Still More Quotes and Commentary

Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life...Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.
-- Joe Kapp

I partially agree, but I think that success comes when a person is largely content with their life as it is.

The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
— Marcel Proust

One must step outside the box and look inwards from the outside at all things we've taken for granted to see if they're actually as we've always perceived them.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
— George Bernard Shaw

Freedom, democracy, the roundness of the Earth, disease is caused by germs; shall I go on?

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.
— Glenn Close

If we could get all those people to blog, we'd be creating future history books.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Eden Phillpotts

But once such things are explained, they are no longer magic, but science.

I exist as I am, that is enough
— Walt Whitman

"What you see is what you get" -- Flip Wilson as Geraldine Jones

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
— Lao-Tzu

Wise words that I cannot improve upon.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
— Charles W. Eliot

Not to mention being the easiest way to "travel".

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hear that, Mr. Bush?