STATUS QUOtes – 20141229

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” – Stephen McCranie

“Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Never derive your self worth on other people’s inability to love you. That is their flaw, not yours.” – Unknown

“You can pay for school, but you can’t buy class.” – Jay-Z

STATUS QUOtes – 20141228

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” — Dolly Parton

“If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.” — Agatha Christie

“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” — The Imitation Game

“You can only feel good about what you’re not doing when you know what you are not doing.” — David Allen

Bonus quote: “Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.” — Ambrose Bierce

STATUS QUOtes – 20141227

“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.” ― Chuck Palahniuk

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too” ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“There is no safety. Only varying degrees of risk.” – Lois McMaster Bujold

“If you want loyalty get a dog. If you want loyalty and attention get a smart dog.” ― Grand Fairley

Disabled Doesn’t Mean UN-Abled: Maysoon Zayid -I got 99 problems… palsy is just one

This is a wonderful video. It reminds us of the strength of the human will. If you watch this video, you will find it funny, entertaining and poignant. Read below to see the description of the video/performance.

“I have cerebral palsy. I shake all the time,”Maysoon Zayid announces at the beginning of this exhilarating, hilarious talk. (Really, it’s hilarious.) “I’m like Shakira meets Muhammad Ali.” With grace and wit, the Arab-American comedian takes us on a whistle-stop tour of her adventures as an actress, stand-up comic, philanthropist and advocate for the disabled.

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“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers But above all the world needs dreamers who do.” — Sarah Breathnach

“What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pike

“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.” ― Salvador Dali

“If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.” ― James Goldsmith