to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function

In The Crack-Up, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

Words of Wisdom: 8 Famous Quotes to Help You Embrace Fear and Achieve Success

Anthony Scaramucci

Managing Partner at SkyBridge Capital

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130827143745-10667678-words-of-wisdom-8-famous-quotes-to-help-you-embrace-fear-and-achieve-success?trk=tod-home-art-list-large_0

quote:

When offering career advice to young professionals and entrepreneurs, the two things that always top my list are to find a mentor and to read voraciously. Throughout the course of my life, I have been blessed with multiple mentors -- mostly teachers, professors, bosses or colleagues. In addition, I have gathered useful advice from reading, and observing the actions of individuals who I identify as some of the world’s best leaders, both past and present. The following are 8 notable quotes from these “leaders” that have inspired me and helped to shape my principles as a business owner.

• “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
• "There are only two ways to live life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is." – Albert Einstein
• "Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best." – Andrew Carnegie
• "The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do him absolutely no good." – Samuel Johnson
• "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there." – Yogi Berra
• “Expect more than others think possible.” – Howard Schultz
• "If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough." – Richard Branson
• “Never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill

simply remember that they love the (bleep) out of you

USA Today quote:
Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY 5:05 p.m. EDT August 24, 2013
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/08/23/alec-baldwin-wife-hilaria-hospital-welcome-baby/2693559/

Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, welcomed a new daughter Friday....  [Aug. 23, 2013]
"We are overjoyed to announce the birth of our daughter Carmen Gabriela. She is absolutely perfect," Hilaria tweeted just before 5 p.m. on Friday.
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Baldwin also has a 17-year-old daughter, Ireland, from his marriage to actress Kim Basinger. Big sister Ireland posted a very long, and very sweet, Tumblr message full of advice for little Carmen.

"Remember that your parents will always love you," it says. "As a kid, you forget that sometimes. When they are screaming about this and bickering about that. It hurts. Grown ups yell. I don't know why, but they do. No matter what your mom or Dad says or does, simply remember that they love the (bleep) out of you. NEVER forget it."

it's all over much too soon

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."
~ Woody Allen

no difference in matters of religion?

“To hold…that there is no difference in matters of religion between forms that are unlike each other, and even contrary to each other, most clearly leads…to the rejection of all religion. ...
And this is the same thing as atheism, however it may differ from it in name.”
~ Pope Leo XIII, 1885

When people heal, they get well

"When people heal, they get well."
~ hospice patient

God always heals us

When I was the chaplain for an in-patient hospice unit, I had an interesting conversation with a visitor from a patient's church.  She said "God always answers prayers for healing.  Sometimes God takes our disease away from us, and sometimes God takes us away from our disease.  Either way, God always heals us."

This life is not the end of the story

quote from Rick Warren who is struggling with the recent death of his son:

“Not everything in this life has a happy ending. But this life is not the end of the story.”