Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

[messier 111]

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. Thomas Sowell

[messier 111]

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. W. H. Auden

[messier 111]

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. Casey Stengel

[messier 111]

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. Bradley Whitford

[messier 111]

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

[messier 111]

Life should be great rather than long. B. R. Ambedkar

[messier 111]

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde

[messier 111]

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. Amelia Earhart

[messier 111]

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius

[notFritzArgelander]

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. Amelia Earhart

Well, within reasonable limits. I'm not thinking that the process of developing a warp drive is enjoyable.....

[messier 111]

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaar .

[messier 111]

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela

[messier 111]

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katharine Hepburn

[GCoyote]

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katharine Hepburn

"No one here gets out alive." Jim Morrison

[messier 111]

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer

[messier 111]

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. Michelle Obama

[messier 111]

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. William James

[GCoyote]

[messier 111]

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. Zsa Zsa Gabor

[messier 111]

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. Primo Levi