jankopanko's Posts

We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

~ Konstantin Josef Jirecek (24 July 1854 - 10 January 1918)

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more; si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi

if in Rome, live in the Roman manner; if you are elsewhere, live as they do elsewhere

No one is perfect. We all make mistakes.

~ surprisingly

#perfect, #mistake

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
~ T.S.Elliot

@Elliot, #explore, #courage

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. -Maxwell Maltz

#self, #love, @Maltz, @Maxwell, #friend

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
~ Pat Robertson

#sanctimonious, #moron, @Robertson

"Všeliké kvaltování toliko pro hovada dobré jest."
~ J.A. Komenský

@komensky

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

~ Henri Amiel (1821 1881)

#talent, #genius, #impossible, @Amiel, #quote

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

- C. Northcote Parkinson

@Parkinson, @Northcote, #work, #law, #time

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson

@Jefferson, #quote, #newspapers, #education

THE LAW OF THE HAMMER

"I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows:
Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding."
- Abraham Kaplan, 1964

#hammer, @kaplam, #law, #instrument

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

~ C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

#love, @lewis

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Budte nemilosrdní k chybám vlastním a budte velkorysý k chybám ostatních

#mistakes, #errors

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

~ Bruce Lee

Reposted from LoveFunApps

Karlin, Czech Republic

@kungfu

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A Good Ideal is a plastic one. So I do not fall in love with it.
~ Platonic Love is the love in the purest form.

Vysocany, Czech Republic

#love, #ideal, @jankopanko

The greatest mistake you can make is continually fearing that you'll make one.

- Elbert Hubbard

Karlin, Czech Republic

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Johann von Goethe

Reposted from anonymous

#quote, #dream

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
--Laurence J. Peter

Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom

#quote, #purpose