More quotes again..

It's time for quotes! :)

Btw.. I'm hearing weird thumping sounds..
As though someone is trying to hack open sth..
As though someone is throwing sth of significant weight.
Could it be the rain that's causing the tree to sway?
Could it be the renovation workers shifting sth? but at 1:30am? scary...

Okie, back to my quotes.. cuz stop liao :)

• Is your cucumber bitter?
  Throw it away.
  Are there briars in your path?
  Turn aside.
  That is enough.
  Do not go on to say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?"
  - Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor and Philosopher)
  
  
• When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is to make one foot move out in front of the other.
  Just take the next step.
  That's all there is to it.
  - Samuel Fuller (Film director)
  
  
• Life is a gamble.
  You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day.
  Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on.
  You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
  - Muhammad Ali (Boxer)
  
  
• An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
  - Lao-Tzu (Philosopher)
  
  
• Don't believe the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing - it was here first.
  -Robert Jones Burdette (Clergyman and Journalist)
  
  
• Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
  - Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire (Philosopher and Writer)
  
  
• If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up.
  If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it.
  I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's.
  Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.
  - Ernest J. King (Admiral)
  
  
• Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object.
  - Hermann Hesse (Writer)
  
  
• Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
  -Alice Walker (Writer)
  
  
• For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
  - Issac Bashevis Singer (Writer)
  
  
• If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
  - Calvin Coolidge (U.S. President)
  
  
• Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
  - George Orwell (Writer)
  
  
• In times like these, it is good to remember that there have always been times like these.
  - Paul Harvey (Radio Broadcaster)
  
  
• Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
  - Peg Bracken (Writer)

Just to drop a note: things really do change.. it's really amazing esp when u look back..