Good Quotations by Famous People

Good Quotations by Famous People: "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946) "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) "Don't be so humble - you are not that great." - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "His ignorance is encyclopedic" - Abba Eban (1915-2002) "If a man does his best, what else is there?" - General George S. Patton (1885-1945) "Political correctness is tyranny with manners." - Charlton Heston (1924-) "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." - Ayn Rand (1905-1982) "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." - Robert Pirsig (1948-) "Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer." - Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535) "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." - A. J. Liebling (1904-1963) "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet." - Saint Augustine (354-430) "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." - Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) "We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." - Richard Dawkins (1941-) "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." - Emile Zola (1840-1902) "This book fills a much-needed gap." - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." - definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." - e e cummings (1894-1962) "Give me a museum and I'll fill it." - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) "Assassins!" - Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra "I'll moider da bum." - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." - Yogi Berra "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode" "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford (1863-1947) "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back') "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns (1896-1996) "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) "There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." - Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002) "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos (1913-1996) "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back." - Paul Erdos (1913-1996) "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) "Dancing is silent poetry." - Simonides (556-468bc) "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." - Salvador Dali (1904-1989) "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near." - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.) "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." - Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-) "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) "We have art to save ourselves from the truth." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) "I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song "I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882 "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." - unknown "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship." - Sharon Stone "If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire (1694-1778) "He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them." - Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964) "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." - J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) "Facts are the enemy of truth." - Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha" "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." - George Washington Carver (1864-1943) "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." - Anais Nin (1903-1977) "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) "I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right." - Frederick (II) the Great "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot (1819-1880) "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930) "Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright "I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx (1895-1977) "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney (1901-1966) "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." - Vince Lombardi "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." - John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960) "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) "An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." - Umberto Eco "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953 "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working." - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet." - Randy Pausch (1960-2008) "It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan (1934-1996) "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street." - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." - Frank Zappa "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan (1934-1996) "It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." - G. B. Burgin "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." - Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964) "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance" - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix "A clever man commits no minor blunders." - Goethe (1749-1832) "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach "A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire (1694-1778) "Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera." - James Stephens (1882-1950) "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault." - Henry Kissinger (1923-) "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.) "It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti "I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means." - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"I'll sleep when I'm dead." - Warren Zevon (1947-2003) "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) "When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head." - Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) "Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together." - Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799) "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) "While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?" - Bumper Sticker "God, please save me from your followers!" - Bumper Sticker "Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) "Luck is the residue of design." - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "Wit is educated insolence." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "A narcissist is someone better looking than you are." - Gore Vidal "Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them." - Samuel Palmer (1805-80) "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975) "Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny." - Guy Davenport "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." - Niels Bohr (1885-1962) "We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" - Niels Bohr (1885-1962) "When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." - Paul Dirac (1902-1984) "I would have made a good Pope." - Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) "In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." - W.B. Prescott "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." - John von Neumann (1903-1957) "The mistakes are all waiting to be made." - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) "Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C. A. R. Hoare "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "What do you take me for, an idiot?" - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon." - Bill Hirst "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) "A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) "Logic is in the eye of the logician." - Gloria Steinem "No one can earn a million dollars honestly." - William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) "Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." - Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." - Groucho Marx (1895-1977) "It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "When ideas fail, words come in very handy." - Goethe (1749-1832) "In the end, everything is a gag." - Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) "The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people." - Lucille S. Harper

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known." - Walt Disney (1901-1966) "He who hesitates is a damned fool." - Mae West (1892-1980) "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." - Gail Godwin "University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." - Henry Kissinger (1923-) "The graveyards are full of indispensable men." - Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) "You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." - Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." - Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) "If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975) "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." - General George Patton (1885-1945) "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) "There is no sincerer love than the love of food." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking." - Katherine Cebrian "I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it." - Steven Wright "Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour." - Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) "Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure." - Oliver Herford (1863-1935) "I have read your book and much like it." - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) "The covers of this book are too far apart." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) "Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."

- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." - Voltaire (1694-1778) "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." - Mae West (1892-1980) "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." - Elvis Presley (1935-1977) "No Sane man will dance." - Cicero (106-43 B.C.) "Hell is a half-filled auditorium." - Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." - Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) "Vote early and vote often." - Al Capone (1899-1947) "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) "Few things are harder to put up with than a good example." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." - Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion) "Happiness is good health and a bad memory." - Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982) "Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." - Thomas Jones "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone (1899-1947) "The gods too are fond of a joke." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) "Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) "The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting." - Gloria Leonard "It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man." - Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert Orben "The cynics are right nine times out of ten." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) "There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." - Revelation 6:8 "Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance." - Plato (427-347 B.C.) "Plato was a bore." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) "I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) "Hemingway was a jerk." - Harold Robbins "Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things." - Epictetus (55-135 A.D.) "What about things like bullets?" - Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981) "How can I lose to such an idiot?" - A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935) "Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday." - Woody Allen (1935-) "I don't feel good." - The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926) "Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure." - Ross MacDonald (1915-1983) "Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant." - Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines "I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television." - Gore Vidal "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen (1935-) "Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives." - Abba Eban (1915-2002) "A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually." - Abba Eban (1915-2002)

"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me." - Charles William Stubbs "Sanity is a madness put to good uses." - George Santayana (1863-1952) "Imitation is the sincerest form of television." - Fred Allen (1894-1956) "Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) "Why don't you write books people can read?" - Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941) "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) "Criticism is prejudice made plausible." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) "It is better to be quotable than to be honest." - Tom Stoppard "Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting." - Karl Wallenda "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu "A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar." - Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC) " The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay "Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971) "Hell is paved with good samaritans." - William M. Holden "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "Silence is argument carried out by other means." - Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967) "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) "The average person thinks he isn't." - Father Larry Lorenzoni

"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." - William Congreve (1670-1729) "A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted." - Helen Rowland (1876-1950) "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." - Lewis Perelman "Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency." - Lewis Perelman "Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) "There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal." - Sigfried Hulzer "Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done." - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943 "I think it would be a good idea." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (1729-1797) "I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!" - Will Rogers (1879-1935) "If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" " - Will Rogers (1879-1935) "The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy." - Von Clausewitz (1780-1831) "Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." - Irving Kristol "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible." - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

- H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood." - General George S. Patton (1885-1945) "After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato) "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." - last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923) "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince" "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) "The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." - Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks "Half this game is ninety percent mental." - Yogi Berra "There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole." - Bill Wulf "There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "Write drunk; edit sober." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) "I criticize by creation - not by finding fault." - Cicero (106-43 B.C.) "Love is friendship set on fire." - Jeremy Taylor

"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate." - Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court what his current profession was "Woman was God's second mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "This isn't right, this isn't even wrong." - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of thenot-worth-knowing." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) "Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) "Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies." - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run." - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) "He would make a lovely corpse." - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb "I worship the quicksand he walks in." - Art Buchwald "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." - Paul Valery (1871-1945) "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) "If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "#3 pencils and quadrille pads." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant. "Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis." - Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God. "I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need." - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977) "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "No medicine cures what happiness cannot." — Gabriel García Márquez "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close." — Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) "He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs." — Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it." — Gabriel García Márquez

"...Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves." — Gabriel García Márquez "If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already." — Gabriel García Márquez "Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry." — Gabriel García Márquez "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love." — Gabriel García Márquez "Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching." — Gabriel García Márquez (Collected Stories) "The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight." — Gabriel García Márquez "He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past." — Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera) "There is always something left to love." — Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams." — Gabriel García Márquez "To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell." — Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera) "I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac." — Gabriel García Márquez (Memories of My Melancholy Whores) "The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast." — Gabriel García Márquez "sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love" — Gabriel García Márquez "A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth." — Gabriel García Márquez "Freedom is often the first casualty of war." — Gabriel García Márquez (The General in His Layrinth) "He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of

the past" — Gabriel García Márquez "The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love." — Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera) "She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory." — Gabriel García Márquez "He is ugly and sad... but he is all love." — Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera) "... wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good." — Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera) "With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse." — Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera) "What does he say?’ he asked. He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re gong to die.’ Tell him,’ the colonel said, smiling, ‘that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can." — Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) "...and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love..." — Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) "There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age." — Gabriel García Márquez

"Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale." — Gabriel García Márquez "Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets." — Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) "Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice." — Gabriel García Márquez "Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest." — Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera) "Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it." — Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

"She felt the abyss of disenchantment." — Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera) "We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice, but when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about." — Gabriel García Márquez "Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it" — Gabriel García Márquez "my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house" — Gabriel García Márquez t

"A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart" — Gabriel García Márquez "They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation." — Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." — Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) "It was a love of perpetual flight." — Gabriel García Márquez

"Be calm. God awaits you at the door. " — Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera) "You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied." — Gabriel García Márquez (El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba) "For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death." — Gabriel García Márquez "The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning after breakfast." — Gabriel García Márquez "Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses." — Gabriel García Márquez (Of Love and Other Demons) "He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard." — Gabriel García Márquez (Chronicle of a Death Foretold)

"He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet." — Gabriel García Márquez "Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love." — Gabriel García Márquez "The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia." — Gabriel García Márquez (Memories of My Melancholy Whores)

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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.--Han Suyin Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.--Thomas Browne Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.--Alice Koller Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.--Agnes Macphail Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. … When you face your aloneness, something begins to happen. Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging. This is a slow and open-ended transition but it is utterly vital in order to come into rhythm with your own individuality. --John O'Donohue (Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong) I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.--Peter Hoeg (Smilla's Sense of Snow) I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.--Brenda Ueland I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.--Albert Einstein I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.--Henry David Thoreau

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.--Pearl S. Buck Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.-Jeanne Marie Laskas It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking . . . in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.--Franz Kafka It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.--Max Nordau Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone, and the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.--Paul Johannes Tillich Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.--Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.--Indra Devi Man cannot survive without air, water and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.--Thomas Szasz One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.--Meister Eckhart Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.--Hans Margolius Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.--Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea) The person who has not learned to be happy and content while completely alone for an hour a day, or a week has missed life's greatest serenity.--H. Clay Tate (Building a Better Home Town) Solitude can be frightening because it invites us to meet a stranger we think we may not want to know--ourselves.--Melvyn Kinder Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.--Abraham Cowley Solitude gives birth to the original in us.--Thomas Mann Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.--James Russell Lowell ...solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...--Amelia Barr Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.--May Sarton

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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone.--Thomas De Quincey There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.--Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Earthly Paradise) To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare.-Kenko Yoshida Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.--Alice H. Rice Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.--Abraham Joshua Heschel Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.--Paul Brunton Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.--Hannah Arendt Solitude is the place of purification.--Martin Buber (I and Thou, 3) Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.--Goethe There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.--Elizabeth Cady Stanton True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.--William Penn We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.--Philip Gilbert Hamerton (The Intellectual Life) We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.--Mother Teresa What a commentary on our civilization when being alone is considered suspect, when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it-like a secret vice!--Anne Morrow Lindbergh What a lovely surprise to discover how unlonely being alone can be.--Ellen Burstyn When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash--at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness", the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.--Thomas Merton

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When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death--ourselves.--Eda LeShan Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.--Barbara De Angelis You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.--Wayne Dyer

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." - Herman Hesse. Whilst sailing the rough seas of love, coming across such quotes makes you feel as if these deep sad love quotes, that make you cry are written for you. Yes they do. These heart rending quotes have the pain, the anguish to make your eyes swell with tears. But even though they tend to bring tears to your eyes, these lost love quotes and sad love songs do comfort your grieving heart and help you to release all the pent up emotions. Sad Love Quotes and Sayings Many of us go through the trauma of losing someone we love, perhaps that explains the reason why there is no dearth of sad love quotes that make you cry. After reading these quotes about missing someone, it would be obviously difficult for someone to hold back their feelings. Here is a compilation of some of the most famous sad love quotes which are bound to make you cry your heart out. Read more on break up quotes. "Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion." Javan. "It takes a minute to like someone, an hour to love someone, but to forget someone takes a life time." - Anonymous. "The saddest thing in the world is loving someone who used to love you." - Anonymous. "When you are in love and you get hurt, it’s like a cut... it will heal, but there will always be a scar." - Anonymous. "It's amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces." - Anonymous. "You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel." - Anonymous. "I hate to see the one I love happy with somebody, but I surely hate it more to see the one I love unhappy with me...." - Anonymous. "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all." - Samuel Butler.

"A teardrop is insignificant in a pool of water, but it can touch the soul as it runs down someone’s face." - Anonymous. "The hardest part of dreaming about someone you love is having to wake up." Anonymous. "Its hard to pretend you love someone, when you don't but its harder to pretend that you don't love someone when you really do." - Anonymous. "Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind that makes it so difficult." Anonymous. "I wish I had the guts to walk away and forget about what we had, but I can't because I know you won't come after me & that's what hurts the most." - Anonymous. "A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried." - Anonymous. "Since I can't be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again." - Susan Polis Schutz. "Why is it that we don't always recognize the moment love begins, but we always recognize the moment it ends?" - Anonymous. "When It's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you." - Anonymous. "Sometimes you don't realize how much you care for someone until they stop caring for you." - Anonymous. "Someone can walk into your life and it is not until after they walk out that you realize that they were even there." - Anonymous. Name: John Christopher Depp II Better Known As: Johnny Depp Birth: June 9, 1963 Birthplace: Owensboro, Kentucky Star Sign: Gemini Occupation: Actor, screenwriter, musician, director, producer We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us. - Johnny Depp All that matters is the ending, it's the most important part of the story, and this one is very good. This one is perfect. - Johnny Depp

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them. - Johnny Depp My self-image it still isn't that alright. No matter how famous I am, no matter how many people go to see my movies, I still have the idea that I'm that pale no-hoper that I used to be. A pale no-hoper that happens to be a little lucky now. Tomorrow it'll be all over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again. - Johnny Depp My body is my journal,and my tattoos are my story. - Johnny Depp think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it. - Johnny Depp If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me. - Johnny Depp People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. - Johnny Depp A woman who would steal your love when your love is all you really have isnt much of a woman. - Johnny Depp As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. - Johnny Depp There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. - Johnny Depp Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing. - Johnny Depp The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it. - Johnny Depp I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it. - Johnny Depp If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. Johnny Depp I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled. - Johnny Depp I think everybody's nuts. - Johnny Depp Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for...' - Johnny Depp All that matters is the ending, its the most important part of the story, and this one is very good. This one is perfect - Johnny Depp My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist. - Johnny Depp I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. - Johnny Depp I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful. - Johnny Depp I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression

it leaves on my face. - Johnny Depp I may have a feather duster down my pants. - Johnny Depp With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. - Johnny Depp When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.' Johnny Depp The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing. - Johnny Depp There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy. - Johnny Depp I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. - Johnny Depp It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live. - Johnny Depp I'm not sure I'm adult yet. - Johnny Depp The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. Johnny Depp don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do. - Johnny Depp They stick you with those names, those labels -- 'rebel' or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of. - Johnny Depp

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How to Flourish: 17 Quotes On Living, Being, and Doing I’ll step out of the way and let the quotes speak for themselves: “Fall seven times; stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb “You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” – Gandhi “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean “All is flux, nothing stays still.” – Heraclitus “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus

“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else” – Judy Garland “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank “The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven” – John Milton “Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim

50 intelligent quotes, ideal for Facebook status updates. 1. You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen ——————————————————————————– 2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ——————————————————————————– 3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. —Unknown Author ——————————————————————————– 4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky ——————————————————————————– 5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. —Ambrose Redmoon ——————————————————————————– 6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. —Gandhi ——————————————————————————–

7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. —Lin-Chi ——————————————————————————– 8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The secondrate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. —A. A. Milne ——————————————————————————– 9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. —Abraham Maslow ——————————————————————————– 10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle ——————————————————————————– 11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. —Baltasar Gracian ——————————————————————————– 12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. —Basho ——————————————————————————– 13. Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. —Lao-Tze ——————————————————————————– 14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

——————————————————————————– 15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. —John Ruskin ——————————————————————————– 16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. —Marcel Proust ——————————————————————————– 17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching —Unknown Author ——————————————————————————– 18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. —Virgil Garnett Thomson ——————————————————————————– 19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. —Will Rogers ——————————————————————————– 20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. —Zig Ziglar ——————————————————————————– 21. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. —John Wilmot ——————————————————————————– 22. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. —Oscar Levant

——————————————————————————– 23. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. —Oscar Wilde ——————————————————————————– 24. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. —New York City detective ——————————————————————————– 25. When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty. —Norm Crosby ——————————————————————————–

26. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. —Kurt Vonnegut ——————————————————————————– 27. Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. —Carl Sagan ——————————————————————————– 28. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. —Jean Rostand ——————————————————————————– 29. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. —Lily Tomlin ——————————————————————————–

30. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. —Richard Lewis ——————————————————————————– 31. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. —Robert Wilensky ——————————————————————————– 32. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? —Scott Adams ——————————————————————————– 33. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. —Anon ——————————————————————————– 34. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it. —Clarence Darrow ——————————————————————————– 35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it. —Cullen Hightower ——————————————————————————– 36. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. —Cyril Connolly ——————————————————————————– 37. There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? —Dick Cavett ——————————————————————————–

38. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. —H. L. Mencken ——————————————————————————– 39. I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses. —Victor Hugo ——————————————————————————– 40. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. —Woody Allen ——————————————————————————– 41. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking. —Albert Einstein ——————————————————————————– 42. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. —André Gide ——————————————————————————– 43. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. —Aristotle ——————————————————————————– 44. I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer. —Aryeh Frimer ——————————————————————————– 45. We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong. —Bill Vaughan ——————————————————————————–

46. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. —Blaise Pascal ——————————————————————————– 47. Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it. —Cale Yarborough ——————————————————————————– 48. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously. —Charles F. Kettering ——————————————————————————– 49. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. —Christopher Hampton ——————————————————————————– 50. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. —Cyril Connolly

Useless information funny but relatively useless information 1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel. 2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. 3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. 4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. 6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. 7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2. 8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance. 9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! System Message: WARNING/2 (, line 11)

Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. 10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. 11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. 12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. 13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and silver. 14. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before. 15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. 17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. 18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA". 19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby. 20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola. 22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet. 23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. 24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. 25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. 26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson". 28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. 29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher. 30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback to passing gas in such a confined space.... 32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!! (P-factor exists everywhere!)

Cute Love Sayings I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. - Roy Croft

The best thing about me is you. - Shannon Crown If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never meant to be. - Anonymous Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. - Anonymous If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will. - Anonymous Guys are like stars, there are millions of them, but only one to make your dreams come true. - Anonymous God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls can flirt. - Anonymous A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman ought to know. - Jeanne Bourgeois To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. - Bess Myerson A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. - Woodrow Wyatt Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. - James C. Dobson There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. - Anonymous I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow. - Edmond Rostand What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice. - Charles Baudelaire

Love doesn't make the world go 'round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones Love is being stupid together. - Paul Valery The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom. - Anonymous The love in your heart Wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't love till you give it away. - Reba McEntire Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count. - Michele St. Amand Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken Life is the flower for which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo Love is a game that two can play and both win. - Eva Gabor When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love. - Robert Fulghum. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. - Bill Wilson (disputed) All mankind love a lover. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. - Jules Renard One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love. - Elizabeth Aston

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. Woody Allen We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find. - Anonymous Love is like a war - Easy to begin, but Hard to end. - Proverb Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. - Rose Franken Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. - Mark Overby Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it. - Swedish Proverb If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. - Alfred Lord Tennyson You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - Dr. Seuss Love is not something you feel. It's something you do. - David Wilkerson Love is loving what your lover loves. - Anonymous Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charlie Brown in Charles Schulz' Peanuts comic Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache. - Mae West If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question. - Lily Tomlin True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. - Erich Segal

Love is a grave mental disease. - Plato Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. - Anonymous Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? - Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)

Movie Quotes page 1 "In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with." - Juno

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.- Garden State It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.- Antwone Fisher Père Henri: I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do - by what we deny ourselves, what we resist and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create and who we include.- Chocolat Derek Zoolander: People come up to me all the time and say "you should be a model," or "you look just like a model," or "maybe you should try to be a man who models." And I always have to laugh because I'm so good looking. Of course I'm a model- Zoolander Patches O'Houlihan: If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. [wrench hits Justin in the face]- Dodgebball White Goodman: Nobody makes me bleed my own blood. NOBODY.- Dodgeball Narrator: And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.- Fight Club Tyler Durden: Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.- Fight Club Dory : You mean ... you mean you don't like me? Marlin : No, of course I like you. It's because I like you I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion. --Finding Nemo Justine: After living in the dark for so long a glimpse of light can make you giddy. Strange thoughts come into your head and you bettel think them. Has a special fate been calling you and you're not listening? Is there a secret message right in front of you and you're not reading it? Is this your last chance? Are you gonna take it? Or are you going to the grave with unlived lives in your veins?- The Good Girl

Birdee Pruitt: Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome. That's what momma always says. She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. Try to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.- Hope Floats Rita: I am afriad Sam: Of what... Rita: That I am getting more out of this relationship than you are.- I Am Sam Stella: I trust everyone. It's the devil inside them I don't trust.- The Italian Job Bad times wake us up to the good times we weren't paying attention too- Good Will Hunting Nick Portokalos: Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.- My Big Fat Greek Wedding Remember my sentimental friend, you will be judged not by how much you love, but by how much you are loved.-Wizard of Oz Suddenly I realized - two people isn't enough. You need backup. If you're only two people, and someone drops off the edge, then you're on your own. Two isn't a large enough number. You need three at least. About A Boy It's not about what happened in the past, or what you think might happen in the future. It's about the ride, for Christ's sake. There is no point in going through all this crap, if your are not going to enjoy the ride. And you know what... when you least expect something great might come along. Something better then you even planned for. - Along Came Polly

The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please... ~The Replacements What is it in us that seeks the truth? Is it our minds or is it our hearts? -A Time to Kill That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call them something else -Sixteen Candles

Sometimes what you're searching for, is right where you left it --Sweet Home Alabama People put you down enough you start to believe it... the bad stuff is easier to believe, you ever notice that? --Pretty Woman I think all of us want to feel something that we've forgotten or turned our backs on, because maybe we didn't realize how much we were leaving behind, we need to remember what used to be good, if we don't, we won't recognize it even if it hits us between the eyes -13 going on 30

Things will happen in your life that you can't stop. But that's no reason to shut out the world.- Now and Then People are always saying change is a good thing. But all they are really saying is that something you didn't want to happen at all has happened -You've Got Mail

If you don't have anything you don't have anything to lose. - Sixteen Candles We're all pretty bizarre, some of us are just better at hiding it than others. - Breakfast Club Senior Ed Bloom: There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost... the ship has sailed and only a fool would continue. Truth is... I've always been a fool.Big Fish One day can make your life, one day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five big days that change everything -riding in cars with boys Senior Ed Bloom: Sometimes, the only way to catch and uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring.- Big Fish Will Bloom: A man tells so many stories, that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.- Big Fish Ed Bloom (Age 10): I was thinking about death and all. About seeing how you're gonna die. I mean, on one hand, if dying was all you thought about, it could kind of screw you up. But it could kind of help you, couldn't it? Because you'd know that everything else you can survive.- Big Fish Ed Bloom: We were like strangers who knew each other very well.- Big Fish Love should never be a secret. If you keep something as complicated as love stored up inside, it could make you sick. -Spiderman 2 Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present. - Under the Tuscan Sun

Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.- Horse Whisperer You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.- Dangerous Minds. Every man dies, not every man truly lives.- Braveheart. We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are the human race. And we are full of passion....Dead Poets Society. You're not perfect sport. And let me save you the suspense this girl you met, she isn't perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other.- Good Will Hunting.

People don't fall in love with each other because of their pasts! They fall in love with who they are.- Lake Consequence next page

Movie Quotes page 2 Everyone's afraid of something, that's how you know you care about things, when you're afraid you'll lose them -the bodyguard

Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived. - Meet Joe Black Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable. - The Wizard of Oz

Sometimes you've got to run away to see if they will follow.- Manfield Park There Are Millions of People in This world, But In The end It All Comes down To One. -Crazy/Beautiful There is fate, but it only takes you so far, because once you're there its up to you to make it happen. -Can't hardly wait That’s what faiths about, believing what you don’t want to believe –John Q

I understand that you are handicapped by a natural immaturity, and I forgive you.Armageddon

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive man insane.- Shawshank Redemption I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.- Girl Interrupted Let your heart guide you. It whispers so listen carefully.- Land Before Time

Sometimes the people we meet change us forever. - Forces of Nature It's only with the heart that one can see clearly. What's essential is invisible to the eye.The Little Prince Sometimes I feel there's a hole inside of me; An emptiness that at times seems to burn…I have this dream of being whole. Not going to bed each night wanting. But still sometimes, when the wind is warm or the crickets sing, I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. I just want someone to love me and I want to be seen -Practical Magic Little things use to mean so much. I thought they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial.- The Crow

Never trust a man who says trust me.- Blaze I've gotten used to ignoring them and I think, as a result, they've kind of given up on me. I think that's what it's like with all our dreams and our nightmares. We've got to keep feeding them for them to stay alive.- A Beautiful Mind

A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep.- Cinderella

You either gotta get busy living, or get busy dying.- Shawshank Redemption Hate is baggage, life's too short to be pissed off all the time, its just not worth it.- American History X Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life overcoming.- Hope Floats

Things change. They always do, it's one of the things of nature. Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.- Bridges of Madison County Unless it's mad, passionate, extraordinary love, It's a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life. Love shouldn't be one of them.- Meet Joe Black

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces. --Bridget Jones's Diary It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.- Office Space

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind previous page, next page Movie Quotes page 3 You're a better person than I am, and you made me a better person to be around you. - Family Man

You do not find peace by avoiding life. - The hours I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straight-forwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way. - Patch Adams When you love someone you say it, right then out loud, otherwise the moment just passes you by. - My Best Friend's Wedding See, the only problem with dreams is that when you're dreaming, you're eyes are closed. You've got look at the world with both your eyes wide open. - The Trojan War You gotta grow up. You can't keep having all these adolescent views on how great your life will be. -Sleepless In Seattle Sometimes it's not the people that are crazy. It's life that's crazy. - Girl Interrupted

For some moments in life there are no words. - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up, and it will, too.- Hope Floats

What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.- The Matrix Things change. They always do, it's one of the things of nature. Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.- Bridges of Madison County Sometimes we have to risk the dark to see the light.- Minority Report

Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.- Hannibal It's a secret wanting. Like a song I can't stop humming. Or loving someone you can never have.- White Oleander

It's the possibility that keeps me going not the guarantee, a sort of wager on my part. And though you may call me a fool, or any other thing, I believe anything is possible.- The Notebook What is it about love that makes us so stupid?- Under The Tuscan Sun It's funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened. - Fried Green Tomatoes I think that sometimes we love people so much that we become numb to it, because if we actually felt how much we really loved them it would kill us, that doesn’t make you a bad person, it just means your hearts too big. -Riding In Cars With Boys

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Anchorman Quotes

Anchorman Ron Burgundy: 1001, 1002, 1003. Ohh, it's a deep burn! It's so deep! Oh, I can barely lift my right arm because I did so many. I don't know if you heard me counting, but I did over a thousand. Ron Burgundy: I'm gonna throw this out there; if you like it, take it, if you don't, send it right back. I want to be on you. [Veronica turns and walks away] Ron Burgundy: Wait, I... I... I want to be you. Ron Burgundy: You stay classy, San Diego. I'm Ron Burgundy? Ed Harken: Dammit! Who typed a question mark on the Teleprompter? Brian Fantana: Don't get me wrong, I love the ladies. I mean they really rev my engines, but they don't belong in the newsroom! Champ Kind: It is anchorMAN, not anchorLADY!

Brick Tamland: I don't know what we're yelling about! Brick Tamland: LOUD NOISES! Ed Harken: [on the phone] Well, really, I don't know where he would get his hands on German pornography... but really, as adults, its not like we haven't seen our share of pornography in... Oh you haven't? Well, neither have I, I was just speaking in generalities... listen, I have to go, we'll talk about this later, Sister Margaret. Brick Tamland: I love... carpet. [pause] Brick Tamland: I love... desk. Ron Burgundy: Brick, are you just looking at things in the office and saying that you love them? BrickTamland: I love lamp. Ron Burgundy: Do you really love the lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it? Brick Tamland: I love lamp! I love lamp. Ed Harken: [on the phone with his son] Put the gun down, and let the marching band go! We'll try to pull it off as a prank. Ron Burgundy: [looking at his reflection in the mirror] Mmmmm... I look good. I mean really good. Hey everyone... come and see how good I look! Ron Burgundy: I don't know how to tell you this but I'm kind of a big deal. Veronica Corningstone: Well, I'm happy for you. Ron Burgundy: I own many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany. Bartender: You know, times they are a changing. Ladies can do stuff now and you've got to change Ron Burgundy: What? I'm sorry, where you speaking? No, I don't speak Spanish. Veronica Corningstone: For Channel 4 News, I'm Veronica Corningstone. Thanks for stopping by. Burgundy: And I'm Ron Burgundy. Go fuck yourself, San Diego.

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Ron Burgundy: Boy, that escalated quickly... I mean, that really got out of hand fast! Champ Kind: It jumped up a notch! Ron Burgundy: It did, didn't it? Brick Tamland: Yeah, I stabbed a man in the heart! Ron Burgundy: I saw that! Brick killed a guy! Did you throw a trident? Brick Tamland: Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident! Ron Burgundy: Brick, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. You should find yourself a safehouse or a relative close by. Lay low for a while, because you're probably wanted for murder Brick Tamland: Cough. Look over here. Excuse me, Veronica? Veronica Corningstone: Yes? What is it, Brick? Brick Tamland: I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party. Veronica Corningstone: Excuse me? Brick Tamland: [struggling] The... party. With the... with the pants. Party with pants? Veronica Corningstone: Brick, are you saying that there's a party in your pants and that I'm invited? Veronica Corningstone: My God, what is that smell? Oh! Brian Fantana: That's the smell of desire my lady. Veronica Corningstone: God no, it smells like, like a used diaper... filled with... Indian food! Oh, excuse me. Brian Fantana: You know, desire smells like that to some people

Garth Holliday: What is that? Smells like a turd covered in burnt hair. News Station Employee: Smells like Bigfoot's dick! Champ Kind: We need you. Hell, I need you. I'm a mess without ya. I miss you so damn much. I miss being with you. I miss being near you! I miss your laugh! I miss - I miss your scent. I miss your musk. When this all gets sorted out, I think you and me should get an apartment together. Brian Fantana: Take it easy, Champ. Why don't you stop talking for a while. Brian Fantana: [seriously] I'm telling you, this lady has really crawled into Ron's head. Brick Tamland: [breaks out laughing] Good one! Ron Burgundy: You are a smelly pirate hooker! Veronica Corningstone: You look like a blueberry! Ron Burgundy: Why don't you go back to your home on Whore Island! Veronica Corningstone: Well you... have bad hair! Ron Burgundy: Last time I looked in the dictionary, my name's Ron Burgundy. What's your name? Brian Fantana: Brian Fantana. Champ Kind: Champ Kind. Brick Tamland: Brian Fantana. Brian Fantana: No, you're Brick. Brick Tamland: Brian. Brian Fantana: I'm Brian. Brick Tamland: Veronica. Ron Burgundy: Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention. I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story. I need all of you, to stop what you're doing and listen. Cannonball! previous page, next page

Office Space Quotes Samir: WHY DOES IT SAY PAPER JAM WHEN THERE IS NO PAPER JAM? I SWEAR TO GOD, ONE OF THESE DAYS I-I-I JUST KICK THIS PIECE OF SHIT OUT THE WINDOW! Joanna: How dare you judge me? Look at you. You're just some penny-stealing... criminal... man. Peter Gibbons: Well that may be, but at least I never slept with Lumbergh. Samir: No one in this country can ever pronounce my name right. It's not that hard: Samir Na-gheen-ana-jar. Nagheenanajar. Michael Bolton: Yeah, well at least your name isn't Michael Bolton. Samir: You know there's nothing wrong with that name. Michael Bolton: There was nothing wrong with it... until I was about 12 years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys. Samir: Hmm... well why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael? Michael Bolton: No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks Steve: Good evening Sir, my name is Steve. I come from a rough area. I used to be addicted to crack but now I am off it and trying to stay clean. That is why I am selling magazine subscriptions. Michael Bolton: If we get caught, we're not going to white-collar resort prison. No, no, no. We're going to federal POUND ME IN THE ASS prison. Samir: I don't want to go to ANY prison!

Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately. Peter Gibbons: Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been *missing* it, Bob Milton Waddams: [talking on the phone] And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire... Nina: Now Milton, don't be greedy, lets pass it along and make sure everyone gets a piece. Milton Waddams: Yeah, but last time I didn't receive a piece. Nina: Just pass. [the cake passes and everybody but Milton gets a piece] Milton Waddams: [whispering] I could set the building on fire. Rob Newhouse: You know, minimum security prison is no picnic. I had a client in there once. He said the trick is kick someone's ass the first day, or become somebody's bitch. Then everything will be alright. Tom Smykowski: Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? Michael Bolton: You were supposed to come in Saturday. What were you doing? Peter Gibbons: Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I thought it could be. Peter Gibbons: Look, I don't know about you guys, but I'm tired of being pushed around. Aren't you? Samir: Yes, Peter, but I'm not going to do anything illegal. Peter Gibbons: Samir, this is America. Nina: Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina speaking! Just a moment!" (Repeats 3x)

Life Quotes page 1 It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded- Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed- Dale Carnegie. To retaliate in kind would do nothing but intensify the existence of hate in the universe. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough, and morality enough, to cut off the chain of hate. -Martin Luther King Jr. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ~ Sophocles People need love even when they don't deserve it. ~ Nikki Ledbetter

I wonder how many people never get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to have- Fried Green Tomatoes I don't know. It's like, there's this person that you want to be for other people. To make them proud of you. And then there's you. And sometimes it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. - Dawson's Creek Everyone can be okay, but it takes a real person to smile through the pain. - Michaela Marie Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall ... but those who fought, fell, and rose again. When you spend your life worrying about how others feel, you lose track of how you feel. I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. Eleanor Roosevelt It's impossible to please everyone so I suggest we all stop trying. - Jennifer Aniston The world is so much better when you're dreaming... - The Youth Ahead When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most. - Drew Barrymore If you tell the truth, you don't have o remember anything- Mark Twain. Surround yourself with people you love being yourself with. You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves. Life can take your dreams and turn them upside down, friends will talk about you when you're not around, reality can really cut you down to size, but don't ever lose the light in your eyes. People make you promises they'll never keep, soon you'll know why people say talk is cheap, life resembles one big compromise but don't ever lose the light in your eyes ... You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

I can't say I'm hurting for anything really, but then in the late watches it comes. Quietly, carefully, sneaking up on me when I least expect it, my least favorite acquaintance: loneliness. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter -MLK Jr. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truthBenjamin Disraeli. Sometimes paper is the only thing that will listen to you. Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. - Robert F. Bennett. Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.- Bob Newhart Forgiving is not forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt. If you want to hear the truth, listen to the heart, because it doesn't know how to lieGingerale. You have to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you got and remember what you had, always forgive, but never forget, learn from your mistakes, but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember...Life goes on. I guess when all is said and done, you are who you are, and that should be good enough for everybody else -susan tamol No matter the consequence those who are honest with themselves get further in life. Life is like fresh fallen snow, be careful where you walk, for every step will show. You never find yourself until you face the truth.- Pearl Bailey. Don't put too much in any one person...they have a habit of taking more than you may be prepared to give. The most wasted day of all is that which we have not laughed. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. - Eleanor Roosevelt

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. - Leo Buscaglia Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.- Alan Keightley If youre going to get in trouble for hitting someone, you might as well do it hard. :) Funny, sometimes it's the smallest decistions that change your life forever. When I do something great, no one ever seems to remember, but when I do something wrong, no one can ever seem to forget. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% of how you respond to it. To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.- Hellmut Walters. Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.- Nadine Gordimer. Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are. - Vernon Howard There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK...You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it...Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.- Andrew Matthews. next page

Life Quotes page 2 There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.- Alexander Woollcott. Nobody forgets what happened. The secret is learning to live with it. - M*A*S*H There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. -maya angelou If you want to know your past -- look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future -- look into your present actions.- Buddhist Saying. People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public. - Bryan White There's a price for every promise you don't keep.- Clay Walker

You start out life with a clean slate. Then you begin to make your mark. You face decisions, make choices. You keep moving forward. But sooner or later there comes a time where you look back over where you have been...and wonder who you really are.- The Wonder Years So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all. - A Separate Peace We choose Evil for the Good we see in it. - Aristotle It's okay to let yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.- mick jagger I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is you don't. - Catcher In The Rye There's nothing like the deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. - Perks of Being a Wallflower

It's funny how most people become who they promised they would never be. You will look back on the times you laughed and you will cry, you look back on the times you cried, and you will laugh, you will always remember close friends, and you will always keep memories of them in your heart, life is hard its tough, and its unfair, but everyone gets over the hurt and the pain, eventually, and you always end up with a smile on your face, if you give it a chance. To let go isn't to forgot, not to think about, or ignore. It doesn't leave feelings of anger, jealousy, or regret. Letting go isn't about winning or losing. It's not about pride and it's not about how you appear, and it's not obsessing or dwelling on the past. Letting go isn't blocking memories or thinking sad thoughts, and doesn't leave emptiness, hurt, or sadness. It's not about giving in or giving up. Letting go isn't about loss and it's not about defeat. To let go is to cherish the memories, but to overcome and move on. It is having an open mind confidence in the future. Letting go is learning and experiencing and growing. To let go is to be thankful for the experiences that made you laugh, made you cry, and made you grow. It's about all that you have, all that you had, and all that you will soon gain. Letting go is having the courage to accept change, and the strength to keep moving. Letting go is growing up. It is realizing that the heart can sometimes be the most potent remedy. To let go is to open a door, and to clear a path and set yourself free. Sometimes the hardest things to say are the things that, really matter. - Dawson’s Creek Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung I’ve found out why people laugh. they laugh because it hurts so much, because its the only thing that'll make it stop hurting. - Robert Heinlin A dream is an answer to a question we haven't learned how to ask. - Fox Mulder I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise

from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have -- life itself....Walter Anderson. Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.- Ani Difranco And everything you thought was going wrong was really nothing after all. - Jann Arden I think anything we don't know or understand can scare us. - Dawson's Creek We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living.Joseph Fort Newton. You have to decide how you want to live your life. What you can tolerate. What you're willing to lose.Dawson's Creek Just because we don't say certain things, doesn't mean we don't feel them. - Dawson’s Creek Everything changes eventually. That’s just the way life is. And you have no control over it. Suddenly people you thought would always be there disappear. People die, they move away, and they grow up. Dawson’s Creek

The truth may hurt but it's those lies that kill. Dawson’s Creek I think everyone feels alone and wants to be normal but I don't think everyone ever really does. Dawson’s Creek But nothing is ever straightforward. And there's no such thing as forever. No matter how well you kid yourself. The truth is, you don't know anyone. - Girls' Poker Night Once you have something you want ... that's when you have something to lose. Trust is like a mirror, once its broken you never look at it the same again. Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them. - Natalie Portman Prolonging a situation only makes it worse. - Nada Surf It's really easy for someone to say 'Oh, things will get better', or 'if you're at the bottom, the only place to go is up.' You don't know what their life is like. No matter WHERE you are, things CAN get worse. They can, and for some people, they do. Only they know their life. Only they can pick the road to go on. No

one can choose it for them. When all is said and done, more is said than done. I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason, that's how we learn.-Drew Barrymore Sometimes people can't believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first. - Dawson's Creek Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. -Cheers.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift.- Maya Angelou. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. No one can give you better advice then yourself .Cicero

Life Quotes page 3 Sometimes things happen in our lives that tear us apart inside, but if we don’t learn to look past them and see the sun shining above the clouds, we will forever be standing in the rain. We could all learn a lesson from crayons, some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names and all are different colors, but they all have to learn to live in the same box. Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. -The Perks of Being a Wallflower What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns or watching violent videos afraid that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands, of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery, and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music? ~High Fidelity We're women. We don't say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed off if we don't get it. The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do, the hard part is doing it. An error doesn't become a mistake untill you refuse to fix it. We're only young once, but with humor we can be immature forever.

Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. The hardest battle you are ever going to fight is the battle to be you. Tell me, I'll forget, show me, I may remember but involve me and I'll understand. Don't say you know me, when I don't even know myself. It's not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts. Don't waste time dwelling on the past. Learn from it, but don't worry about what you can't change. The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do. You don't realize how strong a person really is until you see them at their weakest moment. Just because everythings different doesn't mean anything has changed. It is immensly difficult knowing what you once had, and that it can never be the same way again because of one little mistake. People always say you should be "yourself", like yourself is this definite, clear thing. Yeah right! Like you know what it is or how to be it -My So called Life There's always a little of truth to every just kidding. The times you hate, always seem to last, the times you want, go away too fast. Sometimes you just have to jump off the bridge and hope you learn how to fly on the way down. Somethings are true whether you believe them or not. Whenever he thought about it, he felt terrible. And so, at last, he came to a fateful decision. He decided not to think about it anymore. Do you ever just get that feeling where you don't want to talk to anybody? you dont want to smile, and you don't want to fake being happy. but at the same time, you don't know exactly what is wrong either. there isn't a way to explain it to someone who doesn't already understand. if you could want anything in the world it would be to be alone. people have stopped being comforting.. and being alone never was. at least when you're alone no one constantly asks you what is wrong and there isn't anyone who wont take 'i don't know' for an answer. you feel the way you do just BECAUSE. you hope the feeling will pass soon and that you will be able to be yourself again, but until then all you can do is wait.. Life is made up of years that mean nothing, and moments that mean it all... When there's so much beauty in the world sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a ballon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid life -American Beauty The wrong thing done for the right reason is still the wrong thing.

Have you ever buried your face in your hands 'cause no one around you understands or has the slightest idea what it is that makes you you. -The Offspring When you don't look back, I guess the feelings fade away. Everything's personal if you're a person. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. the amount of work is the same. carlos castenada The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them -albert einstein And it was then I realized that I was only a part of the past, so there was nothing I could do, but go. Except I didn't...I couldn't. ~The Wonder Years Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. ~Christina Rosetti The soul needs friendship, the heart needs love. - english proverb We dont like what we dont understand in fact, it scares us -beauty and the beast Silence is the most powerful cry. There are days when everything seems wrong, when little things hurt you for no good reason. And then there are days, when the world just sings to you, from the minutes you open your eyes to the minute you shut them again at night. -roswell We crave what we cannot attain and despise what we cannot escape. Sometimes the bad times remind us of how good the good times were. We cannot learn without pain -aristotle Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go I’m at a stage in my life where I’m having a hard time caring about things. Fortunately, I don’t care . Harsh words hurt feelings but silence breaks hearts. The hardest part about growing up is letting go of what you were used to, and moving on with something you're not. Hope is what keeps us going in life, we hope we will be strong, we hope we will pass a test, we hope we will make new friends, we hope we will never lose the old, we hope someone loves us, we hope that love will find us, we hope when all seems lost, we hope when we are hurt, we hope when we play games, and we hope when we cry, never lose your hope, never give up when someone gives up on you, they may still hope as you do. Don't base your decisions on the advice of the people who dont have to deal with the results.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. you take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. - tuesdays with morrie There is nothing about a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Life will always be to a large extent, what we ourselves make it -samuel smiles Why does the one thing we dont have affect all the things that we do have? -sex and the city In the end, you are all you have, and that has to be enough, there is no other way, There are things about your childhood you hold onto, because they were so much a part of you: the places you went, the people you know. - The Wonder Years There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. -Shakespeare For after all, the best thing one can do when its raining is to let it rain -longfellow Confidence is the inner voice that says you are becoming what you are capable of being Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment -ben franklin Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both Smallville Music has a way of reaching into the hidden corners of the mind and heart and stirring the soul. I trust everyone.. it's the devil inside them I don't trust -The Italian Job Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped Never let your success go to your head and never let your failures go to your heart. When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse, and when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better -malcolm s. forbes Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were -Cherie CarterScott Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Berthold Auerbach Everyday is amazing. Even if it's awful. Because everything is for a reason. Because I know that this horrible thing that happens today will bring me something amazing tomorrow –Sandra Bullock Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter -MLK Jr. Understanding is met only through confrontation. -kevin smith Sometimes on the way to what's supposed to happen, something even better happens. - Third Rock From the Sun

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Life Quotes page 5 Whether he approves or dissaproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. - Augustine, "Confessions" The human race is inquistive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.- Augustine, "Confessions" She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important--you know -Marilyn Monroe The sooner you know who you are and what you want, the less you'll let things upset you -lost in translation Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. ~Dennis Wholey When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. ~Cynthia Hiemel Being happy doesn’t mean things are perfect, it just means you’ve decided to look past the imperfections. Circumstances don't make you what you are – they reveal what you are. Sometimes on the way to what's supposed to happen, something even better happens. - Third Rock From the Sun Lose everything and what is real will still remain. It's not what you've been through; it's how you deal with what you've been through. If only closed minds came with closed mouths. - Nicole Aitoro Sometimes we expect too much the key is to just expect nothing and that one time when you're not all caught up in thinking about what you really want to happen.. it will. You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. ~Colette Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. -joan wallach scott It's easy sometimes when you just coast along, but like it or not something always seems to go wrong, sometimes people build you up just so they can knock you down, sometimes they will have you there 'cause they need someone around. -Phish Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. He who angers you conquers you. -Elizabeth Kenny

Sometimes the thrill of soaring.. must begin with the fear of falling. I’m a first believer in the power of change. But there is one thing I’ve learned, and that’s the hardest part of moving forward is not looking back. ~ Felicity That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along. ~ Lisa Alther It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a though without accepting it-Aristotle Faith is permitting ouselves to be seized by the things we do not see.-Martin Luther Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall. Great opprotunites to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience- Oliver Wendell Holmes The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. --George Bernard Shaw I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. the perks of being a wallflower We accept the love we think we deserve- the perks of being a wallflower It's strange how things can change back as suddently as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal- the perks of being a wallflower You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.- the parks of being a wallflower I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember this for the next time I'm having a terrible week. have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, an you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try. - the perks of being a wallflower I think the ideas is that every person has to live his her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. - the perks of being a wallflower I would die for for you. But I won't live for you- the perks of being a wallflower You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.- the perks of being a wallflower When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us- Helen Keller

A really happy person can enjoy the scenery even when they have to take a detour- Unknown. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way- Unknown We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give- Sir Winston Churchill In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life -- it goes on- Robert Frost Life isn't fair, but life isn't fair for everyone. That makes life fair.- Unknown Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day- Barbara Sher Change and growth take place when a person has isked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life- Herbert Otto It is not length of life, but depth of life- Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one- Elbert Hubbard Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.- Eugene Lam We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk- Thomas Moore. Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear. It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are- e.e. cummings. previous page, next page

Life quotes page 6 If the events of these past days have taught us anything, it is to honor the moment. Cherish those around you. Try to find a balance between work and family. Contribute something to your community, and above all, share the love you feel for others each and every day.- Dr. Jack Messina. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.- Carl Bard Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to'. - Lao-Tzu The years teach much which the days never know.- Ralph Waldo Emerson. There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. Calvin and Hobbes. Hope is important...because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

We must become the change we want to see.- Mahatma Gandhi. Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.- Denis Waitley The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn...and change.- Carl Rogers. Though we may think we know each other well, when we neglect feelings in a relationship, we neglect the deepest and most intimate part of ourselves...sharing feelings leads us to great closeness because feelings are very personal, the most intimate part of us. The sharing of a deep feeling is the greatest gift a human being can give to another. - Fr. Chuck Gallagher. In writing of any kind the important thing is to plant an idea in the reader’s mind or to stimulate one’s feelings or emotions. In all good writing, one person and only one person is important -- the reader. Yet what happens when the average person sits down to write a letter or report? Somewhere in one's conscious or unconscious mind an insidious thought raises its head: 'What will the reader think of me?’ The more that thought interferes with concentrating on the reader, the poorer his or her writing becomes.- Soundings. There are some people who live in a dream world,and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.- Douglas H. Everett. It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.- Roger Ward Babson When you cease to dream you cease to live.- Malcolm Stevenson Forbes To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.- France Anatole. Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis. Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.- Wanda Carter. Sometimes I think that if I wasn't so good at pretending to be, I'd be better at actually being happy.- My So-Called Life. I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.- Dr. Seuss If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.- Carol Burnett. I’d rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done.- Lucille Ball. I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.- Anne Frank. What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.- Thaddeus Golas All of us are confused and ambivalent at times. We don't know the answer to a problem or we are faced with conflicting answers. Instead of giving up, instead of drowning in doubt, soul growth requires that we

forge ahead, that we continue to ask questions and look for answers -- all the while having faith that everything is unfolding in the right manner.- John Gray. Sometimes, no matter how much faith we have, we lose people. But you never forget them. And, sometimes, it's the memories that give us the faith to go on.- Unknown. There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.- Marguerite Gardiner Blessington What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. - Sappho previous page, next page

Life Quotes page 7 Sometimes people fill their minds with the stupidest things to keep themselves from thinking about things that are really important.- My So Called Life The problem with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again. Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. The purpose of life is a life of purpose.- Robert Byrne To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.- Cicero, Marcus Tullius Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.- James Dean There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.- Annie Dillard What a day may bring, a day may take away.- Thomas Fuller Life is half spent before we know what it is.- George Herbert This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.- Horace The best things in life are not free but priceless. Life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.- Andy Rooney Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they are meant to be there; they serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or help you figure out who you are. If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.- Lin Yutang

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes oh so quick and it seems like nothing. But when you’re looking back … well, it amounts to everything. Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. There are no happy endings. There are no real endings ever – happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just a part of the one story that binds us both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others’ stories – perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years and them we step out of them again. But all the while, the story just goes on.- Charles de Lint, Ghosts of Winds and Shadows One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.- Charles de Lint ...That's all we are -- just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away- Charles de Lint I was running from one problem or place to another... it was only a matter of time before something fell.Sarah Dessen, Dreamland It's just that...I think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is. Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it. - Charles de Lint Happiness at the sake of anothers is not happiness.---jacqueline kelly Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Doors in our lives open and close all the time, but sometimes we're too busy looking back at the one that closed to see the one that opened.

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Life Quotes page 8 Have you ever heard a song from long ago with so many memories tied to it that it made you cry? And didn’t you wish that you could go back into that time when everything seemed so much simpler and carefree? Those are the songs that are the soundtracks of our lives...the ones that bring back childhood memories, best friends, first loves, first heartbreaks, the memories. People always miss the silver lining while they're waiting for the gold. Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open. - John Barrymore

Sometimes there's no point in the truth if the only thing it will do is cause pain. - Ally McBeal You can't always get what you want, but if you try … sometimes you can get what you need. - Rolling Stones So often we forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all of the pain and all of the struggle. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us. - Lynn V. Andrews Apologizing is like white-out. It covers up the mistake, but it never totally goes away. Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. - Mary Tyler Moore As we grow older, it gets harder to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened and we can't. - Now and Then "Bottom line is, even if you seem them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you really are. - Buffy the Vampire Slayer In retrospect, we regret the things we didn't do more than the things we did. - Empire Records I've been thinking a lot about secrets. How sometimes secrets keep people from feeling like they belong, and sometimes secrets make you feel like you do belong.– Roswell There's the people you've known forever. Who like...know you...in this way...that other people can't. Because they've seen you change. They've let you change. - My So-Called Life You know, sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never realize that this is as beautiful as life gets. It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts. - John Wooden Blood means you're related, it doesn't mean you're family. - Boy Meets World Trust is like a mirror; once it’s broken you never look at it the same again. There are two paths you can go by, but in the long run there's still time to change the road you're on. People just say and do things that you just wonder to yourself, 'Why? Why are they doing this? Don't they know I have feelings too?' And it's sad to know that sometimes these people are your friends. Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.- Catfish Hunter "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." - Erma Bombeck There's a price for every promise you don't keep.- Clay Walker

You start out life with a clean slate. Then you begin to make your mark. You face decisions, make choices. You keep moving forward. But sooner or later there comes a time where you look back over where you have been...and wonder who you really are. - The Wonder Years Things change...Things happen...Things you can't even imagine when you're young and full of hope. Summer Sisters To get up in the morning only to know that you will have to face another obstacle takes strength. To smile when the only thing you can do is cry takes bravery. To act happy and laugh when you know that times are at their worst takes courage. To be joyous when the only good news is the best of the bad news takes support. To be there and help others through the roughest times in life takes love... It's terribly amusing how many different climates of feeling one can go through in a day. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh There are moments that mark your life, moments when you realize nothing will ever be the same again, and time is divided into two parts, before this and after this, now sometimes you can feel such a moment coming, that's the test, or so i tell myself at times like these: strong people keep moving forward anyway, no matter what they’re gonna find. When you look for the good in others you discover the best in yourself. A person can get used to anything, if given enough time. - Nicholas sparks, 'The Notebook' The 3 hardest tasks in the world are neither physical features nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong.' - Ernst Heinrich Haeckel Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength. The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be. - e.e. cummings Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. -Andre Maurois That’s the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.'- the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.' - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom There is never a better measure of what a person is, then what he does when he’s absolutely free to choose.

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Life Quotes page 9 There are so many different ways to be connected to people. There are the people you feel this unspoken connection to, even though there's not even a word for it. There's the people who you've known forever who know you in this way that other people can't because they've seen you change … they've let you change. Sometimes, no matter how much faith we have, we lose people. But we never forget them. And sometimes, it's those memories that give us the faith to go on. Do you ever just sit down and start writing? And everything is going through your head just pours onto the paper. And when you reread it, it doesn't make sense, but you know its meaning. Because your mind jumps around so much and when you just let go, you lose all control. All of your heart, your soul, is on that paper and you become so vulnerable to the world. Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy … but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. ~ Wayne Dyer The happiness of life is made up of the little things - a smile, a hug, a moment of shared laughter. Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. - Josh Billings There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it. When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. --Bill Copeland Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. --Mary Tyler Moore There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men. --Nicolas Chamfort Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.- Dwight D Eisenhower Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. - Barry LePatner Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.- Christiane Northrup, MD If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. - John Atkinson Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.- Adele Brookman

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Tuesdays With Morrie- by Mitch Albom I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died.

There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I’m so angry and bitter. But it doesn’t last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live'. The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. you take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. Love wins. Love always wins. So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, ‘love is the only rational act'. You closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you an trust them, too -- even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks -- we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing? There are days when I am depressed. Let me not deceive you. I see certain things going and I feel a sense of dread. Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you’re living. Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent. Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it. Take any emotion -- love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions -- if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them -- you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief

is. And only then can you say, ‘all right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment. There is no such thing as 'too late' in life. Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, ‘all right, it’s just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is. Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely -- but eventually be able to say, ‘all right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well. I don't want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what's happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go. In addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what’s going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you’ll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy -- and you believe them! It's such nonsense. If you've found the meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow. You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it -- and have it repeated to us -- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore. Neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have. If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone. If you don't respect the other person, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. But the big things -- how we think, what we value -- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone -- or any society -- determine those for you. We don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men an

women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own. Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long. You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you. Death ends a life, not a relationship. In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you're too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - Dalai Lama "You are what you think about all day long." - Dr. Robert Schuller "Be with someone who knows what they have when they have you" ~Unknown “It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, bit it is the little differences that make them interesting” ”No one is in charge of your happiness but you.” Regina Brett You don't realize how strong a person really is until you see them at their weakest moment. a.e.

"Pain is temporary. quitting lasts forever." ~ Lance Armstrong You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face - Eleanor Roosevelt Tough times never last, but tough people do. ~ Dr. Robert Schuller As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others ~ Nelson Mandel Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. ~ Alex Karras We are like tea bags -- we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water." -- Sister Busche \"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.\" ~ St.Francis De Sales Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about. ~The Steps of Essence Life is constantly changing & it iis good that it is constantly changing; that’s its beauty: Osho Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. Hegel. “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” Henry D. Thoreau

“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” ~ Rumi the Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. BFranklin The genius of communication is the ability to be totally honest and totally kind at the same time. - James Powell You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. - Robert Louis Stevenson In all things, be willing to listen to people around you. None of us is really smart enough to go it alone.~J Clendenin Anything that we have to learn to do, we learn by the actual doing of it. Aristotle The only real Ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge. Plato. Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. Dorothy Thompson. To fall means you've climbed high. Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known. -Chuck Palaniuk People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. -Audrey Hepburn It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something & would give anything to slow down time it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. Change the way you look at things, and the thing you look at changes. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ~ F.P. Jones We spend half our lives waiting for the right time to do what we truly want and spend the other half claiming its too late. The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know

anything about". W. Dyer Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.~Robert Schuller Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. -Mignon McLaughlin ,The Neurotic's Notebook It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. -Barbara Kingsolver I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare Maya Angelou "Home is not where you live but where they understand you." ~ Christian Morgenstern “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think” — A. A. Milne He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. -Martin Luther King Jr I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. -Maya Angelou. To

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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror – Keyes A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion Chinese Proverb We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Churchill When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. ~Peace Pilgrim.

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it. Matthieu Ricard The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. - Jesse Jackson “If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” ~ L Wittgenstein "Success is going enthusiasm."

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"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do." Ethel Barrett Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.~Caroline Schoeder "The things that we love tell us what we are." ~Saint Thomas Aquinas. “The meaning a listener makes is, more often than not, different from the meaning that the speaker has intended.” Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. Anonymous Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful. - A.Funicello No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. Peace Pilgrim "Be happy for this moment. Your moment is your life." ~ Omar Khayyam

“The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.” Oswald Chambers "The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing." - Isaac Asimov Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. Art Linkletter Toughness

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For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow ”If you don’t like where you are, change it! You’re not a tree.” Jim Rohn

Samaa's Page! I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death. --Robert Fulghum

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. --David Herbert Lawrence. Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. --Benjamin Disraeli A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it. --Mark Twain History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. --Karl Marx There are only two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." Edith Wharton ""Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"For the first time in a long time, I can say that I want to try. I feel helpless for the most part, but I'm learning to open my eyes. And the sad truth of the matter is I'll never get over it, But I'm gonna try, To get better and overcome each moment, In my own way"...-Motion City Soundtrack "While the word is yet unspoken, you are master of it; when once it is spoken, it is master of you." "Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life." Jean Paul Richter "There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." Epictetus "Fear looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up" "Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only for wallowing in."Katherine Mansfield Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only for wallowing in."Katherine Mansfield I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough, Without ever having felt sorry for itself.-- D.H. Lawrence" Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."- Walter Anderson Be ashamed to die until you have achieved some victory for humanity." -Horace Mann History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. --Maya Angelou The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.~Irving Howe Bad company is as instructive as licentious. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.~Denis Diderot

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes. "When you blame others, you give up your power to change."- Douglas Noel Adams quotes by eleanor roosevelt: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" "A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think." "Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it." ---The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat. --Robert Louis Stevenson "Innocence is lovely in the child, because in harmony with its nature; but our path in life is not backward but onward, and virtue can never be the offspring of mere innocence. If we are to progress in the knowledge of good, we must also progress in the knowledge of evil. Every experience of evil brings its own temptation and according to the degree in which the evil is recognized and the temptations resisted, will be the value of the character into which the individual will develop. ~~Mrs. H. O. Ward "Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." -Denis Diderot "The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.” Earl Nightingale "The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless." -Gaudy Night

"Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken." -- Frank Herbert The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. ~Barbara Kingsolver (1955-___)US novelist Don't be afraid. Every song has a coda, a final movement. Whether it fades out or crashes away, every song ends. But is that any reason not to enjoy the music?" "If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease. --Sent-ts'an c. 700 CE Misc Quotes So don't be afraid to make mistakes, to stumble and fall, because most of the time the greatest rewards come from doing the things that scare you the most. Maybe you'll get everything you wish for. Maybe you'll get more than you ever could have imagined. Who knows where life will take you. The road is long and in the end, the journey is the destination. – One Tree Hill But if you're always looking for reasons not to be with somebody, and you always find 'em, then I guess at some point maybe you should let go and give your heart what it deserves. – one tree hill Most of our life is a series of images. They pass us by like towns on the highway. But sometimes a moment stuns us as it happens. And we know that this instant is more than a fleeting image. We know that this moment, every part of it, will live on forever. – one tree hill When your life falls apart, always remember that I will be the one who will stay to help you pick the pieces up. And when the rest of the world walks out on you, remember not to close the door, because I am the one who will be walking in to help you through it all. No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you'll never get through it without your friends. - sex & the city I can't help but sit here and think about all the stupid stuff we've done together -- I wouldn't want to be stupid with anyone but you. - Allison Mosher

Without even realizing it, you taught me a lot of things, not only about life, but about what true friendships can be like. Please do me a favor and never give up... not on yourself, not on other people, on your dreams... on anything. All these lies -- these lies you're all telling to protect each other -- they're not going to solve anything. They're just mind games. And nobody wins. dawson's creek Everyone wants life to run smoothly, but it's the mistakes that make life interesting. - Dawson’s Creek As much as you want to, you can't rely on someone else to make you feel alive. It's an inside job. -Dawson's Creek Don’t fear failure so much you refuse to try new things. the saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. It’s just that it’s hard to lose something no matter how much or little it meant at the time. - cristin mcgrail Strength is nothing more than how well you hide the pain. Happiness will come when you are with the one who can take you to places you never were. - midtown A goal without action is only a wish. After all, seasons change and so do cities... people come into your life and people go... but it's comforting to know the ones you love are always in your heart. - Sex and the City Things change… things happen… things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope. - summer sisters by judy blume What happens when smiles go away and everything changes in just one day? What do you do when love falls through and the person you love doesn't love you? Only you can know how much your heart can tolerate. So you tell me, can your heart tolerate being just friends with someone you love? You know how sometimes the last sentence you said, like, echoes in your brain? and it just keeps sounding stupider? And you have to say something else just to make it stop? - My So-Called Life

Is he worth the pain and the heartache? Is he worth the torture in your soul? Is he worthy of your love when he breaks your sore heart everyday? Is he worth it all? - Jacqueline Kelly Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know that you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoken at that moment? - My So Called Life If love was supposed to be the best thing in the world why does it hurt so much? What do you do when all of a sudden you stop feeling close to the person you are used to feeling close to? Why do people think it's okay for them to do horrible things to other people as long as they apologize afterwards? - 90210 Have you ever hated somebody so much that you wish they would just leave and never come back...but yet, loved them so much, you knew you'd die if they did? We spend our whole lives searching for all the things we think we want... never really knowing what we have. -The Ataris Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you. After a while you learn that what you really are is all the experiences and all the thoughts you've ever had and all the people who have touched your life, no matter how briefly. Well, isn't that the thing about people like us? we hope, against all logic, against all experience -Grey's Anatomy I'm not perfect okay? I screw up. I make mistakes. it's what I do. - one tree hill Remember when i told you what girls want? girls just want someone to want them back- at least I do. - One tree hill People always leave, but sometimes they come back. – one tree hill

Misc Lyrics What a feeling in my soul ...Love burns brighter than sunshine. ~ "brighter than sunshine," aqualung

I can't speak, I'm lost for words, I can't hear, the silence burns a hole inside of me, that I can't fill for the life of me. ~ "torn inside, "Acceptance I can't see, I'm blinded by the things you say to me are lies. I can't feel, feel you near, and that's because you were never here. ~ "torn inside," acceptance What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to feel? I put my trust in you, but life can change. You lied to me, you let me down, you turned this smile into a frown, and now you're the only reason why, I find it hard to sleep at night. ~ "torn inside," acceptance I'm feeling sad, feeling blue, I think of the past times spent with you and now there's nothing left to say, so I just turn my head away. ~"torn inside," acceptance I wish we could open our eyes to see in all directions at the same time. Oh what a beautiful view if you were never aware of what was around you, and it is true what you said that I live like a hermit in my own head, but when the sun shines again, I'll pull the curtains and blinds to let the light in. ~ "marching bands of manhattan", death cab for cutie She's sun and rain, she's fire and ice, a little crazy but it's nice, and when she gets mad, you best leave her alone, 'cause she'll rage just like a river, then she'll beg you to forgive her. ~she's every woman, garth brooks Driving home the sky accelerates, and the clouds all form a geometric shape. And it goes fast, you think of the past. Suddenly everything has changed. ~the postal service There's a reason for looking up, but i feel down. It's a weird world don't you know it? It's a weird world and it won't slow down. It's a weird world no matter how you roll it. ~"weird world," backstreet boys I can take a few tears now and then and just let them out, I'm not afraid to cry, There are days every now and again i pretend i'm okay, but that's not what gets me... ~"what hurts the most," rascal flatts But I could not recall a more perfect fall, cause when I looked up into your eyes, it didn't hurt at all.~ "be still my heart," the postal service I couldn't see the light, I didn't know day from night, I had no reason to care, but since you came along, I can face the dawn, 'cuz i know you'll be there. ~ "good morning beautiful," lonestar

Drench yourself in words unspoken, live your life with arms wide open, today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten. ~"unwritten," natasha bedingfield And time, time it stops for no one, The seasons come and go and that's just time,Yeah time it stops for no one,The seasons keep on going, Whether or not we're blind. ~ Jack's Mannequin I want to live where soul meets body, And let the sun wrap its arms around me, And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing, And feel, feel what its like to be new. ~ "soul meets body," death cab for cutie The only thing worse than not knowing, is you thinking that I don't know. ~"7 minutes in heavan," fall out boy I keep telling myself I'm not the desperate type, but you've got me looking in through blinds. ~"7 minutes in heaven," fall out boy Hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there, I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised. ~ "bruised," jack's mannequin Have you ever been alone in a crowded room when I'm here with you? ~"dark blue," jack's mannequin This flood is slowly rising up swallowing the ground, beneath my feet, Tell me how anybody thinks under this condition so I'll swim (I'll swim) as the water rises up, the sun is sinking down. ~ "dark blue," jack's mannequin I come undone, oh yes, I do, just think of all the thoughts wasted on you. ~ "i am ready," jack's mannequin But if you left it up to me everyday would be a holiday from real. ~"holiday from real," jack's mannequin Every time I'm thinking bout the day coming 'round, well I'll be strong , well that's the day that passes into night, it's like I can't hold on, I can't hold on. ~"lonely for her," jack's mannequin I'll be strong, but whatever you do, please don't get me rescued... Cause I'm feeling like I might need to be near you and I feel alright, so please don't get me rescued..."rescued," jack's mannequin I'm writing you a symphony of sound. Where are you now? As I rearrange the songs again, this mix could burn a hole in anyone. ~ "mixed tape," jack's mannequin

I'm coming home from my hardest year , I'm making plans not to make plans while I'm here, and this life has been no holiday, a complicated situation , I'm fine with all my memories, still I could use vacation. ~"lights and buzz," jack's mannequin To bear the weight and push into the sky it's easier to lie, it's easier to lie, and honestly to look you in the eye, it's easier to lie it's easier to lie. ~"easier to lie," aqualung And maybe i could be the one you need if you'd only show me, show me how to live and how to bear the weight. ~"easier to lie," aqualung I've been watching your world from afar, I've been trying to be where you are, and I've been secretly falling apart. ~"strange and beautiful," aqualung To me, you're strange and you're beautiful, you'd be so perfect with me, but you just can't see, you turn every head but you don't see me. ~ "strange and beautiful," aqualung Sometimes the last thing you want comes in first, sometimes the first thing you want never comes, but I know that waiting is all you can do, sometimes. ~ "strange and beautiful," aqualung You say you wander your own land, but when I think about it, I don't see how you can. You're aching, you're breaking and I can see the pain in your eyes, says everybody's changing and I don't know why. ~ "everybody's changing," keane You say your days are ordinary, and no one ever thinks about you, but we're all the same, and she can hardly breathe without you . ~ "she has no time," keane This is the last time that I will say these words, I remember the first time, the first of many lies, sweep it into the corner, or hide it under the bed. Say these things they go away, but they never do. ~ "this is the last time," keane The last time you fall on me for anything you like, your one last line, you fall on me for anything you like. ~'this is the last time," keane I don't know your thoughts these days, we're strangers in an empty space, I don't understand your heart, It's easier to be apart.~ "we might as well be strangers," keane Don't worry you will fine the answer if you let it go, give yourself some time to falter, but don't forgo know that you're loved no matter what, and everything will come around in time. ~"perfect girl," sarah mclachlan

Cause in my head there's a greyhound station, where I send my thoughts to far off destinations so they may have a chance of finding a place where they're far more suited than here. ~"soul meets body," death cab for cutie I - read you - and god i'm good at it - i'm so spot on, chord - shapes in air - go press that dissonance - if you dare. ~"breathe in," frou frou And i'm high enough from all the waiting, to ride a wave on your inhaling. ~"hear me out," frou frou I join the queue on your answerphone, and all i am - is holding breath. Just pick up i know you're there, can't you hear - i'm not myself? ~"hear me out," frou frou So listen up - this sun hasn't set, I refuse to believe that it's only me feeling. Just hear me out - i'm not over you yet. ~ "hear me out," frou frou So how do i do normal, the smile i fake - the permanent wave of cue cards and fix it kits, can't you tell - i'm not myself? ~"hear me out," frou frou I'm a slow motion accident, lost in coffee rings and fingerprints, I don't wanna feel anything, but i do. ~"hear me out," frou frou

Insights for My Students Steve Hall

Being obnoxious is not a virtue. Never has been. Never will be. We learn a lot about your future by watching how you relate to authority! If you are determined to focus on yourself, why not start with some self-control, some self-discipline, then maybe even a little self-denial.

Consider Carefully: Some of the richest people in the world are also some of the most miserable. A genuine, heartfelt apology can often heal a broken relationship.

Flowers smell sweeter and life is just neater when you learn how to keep a clear conscience. There are few things that can match the incredible exhilaration that comes with knowing that you have been forgiven. Each of us is given certain talents, certain abilities, certain opportunities. What are you doing with yours? There are those who think they are doing something really cool, when they are really doing something that is just plain foolish. If you have learned to seek out and to listen to wise counsel from experienced people, you are way ahead of the game. Are you going up with the right friends? Or down with the wrong ones? Be careful who you listen to! The consequences may be greater than you think! Saying "No" to a friend can be very painful. But saying "Yes" can be totally devastating. The longer I live the more I'm convinced that money and happiness are totally unrelated. Be exceedingly thankful for the person who will tell you what you need to hear, even when it is unpleasant. Do you have a parent who refuses to give in to your arguments, begging, and pleading? Be thankful! What have you learned from your mistakes lately? There is a war going on out there—A war for the minds and hearts of people. Stay in the battle!

Only very foolish people are convinced that they are never wrong. Confess often! The ability to accept criticism graciously and without resentment is a mark of genuine maturity. The immature complain and gripe and wallow in their sorry plight. The more mature reject that tripe and overcome by doing right!

Loud does not always mean right. Quiet does not always mean fearful. Mocking and ridicule are tools of the cowardly. Courageous people can stand with an underdog. Those who try too hard to be cool will, in time, experience the bitter disappointment of real world consequences. Are you strong enough to stand for what is right when you know you will be ridiculed for it? If faced with a choice between "cool" and "right"— Think: Which choice will result in no regrets? The highway of life is littered with those who tried too hard to be cool. The future will arrive sooner than you think. Make decisions now that will lead to future joy with no regrets. Have you learned the incredible power of gracious and kind speech when someone is verbally attacking you? Have you learned the amazing power of keeping a cool head when others are losing it? Weak, dull, and immature people need profanity to express themselves. The mature have learned to control their tongues. Immature people become angry at other people. Mature people become angry at wrong words, wrong deeds, and wrong thoughts. As you grow up, remember: There is a part of your heritage that will do you great good. Don't discard it lightly! When forced to choose between money and doing what's right, many ruined nincompoops have chosen the money. The choices you make now will either lead to great joy or to great regret. Go for the joy! Many ruined people have been deceived by the empty promises of pleasure, fun, and "coolness" offered by alcohol, drugs, and tobacco. Just because some people have the letters "Ph.D." after their names does not mean they are wise, or even intelligent. The names of many nincompoops end with "Ph.D."

A little kid whines and complains, and usually doesn't have much self-control. A know-it-all doesn't really know much at all. Keep a teachable spirit. Do you know the difference between "gullible" and "teachable?" It's the difference between the depths of failure and the heights of success. What does it take to convince you to quit trying? The more it takes, the farther you'll go! Got a great idea? Write it down-NOW! Tomorrow you may wonder: "What was that great idea I had?" Feeling bored? Find a worthwhile PROJECT! Get absorbed in it! Make something good happen! You are planting seeds. "Harvest time" will come! What kind of seeds are you planting? Watch your attitude! You are not a jerk, are you? Don't make people think that you are one! YEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAH!!! (When was the last time you enjoyed a good shout?) Being STEADFAST gets the job done. Being STUBBORN can lead to failure. Do you know the difference? Who has been encouraged by you today? Encourage someone right away! The URGENT tends to steal time from the IMPORTANT. Do you know the difference? Little kids make messes that others have to clean up. They rarely clean up after themselves. People who win make the tough, but wise, choices. They turn off the TV and get to work! Little kids demand lots of attention. Most grow out of that stage pretty quickly. People who have been spoiled don't have to stay that way! Get over it! Make up your mind to stand for what is right-- even if everyone you know is going the other way. Stand for what is right! There is far more to be thankful for than there is to complain about. Make a list!

There are often two ways to do a thing: The EASY way, and The RIGHT way. Guess which way leads to no regrets! It's easy to copy someone else's work. It's also wrong. Many people with ruined lives began by making the little soft choices. Do the right thing! Learn to be grateful. Think about how much someone else would appreciate having what you have! There are people who go through life making bad decisions, blaming others, and feeling sorry for themselves. There is a better way! Many try so hard To be COOL that they find life leaving them out in the COLD. Take a deep breath. Calm down. Relax. Find Peace! Do you know someone who has lost hope? Help them find it quickly! Without it there's no hope! Did someone irritate you? Does it seem like a big deal? Big as a mountain, maybe? Get over it! It started with a bad decision, which became a little tendency, which became a difficult habit, which became a terrible stronghold, which became a monstrous slave-driver, which destroyed him. I know it's not easy. It's tough. You just have to do the work. You're right. You MAY NEVER use this math again! But what we're trying to do is exercise your brain! You are learning how to think logically and systematically! The best way to finish an unpleasant task is to get started. People around you may be making bad decisions. So what? You do the right thing. If you make enough bad decisions you will one day become dead meat. Who said it would be easy? What's the big deal when you've done something that was easy? If you never exercise your leg muscles, you will eventually be unable to walk. Wonder what happens when you never exercise your brain? Make good decisions today, and tomorrow will take care of itself.

Remember, the highest form of love is how you BEHAVE toward someone, not how you FEEL about them. When you love someone you do what is BEST for them even if it hurts sometimes. You can destroy your future by making bad decisions in your now. Have you experienced the peace that comes from accepting yourself as you were created? Do you know someone with great inner peace and strength? Why not ask them for the recipe! There are those people who have tremendous inner peace and joy. Make it your business to learn how they got it! There are those people who have a supreme confidence and optimism about their longrange future. Why not ask them for their secret? There are those who have learned to deal successfully with the problem of personal guilt. Why not ask them how they do it? The bait looks SO-O-O-O good to the fish. Next thing you know, he's in the frying pan! To attempt to manipulate by saying, "If you loved me you would..." is to prove you know nothing about real love. The attempt to remove God from schools is an attempt to establish a state religion-the religion of atheistic humanism. It's easy to gripe and complain! Little kids do it all the time! If you want to show great disrespect, just refuse to listen. Interrupt often. (And if that makes you feel good, you have a serious problem.) A little lie here; A little lie there; And before you know it, You've earned a label! Some people have little control over themselves. If they have a thought, they think it has to come out their mouths! Do you know any arrogant jerks? Don't follow their lead! There's a better way! Some people go around looking for clever ways to create problems. STAY AWAY FROM THEM!

Some people enjoy being a source of irritation to others. Is that dumb, or what? Your creativity can be used constructively or destructively. What are YOU doing with YOUR creativity? Watch out for Arrogance! It destroys good things and good people. Arrogance is very difficult to recognize-- unless it is in someone else! Make your goal higher than just to be "cool." "Coolness" can be a bitter achievement. Secular humanism has had a grip on American education for years. I am not a secular humanist. And I resist those who try to force me to act like one.

A List of My Personal Favorites in No Particular Order 1. If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. -Walt Disney

2. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Henry David Thoreau 3. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 4. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions-as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. - Friedrich Nietzsche 5. Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein 6. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi 7. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect- Mark Twain 8. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain 9. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. - Robert Frost

10. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. - Swami Vivekananda 11. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything elseWinston Churchill 12. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle 13. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.-Napoleon Hill 14. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.Theodore Roosevelt 15. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.-Roy Goodman 16. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. -Eleanor Roosevelt

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"If all else fails, read the manual." "Knowing without doing is like plowing without sowing." "People are never too busy to tell you all that they have to do. " "Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly." "My biggest problem is that I believe almost everything I tell myself." "Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it." "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things." "Do's and don'ts influence wills and won'ts." "Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one." "Despite the high cost of living, it remains very popular."

Quotations: Hard to see, the dark side is.

Yoda The dark side i sense in you Yoda The path to the dark side, fear is. Yoda Always with you what cannot be done. Yoda Do or do not. There is no try. Yoda The boy you trained, gone he is. Consumed by Darth Vader. Yoda Soon will I rest, yes, forever sleep. Earned it I have. Twilight is upon me, soon night must fall. Yoda Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Yoda Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is. Yoda Named must your fear be before banish it you can. Yoda Only the Dark Lord of the Sith knows of our weakness. If informed the senate is, multiply our adversaries will. Yoda Around the suvivors, a perimeter create. Yoda Size matters not. Judge me by my size do you? yoda Yoda Looking? Found someone you have, eh?

Yoda The dark side, joined, has henke. Yoda A great warrior he is, wars do not make one great Yoda Heard of a new Apprentice you have Emperor, or should I call you...Darth Sidious. Yoda Not if there is anything to say about it, I have. Yoda Faith in your new Apprentice misplaced may be, as for your faith in the Dark Side of the Force. Yoda Go into exile I must...failed I have. Yoda

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Mark Twain – Collected Quotations Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), was better known by his pseudonym, Mark Twain. The author of such works as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain was also a prolific essayist and celebrated public speaker. Here are 212 celebrated quotations from Mark Twain: Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Better a broken promise than none at all. It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. It is easier to stay out than get out. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it. If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. Some men deserve compliments, but the only one that is welcome to a modest man is the one that is undeserved. Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. Golf is a good walk spoiled. It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired. I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time. I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself. I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favor at the same time. There are many asses. Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times. Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? All generalizations are false, including this one. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. Necessity is the mother of taking chances. Chastity — you can carry it too far.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity — another man’s I mean. Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one. No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. There is nothing that saps one’s confidence as the knowing how to do a thing. We have the best government that money can buy. I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t. Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t. In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial “we.”

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. The lack of money is the root of all evil. Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money. New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. There are lies, damned lies and statistics. The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it. Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. I can live for two months on a good compliment.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don’t know. The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. Zeal and sincerity can carry a new religion further than any other missionary except fire and sword. Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read. When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so. When in doubt, tell the truth. When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself. Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one. What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. The report of my death was an exaggeration. Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. Familiarity breeds contempt – and children. Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old. An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it. Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one–the solitary one–that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices–the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also–in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind. Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Nothing is so ignorant as a man’s left hand, except a lady’s watch. The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one’s clothes. Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity–these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. In morals, conduct, and beliefs we take the color of our environment and associations, and it is a color that can be safely warranted to wash. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can’t sleep anyhow. Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances. You can’t reach old age by another man’s road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you. All right, then, I’ll go to hell.

Here are some more great quotes from writers and thinkers around the world. Like the light in the dark of dismal night,Let your self stand out as glowing, warm, and welcome Validivar. It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference Tom Brokaw. Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try Unknown. When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace Unknown. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life-it goes on Robert Frost. One who makes no mistakes never makes anything Unknown. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step Miyamoto Musashi. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm Unknown. Come to the edge....We can't, we are afraid....Come to the edge....We can't, we will fall ....And they came to the edge....And he pushed them....And they flew Appolinaire. "Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."....Inspirational Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel. "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." Harvey Fierstein. "How can you be free from fears? Fear no one, but love every man that you see. We are living in fear because our mind holds negative thoughts about people. Are you afraid of your loved ones?" Ty Luu.

To ourselves, we are great. Yet most of us live life without making a stand, contented to blend into the background of self-rendering nothingness, and when looking back feel contented at our mediocre accomplishments. Nobody remembers the person who conformed out of inadequacy. Nobody notices a patch of grass, they see the tree Wayne Burrow, Philosopher. "The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it." Unknown. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." Abraham Lincon. "There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." Dale Carnegie. Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly Langston Hughes. "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." Unknown.

"where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great" Unkown. "I know it seems hard sometimes, but remember one thing, through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it gets, keep your chest out, keep your head up and handle it." Tupac "Start writing a new chapter, for if you live by the book you'll never make history." Ben Sobel "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.". Confucius. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Alva Edison. "If you don't run your own life, somebody else will." John Atkinson. "Get busy living, or get busy dying." Stephen King. "The important thing is to not stop questioning. Albert Einstein Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up. The Reverend Jesse Jackson. Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty Adair Lara.

Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that Princess Diana. Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things Antonio Smith. "Failure is taking the path that everyone else does, success is making your own path." Unknown. "Success is determined by how determined you are to succeed." Unknown. "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain. It is by nature to hate those you injure Unknown. Nothing is but what is not Shakespeare. The world is not thy friend nor the worlds law Shakespeare. When you chose not to decide you have already made a choice! Unknown. "Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong." Unknown. Whatever is to be will be!. Unkown You create your own destiny Unknown Happiness is not a destination in which you arrive, it is your journey there. Unknown. "If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want." Unknown.

"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges." Unknown. Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, And dance like no-one's watching Unknown. "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never in nothing, great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Churchill. "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Churchill. "I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." Agatha Christie. Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story John Barth. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer Ralph Waldo Emerson. "If you haven't got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want." Unknown. "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country." Anais Nin. "An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it." Mahatma Gandhi. "Cherish your wishes and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul and the blueprints of your ultimate achievement." Unknown. "Things today may not be great, but they are not bad, and that's good." Unknown.

The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure Unknown. I will be adding more quotes but the ones here are ones I have collected over the years. However I cannot remember who some of the quotes are by. If you send me an email so I can give credit where credit is due. "A good fanfic writer is good because he wants to be. A good original story writer is good because he has to be." - Naa Dei Nikoi "Sometimes I feel there is a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn. I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, you could probably hear the ocean..." "I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?" - Carrie Fisher "I am not fat, I am a perfect representation of the Mother Goddess figure created by the original version of mankind. They had it right, no woman should resemble a toothpick or a stick with arms and hair. Long live the Neanderthals and their sense of beauty!" - Heather Companion "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug." - Mark Twain "If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even HALF the 'F*** you' signs in the world." -JD Salinger "I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.” - Eleanor Roosevelt "The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass." -Margaret Cho "It's just a big damn onion! (uh, in the layery sense, not the stinky, smelly, make your eyes burn -well, maybe that part- sense). And you're just too good at pulling pieces back without ripping them off!" - Becca

"ASH said that Giles smells like mothballs. What does Spike smell like?" "Sex." - James Marsters in response to fan query "A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most." - George Bernard Shaw "Your stories just pull you in, shake you up, and leave you wanting more." - devilnymp "Remember, always be yourself. Unless you suck." - Joss Whedon "If they all sat around buffing their nails, it'd be one boring show." - Devil Doll “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” - Lao Tzu "How did we get Dave Grohl to play the devil? It was easy. We just took off his Dave Grohl mask, and there was Satan." "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost." - JRR Tolkien "Anyone can speak Troll," said Fred dismissively. "All you have to do is point and grunt." - JK Rowling "You write in rainbow colors, and some people only have the ability (or desire, perhaps) to see in black and white." - Angi AKA Hoser AKA Howitzer "Lorne told you to pee all over the office?" "Lord I hope so." "Look, you wanna torture me? Spank me? Lick me? Do it. But if this poetry shit continues, just shoot me now... please." - Rebecca AKA Tank Girl

"Harry, you’re my best mate, but sometimes you can be the biggest tit on the face of the planet." - from "Freakazoid High" by Karen "Again... wrong sister. I'm the one that dates dead guys." "I hope you were the groom." "Ted Nugent called. He wants your shirt back." "I've never had any particular life of my own, I don't see any reason why anyone should run out to get one" - Joss Whedon "Nobody cares whether you're using the right fork for each course, but the general rule is to start with the utensils farthest out from the plate and work your way in. If anyone questions your choice of implement, the appropriate response is to stab them in the thigh with it." - Ted Allen "Thank God for punk." - Dave Foley "Break me off a switch, son. There's about to be a whoopin'." "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." - Dorothy Parker "Charles, you just peed on my shoes." "Cluelessness: There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots." - KiraMarie "I don't care if you like us... cos we don't like you. You're a bad person with an ugly heart, and we don't give a flying f*ck what you think." - Romy White "A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." - Eleanor Roosevelt "The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." - Elizabeth Taylor

"God you're alive. I thought that rabbit was eating your head." - Monty, "The Linguini Incident" "Holy testicle Tuesday!" "One time I stole red underwear from a department store. My mother wouldn't buy them for me. She said they were Satan's panties." "Don't put your wand there, boy!" roared Moody. "What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!" "Your vacuum cleaner ate my pants. There was nothing I could do." "Professor! Potter's not letting me represent for the dark side!" "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian." --Dennis Wholey "Jessica's fun to watch because it's like every day is her first day as a human being." - Ingela Ratledge on Jessica Simpson "They look psycho? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them - I don't give a f*** how crazy they are." "There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?" "Oh, come on, Sharon. I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne the prince of fucking darkness." "I've all the demons of hell in my head. My only salvation is to vent them on paper." -Marquis de Sade in 'Quills' "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." - Hedy Lamarr "All I ever wanted to be was myself." -Rita Hayworth "Get up here! You're my pirate boyfriend!" "Colin Farrel could drink Ozzy Osbourne under the table... because Ozzy couldn't FIND the table." "Sex... muscle... humor... thugery... Jayne."

"Don't tease me about my hobbies. I don't tease you about being an a**hole." "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -James D. Nicoll "Go ahead and play Harry Butthole Pussy Potter!" - Cartman "Do you want me to get naked and start the revolution?" "Keep me. Protect me. Share me, and I will live forever." "A muscle cramp? In your... pants?" "Over my dead body... the kind that doesn't come back." "I know what you're looking at, Mary... and Jesus does too." "See, that's the problem with America. There's too many stupid people, and no one to eat them." - Carlos Mencia "See, why I do this, it's not to make things that people like. It's only to make things that they love." - Joss Whedon "And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others." "What if I don't? You gonna beat me with your Jesus stick?" "I don't know about you, Miss Kitty, but I feel so much yummier." "Kaylee, find that kid who's takin' a dirt-nap with baby Jesus. We need a hood ornament. Jayne, try not to steal too much of their shit." "There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." "Chuck Norris likes to knit sweaters in his free time, and by 'knit', I mean 'kick', and by 'sweaters', I mean 'babies'." "Well, I wouldn't marry anyone who was REALLY wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked... and wouldn't." "This Henry Crawford, what's he like?"

"A rake... I think." "Um yes, please." "Emily saw the light... and she wasn't impressed." "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination." "They couldn't steal a fucking boat? A boat was for damn sure good enough for stealing in the first movie. Uppity showoff mutants." -Smackajawea on X3 "Would it be weird for me to start my own drinking game? Like I have to take a shot every time someone asks for me help." "Logan, when did you stop wearing pants?" "Oh yes, where are my manners? Kendall Casablancas, Trina Echolls. Rode Hard, meet Put Away Wet." "How long is the path we've traveled together? By now I feel as if I'm a part of you... like a drop in your ocean, like a leaf on your tree, like a brick in the house that you built, just for me..." ~ translated from 'Un Canto' Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Sing like no one is listening. And dance like no one is watching.

Funny Quotes and Sayings about Love... Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired . - Robert Frost Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end. - Anonymous If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question. - Lily Tomlin

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. - Erich Segal Love is a grave mental disease . - Plato Love is being stupid together. - Paul Valery Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charlie Brown in Charles Schulz' Peanuts comic Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. - Anonymous I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. - Steve Martin Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein Join over 25,000 subscribers

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More Funny Love Quotes and Sayings Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. - Mark Overby Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull . - H. L. Mencken Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate . - Anonymous Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache. - Mae West If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? - Anonymous Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? - Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. - Joan Crawford Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. - W. Somerset Maugham Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope . - Josh Billings 

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. —Benjamin Franklin

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Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way. —General George S. Patton

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Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way. —American Indian Proverb

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. —Mahatma Gandhi

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Within every difficulty lies opportunity. —Albert Einstein

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind....Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth...I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. —Bertrand Russell

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And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. —Abraham Lincoln

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. —Henry David Thoreau

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. —George Bernard Shaw

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. —Henry Miller

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Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. —Mwai Kibaki

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Death solves all problems. No person, no problem. —Josef Stalin

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All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. —William Shakespeare

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In the colorful reflection we have what is life. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. —Aristotle

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The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. —Benajamin Mays

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Live long or die young. —Anonymous

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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. —John C. Maxwell

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We aren't that different after all.We're the same flavour,only of a different dish... —Soky (16/03/2009)

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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. —John W. Gardner

Pride in Loss of Dignity (A man named the “Blue Man” is talking to the main character, Eddie about his life; he became the Blue Man because of a silver nitrate overdose, which caused his skin to turn blue, and soon became a circus attraction after being shunned away in general society.) “The carnivals gave me my names, Edward. Sometimes I was the Blue Man of the North Pole, or the Blue Man of Algeria… I had never been to any of these places, of course, but it was pleasant to be considered exotic, if only on a painted sign. The ’show’ was

simple. I would sit on the stage, half undressed, as people walked past and the barker told them how pathetic I was. For this, I was able to put a few coins in my pocket. The manager once called me the ‘best freak’ in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.” – p. 42 Convergence ~ Strangers/Death “That there are no random acts. that we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.” Eddie shook his head. “We were throwing a ball. It was my stupidity, running out there like that. Why should you have to die on account of me? It ain’t fair.” The Blue Man held out his hand. “Fairness,” he said, “does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.” … “My funeral,” the Blue Man said. “Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should? It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on… We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows, Birth and death are part of a whole.” … “I still don’t understand,” Eddie whispered. “What good came from your death?” “You lived,” the Blue Man answered. “But we barely knew each other. I might as well have been a stranger.” … “Strangers,” the Blue Man said, “are just family you have yet to come to know.” …

“No life is a waste,” the Blue Man said. “The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.” – p. 47-50 Sacrifice “Sacrifice,” The Captain said. “You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.” … “That’s the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.” – p. 93-94 (Note: There was this scene on page 95 on the fallacy of holding the same perspective from the past to the present, but it’s difficult to transcribe without giving appropriate context first…) Childhood ‘All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.’ – p. 104 Those Make You Who You Are ‘Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them – a mother’s approval, a father’s nod – are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.’ – p. 126 Loyalty (They are talking about Eddie’s father and his death. Mickey is Eddie’s father’s best friend, who in a drunken stupor, tried to make a move on the father’s wife; Mickey and the father were fighting and got too deep into the ocean; the father in the end, saved Mickey because he still valued their friendship, and paid for it with his life.) “Fifty-six,” the old woman repeated. “His body had weakened, the ocean had left him vulnerable, pneumonia took hold of him, and in time, he died.”

“Because of Mickey?” Eddie said. “Because of loyalty,” she said. “People don’t die because of loyalty.” “They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. “Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.” – p. 138 Holding Bitterness Ruby stepped toward him. “Edward,” she said softly. It was the first time she had called him by name. “Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. Forgive, Edward. Forgive. Do you remember the lightness you felt when you first arrived in heaven?” Eddie did. Where is my pain? “That’s because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.” She touched his hand. “You need to forgive your father.” – p. 141-142 Love ‘Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.’ – p. 164 (Eddie’s dead wife is talking to him.) “Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.

Life has to end,” she said. “Love doesn’t.” Eddie thought about the years after he buried his wife. It was like looking over a fence. He was aware of another kind of life out there, even as he knew he would never be a part of it. “I never wanted anyone else,” he said quietly. “I know,” she said. “I was still in love with you.” “I know.” She nodded. “I felt it.” “Here [in heaven]?” he asked. “Even here,” she said, smiling. “That’s how strong lost love can be.” MENTORING QUOTES "How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world. How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution...how we can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness" - Anne Frank The more you loose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. ~ Norman Vincent Peale The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. ~ Helen Keller We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. ~ Winston Churchill Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ~ Mother Teresa Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can To all the people you can As long as ever you can ~ John Wesley One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. ~ Albert Schweitzer One of things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. ~ Dick Gregory Be the change you want to see in the world. ~ Gandhi Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. ~ Lady Bird Johnson

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." ~ Arthur Ashe A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. ~ Unknown "One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes To the world, you may just be somebody. But to somebody, you may just might be the world. ~ Unknown You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson You really can change the world if you care enough. ~ Marion Wright Edelman Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness. ~ Ray Lyman Wilbur What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~ Albert Pine

Individuality Archives The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine. -- Martha Beck

A finished person is a boring person. -- Anna Quindlen There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. -Martha Graham It's never too late to be who you might have been. -- George Eliot Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. -- Brenda Ueland Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. -- Mark Twain Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. -- Pearl Buck No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the

trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone. -- Wendy Wasserstein When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right. -- Albert Guinon If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one -- if he had the power -- would be justified in silencing mankind. -- John Stuart Mill Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. -- Henry Van Dyke Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. -- Marilyn Ferguson You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. -- Unknown No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. --William Blake The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. -- Mary McCarthy Conform and be dull. -- James Frank Dobie Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself. -- Bryan Lindsay Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. -- Carol Burnett The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. -- Helen Keller I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. -- Helen Keller The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. ’Äì Henry David Thoreau I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. -- Abraham Lincoln

The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. -- Mencius Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore. -- Sandor McNab I suppose the main thing we've learned is that anything is possible. Dare to have a dream. Even if you fail, you'll have a hell of a story to tell. -- Daniel Dominguez Mr. Dominguez (left) and his best friend, Christopher Wall (right), both now 22) devoted over four years of their lives to rebuilding a 1957 twin-engine Aero Commander plane and flying it around the world, including legs of the trip held together with duct tape. It took them three months and at the eleventh hour AOL, stepped in with a crucial sponsorship.

You know, I've heard about people like me, But I never made the connection. They walk one road to set them free, And find they've gone the wrong direction. But there's no need for turning back, ''Cause all roads lead to where we stand And I believe we've walked them all No matter what we may have planned. -- Don McLean, "Crossroads" If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it, even if I did not have the ability to do it in the beginning. -- Mahatma Gandhi Follow your own bent, no matter what people say. -- Karl Marx Every day read something no one else is reading. Every day think something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. -Christopher Morley

Education Archives Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. -- H. G. Wells

The highest result of education is tolerance. -- Helen Keller You teach best what you most need to learn. -- Richard Bach The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. -- Herbert Spencer I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -Confucius The least of learning is done in the classrooms. -- Thomas Merton Minds are like parachutes -- they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -- Kahlil Gibran Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. -Jacques Barzun Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. -- Quintus Septimius Tertullianus Wear the old coat and buy the new book. -- Austin Phelps The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. -- Moliere Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. -- Confucius Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. -- Bertrand Russell In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is -- Chuck Reid The things taught in school are not an education but a means to an education. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A house without books is like a room without windows.-- Horace Mann We must abandon completely the naive faith that school automatically liberates the mind and serves the cause of human progress; in fact,

we know that it may serve any cause. [It] may serve tyranny as well as truth, war as well as peace, death as well as life . . . whether it is good or evil depends, not on the laws of learning, but on the conception of life and civilization that gives it substance and direction. In the course of history, education has served every purpose and doctrine contrived by man. If it is to serve the cause of human freedom, it must be explicitly designed for that purpose. -- George S. Counts Sitting in the same classroom, reading the same textbook, listening to the same teacher, boys and girls receive very different educations. From grade school through graduate school female students are more likely to be invisible members of classrooms. Teachers interact with males more frequently, ask them better questions, and give them more precise and helpful feedback. Over the course of years the uneven distribution of teacher time, energy, attention, and talent, with boys getting the lion's share, takes its toll on girls. Since gender bias is not a noisy problem, most people are unaware of the secret sexist lessons and the quiet losses they engender.-- Myra & David Sadker, Failing At Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls

One's mind, once streched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes. Jr. An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex -- Aldous Huxley Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -- Albert Einstein Control over thought is a long, painful and laborious process. But I am convinced that, no time, no labor and no pain is too much for the glorious result to be reached. -- Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi Only the educated are free. -- Epictetus Better is the frugal intellectual repast with contentment and virtue, than the luxury of learning with egotism and vice. -- Mary Baker Eddy I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand. -Chinese proverb Listen to the mustn'ts, child Listen to the don'ts Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child Anything can be.

-- Shel Silverstein If I ran a school, I'd give the average grades to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them. -- R. Buckminster Fuller Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. -- John Cotton Dana Children have never been very good at listening to their elders. But they never fail to imitate them. -- James Baldwin The five evidences of education are as follows: 1. Correctness and precision of speech. 2. Refined and gentle manners. 3. The power and habit of reflection. 4. The power of growth. 5. The possession of efficiency -- the power to do. ~ Nicholas Murray Butler Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. ~ Cree Indian Prophecy In science, read by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classics are always modern. ~ Lord Lytton A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes There is an educational channel. It's called "off."~ Lily Henderson (age 11) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~ William Arthur Ward Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes

Wisdom Archives Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because

they have to say something. -- Plato One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed." I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. -- Arthur Hays Sulzberger A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life: 1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which never have happened. 9. Take things always by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. -- Thomas Jefferson If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense. -- Holly Lisle To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.

-- Archibald MacLeish Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. -- R. Buckminster Fuller Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance. -- William Blake If it doesn't work out in the end, it's not the end yet. -- Bill Purdin Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. -- Immanuel Kant As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless. -- Rodney Yee Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. -- Comte de Buffon You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. -Frank Crane Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. -- Chuang-tzu What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. -- Confucius It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. -- Baltasar Gracian

Break Up Quotes and Sayings I was born the day I met you, lived a while when you loved me, died a little when we broke apart.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. - Kahlil Gibran A break up is like a broken mirrior. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix it. I didn’t realize how much I loved him until he was standing there and he wasn’t mine any more. - Laura Esparz No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends. When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death. - Dennis Quaid From an angel’s wings to a fallen star, God makes everything but unbreakable hearts. - Jessica Andrews. Nothing hurts more than realizing he meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to him. It takes a couple seconds to say Hello, but forever to say Goodbye. Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. Everyone tells me I should forget about you, you don’t deserve me. They’re right, you don’t deserve me, but I deserve you. Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either. - Golda Meir The heart that can no longer love passionately must with fury hate. - Jean Racine Love is unconditional, relationships are not. - Grant Gudmundson The hardest part of dreaming about someone you love is having to wake up. For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been”. - John Greenleaf Whittier

Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting the one. - Ian Philpot The heart was made to be broken. If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. - Jean Baudrillard You gotta be fair to her. She loves you and if you don’t love her then you have to go tell her. - Jerry Maguire One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing. - Byron Nelson Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. - Anonymous

Perfection Quotes and Sayings Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Perfection is what you see it as, not what others make it as. Perfect women are always found in dreams but never in reality. True perfection is in all the little imperfections. Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. Perfection is the child of time. Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. Everything is perfect in the universe , even your desire to improve it. Like perfect men , Perfect numbers are very rare. No one becomes perfect, but some become great.

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. - Italian Proverb Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. No one would love you for being perfect it’s like no one hates you for being imperfect . This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. If practice makes perfect and no one is perfect, why practice? Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Genius Quotes and Sayings I have nothing to declare except my genius. - Oscar Wilde A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see – and hits it. Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. There is no great genius without some touch of madness. - Seneca Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. Genius is perseverance in disguise. Every true genius is bound to be naive. Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others. - Mark Twain

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie. P K Thomajan Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never. Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. Inspiration and genius are one and the same. I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. - J M Whistler Genius sees the answer before the question. Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~ "Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out." ~ ~ "People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." ~ ~ "Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive—that you can touch the miracle of being alive—then that is a kind of enlightenment." ~ ~ "Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive." ~ ~ "It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more." ~ ~ "People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore." ~ ~ "Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes." ~

~ "Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now." ~ ~ "When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?" ~ ~ "To be loved means to be recognized as existing." ~ ~ "Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature." ~ ~ "We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality." ~ The following is a compilation of motivational quotations occasionally sent to the karate email list. Browse and enjoy!

There was a student studying the martial arts. One day the student asked his instructor how long it would take to achieve the rank of black belt. The instructor responded that it would take two years. The student then asked how long it would take to advance to black belt if he practiced twice as hard and twice as long every day. The instructor responded that it would take four years. Puzzled, the student then asked how long it would take to advance to black belt if he practiced four times as hard and four times as long every day. The instructor responded that it would take eight years. Even more puzzled, the student then asked how long it would take to advance to black belt if he practiced eight times as hard and eight times as long every day. The instructor responded that it would take sixteen years. The student, feeling very frustrated at this point, asked why it would take longer to earn a black belt when he was trying harder and practicing constantly to earn it. The instructor responded "If you have one eye constantly on the black belt, that only leaves one eye to focus on what you are currently learning." The point to take from this is don't get too caught up in thinking about the next belt after the one you are preparing for, but to keep your focus where it belongs and be the best at the level you are currently. Everything you learn is the foundation for what you will learn next. Build strong foundations and strive for excellence in what you are doing at this moment.

Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. Do not set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. Do not take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without

them, life is meaningless. Do not let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past nor for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life. Do not give up when you have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying. It is fragile thread that binds us to each other. Do not be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave. Do not shut love out of your life by saying it is impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give love. The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly. Do not dismiss your dreams. To be without dreams is to be without hope. To be without hope is to be without purpose. Do not run through life so fast that you forget not only where you have been but also where you are going. Life is not a race but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STRENGTH AND COURAGE It takes strength to be firm. It takes courage to be gentle. It takes strength to stand guard. It takes courage to let down your guard. It takes strength to conquer It takes courage to surrender. It takes strength to be certain. It takes courage to have doubt. It takes strength to fit in. It takes courage to stand out. It takes strength to feel a friend's pain. It takes courage to feel your own pain. It takes strength to hide feelings. It takes courage to show them. It takes strength to endure abuse. It takes courage to stop it. It takes strength to stand alone. It takes courage to lean on another. It takes strength to love. It takes courage to be loved. It takes strength to survive. It takes courage to live.

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." --Vince Lombardi You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. --Michael Jordan Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. --John Wooden If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat. --Herschel Walker Most games are lost, not won. --Casey Stengel The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. --George Shultz Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. --William A. Ward Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. --Tony Dorsett

You Are You are strong when you take your grief and teach it to smile. You are brave when you overcome your fear and help others to do the same. You are happy when you see a flower and give it your blessing. You are loving when your own pain does not blind you to the pain of others. You are wise when you know the limits of your wisdom. You are true when you admit there are times you fool yourself. You are alive when tomorrow's hope means more to you than yesterday's mistake. You are growing when you know what you are but not what you will become.

You are free when you are in control of yourself and do not wish to control others. You are honorable when you find your honor is to honor others. You are generous when you can take as sweetly as you can give. You are humble when you do not know how humble you are. You are thoughtful when you see me just as I am and treat me just as you are. You are merciful when you forgive in others the faults you condemn in yourself. You are beautiful when you don't need a mirror to tell you. You are rich when you never need more than what you have. You are you when you are at peace with who you are not.

"Success is a journey, not a destination."

"Be decisive, even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong."

INSTRUCTIONSFORLIFE 1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. 3. Follow the three R's: Respect for self Respect for others and Responsibility for all your actions. 4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. 5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. 6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship. 7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. 8. Spend some time alone every day. 9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. 10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time. 12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life. 13. In disagreements with loved ones deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past. 14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. 15. Be gentle with the earth. 16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before. 17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. 19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

What's the difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to be believable. --Anonymous

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. --Earl Nightingale

If you expect anyone else to believe in you, you have to believe in yourself first. --Anonymous

Give a man a hand and he'll run it all over you. --Mae West

Dream as if you will live forever, Live as if you will die today. --James Dean

It's not what you look at that maters, it's what you see. --Henry David Threau

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. --Moliere

If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you'll get the best. Begin to live as you wish to live. --Unknown

Don't worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. --A message published in the Wall Street Journal

One who makes no mistakes never makes anything. --Anonymous

Sometimes there is no next time, no second chance, no time out, sometimes...it's now or never.

Attitude: We become what we give ourselves the power to be.

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. --Helen Hayes

Attitude: The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. --George Bernard Shaw

Countless unseen details are often the only difference between mediocre and magnificent. --Anonymous

"I will not yield to evil...unless she's cute." --TS

Excellence: Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise; risking more than others think is safe. Dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible.

Perseverance: On the road to success one thing is certain, there is never a crowd on the extra mile. --Anonymous

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. --Joe Paterno

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. --Robert F. Kennedy

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. --George Schultz

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. --Archie Griffin, two-time Heisman Trophy winner (5'9")

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. --Arnold Palmer

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates. --Magic Johnson

What are the actions and attributes of a leader? What is it that makes him different from others? 1.A leader is always full of praise.

2.A leader learns to use the phrases "thank you" and "please" on his way to the top. 3.A leader is always growing. 4.A leader is possessed with his dreams. 5.A leader launches forth before success is certain. 6.A leader is not afraid of confrontation. 7.A leader talks about his own mistakes before talking about someone else's. 8.A leader is a person of honesty and integrity. 9.A leader has a good name. 10.A leader makes others better. 11.A leader is quick to praise and encourage the smallest amount of improvement. 12.A leader is genuinely interested in others. 13.A leader looks for opportunities to find someone doing something right. 14.A leader takes others up with him. 15.A leader responds to his own failures and acknowledges them before others have to discover and reveal them. 16.A leader never allows murmuring from himself or others. 17.A leader is specific in what he expects. 18.A leader holds accountable those who work with him. 19.A leader does what is right rather than what is popular. 20.A leader is a servant.

Courage: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. --Anonymous

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. --Thomas Jefferson

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is not the absence of fear, But a belief that something else is more important than the fear. --Anon

Michael Jackson

"You are with me always, in my heart."

Phil Jackson "The way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

Henry James "Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?"

Lloyd James "The people who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."

William James "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." "He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed." "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." "All religion begins with the cry 'Help!'" "There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self." "Lives based on having are less free than lives based on either doing or on being." "If it works, it's true." "When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is itself a choice." "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." "Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

Jan-Fishan "You may follow one stream. Know that it leads to the ocean, but do not mistake the stream for the ocean."

Karl Jaspers "The moment is the sole reality."

Thomas Jefferson "I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another." "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." "In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."

Jesus "Lift the stone and you will find me; cleave the wood and I am there." "He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone."

Juan Ramon Jimenez

"A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition."

Jnaneshwar "Salt gives up its salty taste to become one with the ocean."

Billy Joel "It's OK to mess up. You should give yourself a break."

Pope John XXIII "Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

Ben Johnson "There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."

John H. Johnson "I've believed ever since that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death."

Samuel Johnson "When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live." "To a poet nothing can be useless."

Allyson Jones "If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything."

William Jones "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

Erica Jong "I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back." "It takes courage to lead a life. Any life."

David Starr Jordon "Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for."

Don Jose

"To learn to see, to learn to hear, you must do this--go into the wilderness alone."

Charles Joseph "As soon as we attract enough attention in the world to play a part in it, we are set rolling like a ball which will never again be at rest."

Chief Joseph "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." "It does not require many words to speak the truth."

Joshu "When a sincere man teaches a wrong doctrine the doctrine becomes truth: when an insincere man expounds a true doctrine it becomes error."

Joseph Joubert "You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you." "Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything they do not make clear." "Without duty, life is soft and boneless."

Carl Jung "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity." "Enlightenment is not imagining figure of light but making the darkness conscious." "Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." "The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it." "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." "We cannot change anything unless we accept it." "The greatest sin is to be unconscious." "Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about." "If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures." "There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

.. Meher Baba "The finding of God is the coming to one's own self."

Natalie Babbitt "Dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born.... Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing."

Richard Bach "Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers." "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." "The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change."

Burt Bacharach "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. "

Francis Bacon "Knowledge itself is power." "Here is a test to see if your mission on earth is finished. If you are alive, it isn't." "If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island, cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." "They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." "The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall." "A wise man will take more opportunities than he finds." "If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted." "Wonder is the basis of worship." "It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."

Walter Bagehot "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

Mira Bai "Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel."

Pearl Bailey "Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment."

George Baker "The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning."

Lucille Ball "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

Bankei

"The farther you enter into the truth, the deeper it is." "Searching for words, hunting for phrases, when will it end? Esteeming knowledge and gathering information only maddens the spirit. Just entrust yourself to your own nature, empty and illuminatingbeyond this, I have nothing to teach."

Carl Bard "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

Joel Barker "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision without action can change the world. A true leader must first see an idea as opportunity, then choose to act upon it."

Coleman Barks "Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in." "I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous moments of eternity that just happen. We know them."

J. M. Barrie "I'm not young enough to know everything." "Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

Basho "Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves." "How I long to see among the morning flowers the face of God." "To have nothing in mind is noble. To have no skill and no knowledge is supreme. No abiding, no hermitage, comes next." "Nothing's worth noting that is not seen with fresh eyes." "The skylark sings all day, and day is too short." "Dying cricket, his song so full of life."

St. Basil "A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."

Stephen Batchelor "We cannot choose whether to engage with the world, only how to." "Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes."

Orlando A. Battista

"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."

Thomas Haynes Bayly "Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

Miriam Beard "Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."

Rebecca Beard "We should have no regrets. The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know."

Simone de Beauvoir "Society cares about the individual only insofar as he is profitable." "Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness." "I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."

Charlotte Joko Beck "You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeking it." "To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like." "Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that."

Samuel Beckett "Nothing is more real than nothing."

Henry Ward Beecher "It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant." "No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has." "It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has." "Our best success comes after our greatest disappointments."

Ludwig Van Beethoven "Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

Hadia Bejar

"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."

Saul Bellow "When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift."

Pat Benetar "With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice."

William John Bennett "Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue."

Taylor Benson "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

Milton Berle "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

Hector Berlioz "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

Georges Bernanos "You owe it to everyone (including yourself) to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world."

Claude Bernard "Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."

Wendell Berry "The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling." "To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark."

Jeanette Berson "Don't drink by the water's edge. Throw yourself in. Become the water. Only then will your thirst end."

Cathy Better "Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands."

Ugo Betti "At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing."

Bible "Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel." "Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrong doing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." "All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full."

Georges Bidault "The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong."

Bayazid Bistami "The thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it."

Michael Blake "In the end, inspiration is everything."

William Blake "To see the world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower; Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour." "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." "To generalize is to be an idiot." "If others had not been foolish, we should be so." "One thought fills immensity." "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." "As a man is, so he sees." "A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."

R. H. Blyth "Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, but appropriate actions in an imperfect one." "Art is frozen Zen." "We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust." "Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen." "The establishment of inner harmony is to be attained neither in the past nor in the future, but where the past and future meet, which is the now. When you have attained that point, neither future nor past, neither birth nor death, neither time nor space exist. It is that NOW which is liberation, which is perfect harmony, to which the men of the past and the men of the future must come."

Bodhidharma

"All know the way, few actually walk it."

Niels Bohr "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." "A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth." "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." "Predictions are hard, especially about the future." "No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical."

Sarah Knowles Bolton "Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn."

Napoleon Bonaparte "Truth alone wounds."

Edward de Bono "Think sideways!"

Louis E. Boone "Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."

Sylvia Boorstein "Life is painful, suffering is optional." "Don't just do something. Sit there."

Jorge Luis Borges "Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment- the moment in which a man finds out once and for all who he is." "I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of night without thinking that the night pleases because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."

Hal Borland "A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life."

Joan Borysenko "The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."

John Bovee "A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it."

Ray Bradbury "We are an impossibility in an impossible universe." "The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn is you're the same fool. Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness."

Omar Bradley "Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."

Georges Braque "To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself."

Jacob Braude "Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."

Robert Brault "Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share, and sought advantage over no one."

Bertolt Brecht "Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels."

Frederika Bremer "There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. "

William Bridges "Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."

Shirley Briggs "Let's dare to be ourselves, for we do that better than anyone else."

Hermann Broch

"No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness."

Jacob Bronowski "The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

Charlotte Bronte "If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own."

Mel Brooks "Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves more. 'Now thyself' is more important than 'Know thyself.' Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we do is make plans. We think that sometwhere there are going to be green pastures. It's crazy. Heaven is nothing but a grand, monumental instance of the future. Listen, now is good. Now is wonderful."

Phillips Brooks "Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life like yours, this earth would be a God's Paradise."

Franklyn Broude "You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!"

Helen Gurley Brown "My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense."

Jerry Brown "Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction."

John Mason Brown "The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

Les Brown "Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." "If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything." "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Rita Mae Brown "About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."

Sir Thomas Browne "Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude."

Robert Browning "A minute's success pays the failure of years." "Our reach should exceed our grasp, or what's a heaven for?" "We find great things are made of little things, and little things go lessening till at last comes God behind them." "It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true."

Leroy Brownlow "There are times when silence has the loudest voice."

Jean De La Bruyere "Out of difficulties grow miracles." "A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves."

Martin Buber "Play is the exultation of the possible."

Robert Williams Buchanan "Believing hath a core of unbelieving."

Pearl S. Buck "All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now."

Buddha "The less you have, the less you have to worry about." "The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me." "The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things." "He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss." "Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed." "Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished."

"The seeker is that which is being sought." "Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth." "If you do not follow the right path, you will be lost." "Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle." "Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others." "When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear." "It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes our suffering." "One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment." "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thought. With our thoughts, we make our world." "Everything is burning. The eye is burning and visible sights are burning. The ears and the sounds they hear are burning, the nose, the tongue, the body, the mind. With what fires are they burning? With the fires of greed, of hate, of ignorance, burning with anxiety, jealousy, loss, decay and grief. Considering this suffering, a follower of the way becomes weary of the fires, weary of the greed and hate that fuel the grasping at sights, sounds, smells, tastes, body or mind. Being weary, one divests oneself of this grasping and by the absence of this grasping one becomes free." "Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine." "Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think." "Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire." "When words are both true and kind, they can change our world."

Buddhagosa "Who can untangle the tangle of this world?"

Charles Bukowski "Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

Bunan "Die while you're alive and be absolutely dead. Then do whatever you want: it's all good."

John Bunyan "I am content with what I have, be it little, or much."

Frank Burford "Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying."

Edmund Burke "Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little." "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

Carol Burnett "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

Leo Burnett "Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."

Robert Burns "Suspense is worse than disappointment."

John Burroughs "The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world." "Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral." "To find universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring- these are some of the rewards of the simple life."

Robert Burton "A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."

Leo Buscaglia "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." "Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?" "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." "Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."

Buson "What you want to acquire, you should dare to acquire by any means. What you want to see, even though it is with difficulty, you should see. You should not let it pass, thinking there will be another chance to see it or acquire it. It is quite unusual to have a second chance to materialize your desire." "I came to the flowers; I slept beneath them; this was my leisure."

Edward B. Butler "One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life."

Nicholas Butler "The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."

Samuel Butler "Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious."

Eric Butterworth "More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind."

Charles Buxton "You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."

Richard E. Byrd "Give wind and tide a chance to change."

David Byrne "Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."

Lord Byron "But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." "Adversity is the first path to truth."

Robert Haas "The greatest thing about religion is that it makes life large."

Ibraham Hafiz "The place you are right now God circled on a map for you."

Hakuin "Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away." "Nirvana is right here, before our eyes." "Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness."

Edward Everett Hale "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do." "If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough."

William F. Halsey "All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them."

Alexander Hamilton "We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided."

Gail Hamilton "Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest."

Dag Hammarskjold "In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decided our answers to all the questions that life puts to us." "Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean." "The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. And only she who listens can speak."

Thich Nhat Hanh "Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life." "He began to see that the key to liberation lay in each breath, each step, each small pebble along the path."

Fridtjof Hansen "War will cease when men refuse to fight."

Joy Harjo "Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you. Remember that all is in motion, is growing, is you."

Sydney J. Harris "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

John Hawkes "Nothing is more important than the existance of what does not exist."

Nathaniel Hawthorne "The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become."

William Hazlitt "There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

"We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it."

Lafcadio Hearn "All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little."

Heinrich Heine "Silence is the essential condition of happiness." "We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing."

Joseph Heller "He had decided to live on forever or die in the attempt." "I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."

Ernest Hemingway "What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after." "And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it." "You lost it if you talk about it."

Jimi Hendrix "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

Robert Henri "It's harder to see than it is to express."

Katharine Hepburn "If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

Heracletus "It is in changing that we find purpose."

Heraclitus "The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same." "The path up and down is one and the same." "Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed."

Herakleitos

"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about its particular details."

Anne Herbert "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty."

George Herbert "The shortest answer is doing." "Storms make the oak grow deeper roots."

Oliver Herford "A man is known by the silence he keeps." "A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often."

Eugen Herrigel "The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets caught without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them "It" dances. So, too, the archer hits the target without having aimed--more I cannot say." "You must act as if the goal were infinitely far off." "You must learn to wait properly." "The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind began to form it, and in the end the pupil no longer knows which of the twomind or hand- was responsible for the work."

Theodore Hesburgh "My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right."

Hermann Hesse "There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself." "Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish." "Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence."

Robert S. Hillyer "If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure."

Jane Hirshfield "Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar."

Adolf Hitler

"What luck for rulers that men do not think."

Russell Hoban "After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?"

Ralph Hodgson "Some things have to be believed to be seen."

Lisa Hoffman "Love is like Pi - natural, irrational, and very important."

Hans Hofmann "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

Oliver Wendell Holmes "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." "Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance." "Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it." "If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it." "Don't be consistent, but be simply true." "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." "Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall." "To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old." "To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad."

John Holt "We learn something by doing it. There is no other way."

Victoria Holt "Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

Soichiro Honda "Success is 99 percent failure."

Herbert Hoover "Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die."

Tom Hopkins "Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."

Horace "Sieze today, and put as little trust as you can in the morrow." "Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses." "Believe that each day that shines on you is your last." "Whatever advice you give, be brief."

Edgar Watson Howe "If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."

Hsi-Tang "Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs vision."

Hsueh-feng "The whole world is you. Yet you keep thinking there is something else."

Huang-po "Consider the sunlight. You may say that it is near, yet if you pursue it from world to world you will never catch it. You may say it is far, yet it is right before your eyes. Chase it and it always eludes you; run from it and it is always there. From this example you can understand how it is with the true nature of things."

Elbert Hubbard "The love we give away is the only love we keep." "A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same." "It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do." "God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars." "Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace." "We work to become, not to acquire."

Charles Evans Hughes "When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

Langston Hughes "Hold on to your dreams for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

Victor Hugo

"People do not lack strength; they lack will." "One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."

Hui-neng "As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance." "When you give away a little piece of your heart, you're giving away the only thing you can give away, which, after you do, you got more left than you had before you gave some of it away." "The meaning of life is to see." "Before you think good or evil, who are you?"

Trinidad Hunt "Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives."

Pearl Strachan Hurd "Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs."

Zora Neale Hurston "There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

Don Hutson "When you give away a little piece of your heart, you're giving away the only thing you can give away, which, after you do, you got more left than you had before you gave some of it away."

Aldous Huxley "Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him." "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self." "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important lesson of history." "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." "Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture." "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." "Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body."

Julian Huxley "The man who should know the true history of the bit of chalk which every carpenter carries about in his breeches-pocket, though ignorant of all other history, is likely, if he will think his knowledge out to its ultimate results, to have a truer, and therefore a better, conception of this wonderful universe, and of man's relation to it, than the most learned student who is deep-read in the records of humanity and ignorant of those of Nature."

Thomas A. Huxley "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."

Won Hyo "As evening draws near, you regret that you did not practice early in the morning. The wordly pleasure which you enjoy now becomes suffering in the future. Why then are you attached to this pleasure? One moment of practice becomes lasting pleasure. Why then do you not practice?"

Eileen Caddy "Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed."

Julius Caesar "Men willingly believe what they wish."

John Cage "My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet." "Nothing more than nothing can be said." "Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it." "If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd." "The first question I ask when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful? And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." "In an utter emptiness anything can take place."

Mark Caine "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

Arthur Caldwell "It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies."

Joseph Campbell "I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have some resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive."

Albert Camus "There is no frontier between being and appearing." "The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits." "I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day." "Live to the point of tears." "From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth." "Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up by ruling over a desert." "All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning." "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

Thomas Carlyle "Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so." "Silence is as deep as Eternity; speech as shallow as Time."

Dale Carnegie "Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves." "Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves." "You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime." "If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, hey would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars... or your legs... or your hands... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself."

John le Carre "Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself."

George Washington Carver "Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition."

Joyce Cary "I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain."

Lorene Cary "I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta."

Pablo Casals "The most important thing in music is what is not the notes." "The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all."

Herbert N. Casson "Every winner has scars."

John L. Casti "Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time."

Miguel de Cervantes "No man is born wise."

Paul Cezanne "Right now a moment of time is fleeting by. Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment." "The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution." "We live in a rainbow of chaos."

Achaan Chah "At some point your heart will tell itself what to do."

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort "Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality."

William Henry Channing "To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common- this is my symphony." "Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin "Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."

Charlie Chaplin "A day without laughter is a day wasted." "In the end, everything is a gag."

Rene Char "What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it."

Pierre Charron "He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it."

Long Chen Pa "Since everything is but an apparition, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst into laughter."

G.K. Chesterton "One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak." "There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain." "Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest." "Nothing is certain by uncertainty." "Angels fly because they take themselves lightly." "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." "There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect." "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."

Chi Chi "Don't ask if I've ceased wanting anything- we all know the simile of the drifting clouds. Excess wouldn't fit the precepts: take what comes and you're never in doubt."

Jerry Chin "And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."

Tao Te Ching "The more you know the less you understand."

Pema Chodron "Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves." "Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things." "If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a longing, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop- everything."

Ching Ning Chu

"Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day."

Jennie Jerome Churchill "Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy."

Winston Churchill "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." "This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure." "Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge." "It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic."

Cicero "Whatever happens in accordance with nature should be accounted good."

Marcus Tullius Cicero "History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity." "Friendship renders prosperity more brilliant, while it lightens adversity by sharing it and making its burden common." "If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he needs never regret his limited ability."

Arthur C. Clarke "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

Claudius "Say not always what you know, but always know what you say."

Eldridge Cleaver "You're either part of the solution or part of the problem."

Jean Cocteau "All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."

Paulo Coelho "You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle."

Dale Coleman "One must never be in haste to end a day. There are too few of them in a lifetime."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette "Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you."

Phil Collins "Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you."

Charles Caleb Colton "Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass, before they can enter into the temple of truth." "He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation."

James B. Conant "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks out his head."

Phil Condit "None of us is as smart as all of us."

Confucius "The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort." "Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." "I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability." "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." "Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it." "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." "Silence is a friend who will never betray." "All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly." "If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know." "By three methods may we learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is bitterest." "If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?" "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." "To know that you know, and to know that you don't know- that is real wisdom."

William Congreve "Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise."

Cyril Connolly "Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk." "We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self."

Joseph Conrad "I don't like work- no man does- but I like what is in work- the chance to find yourself."

Pat Conroy "Without music, life is like a journey through a desert."

Russell H. Conwell "Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them."

Bill Cosby "There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right."

Rene Coty "It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything."

Norman Cousins "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." "Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life." "Life is an adventure in forgiveness."

Stephen R. Covey "Seek first to understand and then to be understood." "To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."

Lynne Cox "There are no limits on how much the heart can love, the mind can imagine, or the human being can achieve."

Luciano de Crescenzo

"We are each an angel with only one wing. And we can only fly while embracing each other."

Sonia Croquette "Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience."

St. John of the Cross "If you would seek to know everything; then do not seek to know anything."

Ispwo Mukika Crowfoot "What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

E. E. Cummings "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." "To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." "It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

Marie Curie "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."

William Curry "Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters."

Cyrus H.K. Curtis "There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else."

George William Curtis "Age is a matter of feeling, not of years."

Billy Ray Cyrus "All gave some, some gave all."

Fo-hsing T'ai

"Break through the impassible barrier and get to know the opening beyond."

Ts'ai Ken T'an "Water which is too pure has no fish."

Ta-Hui "When a person is confused, he sees east as west. When he is enlightened, west itself is east."

Cornelius Tacitus "The more corrupt the state the more numerous the laws." "If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger."

Rabindranath Tagore "Light, where is the light? Light the fire, if you have desire! Thunder, rushing wind, nothingness. Black night, black stone. Don't let your whole life go by in the dark. Evidently the only way to find the path is to set fire to my own life." "The butterfly counts not days but moments, and has time enough." "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes." "If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out."

Hippolyte Taine "There are four kinds of people in the world; those in love, the ambitious, the observers, and the stupid. The most happy are the stupid."

Takuan "When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on any one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye... The mind that stops or is moved by something- this is the affliction of the abiding place."

The Talmud "Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.' " "A word is worth one coin; silence is worth two."

Freeman Teague "Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood."

Alfred Lord Tennyson "I am part of all that I have met." "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control- these three alone lead to sovereign power."

Mother Teresa "God is the friend of silence. Trees, flowers, grass grow in silence. See the stars, moon, and sun how they move in silence." "If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it." "We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness." "I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time- just one, one, one. So you begin. I began- I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand... The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin- one, one, one." "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

William M. Thackeray "It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

Katherine Thanas "It is true, we don't know what is happening in the deepest sense. And if we can stay with the not knowing, and trust it, and enjoy it, we will be able to experience our life in some fundamentally different way. That's our miraculous power."

Henry David Thoreau "Read not the Times, read the Eternities." "In wildness is the preservation of life." "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment." "It is never too late to give up our prejudices." "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." "It is the stars not known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows." "My life has been the poem I would have writ, but I could not both live and utter it." "What I am I am, and say not. Being is the great explainer." "Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder." "Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in." "As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, a man bears a poem, either spoken or done." "In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages." "There is no remedy for love but to love more." "Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." "Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not the fish they are after." "In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while."

"Truth is always paradoxical." "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." "To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust." "Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." "To be awake is to be alive. I have never met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn." "It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around." "The buds swell imperceptibly without hurry or confusion, as if the short spring day were an eternity." "It would imply the regeneration of mankind, if they were to become elevated enough to truly worship sticks and stones." "The fault finder will find faults even in paradise." "Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it until it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh." "Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary." "Going from- toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter." "Life is too short to be in a hurry." "Surely joy is the condition of life." "Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each."

James Thurber "All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."

Paul Tillich "Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

Harry Moyle Tippett "The really great men of earth are never known by their titled names, or seldom so, so significant has been their service, so distinguished their gifts, that their simple name is enough."

J. R. R. Tolkien "Not all who wander are lost. "

Leo Tolstoy "Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude." "The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life." "There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed." "Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them." "If you want to be happy, be."

Lily Tomlin

"If you can't be direct, why be?"

Tonna "Clouds disappear and the sky is a deep blue but as I gaze upward that blueness, too, fades into emptiness."

Brian Tracy "The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good."

Thomas Traherne "You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flows in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you."

Harry S. Truman "If you can't convince them, confuse them."

Chogyam Trungpa "If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time." "Opening to oneself fully is opening to the world."

Lao Tse "Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river."

Dale Turner "Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."

Mark Twain "Sacred cows make the best hamburgers." "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read, and nobody wants to read." "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." "Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned." "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." "Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." "The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself." "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes." "We are all alike, on the inside."

Tristan Tzara "The acts of life have neither beginning nor end."

Chang Tzu "Do not be an embodiment of fame; do not be a storehouse of schemes; do not be an undertaker of projects; do not be a proprietor of wisdom. Wander where there is no trail. Hold on to all that you have recieved from Heaven but do not think you have gotten anything. Be empty, that is all. The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror--going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing."

Chuang Tzu "We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away." "It is everywhere." "The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present." "The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by." "He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion." "I look at the matter in this way; when I am making a pot on a wheel, if my stroke is too slow, then it bites deep but is not steady; if my stroke is too fast, then it is steady, but does not go deep. The right pace, neither slow nor fast, cannot get into the hand unless it comes from the heart." "When we understand, we are at the center of the circle, and there we sit while Yes and No chase each other around the circumference." "The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged without delight; he went back in without a fuss. He came briskly, he went briskly, and that was all. He didn't forget where he began; he didn't try to find out where he would end. He received something and took pleasure in it; he forgot about it and handed it back again. This is what I call not using the mind to repel the Way, not using man to help out Heaven. This is what I call the True Man." "Men cannot see their reflection in running water, but only in still water." "The universe came into being with us together; with us, all things are one."

Lao Tzu "A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." "To die and not be lost, is the real blessing of a long life." "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." "Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity." "Stop thinking, and end your problems." "Therefore the sage keeps to the deed that consists in taking no action and practices the teaching that uses no words." "Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know." "If you want to know me, look inside your heart." "The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them."

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." "Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?" "The world is ruled by letting things take their course." "Approach it and there is no beginning; follow it and there is no end. You can't know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life." "People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure." "He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful." "True words always seem paradoxical but no other form of teaching can take their place." "The sage himself never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved." "A truly good man is not aware of his goodness and is therefore good." "When you look for it, there is nothing to see. When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear. When you use it, it is inexhaustible." "True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise." "True perfection seems imperfect, yet is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet is fully present." "Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." "He who knows speaks not; he who speaks knows not." "If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. If you want to be reborn, let yourself die. If your want to be given everything, give everything up." "He who knows enough is enough will always have enough." "To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease." "Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation." "To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." "Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should answer the question." "Without leaving my house, I know the whole universe." "Only one who makes no attempt to possess it cannot lose it." "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." "Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing, religious robes no more spiritual than work clothes." "Self is realized through selflessness."

J. W. Eagan "Never judge a book by its movie."

Marie Ebner-Eschenbach "In youth we learn, in age we understand."

Meister Eckhart "Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to all of us."

"What a man takes in by contemplation, he pours out in love." "And a man shall be free, and as pure as the day prior to his conception in his mother's womb, when he has nothing, wants nothing and knows nothing." "That which man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love." "Only the hand that erases can write the true thing." "The more we have the less we own."

Mariam Wright Edelman "If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time." "We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

Maria Edgeworth "There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence."

Thomas A. Edison "What you are will show in what you do." "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." "The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

Tryon Edwards "Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up."

Albert Einstein "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." "We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us." "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity." "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible." "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." "I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." "Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."

"The life of the individual only has meaning insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate." "It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it." "People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." "Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose." "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is all comprehensible." "A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be." "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." "The important thing is not to stop questioning." "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." "The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man." "The only source of knowledge is experience." "A human being is a part of the whole called by us 'the universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separate from the rest- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection of a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." "We must learn to see the world anew." "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." "A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." "The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self." "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

Cato the Elder "An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."

George Eliot "It's never too late to be the person you could have become." "Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

T. S. Eliot "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." "In my end is my beginning." "And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." "Where is the knowledge that is lost in information? Where is the wisdom that is lost in knowledge?" "The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: Humility is endless." "I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope. For hope would be hope for the wrong thing... So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing."

Walter Elliott "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

Philip Elmer-DeWitt "Some people make headlines while others make history."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is not length of life, but depth of life." "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." "Let us be silent that we may hear the whisper of God." "The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops but the kind of man that the country turns out." "So far as a man thinks, he is free." "I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." "Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory." "What you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say." "You become what you think about all day long." "Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it." "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you." "A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer." "Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed." "We are wiser than we know." "Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other." "Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain." "The first wealth is health." "The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck." "There is a crack in everything God has made." "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense." "When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." "It is very hard to be simple enough to be good." "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." "It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself." "God offers every mind its choice between truth and repose." "A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can." "Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones." "Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves." "To fill the hour- that is happiness; to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval." "Let us be posied, and wise, and our own, today." "Only so much do I know, as I have lived." "Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn." "God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions." "There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit." "People only see what they are prepared to see." "The invisible mark of wisdom is seeing the miraculous in the common." "The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away."

"We boil at different degrees." "Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." "Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." "Roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of existence." "As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way." "Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit... People wish to be settled; but only so far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them."

Friedrich Engels "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

Jack Engler "You must be somebody before you can be nobody."

Epictetus "No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose." "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." "The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." "It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." "Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does." "It is difficulties that show what men are."

Epicurus "Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist."

Werner Erhard "Happiness is a function of accepting what is."

Susan Ertz "Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

Martin Esslin "The dignity of a man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness."

Euripdes

"It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends." "Our lives... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone."

Nicholas Evans "Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in your own hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater."

Douglas Everett "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Sadi "Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity."

Seung Sahn "Our mind is like a clear glass of water. If we put salt into the water, it becomes salt water; sugar, it becomes sugar water; shit, it becomes shit water. But originally the water is clear. No thinking, no mind. No mind, no problem." "A long time ago, Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." This is where philosophy begins. But if you are not thinking, what? This is where Zen begins." "If you don't enter the lion's den, you will never capture the lion." "Don't want anything. Don't make anything. Don't hold anything. Don't attach anything."

Abu Said "Realize that you know nothing and you are nobody. It is no easy thing to attain this realization. It doesn't come with teaching and instruction, nor can it be sewn on with a needle, or tied with a thread. This is a gift from God and a question of whom He bestows it on and whom He causes to experience it." "Take one step away from yourself- and behold!- the path!"

Edward Said "Beginning is not only a kind of action, it is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness."

Antoine De Saint-Exupery "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." "How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being." "It is only with the heart that one can see. What is essential is invisible to the eyes."

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To be alive is to be slowly born." "It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you." "What savesa man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it." "How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on." "Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something molded." "And I would answer you... that to prepare the future is only to found the present... for the sole true invention is to decipher the present under its incoherent aspects and its contradictory language... You do not have to foresee the future, but to allow it..."

Marquis de Saint-Lambert "Often I am still listening when the song is over."

Saki "In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse."

St. Francis de Sales "Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly." "While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things."

Sallust "Few men desire liberty, most men wish only for a just master."

Sharon Salzberg "We see that life, composed of this mind and body, is in a state of continual, constant transformation and flux. There is always the possibility of radical change. Every moment- not just poetically of figuratively, but literally- every moment we are dying and being reborn, we and all of life. "

George Sand "One changes from day to day... every few years one becomes a new being." "Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius." "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

Carl Sandburg "I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all." "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." "The night wind with the big dark curves of the night sky in it, the night wind gets inside me and understands all my secrets."

George Santayana

"One real world is enough." "Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character." "There is no sure cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."

Sark "Look forward to dreams."

David Sarnoff "We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."

William Saroyan "Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

Jean-Paul Sartre "Prose is first of all an attitude of mind." "Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being."

Vidal Sassoon "The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary."

Marilyn vos Savant "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

Ruth Ann Schabacker "Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons."

Arthur Schopenhauer "We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people." "The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."

Carl Schurz "Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in reaching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."

Albert Schweitzer

"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it." "Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace." "Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now- always." "As soon as a man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins." "An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color blind." "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

Cherie Carter Scott "Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible."

Sir Walter Scott "Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening."

Vida D. Scudder "It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."

Frank Scully "Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"

David Searles "Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."

Chief Seattle "The earth does not belong to people; people belong to the earth. Everything that happens to the earth happens also to the sons and daughters of the earth."

Emily H. Sell "Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it."

Peter Seller "Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."

Hans Selye

"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

Seneca "Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When you don't know what harbor you're aiming for, no wind is the right wind." "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult." "Let us be brave in the face of adversity." "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." "We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them." "The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity." "What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you." "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars." "Begin at once to live." "The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition."

Seng-Chao "The mind is like water: when it's still, there is reflection when disturbed, no mirror. Middled by folly and craving, fanned by misleading circumstances, it surges and billows, never stopping for a moment. Looking at it this way, where can you go and not be mistaken! It's like trying to look into a flowing spring to see your own appearance- it never forms."

Seng-Ts'an "If only for a moment we see within, we have overcome the emptiness of things."

Sengai "Even before I can say it, it is no more." "To what shall I compare this life of ours? Even before I can say it is like a lightning flash or a dewdrop, it is no more."

Seppo "All this universe is in this eye of mine."

Maurice Setter "Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold."

Thomas Shadwell "Every man loves what he is good at."

William Shakespeare "The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger." "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their entrances and exits; And one man in his time has many parts." "This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." "Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done." "When Love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony." "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

Shantidasa "When you worry about the problems of tomorrow, you are creating unhappiness for yourself today."

George Bernard Shaw "Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature." "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." "There is only one religion though there are a hundred versions of it." "The man who listens to reason is lost: reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her." "Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." "All great truths begin as blasphemies." "Life is too short for men to take it seriously." "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth." "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." "No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."

H. W. Shaw "It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too."

Gail Sheehy "The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness."

Fulton J. Sheen "Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it."

John B. Sheerin "Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

Percy Bysshe Shelley "I believe because I do believe."

Percy Bysshe Shelly "War is a kind of superstition; the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of man."

Barbara Sher "Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze." "You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning."

Richard Brinsley Sheridan "The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed."

Shinso "Does one really have to fret about enlightenment? No matter what road I travel, I'm going home."

Neville Shulman "All that is necessary is to lay down, not just the body, but one's heart and the whole of oneself."

Beverly Sills "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

Sina'I "If knowledge does not liberate the self from the self, then ignorance is better than such knowledge."

Charan Singh "Simplicity doesn't mean to live in misery and poverty. You have what you need, and you don't want what you don't need."

Hannah Whitall Smith "The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right."

Gary Snyder "Awareness of emptiness brings forth the heart of compassion."

Socrates "I know that I know nothing."

Arthur Sokoloff "From the moment we cease trying to swim upstream and begin to flow with the current, something changes within us."

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn "It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within the power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn "Let your memory be your travel bag."

Sophocles "One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love."

Muso Soseki "When there is no place that you have decided to call your own then no matter where you go you are always heading home."

Robert Southwell "Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; not where I love, but where I am, I die."

Sozei "I look out, and snow is falling with a moon still in the sky. A new day begins. And of the dream called yesterday, no trace."

Francis Spellman "Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man."

G. Spencer-Brown "We cannot fully understand the beginning of something until we understand the end."

Oswald Spengler "Infinitely more important than the answers are the questions, the choice of them, the inner form of them."

Spinoza "Reality and perfection are synonymous."

Germain de Stael "Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end."

William Stafford "I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton "With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?"

Gertrude Stein "I like a view but I like to sit with my back to it." "When you get there, there isn't any there there."

George Steiner "When the word of the poet ceases, a great light begins."

Stendhal "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

Wallace Stevens "God is in me or else is not at all." "The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself." "I am what is around me."

Adlai E. Stevenson "I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."

Robert Louis Stevenson "It's deadly commonplace, but, after all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths."

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence." "I believe in an ultimate decency of things." "The wisdom of this world consists in making oneself very little, in order to avoid many knocks; in preferring others, in order that, even when we lose, we shall find some pleasure in the event; in putting our desires outside of ourselves, in another ship, so to speak, so that, when the worst happens, there will be something left." "The saints are the sinners who keep going." "The best things in life are nearest. Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you." "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

Maire Stilkind "Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow. When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications, I sink. If I fail and thrash and growl and grumble, I go under. But if I let go and float, I am borne aloft."

Tom Stoppard "Every exit is an entry to somewhere else." "Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up." "I do not pretend to understand the universe. It's a great deal bigger than I am." "Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?"

Harriet Beecher Stowe "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

Maurine Stuart "Let go. Don't let up."

Carlo Suares "This table has four legs. A table with a broken leg remains a table. But a table from which the four legs have been removed becomes only a flat piece of wood. At what moment did it cease to be a table?"

Karen Sunde "To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."

D.T. Suzuki "Not mere talk about water, nor the mere sight of a spring, but an actual mouthful of it gives the thirsty complete satisfaction." "The individual becomes perfect when he loves his individuality in the all to which he belongs." "'Childlikeness' has to be restored with long years of training in the art of self-forgetfulness." "If you attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment."

Shunryu Suzuki "When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything." "The world is its own magic." "To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him." "So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others .... Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you." "Our practice should be based on the idea of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything." "Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice." "Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours." "Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right in the imperfection is perfect reality." "The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet." "Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink." "As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself." "Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything." "Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death nor actual difficulty in our life." "We die, and we do not die." "To stand on your feet is the most important thing. To sacrifice this moment for your future, for your ideal even, means that you are not standing on your feet. Don't complain; accept things as they are and satisfy yourself with what you have, right now. You should think, 'This is the only reality, the only Buddha I can see, I can experience, I can have, I can worship.'" "We say 'just sit.' What does it mean, 'just sit'? When we say 'just sit' it includes all of the activity, all of the potential activity which we have; we remain in an inactive state, but we have infinite potentiality. In this sense our practice includes everything." "This is the ultimate fact: 'I am here.'" "You can't make a date with enlightenment." "To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana." "When we realize the everlasting truth of 'everything changes,' and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in nirvana." "When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself." "If it's not paradoxical, it's not true." "Each one of you is perfect as you are. And you all could use a little bit of improvement." "You will always exist in the universe in one form or another." "If the teaching doesn't feel like it's forcing something upon you, it's not good teaching." "Be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice." "Just to be alive is enough."

Emanuel Swedenborg "The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness."

Johnathan Swift "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." "May you live all the days of your life."

Pubilius Syrus "If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest."

"Each day should be passed as though it were our last."

Swami Rama "Life does not need to be changed. Only your intent and actions do."

Ramakrishna "So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom." "When you no longer make any distinction between the water of this pool and the water of the Ganges, then you will know that you have Perfect Knowledge."

Ayn Rand "To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense." "All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk."

Otto Rank "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

Man Ray "It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them."

Marie Beynon Ray "Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake."

Daniel L. Reardon "In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip."

Alistair Reid "'Did you have a happy childhood?' is a false question. As a child I did not know what happiness was, and whether I was happy or not. I was too busy being."

Jules Renard "Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties." "As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more."

Ruth E. Renkl

"You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted."

Pierre Reverdy "I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work."

Kenneth Rexroth "The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained."

M. C. Richards "A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other."

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker "I believe that if you think about disaster you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience."

Rainer Maria Rilke "I beg you... to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer." "A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when the stars are dead." "I learn every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything." "Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always." "True singing is a different breath, about nothing." "Unexpectedly you find it, welling upwards in the empty tree." "And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true." "There is only one journey. Going inside yourself." "All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you."

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche "It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free."

Dudjam Rinpoche "You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others."

Gendun Rinpoche

"Only our own searching for happiness prevents us from seeing it. It is like a vivid rainbow which you pursue without ever catching it, or a dog chasing its own tail. Although peace and happiness do not exist as an actual thing or place, they are always available, and accompany you every instant."

Kalu Rinpoche "You live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality but you do not know this. When you understand this, you will see that you are nothing, and being nothing you are everything. That is all."

Sogyal Rinpoche "Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues." "Learning to live is learning to let go."

Donna Roberts "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

F.W. Robertson "Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought."

John D. Rockefeller "If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

Auguste Rodin "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." "The only thing is to see."

Theodore Roethke "I learn by going where I have to go." "In a dark time, the eye begins to see." "Being, not doing, is my first joy."

Will Rogers "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Jim Rohn "The more you know the less you need to say."

Romain Rolland

"A hero is a man who does what he can."

Andy Rooney "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."

Mickey Rooney "You always pass failure on the way to success."

Eleanor Roosevelt "When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die." "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Theodore Roosevelt "I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!" "Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

Katagiri Roshi "The moment between before and after is called Truth."

Maezumi Roshi "No one can live your life except you. No one can live my life except me. You are responsible. I am responsible. But what is our life? What is our death?" "We must see our life clearly. The existance of this very moment- what is it?"

Joseph Ross "It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well."

Christina Rossetti "Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad."

Francois de la Rouchefoucauld "When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

La Rouchefoucauld "When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau "At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer."

A. Maude Royden "Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal."

Arthur Rubinstein "Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Jalauddin Rumi "Sh...No more words-- Hear only the voice within. Remember, the first thing He said was: We are beyond words." "When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, 'This is certainly not like we thought it was.'" "By definition, human beings do not see or hear. I broke loose from definition." "The mystery does not get clearer by repeating the questions. Nor is it bought with going to amazing places. Until you've kept your eyes and your wanting still for fifty years you don't begin to cross over from confusion." "Who comes to a spring thirsty and sees the moon reflected in it?" "Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?" "Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next." "Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle." "God picks up the reed-flute and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing-pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note." "You are every image, and yet I'm homesick for you." "I want to sing like birds sing not worrying who hears or what they think." "Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking." "If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you." "I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know the reasons, knocking on the door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside!" "Listen with your ear. Speak without forming words. Language turns against itself and is likely to cause injury." "Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself." "Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them." "Grapes want to turn to wine." "Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." "The satiated man and the hungry man do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread." "Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it. Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute." "I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there."

Margaret Lee Runback

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

John Ruskin "The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way ... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion-- all in one." "He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great." "There is no wealth but life." "Whether for life or death, do your own work well."

Bertrand Russell "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

Lillian Russell "Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine."

Samuel Rutherford "After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies."

Ryonen "In this living world the body I give up and burn would be wretched if I thought of myself as anything but firewood."

The Spartans did not inquire how many the enemy are, but where they are. Agis II. “In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.”

Albert Camus (1913-1960); Author And Philosopher SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Each child is an adventure into a better life — an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.” Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978); 38th U.S. Vice President SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Don't tell us the sky is the limit when there are footsteps on the moon.” Unknown

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“Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life…It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life.” David Emerald Author

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“Inspire and bring joy to all those you touch.” Rod Williams Musician

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“How many of us have enough trust, strength, and faith to believe that we could do the impossible?” Rachel Joy Scott (1981-1999); Student, First Victim Of The Columbine High School Massacre SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” Vaclav Havel (born 1936); Poet, Playwright, 1st President Of Czech Republic SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” Victor Hugo (1802-1885); Poet, Novelist, Playwright SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“In the hour of adversity, be not without hope; for crystal rain falls from black clouds.” Nizami (1141-1203); Poet

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“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968); Politician, Senator, Civil Rights Activist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“A trying journey can only result in a phenomenal blessing.” Dawn M. Harvey Motivational Speaker And Author SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings: Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.” William Shakespeare (1564-1616); Dramatist, Poet SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.” Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939); Childrens' Rights Activist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” Christopher Reeve (1952-2004); Actor, Producer, Director, And Writer; Best Known For His Role As Superman SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.” Helen Keller (1880-1968); Author, Lecturer, Activist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965); British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author, Nobel Prize Winner SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness.” Maya Angelou (born 1928); Poet, Dancer, Producer, Playwright, Director, Author SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964); 1st Prime Minister Of India SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.” Vaclav Havel (born 1936); Poet, Playwright, 1st President Of Czech Republic SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.” Bill Blackman Founder And President Of Hearts And Minds Network SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless... Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the notyet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.” Ayn Rand (1905-1982); Writer, Philosopher SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” Hugh Sidey (1927-2005); Journalist

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“Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.” Eric Hoffer (1902-1983); Philosopher

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“Never, never, never give up.” Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965); British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author, Nobel Prize Winner SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962); U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.” Pearl S. Buck

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“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” Bhagavad Gita (born 500);

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“Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.” Sir Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941); Founder Of The Boy Scouts SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“I have the greatest weapon, I have hope.” Sophia Mendoza Master Sergeant, Us Army

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“Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.” Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); Novelist, Playwright SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear.” Monroe Forester SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ” Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); Politician, Writer, Scientist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now...the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.” Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926); Excerpt From Letters To A Young Poet SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Where hope grows, miracles blossom.” Elna Rae SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882); Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.” Sophocles (496-406); Greek Tragedian

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“Someone with their feet planted firmly on the ground has no hope of reaching the stars.” Kelsey Dunn SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. ” Alexander Pope (1688-1744); Poet, Critic, Translator SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“There is no hope of joy except in human relations.” Antoine de Sainte-Exupery (1900-1944); Aviator, Writer

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“He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein (1875-1955); Theoretical Physicist, Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Where hope grows, miracles blossom.” Elna Rae SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.” Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969); Author

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“It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.” Proverb

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“Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the right stuff to turn our dream into reality.” James Womack (born 1941); Biologist, Author, Professor SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.” Shakti Gawain (born 1948); Writer

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“It's always too early to quit. ” Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993); Preacher, Author SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the person who believes.” Adlin Sinclair Motivational Author, Humanitarian SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965); British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author, Nobel Prize Winner SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“I cannot look back with regrets, but I can look forward optimistically. ” Cornelius Kilgore (born 1973); Military

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“A life full of enthusiasm, hope and contributions through one's own talent is a life well lived.” Kimberly Day American Writer And Poet

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“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.” George Horace Lorimer (1899-1937); Editor

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“One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.” Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880); Novelist

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“I have the greatest weapon, I have hope.” Sophia Mendoza Master Sergeant, Us Army

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“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.” Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784); Poet, Essayist, Lexicographer SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” John F. Kennedy (1917-1963); 35th Us President SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.” Alex Karras (born 1935); Athlete, Actor

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“Try it one more time.” Unknown

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“He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.” B. C. Forbes (1880-1954); Financial Journalist; Founded Forbes Magazine SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.” Alex Tan SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.” Seneca (4-65); Roman Statesman, Philosopher SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all.” Emily Dickinson (1830-1886); Poet

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“I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now...the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.” Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926); Excerpt From Letters To A Young Poet SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” Victor Hugo (1802-1885); Poet, Novelist, Playwright SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.” Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839-1908); Novelist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.” Albert Camus (1913-1960); Author And Philosopher SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life…It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life.” David Emerald Author

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“Once you choose hope, anything is possible.”

Christopher Reeve (1952-2004); Actor, Producer, Director, And Writer; Best Known For His Role As Superman SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times, but only to those who remember to turn on the light.” Albus Dumbledoor Harry Potter Character

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“The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.” Henry David Thoreau

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“Liberty requires opportunity to make a living — a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.” Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945); 32nd U.S. President SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. ” Alexander Pope (1688-1744); Poet, Critic, Translator SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.” Christian D. Larson New Thought Leader

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“Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.” Eric Hoffer (1902-1983); Philosopher

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“Hope, deceitful though it be, is at least of this good use to us that while we are traveling through this life, it conducts us by an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.” François Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680); Writer, Moralist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

(1803-1882); Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“In the hour of adversity, be not without hope; for crystal rain falls from black clouds.” Nizami (1141-1203); Poet

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“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870); Writer

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“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.” Helen Keller (1880-1968); Author, Lecturer, Activist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.” Thomas Moore (1779-1852); Poet

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“A trying journey can only result in a phenomenal blessing.” Dawn M. Harvey Motivational Speaker And Author SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in

disappointment.”

Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784); Poet, Essayist, Lexicographer SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.” John Perry Barlow (born 1947); Essayist, Lyricist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.” Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948); Indian Political And Spiritual Leader SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Where hope grows, miracles blossom.” Elna Rae SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear.” Monroe Forester SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Never, never, never give up.” Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965); British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author, Nobel Prize Winner SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.” George Horace Lorimer

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“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882); Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.” Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993); Author, Preacher SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.” Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997); Marine Biologist, Diver, Explorer SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” Mother Teresa (1910-1997); Founder Of The Missionaries Of Charity SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life…It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life.” David Emerald Author

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“He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein (1875-1955); Theoretical Physicist, Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968); Politician, Senator, Civil Rights Activist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“We live by our genius for hope; we survive by our talent for dispensing with it.” V.S. Pritchett (1900-1997); Writer, Critic

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“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.” Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774); Poet, Playwright, Physician SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.” Shakti Gawain (born 1948); Writer

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“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” Vaclav Havel (born 1936); Poet, Playwright, 1st President Of Czech Republic SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“How many of us have enough trust, strength, and faith to believe that we could do the impossible?” Rachel Joy Scott

(1981-1999); Student, First Victim Of The Columbine High School Massacre SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Wisdom begins in Wonder.” Socrates (470-399); Greek Philosopher SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.” George Gordon Byron (1788-1824);

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“Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965); British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author, Nobel Prize Winner SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.” George C. Marshall (1880-1959); U.S. Army General SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.” Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929); Author, Poet, Novelist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.” Alec Bourne

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“Each child is an adventure into a better life — an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.” Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978); 38th U.S. Vice President SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.” Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862); Naturalist, Author, Philosopher SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.” Seneca (4-65); Roman Statesman, Philosopher SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.” Helen Keller (1880-1968); Author, Lecturer, Activist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.” Bill Blackman Founder And President Of Hearts And Minds Network SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870); Writer

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“A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.” Christian D. Larson New Thought Leader

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“To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.” William James (1842-1910); Psychologist, Philosopher, Author SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Someone with their feet planted firmly on the ground has no hope of reaching the stars.” Kelsey Dunn

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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962); U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.” Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933); 30th Us President SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Once you choose hope, anything is possible.”

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“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”

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“One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.” Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880); Novelist

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Whether they were heroes, poets, scholars, or leaders, the brightest minds in human history have thought and written about values and their meanings. Use the search field on the left to search our quotation database by author, value, or specific word contained in the quote.

“What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.” Henry Miller (1891-1980); Author, Writer

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“Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life…It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life.” David Emerald Author

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“In the hour of adversity, be not without hope; for crystal rain falls from black clouds.” Nizami (1141-1203); Poet

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“When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.” J.B. Morgan and Ewing Webb Authors SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.” Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886); Author

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“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968); 64th Us Attorney General SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.” Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839-1908); Novelist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870); Writer

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“The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.” Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865); 16th U.S. President SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

A Story You Must Read 20 May 2010 5 Comments 13 ► Retweet!! Written by Michael Weaver | Follow me on Twitter | Free updates via Email.

You may have read this story – if you have, it’s a great one to read again. If it’s new to you – I recommend you check it out and I can promise you it will be worth it. Enjoy! Perspective is where it’s at – and stories, quotes and other tools that help you and I gain perspective on life are not shared enough. Feel free to share with your family and friends like I have! Enjoy… A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, rocks about 2″ in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous – yes. The professor then produced two cans of beer from under the table and proceeded to pour their entire contents into the jar – effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed. “Now,” said the professor, as the laughter subsided, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The rocks are the important things – your family, your partner, your health, and your children – Things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter, like your job, your house, and your car. The sand is everything else. The small stuff.” “If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, give a dinner party and fix the disposal. “Take care of the rocks first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.” One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the beer represented. The professor smiled. “I’m glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of beers.” “If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.” Tom Hanks Playing Jimmy Dugan From \A League Of Their Own"""""""" SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory.” Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948); Indian Political And Spiritual Leader SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.” W. Kelly Griffith

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“He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.” Thomas Fuller (1608-1661); Clergyman, Historian SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” Horace (65-8); Roman Lyric Poet

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“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.” Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919); 26th U.S. President SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973); Writer, Nobel And Pulitzer Prize Winner SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.” Stephen G. Weinbaum (1902-1935); Science Fiction Author SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1286); Catholic Saint, Founder Of Franciscans SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.” James Allen (1864-1912); Writer

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“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.” Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865); 16th U.S. President SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ” Sam Ewing (born 1949); Former Professional Baseball Player SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Vincent "Vince" Lombardi (1913-1970); Athletic Coach

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Edison (1847-1931); Inventor, Businessman SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968); Minister, Civil Rights Activist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“There is no substitute for hard work.” Thomas Edison (1847-1931); Inventor, Businessman

“As surely as the acorn becomes the oak tree, the images in your mind become your reality.” Unknown

“The one thing that matters is the effort.” Antoine de Sainte-Exupery (1900-1944); Aviator, Writer

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“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” John R. Wooden (born 1910); Basketball Coach, Author SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); 3rd U.S. President SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.” Richard David Bach (born 1936); Writer

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“It seems the harder I work, the more luck I have.” Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); 3rd U.S. President SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.” Michelangelo (1475-1564); Sculptor, Painter, Architect SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

(1841-1935); Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945); 32nd U.S. President

“Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.” Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955); Philosopher

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“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.” Thomas Edison (1847-1931); Inventor, Businessman SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together. ” Tony Dungy (born 1955); Former Professional Football Player And Coach SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“By the work one knows the workman.” Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695); Author, Fabulist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882); Poet SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” Aristotle (384-322); Philosopher

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“Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but improves its chances.” B.J. Gupta SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.” Henry Ford (1863-1947); Founder Of Ford Motor Company SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.” Victor Hugo (1802-1885); Poet, Novelist, Playwright SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.” Colin Powell (born 1937); 65th U.S. Secretary Of State SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“A leaf that is supposed to grow is full of wrinkles and creases before it develops; if one doesn't have the patience and wants the leaf to be as smooth as a willow leaf from the start, then there is a problem.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832); Philosopher, Scientist, Author SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here

uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.” Mario Cuomo (born 1932); Governor Of New York, U.S. SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.” Bette Davis (1908-1989); Bette Davis

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“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.” Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784); Poet, Essayist, Lexicographer SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.” William James (1842-1910); Psychologist, Philosopher, Author SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.” John Ruskin (1819-1900); Poet, Writer, Art Critic SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Success is dependent on effort.” Sophocles (496-406); Greek Tragedian

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“Much effort, much prosperity.” Euripides (480-406); Greek Tragedian

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“Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.” Gary Sinise (born 1955); Actor, Director

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“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. ” Indira Gandhi (1917-1984); Statesman

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“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” James M. Barrie (1860-1937); Novelist, Dramatist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The greatest oak was once a little nut that held it's ground.” Unknown SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.” Paul Coffey (born 1961); Retired Professional Hall Of Fame Ice Hockey Defenseman SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933); 30th Us President SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882); Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“No friendly hands constructed and placed for his ambition a ladder upon which he might climb. His own brave hands framed and nailed the cleats upon which he climbed to the heights of public usefulness and fame.” Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); 23rd U.S. President. SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“If there is no wind, row.” Latin Proverb

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“Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.” Roger Staubach (born 1942); Athlete

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“I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.” Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948); Indian Political And Spiritual Leader SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

“The greatest weariness comes from work not done.” Eric Hoffer (1902-1983); Philosopher

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“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.” Ray Bradbury (born 1920); Author

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“Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.” Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939); Childrens' Rights Activist SHARE OR DISCUSS THIS QUOTE

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

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If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully,

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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

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With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

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We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

- Abraham Lincoln | God Quotes Add to Favorite List

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

- Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes Add to Favorite List

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

- Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes Add to Favorite List

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

- Abraham Lincoln | History and Historians Quotes Add to Favorite List

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory.

- Abraham Lincoln | Marriage Quotes Add to Favorite List

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.

- Abraham Lincoln | Originality Quotes Add to Favorite List

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.

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Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the presidency.

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I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth, I shall have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

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When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

- Abraham Lincoln | Quips and Comments Quotes Add to Favorite List

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

- Abraham Lincoln | Women Quotes Add to Favorite List

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Abraham Lincoln | Happiness Quotes Add to Favorite List

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.

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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

- Abraham Lincoln | Acceptance Quotes Add to Favorite List

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

- Abraham Lincoln | Friendship Quotes Add to Favorite List

Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

- Abraham Lincoln | God Quotes Add to Favorite List

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

- Abraham Lincoln | Prayer Quotes Add to Favorite List

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Abraham Lincoln | Self-Reliance Quotes Add to Favorite List

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

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If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

- Abraham Lincoln | Positive Quotes Add to Favorite List

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

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That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

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I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

- Abraham Lincoln | Risks Quotes Add to Favorite List

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

- Abraham Lincoln | Success Quotes Add to Favorite List

With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.

- Abraham Lincoln | Success Quotes Add to Favorite List

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

- Abraham Lincoln | Action Quotes Add to Favorite List

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

- Abraham Lincoln | Action Quotes Add to Favorite List

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

- Abraham Lincoln | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes Add to Favorite List

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

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Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

- Abraham Lincoln | Events Quotes Add to Favorite List

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

- Abraham Lincoln | Events Quotes Add to Favorite List

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

- Abraham Lincoln | Family Quotes Add to Favorite List

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life.

- Abraham Lincoln | Lighten up Quotes Add to Favorite List

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Abraham Lincoln | Lighten up Quotes Add to Favorite List

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

- Abraham Lincoln | Conservatism Quotes Add to Favorite List

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

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Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

- Abraham Lincoln | Democracy Quotes Add to Favorite List

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

- Abraham Lincoln | Force Quotes Add to Favorite List

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.

- Abraham Lincoln | Cowardice Quotes Add to Favorite List

... That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.

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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at st have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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"We trust, Sir, that God is on our side." "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."

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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

- Abraham Lincoln | Government Quotes Add to Favorite List

A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.

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All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it.

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This struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

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Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

- Abraham Lincoln | People Quotes Add to Favorite List

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

- Abraham Lincoln | People Quotes Add to Favorite List

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

- Abraham Lincoln | People Quotes Add to Favorite List

Important principles may and must be flexible.

- Abraham Lincoln | Principle Quotes Add to Favorite List

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

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Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

- Abraham Lincoln | Right Quotes Add to Favorite List

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

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But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

- Abraham Lincoln | War Quotes The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

- Plato | Aging and Old Age Quotes Add to Favorite List

Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

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Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

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All learning has an emotional base.

- Plato | Education Quotes Add to Favorite List

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.

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When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

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The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

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Time is the moving image of eternity.

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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent.

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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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Courage is a kind of salvation.

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To be is to do.

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

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A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.

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Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.

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Excellent things are rare.

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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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Love - a grave mental disease.

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Every man is a poet when he is in love.

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Science is nothing but perception.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.

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