Advice from the Wise (and a video)

I’m procrastinating.  By doing stuff like this: Dorm Room.

I read my advice to myself (previous post) to the veteran writers in the workshop group I wrote it in last week and SGT Linsey Siu sent me this in a message afterwards.  A list of quotes by very accomplished people (who are extraordinarily wise).  My favorite isthe first one here.  I mean Gandhi’s good and all, but he never called me a weasel directly.

“You have helped so many, and done so much for Veterans and I think that is so much more of an accomplishment than writing a best seller or getting your work placed in a museum. Not to mention you have somehow weaseled your way into our hearts and that in itself is a victory very few people will ever achieve .”
SGT Linsey Siu

“Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions”
Mahatma Gandhi

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, 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 the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington