My de-stress post... mostly reblogs.....

Quotes I like... copied here before my laptop dies and takes them with it...

"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult." 
       -- Samuel Johnson

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
  - Oscar Wilde

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
  - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
  - C. P. Snow

Fundamentally, life is about money and if you get that wrong you get everything wrong.- Sir Peter Middleton- Camelot on the importance not of having money; but of managing what you do have correctly.

But once more, office desks, radiators No! That is behind me.
No more dullness, only movies and love and laughter, sex and fun.- john ashbery

Well behaved women rarely make history.- laurel thatcher ulriel

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.- unknown

Cynics are people who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.-unknown

John Schaar – futurist 
- The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created–created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.

Go hard or go home- E-40

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.- Alice in wonderland tim burton movie 2010

I never get involved in politics.-cheshire cat Alice in wonderland tim burton movie 2010

Who's to say what's proper? What if it were agreed that "proper" meant wearing a codfish on your head? Would you wear it?- Alice in Alice in wonderland tim burton movie 2010

Hatter: Have I gone mad?

[Alice checks Hatter's temperature]

Alice: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.- Alice in wonderland tim burton movie 2010

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
  - Soren Kierkegaard

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
~ Christopher Morley

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique.
No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mould it. You make it.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Follow your heart  ~ Steve Jobs, Apple

In my previous life as a stressed out business owner, I attended many training days. On one of them I was introduced to the concept of the six P’s… Proper Preparation Prevents P*** Poor Performance. This applies to every area of your life- living on a narrow boat website.

"All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom."

-- H. G. Rickover "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones." -- John Cage "One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself." -- Albert Einstein "The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B." -- James Yorke, mathematician "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." -- Michelangelo "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -- T.S. Elliott "Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination." -- Robert Schulle "Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking ...about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."- Kita on fb not sure of original source