Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)

If you're strong enough, there are no precedents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Excellence is the gradual result of always wanting to do better."
- Pat Riley

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality
Ralph Marston

If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you
and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living
When you can see that you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss and they open the doors to you
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be If you follow your bliss doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else
Joseph Campbell
Note: This was a favorite Author of Charles Navarro - 1910-May 15, 2006

"It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things
Henry David Thoreau

To High School Students regarding 11 things the students  did not and will not learn in school as follows:
Rule 1: Life is not fair -- get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem
The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3:You will Not make $60,000.00 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a company cell phone and expense account until you earn
Rule 4 If you think your teacher is tough wait till you get a boss
Rule 5:Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.Your Great Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault,so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7:Before you were born,your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the arasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT.In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind
Michel de Montaigne
Note: In memory of Charles H. Navarro 1910-2006 who made books his passion and traveled throughout time, history and to many far off places through them

"Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is
safe." --Thomas Jefferson
Note: Jefferson a favorite of Charles H. Navarro 1910-2006

"Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983
Note: A favorite of Charles H. Navarro 1910-2006

"Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and
the wisdom to know the difference."Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)
Note: I never knew he was the source of this. Did you

"We die as often as we lose a friend."
In Memory of Charles "Chuck" Navarro, (Carlos Enrique Navarro) my friend
9/22/1910 -5/15/2006

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." -- Winston Churchill

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing . Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
Leonardo da Vinci

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.  -- (Alexander Graham Bell

"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny."

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda, mystic and author (1925-1998

"Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser."
- George Steinbrenner

Thoughts from Allen, Socrates & Marx
"Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him "Be fruitful and multiply". But not in those words...<
(Woody Allen)
By all means marry: If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
(Socrates)
Those are my principles, if you don't like them......I have others."
(Groucho Marx)

"The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity ... these are choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.....................................;.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Robert Frost

"I'm tough Christie." Dakota Fannning's character says to Denzel Washington's character in the movie, "Man on Fire," as he's training her as a young girl to be a better swimmer. " There's no such thing as tough. You are either trained, or untrained.Trained or untrained, that's what it's all about."
Denzel Washington's character respondsFrom The Movie "Man on Fire

"I'll get by with a little help from my friends.
I'm going try with a little help from my friends
I'll get high with a little help from my friends
The Beatles
Note: Suggested by Hope Barnett

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."
- Vince Lombardi

"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects." - Albert Einstein

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."Vernon Law