Ten Most Powerful Two Letter Words

IF IT IS TO BE, IT IS UP TO ME

Six years on … I still have not forgotten these 10 important words (thank you, Mr J Lawson).

~ Favourite Quotes ~

• Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

-Leonardo da Vinci

• Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin — more even than death…. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

-Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)

• The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

-H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)

• Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

-Plato (427 BC – 347 BC)

• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

-Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919)

• Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

-John F. Kennedy

• Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

• “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

• “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different..”

– Coco Chanel

The Lincoln Lawyer

“There is no client as scary as an innocent man” > J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962
(Michael Connelly – The Lincoln Lawyer)