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The writing blog of Curt Iles and Creekbank Stories. Our mission: To connect hearts to God by using stories of encouragement and inspiration.

Monday, December 29, 2008

My favorite quotes of 2008


I collect quotes and these are some of my favorites of the past year.

Add yours on the "comments" section of this blog. I'd love to hear from you.


Curt


We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill


Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. -Picasso


If you want to change your world, pick up your pen. -Martin Luther.


If you want what God wants, you’ll always get what you want.

-Benjie Loyd


Never use money to measure wealth. - Robert Duvall “Broken Trails”


People ask why I play the game the way I do. It’s because you guys expect it.

-Craig Biggio


The greatest poverty in the world is loneliness. -Mother Teresa


May your enemies live long enough to see the great person you become.

-Chinese proverb

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2 Comments:

At 7:31 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold."
W. Eugene Smith

I love it because it applies to so much more than just photographic potential.

 
At 5:56 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

The unexamined belief is not worth believing. John M. Kilgore

Any good apology has 3 parts
1. I am sorry.
2. It was my fault.
3. How do I make it right?
Randy Pausch (Carnegie Mellon Professor and terminal pancreatic cancer victim in his last lecture, 2007. It became a hit on the internet, downloaded over a million times)

"One man with courage makes a majority." Andrew Jackson

Time is heavy only when it is empty. Rod McCasland

Love ones do not make my life but loving them does! – Peggy Beard

 

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