SUNDAY WISDOM
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
–Aldo Leopold
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September 15th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Bravo CRC! Good wisdom. I always strive to achieve. It’s a Barn thing.
Be well, I truckin.
September 15th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Oh yeah… HI BRODDA! 10-4!
September 15th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
CRC, I second brodda’s post. We’re striving to stand as plumb, like that new building on sunset and vine.
High Fiving ya brodda!!! that makes a big ten two.
September 17th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Man in the Arena
One of the top three most requested quotes is that regarding the “man in the arena” or “not the critic”
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Theodore Roosevelt, who did not like to be called Teddy, that was the stuffed toy bear……
I almost got on Bee, she is not broke but she doesn’t seem to mind. I did put the small dog on her……….Adventures with horses…….
September 17th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
What a great quote…one to live by.