Sayings wise & Otherwise
All are true.
Into the wild: All of my senior humanities students of 2009-2010 are telling their parents on Graduation Day: Thank you, Mom and Dad. You did a great job. I can take it from here. True or False?
Kate Jackson Adelsheim: Man created time to his detriment.
Jeff Adolf: Love life so that you may love death when the time finally comes.
Basho: Don’t follow in the steps of the ancient masters. Seek what they sought.
Ben Berling: When others ask you “Why?”, a true believer responds “Why not?”
Daniel Bower: On the day my death comes, I’ll take solace in the fact that I won’t be there to experience it.
Zach Calhoun: He then started screaming his anthem so loudly that even he did not know its message, for it had no base and was borne of inspiration alone.
Taylor Clark: I don’t like to shop, I don’t have a boyfriend, I have never fallen in love with anyone I know, and I like it that way.
Kevin Clauss: When I have a ball in my hand, I don’t have a single worry.
Daisy Cortés: What counts is what we do in the NOW.
Kynsey Creel: I like nerds. . . perhaps it is because of this innate desire for balance . . .
Erika DeBenedictis: There is insanity in perfection. It lacks the vitality of life: the action, the push and pull, the troubles, and the peace. Perfection is a stagnant sameness. In the best of perfects, a little chaos is in order.
Niko Dellios: The Secret of Oceans. Like a
Kelsey Early: That’s just so mean!
Brennan Farrell: From what some might consider dualistic thought, I find a powerful intrinsic unity that defines my sense of individual purpose.
David Feddema: I believe every success is preceded by a challenge. Where there are successes, there are always more challenges.
Jordan Fleischer: By facing unanswerable questions, I not only define who I am, but get to know who I am, and I will continue to ask questions for all of my life.
Spencer Gibbons: The only way to understand anything is to experience life.
Ben Gilman: In the second chance, you try your hardest – not only must you do something again, but you must redeem what you have done before. Because of this, it is usually during the second chance when you are most successful.
Ryan Hillhouse: You want a miracle? Be a miracle.
Hugh Himwich: The doors of perception always open upon our own creation and we pronounce it good.
Kami Hornak: And if music is a way to let those emotions out, then by all means, let there be music. Music that is not dictated, but expressive.
Jack Ingalls: Many things we would hope for (free will, meaning, life after death, etc.) are not true, but we may as well act as though they are, because why not.
MJ Kawamoto: I believe that only through hard work will I ever be happy with myself.
Trevor Keegan: I believe in the strength and friendship of others. I believe that love exists. I am thankful for it.
Jordan Key: We cannot fully achieve what we truly do not desire.
Li-Young Lee: There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy, to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.
Matt Machacek: Remaining comfortable and living a life without challenging yourself is almost like dying.
Chris McCandless: Happiness isn’t real unless shared with others.
Dakarai McCoy: The joy comes from the beautiful melody that ends up being played out.
Darren McAfee: You can’t go anywhere without leaving a trail.
Ben Masserano: I will always believe in compassion, as a cure for sadness, as proof of the unity of humanity, and as the most important teacher one can have.
Heidi Meyers: There is very little consciousness in self-satisfaction.
Veena Patel: I hate to boast, but I have a beautiful cingulum.
Lauren Pick: I believe I can’t wait for the end to find me; I aim to create a great path that leads me to the end.
Stephen Ransom: In “That Individual” Kierkegaard mentions that he despises writers in the media who write anonymously. He says that one should be able to defend their opinions and take responsibility for what they say. If they do not write as an individual, their opinions are worthless, as they cannot be held accountable for what they say. As Kierkegaard says, such individuals should shut their “abysmal gullets”.
Claire Raskob: Truth is only present when it is the most needed.
James Rosprim: I speak when I want to, sleep when I want to, listen to what I want, and believe what I want. My rights and liberties are my own. I am my own person. I am myself. But I did not earn myself or win myself. I was granted myself. Given to me by my fathers and my fathers’ fathers. Their blood mixed with the sweat of toil and pain to give me freedoms. Front lines, off to sea, worried wives, dying brothers. All given freely for us to be free. And for that I am grateful. And for that I am proud.
Catherine Simpson: Life is a spiral. You build on your own beliefs and ideas. In each moment they become greater than they were previously, and with each ring added the center becomes stronger than ever before. As soon as we trust ourselves we can spiral out into the beautiful infinity of our minds.
Chris Thompson: To say something that one does not actually mean or believe in with conviction negates one’s existence in this world.
Leah Trainor: If we were to find out today that we have no free will, I'll wake up tomorrow thanking my brain for being more interesting than most.
Michael Wang: Only imagination is perfect.
Corinne Watson: I’m looking forward to my life, because I believe that I can change who I am slowly but surely. . . . I believe that you can call me hopeful.
Walt Whitman: That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.
Nikki Williams: The Truth is unknowable; our truth is a mere approximation.
Susan Williamson: Will I continue on this imperfect quest? Yes, because the mistakes I make are, in the words of Billy Joel, the only things I can call my own. Besides it’s my ticket out of my comfort zone.
Teddy Witt: The only thing a man knows to exist is himself. No one else cares.
Erin Wosick: I believe that every person, no matter their backgrounds and what they had or didn’t have growing up, has the opportunity to be the change they wish to see in the world.
Emma Ye: A mathematical point has no real dimension or meaning yet it is used to define everything in math. Similarly, justice has no true definition or basis; its existence and meaning lies only when it is asserted in our search for knowledge.
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