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.” - A. Bartlett Giamatti in The Green Fields of the Mind
“Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and sometimes it rains..” — Bull Durham

“What an astonishing thing a book is,” said Carl Sagan. “It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. " -- Carl Sagan
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Ask yourself about the kind of life you want: What would you do day to day, and with whom, and where? Consider the life you have. Do one thing today, however small, to close the gap between the two." --- Dame Maggie Smith
Gradarius Firmus Victoria, AFC Richmond's motto, means "taking little steps toward victory." -- Ted Lasso
"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your system." — James Clear
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” — Maya Angelou

“Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out.” – Ann Brashares
"When you pick a flower, you just pluck it. When you love a flower, you water it daily. One who understands this, understands life." -- Buddha

'Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity' - Seneca the Younger - (maybe)

"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason." - Mark Twain

Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. - Sysadmin Prayer

"A tourist wants to escape life, a traveler wants to experience it" - from the movie A Tourist's Guide to Love (2023) before 23 minutes