Month: July 2020

Feeling Blue? I’ve Been There Too

Depression, loneliness, despair.
Most people have been there —

Sorry, the rhymes were meant to start further down.

Inside Bus

Let’s look at what you can you do,
when you’re feeling blue.

Sorry again! I think I’d better get all the poetry out of the way first.

Here goes:

THE BUS TO NOWHERE

Today I could take a holiday
And visit somewhere nice.
Maybe take the bus to Burleigh
(Avoiding Surfers Paradise).

I’d go down by the sea
Where the breeze blows on my face,
And then buy a cup of coffee
In a certain lonely place.

Then walk up to the bluff lookout
To see the blue sea, blue sky sights.
And stare down at the rocks
From dizzy, dangerous heights.

Burleigh Bluff

And I’d consider all the seagulls
And I’d make my mind up not to fall.
They fly around forever.
But I don’t fly at all.

Then… I’d walk back to the bus stop
Feeling hardly any pain.
Some days, I take a bus to nowhere
Then I come back home again.

As you may be able to tell, I can relate to feeling blue.

I’ve had years of unemployment with no car and a bad back…

I’ve been married three times, divorced twice, with my second marriage lasting only two weeks. We had a great honeymoon. Immediately afterwards, this beautiful lady sent me out on an errand, then dumped all my furniture and things on the pavement outside the unit, and when I returned she told me I couldn’t come back inside – all without any argument or warning!

It broke my heart…

Although I’ve lived in a mansion, I’ve also lived in substandard housing, with cockroaches crawling over me when they came out of every crevice overnight, even after using insect spray bombs!

I know what it’s like to feel deeply lonely and depressed.

Before I talk about what you can do to shake the blues, here’s what not to do.

Don’t commit suicide, fast or slow… don’t take drugs, don’t take booze, and don’t throw your life away.

Whatever doesn’t build you up will generally tear you down, so don’t be stupid.

Excluding medical help, which is totally outside the scope of this article, here are

FOUR IDEAS FOR BEATING THE BLUES:

1) Change your scenery or location

2) Change your plan

3) Change your thinking

4) Get Supernatural help!

A change of scenery may only be a temporary fix, as illustrated in my poem. But it may help, because it can change your mood and give you time to reevaluate things. Sometimes stuff just takes time to work through. As the Bible says, weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. (Psalm 30:5)

A change of plan You need hope, and having a plan can give you hope. You need to get a vision for yourself of what could be, not what is. Again, to quote the Bible, where there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18) There are lots of books about goal setting, and they might help, but just ask yourself, What’s the next step I can take in order to make things better? That’s how you begin to make a plan. Take it from there.

A change of thinking Negative thinking will take you deeper into depression. Although your thinking may seem like it’s on autopilot, you can steer your thoughts if you really want to – your thoughts are actually choices you’re making! So – begin by refusing to dwell on any negative thoughts and choose to focus on the things you can do to make your life better. Be thankful for every asset you have. It may take a little effort to change your thought habit patterns, but it works better than any pill in the long run.

Bible quote time: In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God. (1 Thes. 5:18)

And another one: Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. (Romans 12:2)

Finally, the book of Jeremiah has a reputation for being negative, yet it also has positive messages. Here’s a verse worth noting:

Jer 29:11 I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for well-being, and not for calamity, in order to give you a FUTURE and a HOPE. (ISV)

God can work in your life also, to give YOU a future and a hope.

Supernatural Help

You can also beat the blues and change your life by moving up to a higher level of existence. This involves leaning on God for help. If you are in a dry, empty place, you can lean on God to help you. I’ve written more about this on my page about How to be Safe in a Time of Trouble.

Change your thinking, change your mindset, and you can change your life, especially with Supernatural help.

If you do find yourself on a bus to nowhere, make sure you get home safely.

More about my background

In 1988 I wrote this poem about Australia’s bicentenary:

OZ BICENTENARY

Here’s to the lucky country
Here’s to the land of beers
And all that water under the bridge
Now we’ve come 200 years.

As Australians individually
A few of us are sus’
But as a nation on the whole
There are no flies on us!

We have our flags and anthems
Our fauna, and our birds
Our dingoes and our yowies
Our drongos, and our nerds.

But, I’m proud to be Australian
Proud of our tall gum trees
And 200 years of history
Tho’ I come from overseas!

Actually, this is not true… I’m actually 100% Australian by birth.

Also, I’m NOT proud of Australia’s history, or Australia’s lying politicians!

More…

I’ve had some great life experiences and opportunities.

This was my first car.
This was my second.

I’ve owned several cars and houses, and mainly lived in Victoria and Queensland. I’ve travelled to Asia as well, living in Thailand for 3 months.

This is me in Asia.

And here are some
shots I took
of transportation
in Asia.

One of my hobbies is photography,

and turning photography into art.

Some photos are skill, others are luck. The ancient Greeks considered dolphins to be a sign of good luck. Then again, some people think the number 7 is good luck. In 2019 I photographed both items of luck together. Seven dolphins in one wave.

It was just a lucky shot!

This is one of my favourite photo-art creations.

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Is the Bible a True and Accurate Guide for your Life?

The Bowing King

The above image of Middle Eastern geography, called The Bowing King, IS fanciful, and many people have highly questionable ideas and opinions about Christ and the Bible that are hard to prove.

But does that do away with all solid evidence proving the Bible as a whole IS TRUE?

No.

However, there are many misconceptions people have. The first is that most people tend to get the actual teachings of the Bible mixed up with large man made churches and religions that call themselves Christian, but are usually not, as they are counterfeits of the truth.

The second barrier to believing the Bible is attitude. This is illustrated well by Michael Rood in the video below. When you watch it, go to the 9 minute mark, and play from there to see this. I can’t say it better myself.

Michael Rood may be wrong on a few issues, but NOT This One! I’ve used this video because he tells a good story here. Let truth be your guide, and only truth. It doesn’t matter what other people think, fanciful or otherwise…

There are really only two choices. Either everything was created and DESIGNED by God, who had NO beginning, or everything came from nothing!

WE DID NOT EVOLVE, PERIOD! …Read my article here.

The laws of the universe prove this.

The laws themselves didn’t just explode from a single particle. Original thermodynamic energy came from God, who is not a physical being, and cannot be understood in physical terms. God had NO BEGINNING. (Psalm 93:2) Your throne has been established since time immemorial; you are king from eternity [ISV], [-from everlasting. [KJV])

There are many different ways to prove the Bible.

Here are some of them.

Mathematical Proof

The complexities of the very first verse of the Bible are probably more than you have realised. Watch this to see what I mean.

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

This first verse is talking about a being who existed before everything else we know existed. And the verse itself is beyond human abilities to match. In the Hebrew this verse has seven words that consist of 28 letters. But within that sentence there are at least 30 patterns of seven. Watch the video above for some examples, and also check https://biblemapsplus.com/Bible-Numerics-Article-1-2019-09-23.pdf to verify the Hebrew numbering that is charted.

The Bible says God declares the end from the beginning, Isa 46:10. The 28 letters in this first verse are the first hint in the Bible that Jesus will most likely return in 2028. (You will read more about 2028 here, plus I’ve another ‘hint’ section below.)

God has numbered many works and thoughts

I found a matching verse when I did a search, using the exact words above, in my MySword phone app. Their free download page is here.

For fun, I also searched “the number of the Lord is seven” and I found a verse to match.

Then I searched “the number is seven” and found seven verses in the entire Bible!

A screenshot of the verses that would fit on my phone is below.

I was just having fun, and it doesn’t prove anything really. But, how about searching for what is the number of everything contained in a King James Bible?

The 1 hour and 52 minute video below does this, and the result comes to exactly 7x7x7x7x7x7x7, or seven to the power of seven.

How many other documents just happen to total 7 to the power of 7, exactly or even approximately?

The Bible is a supernatural book, full of SEVENS

In the creation account, in Genesis Chapter 1, God spoke a total of 343 words.

That’s 7×7×7 words, or 7 to the power of 3.

In the Bible, 3 symbolizes that which is REAL (if you need to research more, you can look up Bullinger’s ‘Number in Scripture’, and go to the chapter for number 3 here.)

In the first chapter there are explanatory sentences to give context to the words God spoke. But count up the number of words that God Himself actually spoke:

Genesis 1:3 = 4 words in KJV “Let there be light“

Genesis 1:6 = 20 words in KJV “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters“

Genesis 1:9 = 18 words in KJV “Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear“

Genesis 1:11 = 27 words in KJV “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth“

Genesis 1:14-15 = 49 words in KJV “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth“

Genesis 1:20 = 26 words in KJV “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven“

Genesis 1:22 = 18 words in KJV “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth“

Genesis 1:24 = 23 words in KJV “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind“

Genesis 1:26 = 47 words in KJV “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth“

Genesis 1:28 = 37 words in KJV “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth“

Genesis 1:29-30 = 74 words in KJV “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat“

Add them up. It comes to exactly 343, or 73. But it doesn’t stop there, Sevens in various codes continue throughout the Bible. No other book does this.

Please note that Bible numerics work best using the King James Version, but I often prefer other versions for clarity or insight.
(I do not endorse any organisation behind any of the videos I post here!)

Be sure to watch the video above. It’s vital you understand that these proofs of seven in the Bible are real, and more than just a curiosity. They are a gateway into taking the Bible, and the other proofs I’ve presented here, seriously!

Besides being God’s signature, seven also stands for completeness. Here’s another 7 example.

Throughout the Bible it says ‘fallen’ in relation to Babylon. I researched how many times in the whole Bible, and found:
Isa 21:9 = 2 times
Jer 51:8 = 1 time
Rev 14:8 = 2 times
Rev 18:2 = 2 times
The total for Babylon being completely fallen is… 7 times.

Ron Wyatt’s discoveries

Many of Ron’s discoveries stand alone, as PROOF of the Bible.They should have been front-page news worldwide, but the information has been suppressed, twisted, and lied about, and many have been misled over their veracity.

Many of the things Ron discovered, such as how the pyramids were built, are easily proved.

Here’s a short video showing evidence of Pharaoh’s chariots strewn across one particular area of the Red Sea, proving that the Red Sea crossing the Bible describes, did actually happen:

The stories in the Bible are not myths, and Truth IS stranger than fiction.

This next video is long, but if you’re genuine about finding and holding on to provable truth, knowing that it will change your life, you will watch it. If you don’t have time now, bookmark it, and come back later.

Around 4,000 years ago God reigned fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah. The evidence is still there. It consists of right angled buildings and roads. now turned to ash and balls of sulphur!

Although the commentator in the above video greatly misunderstands several things (such as burning in hell forever, which is one of numerous incorrect Catholic doctrines [Satan’s real fate is annihilation Ezek 28:18 & 19), he does get the main lesson correct! It also includes some spectacular photography of the region.

Additional photos sourced from: https://youtu.be/I7_92sjUcOI and https://youtu.be/IksUJCFCaMo and https://youtu.be/Nzf2aipGyPo

Ron Wyatt made many Biblical proof discoveries. They are mostly provable for those who are honest and unbiased . However, the most important is still surrounded by controversy and remains unverified!

The most important discovery Ron made was the location of the Ark of the Covenant.

Final proof will be given according to God’s timing, not ours. 1 Timothy confirms this: “Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” (Chapter 2 verse 6 KJV)

When it’s proven, the Ark of the Covenant discovery will become a sensation.

This video explains more:

The most sacred object of the Tabernacle – the Ark of the Covenant – was anointed with Jesus’ blood. ***

The movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark” is typical Hollywood misdirection that hides what I believe to be the actual history.

The prophet Jeremiah, a contemporary of Daniel, hid the Ark, very roughly, about 600 years before Jesus’ sacrifice.

Under God’s inspiration, he left the Ark in one of the caves within Jeremiah’s Grotto. God made sure the final hiding place of the ark was located exactly underneath where the future crucifixion of Jesus would occur.

At the crucifixion, when there was an earthquake (Matt 27:51), and the rocks were split (same verse), Jesus’ blood flowed from the cross above, through the crack in the rocks, onto the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant!

This also gives greater depth of meaning to Genesis 4:11. Here, the ground opened up to receive Abel’s blood after Cain slew him. When Jesus was speared in the side at the cross (John 19:34) the ground also opened up to receive Jesus’ blood (Matt 27:51), which links the first murder to Jesus’ atonement for it.

For more details on Ron’s discoveries, check out these additional websites:

arkdiscovery.com (Kevin Fisher)
https://www.ronwyatt.com/ (Mary Nell Wyatt)
www.throneofgod.com  (Val Smith)
 http://users.netconnect.com.au/~leedas/ 
(Darren Sherwell)
http://www.thirdangelsmessage.com/  (R.T. Tourniaire)
https://noahsarkscans.nz/ (John Larsen)
https://www.holylandsite.com/sodom-gomorrah (Todd Fink)
https://arkfiles.net/ (also Rebecca Tourniaire)

And worth reading:
Ark of the Covenant
– the 5 Star reviewed book by Jonathan Gray

I’ve included this information because some will recognise truth in it, while others will remain blind to it.

New Testament Proof

Did you know that the first ten names of everyone in Genesis Chapter 5 of the Old Testament Bible contain a hidden prophecy about Jesus in the New Testament?

Check out this video for details.

Search YouTube for more detailed videos by Chuck Missler on this.

Although some things are doubtful, don’t let those things close your mind to crystal clear truth staring you directly in the face, begging you to embrace it.

Bible Proof in Fulfilled Prophecy

Prophecies written thousands of years ago have come true in the past, and are continuing to come true right now today!

For example, did you know that 2000 years ago Jesus forecast that we would have worldwide lockdowns just before His return?

Click here for details.

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*** ANNOTATION

The first reference to “the most holy” place in the Bible explains that the most holy is where they were to keep the ark of the testimony /ark of the covenant (Exo 26:33). It’s my belief the new covenant between God and every true Christian is literally sealed with the blood of Jesus Christ on the mercy seat of the ark.

At least 10 places in the Bible talk about objects being anointed, besides people, including the Ark in Exo 30:26.

Lev 16:14-15, where blood was sprinkled on the mercy seat, was a shadow or type of that which Jesus literally fulfilled on the cross Heb 12:24, as the antitype of all blood sacrifices made up until that moment.


Here’s another search you can try out for yourself, using the MySword software:

I understand this website may be a little quirky, but I want to broaden your thinking. Please follow the links to understand where we are now in Bible prophecy, and how this will effect you in the future.

Someone Is Trying To Kill You, Bill Jones!

Browsing through some old files on my computer, I came across the following story. It’s so good that I’d like to share it here…

On the morning of his 42nd birthday, Bill Jones awoke to a ball of thunder. Glancing out the window he saw written in fiery letters across the sky:

SOMEONE IS TRYING TO KILL YOU BILL JONES!

With shaking hands, Bill lit his first cigarette of the day.

He didn’t question the message. His only question was “Who?”

Watch my video for the rest of the story…

Original author unknown

Wake Up to the Deceptions of Science (Falsely so-called)

Classic evolution theory would have you believe that millions of years of gradual development of eggs eventually produced a chicken. Or is it the other way around?

If you don’t know which came first, the chicken or the egg, you’ve been fooled!

It should be obvious to anyone that this could never have actually happened. Birds, and eggs, had to get it right the very first time they evolved— On the very first try — on the first go.

If it didn’t work out perfectly the first time, then the bird race would have died out.

They would not have survived more than one generation if you had partly formed chickens or birds trying to hatch out of partly formed non-functional eggs.

The very first time it happened, if an egg didn’t produce a fully functioning creature capable of laying perfect eggs from then on, the whole evolutionary process would have stalled. It would have ground to a halt. It would not have, and could not have continued.

Evolutionists might answer this by claiming I am trivialising the issue, and over simplifying a complicated process.

I agree.

So, in order to make my point clearer, let’s talk about something more complicated:

Butterflies

Instead of two stages, butterflies go through four stages in their life cycle.

1) egg
2) caterpillar
3) chrysalis
4) adult butterfly

How did the first butterflies develop these stages?

In order to survive, butterflies had to get this formula right on the very first go, or else they would not have survived. There wouldn’t be any butterflies at all, if they couldn’t do it right the very first time.

Think it through.

When a caterpillar turns to mush inside a chrysalis, how come a butterfly pops out afterwards? Why doesn’t a grasshopper pop out instead? Or maybe a cockroach?

Plus here’s a real problem for evolution. Because BUTTERFLIES don’t mate with CATERPILLARS, but mate with other BUTTERFLIES, the female butterfly must first find a male butterfly in order to mate and then lay eggs. So at least TWO caterpillars had to evolve into COMPLETED butterflies at the same time for this process to work.

Starting from scratch (because of the cycle of reproduction problem, it can’t have been over millions of years, but about the same time) , BOTH had to

  • start as mysteriously mutated eggs,
  • hatch into caterpillars,
  • each make a chrysalis, and then
  • magically come out as reproductively viable butterflies.
  • One had to come out with the fully completed abilities of a male, and the other had to come out with the fully completed and functioning abilities of a female, able to pass the same genes to her offspring from then on!

Their average life cycle may be a few weeks, or in some cases a few months, so if this reproduction didn’t happen correctly on the very first try for BOTH PAIR, AT AROUND THE SAME TIME, then the whole process of butterfly continuation and survival could not have occurred in the first place.

If it didn’t happen with the whole cycle perfected for both male and female on the first try, please explain how they gradually evolved with only partially formed abilities for reproduction.

That’s so important, I’m going to say it again:

Please explain how they g-r-a-d-u-a-l-l-y evolved with only partially formed abilities for reproduction.

I want to repeat this a third time, because the possibility or impossibility of any evolution of butterflies hinges on this point:

Please explain how they gradually evolved with only partially formed, and therefore NON-FUNCTIONING, abilities for reproduction.

You can’t explain it because it didn’t happen.

Think this through. After mating, the female has to have, within its makeup, the ability to lay eggs that contain the blueprint for the whole cycle to repeat all over again.

Realise that if it didn’t happen perfectly with at least two butterflies of the opposite sex evolving at the same time the very first time, with both containing a blueprint within them for the next generation of butterflies to continue – if this didn’t happen they would NOT have kept on keeping on.

At this point, if you don’t fully get this, you're not far from believing in magic.
 
A butterfly cannot come into existence without the previous stages, going back to eggs. Nor can the eggs develop into future stages over a long period because A COMPLETE CYCLE MUST BE PRESENT TO PRODUCE THE NEXT GENERATION. 
 
Without all stages there can be no future eggs. 
- Eggs don't mate in order to reproduce. 
- Caterpillars don't mate in order to reproduce. 
- Chrysalis don't mate in order to reproduce.
  Only the butterfly mates in order to reproduce. 
Any two butterflies ready for reproduction cannot have developed up to this stage in a single generation because the amount of mutation needed to go from egg to butterfly in a single generation is impossible. Progressive stages of evolution would require a complete reproductive cycle, but the gap between egg to butterfly does not allow for progressive evolution. Remember
- Eggs don't mate. 
- Caterpillars don't mate. 
- Chrysalis don't mate. 
  Only the end product - the butterfly, does. So how did TWO individual butterflies get to the last stage without going through the previous stages, and then mate? 
How did they achieve it in only one generation? 
Therefore,
either butterflies don't exist, or they were created without evolution.

There are many other flaws in the evolution fairy tale.

For instance, evolution lacks any example of one animal kind ever having evolved into another animal kind. There are no missing links. Claimed missing links are merely speculation, and others, like Piltdown man and Archaeorapto, are proven fraud. Also radiometric dating is false science. See this offsite link.

Or how about irreducible complexity? That puts a spanner in the works for evolution, because accidental incremental evolution makes no sense, as thousands of successive small modifications of very complicated biological systems would have no purpose without an advanced design in mind in the first place, and less complicated systems could not function!

Which came first, the heart, or blood vessels?

How could either one of these, without the other, possibly evolve?

Animals need a heart, or they don’t.

A half-evolved heart won’t do the job at all!

If you’ve ever glued together a model aeroplane, or screwed together a garden shed, or assembled any Ikea furniture, you know it’s impossible for those things to just come together by themselves. How much more impossible for the whole universe to assemble itself?

COMPLEX human or animal abilities like eyesight or reproduction could never have gradually evolved by chance.

Did a blind organism just somehow know in advance that if it kept adding certain eyesight components to its body, thousands of years later it would eventually develop eyes and see?

This is nonsense!

Evolution theory is a faith based religion for people trying to run away from God.

You really only need to disprove one thing 100% (as I’ve done with butterflies) and the whole evolution ‘house of cards’ collapses.

You’ve been fooled!

Are the scales of deception beginning to fall from your eyes?

Darwin’s ‘Origin of the Species’ THEORY of evolution is not true. It never has been true.

The theory of evolution is for mental caterpillars.

It’s time to grow up! Why be a mental caterpillar? Why not grow up, transform your thinking, and learn to fly instead?

How great a genius would you be if YOU created everything? Now, how impossible is it for NOTHING to create everything?

Do you really want to know the answer to the “which came first, chicken or egg” question?

The Bible tells you by implication which came first. It was the chicken.

The chicken came first, fully formed with a well designed reproductive system already built into it. God also created a fully formed man first, not an embryo first. God created all creatures fully formed to start with, using this same principle, including birds, chickens and butterflies.

By the way, the same people who believe in evolution have found that eggs can’t be produced without the protein ovocledidin-17 in the chickens’ ovaries, which also shows chickens came first, and they cannot have evolved!

Here’s a poem I wrote several years ago. Even though you may not like poetry, check it out!

Tiny Wing

How pretty, is a butterfly
On pastel powder wings,
It flutters through the scented air
Unlike lower mortal things

How beautiful, a butterfly
It doesn’t have to wait,
It flutters past oblivious
To worry fear and hate

How perfect, is a butterfly
Such a lovely, wondrous thing!
What a complex marvel of creation
In just one tiny wing

How transient, a butterfly
Painted flower on the breeze,
It flutters past unnoticed
It dies, and no one sees.

–Rob Binnion

Now that together, using irrefutable logic, you and I have disproved the theory of evolution, the next step is to prove that the Bible is TRUE!

I do that on this next page: CLICK HERE.

Chicken photo by Pixaboy from Pexels

These Quotes May Work For You, Even When Your Coffee Doesn’t!

I hope you enjoy these quotes as much as I do. Drink them in. If any of them revive you, stir you to action, or motivate you, then reading this will be worth it.

As I begin writing this article, I don’t know how it will turn out, but…
You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine — Flip Wilson

I’ll see if I can apply the advice from each quote as I write this article. So far, I’ve written a few sentences and it’s just like putting nickels in the machine.

So now, I simply need to keep on going!

All things come to him who goes after them — Unknown

Hey, writing this article is easier than I thought!

“But what about scary obstacles” I hear you cry. Well, no worries.

These quotes have it covered:

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be removed — Samuel Johnson

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for — William G. T. Shedd

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to fly in — Confucius, I think. (If it’s Chinese, this saying adds context to the junk pictured above.)

Those who know how to think need no teachers – Mahatma Gandhi

The future depends on what you do today – Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of breadMahatma Gandhi

One of my favourite quotes actually rides on top of another quote from Isaac Newton, who said:

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants

Here’s the corollary:

If I have NOT seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on MY shoulders

— Hal Abelson

So, what to do? Forget the Giants! Boldly go where no man has gone before.

Sorry.

That’s a Star Trek quote I actually didn’t mean to include here.

Consider it a bonus!

These are in no particular order.

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. – Mark Twain (i.e. Samuel Clemens)

Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you’re still high. For those who are truly committed to a vision, the dream is never over — Steven K. Scott

There are no mistakes, just happy little accidentsBob Ross

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats — Howard Aiken

Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again — James R. Cook

A Vietnamese proverb says “So long as a man has not his head cut off, nothing is definitely lost for him!”

“I’m stuck here in a cycle and I am getting older but I am not growing up and my heart is getting soft dark spots on it like a fruit that has gone bad or is soft because too many hands have squeezed it but then put it back down not because I am not ready but because they were not ready for my type of fruity flesh.” – Jenny Slate

“If you never bump into the devil, it’s because you’re going in the same direction.” – Andrew Wommack

This one really resonated with me. Sometimes you just have to do whatever you have to do, but…

When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home — Betty Bender

Nevertheless, never give up hope:

In the hour of adversity be not without hope, for crystal rain falls from black clouds — Namibia

Every action has an equal and opposite criticism. (Ignore it.) – Unknown

It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning — The Bible, Lamentations 3:22,23

The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope. — The Bible, Jonah 2:8, BBE version.

(It’s me in the photo, not James Dean.)

I’ll stop here, although perhaps I should include one more:

UNWRITTEN LAW:
Most people do ALMOST enough to win — A. L. Williams

All right, perhaps a couple more?

The beautiful part of a good idea is that it’s self-financing. A good idea must give you leverage on your time, your efforts, or your money — Joe Karbo

I’ve saved the best one for last:

Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It’s like having a little pet for your face. — Anita Wiseman

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