<p>This question is boarding school un-related. But I would like to see what everybody's favorite quote is, and how it reflects yourself.</p>
<p>“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain</p>
<p>Because I believe my education is so much more than the 8 hours spent a day at school…</p>
<p>LOVE IT, Craysian!</p>
<p>Those who care don’t matter. Those who matter don’t care.
-Dr. Seuss</p>
<p>Because it makes thing so much easier when people worry about their looks, grades, resumes, salaries, etc.</p>
<p>‘Roses are red, violets are blue, **** you whore.’ :)</p>
<p>On a more serious note:</p>
<p>‘There are very few people in the world who would fit in absolutely everywhere they went. If everyone likes you, you have no personality. People with personality have conflicts. That’s life.’</p>
<p>“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” -Winston Churchill</p>
<p>I like to think of a failure as a new door to success.</p>
<p>An old boss gave me this advice and it only gets truer the older I get:</p>
<p>Nothing’s ever as good or as bad as it seems.</p>
<p>“All men can be criminals if tempted; all men can be heroes if inspired.”</p>
<pre><code> ~ G. K. Chesterton
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<p>Most of the evil in this world has arisen from what Eric Vogelin called “gnosticism”: I know what is good and I know what is bad; you are bad and I’m good. All I need to do to make the world good is to get rid of the bad, i.e. you. But so often when I get rid of you, I find others who are also bad. And all I need to do to make the world good is to get rid of them ( kings, nobles, the Catholic Church, Protestants, Indians, Southerners, Jews, blacks, capitalists, liberals, …fill in the blank). Ah, but once I get rid of them, there are more folks who are evil…</p>
<p>Evil does not lie only outside ourselves and good within. The battleline of Mankind runs thru the heart of each of us. Let each of us struggle with the evil in our our heart by fighting temptation and following inspiration.</p>
<p>“No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care”</p>
<p>As a physician this has been proven to be again and again…but I think it applies to every aspect of life- and it is something I have taught my kids too.</p>
<p>This should be posted at all Doctors’ offices. More and more seem to be getting into medicine for the money now-a-days. :(</p>
<p>@sunrise- it would be a foolish decision then, because barring Plastic Surgery or cosmetic dermatology…the money days of medicine are OVER!!! LOL!!</p>
<p>It’s nice to be important but it’s more important to be nice.</p>
<p>My actual favorite: </p>
<p>Buffy: “…so then Kathy’s like, ‘It’s share time.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh yeah? Share this!’”
Oz: “So, either you hit her, or you did your wacky mime routine for her.”
Buffy: “Well, I didn’t do either, actually. But she deserves it, don’t you think?”
Oz: “Nobody deserves a mime, Buffy.”</p>
<p>But if it has to have an actual message then it’s this: </p>
<p>“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
-Oscar Wilde</p>
<p>on ne voit pas bien qu’avec le coeur, l’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
- le petit prince</p>
<p>Isaiah 40:31, preferably KJV (for beauty of language in addition to message)</p>
<p>Excellent idea for a thread. Absolutely impossible to pick just one, but here’s one to start that doesn’t overlap any of the other gems above.</p>
<p>“How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas?”</p>
<p>from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig</p>
<p>Hmm… It’d have to be:</p>
<p>“You shouldn’t be sad that it’s over. You should be glad that it happened.”</p>
<p>“Experience is the thing you acquire right after you need it.”</p>
<p>“Only connect.”<br>
(E.M Forster)</p>
<p>ThacherParent, that has to be one of my all-time favorites. I remember hearing, as a high schooler, that ‘Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted’. That was apt at the time. But ‘Experience is the thing you acquire right after you need it’ is what rings most true as a parent - I feel as if I am the living poster child of this one! </p>
<p>Two favorites from Albert Einstein:</p>
<p>If you measure the success of a fish by how well it climbs a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it is stupid.</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>To be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one first and foremost must be a sheep oneself.</p>
<p>Ok, one more on experience! </p>
<p>“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”</p>