Since a month or two ago when the company asked us to put up quotes around the office I've been trying to think of a good one that represents both the goals of the company's new employee program and something personal to me. This is the one I've been trying to come up with. It's rung true to me since the first/second time I read it (however long ago that was):

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

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"What can't be done by advice can often be done by example" - Unknown

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I have to say this is now one of my favorite not-actually-sacriligious interpretations of the Bible. From cracked.com:

#2. Jesus, Like a Non-Useless Aquaman

Jesus. Maybe you've heard of him. But of all the healing and feeding and returning from the dead he did, this has got to be the most awesome superpower he had, from Mark 4:35-41:



So they're out in the middle of a hurricane, tossed around like the guys on Deadliest Catch and Jesus, because he was just hardcore like that, didn't mind the drenching rain and the loud thunder and continued sleeping. His disciples woke him up and started griping with stupid complaints like "The boat is halfway under water!" and "We are going to die!"

Jesus told them they were faithless wusses and the disciples shut up. If that wasn't cool enough, he chewed out the storm, and it shut up, too. That has to be our favorite part, how he's just annoyed by the whole thing, as if being bothered to stop an entire weather systems was equivalent to getting woken up by your girlfriend to go kill a spider in the bathroom.

People just don't read the Bible with the right perspective. Obviously.

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"Intellectuals go to study things that people do naturally." - Bill Cosby

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"The time is always right to do what's right." - Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Those who are troubled by an apparent conflict between scientific and religious accounts of human origins may find it helpful to recall that different perspectives of life can be complementary. For example, the scientific account attempts to tell us when and how; religious creation stories usually aim to tell about an ultimate who and why. As Galileo explained to the Grand Duchess Christina: 'The Bible teaches how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.'"

- David G. Myers, "Exploring Psychology, 7th Edition"


"The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning."

- Stephen Jay Gould, Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life, 1999

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"Once you become a mother, you stop being the picture and you start being the frame." - ArmyWives

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"Freud said there is a link between anger and wit." -Sidney Freedman, "M.A.S.H."

"Anger turned inwards (against the self) is depression" -Sigmund Freud

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"The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." - Captain Kirk, 'Shore Leave'

That seems to explain my mind to some extent. Though, also the need for challenge.

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"The east coast just received up to 16 inches of global warming." - fark.com

As funny as that is, it is also a true statement! While global warming is that the overall average of the Earth's temperature is rising, it is also that this rise is causing more and more erratic weather. Such as snow in April! (Or October if you're in the Southern Hemisphere.)

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"If you take away space, what's left?" asked Korey.

Jennifer replied, "Time."

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"You either need to stop talking about food, or feed me." - Me

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"It is always betetr to be safe than sorry. And better paranoid than dead." - from a safety e-mail.

Woman Saves Husband from Mountain Lion - Pay attention to what the couple are about to celebrate.

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