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Hope is the last thing that
dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use
to us, that while we are traveling through life, it conducts us in an easier and
more pleasant way to our journey's end.
~ François de la Rochefoucauld
There are obviously two
educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
~ James Truslow Adams
When one door closes,
another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the
closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
We always see what other people have,
but we don’t see what they miss.
(Buddha)
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair./ The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there./ There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem./ But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
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.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I've learned from experience
that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and
not on our circumstances.
~ Martha Washington
Nobody grows old merely by
living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
~ Samuel Ullman
The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living
fountain, and not a reservoir.
(John Landis Mason, American inventor, 1832-1902)
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but
remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
(Epicurus, Greek philosopher, 341 B.C.-270 B.C.)
The first and
greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all
things most shameful and vile.
Plato
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to
call it falsehood.
William James
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to
it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and
stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.
Deepak Chopra
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
If every man makes another man happy, the whole world would be
happy.
(Buddha)
You cannot
get ahead while you are getting even."
~Dick Armey
"Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered."
~Al Capp
"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
~Gilda Radner
Modesty is a
shining light;
it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
(Elisabeth de Meulan, French journalist and author, 1773-1827)
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Remember, if
you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns.
Allison Gappa Bottke
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"
Oprah Winfrey
Yesterday is not ours to
recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
~Lyndon B. Johnson
The trees that are slow to
grow bear the best fruit.
~ Moliere
Selfishness is not living as
one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
~ Oscar Wilde
Don't wait. The
time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can
be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill
Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.
William Morris Hunt
Meditation will
bring you a great silence -- because all rubbish knowledge is gone. Thoughts
that are part of the knowledge are gone too... an immense silence, and you are
surprised: This silence is the only music there is. All music is an effort to
bring this silence somehow into manifestation.
Osho
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving
anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The
ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
Dogen
People are born for different tasks, but in order to survive every one requires
the same nourishment; inner peace.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Ignorance is the
night of the mind,
but a night without moon and star.
(Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551 B.C. – 479 B.C.)
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing.
Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open!
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. |
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- Jim Rohn |
Happiness is
making a bouquet with the flowers you can reach.
(Johan)
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.
Always tell the
truth.
Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
(Samuel Rayburn, American politician, 1882-1961)
"To me - old age is always
ten years older than I am."
~John Burroughs
"Wrinkles should merely
indicate where smiles have been."
~Mark Twain
"There is still no cure for
the common birthday."
~John Glenn
A good
home must be made, not bought.
(Joyce Maynard, American author, born 1953)
We hate
some persons because we do not know them;
and we will not know them because we hate them.
(Charles Caleb Colton, English writer, 1780 - 1832)
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
"I'm not saying that the
customer service in my bank is bad, but I went in the other day and asked the
clerk to check my balance. She leaned over and pushed me!"
~Unknown
"We are living in a world
today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is
made from real lemons."
~ Alfred E. Neuman
"Everybody is ignorant, only
on different subjects."
~ Will Rogers
"Love all, trust a few, do
wrong to none."
~William Shakespeare
"I got some new underwear
the other day. Well, new to me."
~Emo Philips
"We love life, not because
we are used to living but because we are used to loving."
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope
doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad.
It's simply a choice to take action.
(Anna Lappe, American author, born 1973)
"Life is 10
percent what you make it and 90 percent how you
take it," Irving Berlin.
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Put up with it and you will get more of it.
It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.
Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know
you can do. Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.”
~William Faulkner ...
Every
minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead.
Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be
sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
(Evelyn Underhill, English writer and pacifist, 1875-1941)
Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
Unless
man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors
in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
(Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American politician, 1908-1972)
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." --1 Corinthians 13:4-7
"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all Mankind." --Emily P. Bissell
"The only normal people are the ones that you don't know very well." --Alfred Adler
Love
the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
(Corita Kent, American artist and educator, 1918 – 1986)
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
There
are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already
listening to what they are going to say themselves.
(Albert Guinon, French playwright, 1863-1923)
Love is
not just something we do and experience.
Love is a way of being.
(Lama Surya Das, American Buddhist teacher, born 1950)
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and have forgotten the gift." --Albert Einstein
"Change cannot be avoided... change provides the opportunity for innovation. It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity." --Felice Jones
"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." --Louise Hay
To be
able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
(Lord John Emerich Acton, English historian, 1834-1902)
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the
exceptions.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Most
people die with their music still locked inside.
(Benjamin Disraeli, British politician, 1804-1881)
The aim
of life is self-development.
To realize one's nature perfectly; that is what each of us is here for.
(Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, 1854-1900)
"High values offer broad vision. Broad vision gives rise to burning desire. Burning desire leads to focused intent. Focused intent stimulates committed action. Then God arranges the details!" --Wallace Huey
"To create an original work you must become a seer with eyes of spirit, that penetrate an invisible world and see the unformed future, which is the potential birthing place of a better than it is already. Then you need to go into labour!" --Wallace Huey
"Creativity is a marrying of our values, which determine the field of our endeavor, with our intentions, which draw to us the people, resources and finance. Creative genius values love and service and intends whatever is most urgently required." --Wallace Huey
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.
In the sky, there is no
distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be
true.
(Buddha)
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
The key
to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even
the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater
meaning.
(Oprah Winfrey, American television host, born 1954)
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do and nobody calls her disabled.
Wisdom From Grandpa - -
It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial rates
And blamed it on the cost of living.
We need men who can dream of things that never were. a
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.
Justice
consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the
right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
(Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the U.S.A., 1858-1919)
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or unlearning, of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts." --Marianne Williamson
"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you." --Lao Tzu
"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark." --Rabindranath Tagor
When
you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
(Nicole Kidman, Australian actress, born 1967)
It is our choices that show what we
truly are, far more than our abilities.
(J.K. Rowling, British author, born 1965)
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
The way we distinguish ourselves is by showing our individuality.
I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.
Life does not cease to be funny when
people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
(George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, 1856-1950)
Life is a succession of moments.
To live each one is to succeed.
(Corita Kent, American artist and educator, 1918 - 1986)
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
September tries its best to have us forget summer.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
To succeed, we must first believe that
we can.
(Michael Korda, English novelist, born 1933)
"The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a small step." --Chinese Proverb
"Love all God's creations, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If you love each thing, you will perceive the mystery of God in All." --Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment." --Ken Keyes Jr.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised.
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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.
"An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends." --Benjamin Franklin
"The height of your accomplishments is determined by the depth of your convictions." --William F. Scolavino
"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." --Carl Sandburg
To want
to be what one can be is purpose in life.
(Cynthia Ozick, American author, born 1928)
“Sometimes your greatest asset is
simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.”
~Brian Tracy ...
Self-respect is
the
fruit of discipline;
the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
(Abraham Heschel, Polish born American rabbi, 1907-1972)
When we are doing what we love, we
don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we
are truly free.
(Marcia Wieder, American inspirational author)
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
~Helen Keller
Victory attained by violence is
tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
(Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader
“If you look closely at a tree
you'll notice its knots
and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn
is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully."
~ Matthew Fox
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
My Father taught me to wei
gh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.
Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice. The choice is makin' you.
'Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its
troubles, it empties
today of its strength.' - Unknown author
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery.
And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
~ B. Olatunji
The self is not something
ready-made,
but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
(John Dewey, American philosopher, 1859-1952)
The real voyage of
discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
(Marcel Proust, French author, 1871-1922)
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.
Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice. The choice is makin' you.
I do
not want to die ... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and
cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
(Kathe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor, 1867-1945)
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Having a dream is what keeps
you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
Whatever your cross, whatever
your pain, God always sends rainbows after the rain.
~ Unknown
Any person capable of angering
you becomes your master. He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be
disturbed by him.
~ Epictetus
A hero is someone who
understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
(Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, born 1941)
“Some there are that
torment themselves afresh with the
memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves
with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously
both — for the one does not now concern us, and the other
not yet ... One should count each day a separate life.”
~ Seneca in 4 BC
The
discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a
new star
(Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer and politician, 1755 - 1826)
Half a truth is better than
no politics."
~G.K. Chesterton
"In politics I am growing indifferent—I would like it, if I could now return to
my planting and books at home."
~Francois Arouet
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand
miles from the corn field."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
Seasons change, 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 and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.
Every mile is two in winter.
~ George Herbert
The best relationship is the
one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
~ Unknown
If you keep on doing what
you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got.
~ W.L. Bateman
Conscience is what makes a
boy tell his mother before his sister does.
~Evan Esar
There is nothing so
comfortable as money, but nothing so defiling if it become by unworthily.
Nothing so comfortable, but nothing so noxious if the mind be allowed to dwell
upon it constantly. If a man have enough, let him spend it freely. If he wants
it, let him earn it honestly.
~Unknown
I thank God for my many
handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
~Helen Keller
The reasonable man adapts
himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world
to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
~ George Bernard Shaw
People who have what they
want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really
don't want it.
~ Ogden Nash
The chief handicap of the
blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
~ Helen Keller
Look
to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience;
for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing
money can't buy.
(Izaak Walton, English author, 1593 - 1683)
I'm a great believer in luck
and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Far away there in the
sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and
see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.
~ Louisa May Alcott
The most important trip you
may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~ Henry Boye
It is better to be hated
for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
(Andre Gide, French author, 1869 - 1951)
Work isn't to make money,
you work to justify life.
~Marc Chagall
A mind always employed is
always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity.
~Thomas Jefferson
The end of labor is to gain
leisure.
~Aristotle
Every man has his own
courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other
persons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is what it takes to
stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
~ Winston Churchill
The courage of life is often
a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less
a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
~ John F. Kennedy
Wars begin in the minds
of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defences of
peace.
(U. Thant, secretary-general of the UN, 1909-1974)
Pray that your loneliness
may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Nobody grows old merely by
living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
~ Samuel Ullman
People are made of flesh and
blood and a miracle fiber called courage.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
A man should never be
ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong,
which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
(Alexander Pope, English poet, 1688-1744)
I'm sick of following my
dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them
later.
~ Mitch Hedberg
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
~ Unknown
The lazier the man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.
~ Norwegian proverb
When nothing is sure,
everything is possible.
~ Margaret Drabble
Whether you be man or woman,
you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest
quality of the mind next to honor.
~ James Lane Allen
Don't bother about genius.
Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and
determination.
~ Sir Frederick Treves
I define joy as a
sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
(Oprah Winfrey, American TV personality, born 1954)
Any person capable of
angering you becomes your master. He can anger you only when you permit yourself
to be disturbed by him.
~Epictetus
Happiness consists not in
having much, but in being content with little.
~Unknown
Happiness is mostly a
by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
~Dr. Benjamin Spock
The bird of paradise
alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
(John Berry, American country singer, born 1959)
You can have anything you
want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that
erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
--Sheila Graham
Rejoice not at thine enemy's
fall, but don't rush to pick him up either.
--Jewish proverb
When the solution is simple,
God is answering.
--Albert Einstein
People always call it luck
when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
~ Anne Tyler
Men can be stimulated to
show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good
qualities.
~ John Richelsen
Try not to become a man of
success, but rather to become a man of value.
~ Albert Einstein
If there were in the
world any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they
desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise.
(Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, 1872-1970)
The secret of being boring is to say everything.
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy
If you ask what is the
single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding
worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
George F. Burns quotes
Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?
Carrie Latet
Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.
John De Paola
You yourself, as much as
anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure,
joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is
quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness
affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness,
inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Looking back, you realize that a very
special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is
not too late to become that person again.”
~Robert Brault
...
In life
we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have
to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
(Farrah Gray, American businessman and philanthropist, born 1984)
Get
not your friends by bare compliments,
but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
(Socrates, Greek philosopher, 469-399 B.C.)
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived
authentically and fully.
(Frances Moore Lappe, American author, born 1944)
"If doubt is challenging you and you do not act, doubts will GROW. Challenge the doubts with action and YOU will grow. Doubt and action are incompatible." --John Kanary
"It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will." --Krishnamurti
"It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken." --G.I. Gurdjieff
If
you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
(Dolores Huerta, American social activist, born 1930)
You
are in control of your life. You are what you are because of the conscious and
subconscious choices you have made.
(Barbara Hall, American author, born 1961)
“If you do not have peace in your
life, you,
like many others, have probably not fully understood
its message. You receive exactly what you put out,
or, 'As you sow, so shall you reap'.”
~ Thomas D. Willhite ...
Everyone should be able to worship God according to his own inclinations, and
not to be constrained by force.
(Flavius Josephus, Jewish historian, 37-100 A.D.
"This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love." --Peace Pilgrim
"Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil." --Goethe
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." --Berthold Auerbach
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at
peace unless he has his freedom.
(Malcolm X, American human rights activist, 1925-1965)
Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have — so spend it wisely." — Kay Lyons
“Nobody made a greater
mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.”
~Edmund
Burke
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.”
~ Mohandas Gandhi
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
(Phyllis Dorothy James, English author, born 1920)
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Regimen is superior to medicine.
Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
(Zeno, Greek philosopher, 490-430 B.C.)
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less
than you need.
(Kahlil Gibran,
Lebanese poet, mystic and painter, 1883-1931)
There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to
cut through the lies we tell ourselves.
(Linji Yixuan, Buddhist teacher, ? – 866 A.D.)
"Where
the ego promotes control by fear, the soul
promotes freedom in love. Where the ego seeks
separation, the soul seeks unity."
~Sannyasin
Little Johnny's new baby
brother was screaming up a storm.
He asked his mom, "Where'd we get him?"
His mother replied, "He came from heaven, Johnny."
Johnny says, "WOW! I can see why they threw him out!"
"Most human beings have
an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
~Aldous Huxley...
The discovery of
a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star
(Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer and politician, 1755 - 1826)
Half a truth is better than
no politics."
~G.K. Chesterton
"In politics I am growing indifferent—I would like it, if I could now return to
my planting and books at home."
~Francois Arouet
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand
miles from the corn field."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
Seasons change, 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 and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Hope is necessary in every condition.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
Live as you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
(Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader, 1869-1948)
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
"Only when we have knelt before God, can we stand before men."
"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time." 1 Peter 5:6
"Maybe the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing
with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best
conversation you've ever had."
"I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs.Then I tasted baby food." --Robert Orben
"Perform the best you can for when you find
that you perform your best, there is still so much more in volleyball to do
better, harder, faster, and smarter. It is just like when you go for a long
journey. You go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you can see
farther." --John Kessel
"Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many
discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it comes as
something of a shock to realize that there is absolutely no positive evidence
for its existence."-- Michael Denton,Molecular Biologist. Evolution: A Theory in
Crisis. Adler and Adler.
"When I couldn't find the poems to express
the things I was feeling, I started writing poetry." --Audre Lorde
"Some people have a way with words, others not have way. "
The secret of creativity is
knowing how to hide your sources."
~Albert Einstein.
"If you want anything done
well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes."
~Bob Edwards
"Don't worry about people
stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down
people's throats."
~Howard Aiken
"In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom." --Buddha
"Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation, because through acceptance awareness becomes possible." --Osho
"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." --Buddha
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, and
has a clear conscience?.
(Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher, 1723-1790)
"When the only tool you own
is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."
~Abraham Maslow
A cannibal was late for
dinner—he ended up getting the cold shoulder.
~Unknown
Do illiterate people get the
full effect of alphabet soup?
~Unknown
An incompetent attorney can
delay a trial for months or years. A competent attornety can delay one even
longer."
~Evelle J. Younger
"I bought some used paint.
It was in the shape of a house."
~Steven Wright
"I don't care how much you
and your cat love each other, if you were one inch smaller than the sweet little
kitty, he'd eat you in a heartbeat."
~Tom Gard
"We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt..." --Dorothy Day
"Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." --Robert Flaherty
"Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving." --Dan Millman
Asthma doesn’t seem to
bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother
me most would be a dog smoking a cigar."
~Steve Allen
"Don't tell fish stories
where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the
fish."
~Mark Twain
"In matters of style, swim
with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock."
~Thomas Jefferson
Ah! Don't say you agree with
me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong."
~Oscar Wilde
"It's inexcusable for
scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists
and politicians."
~Henrik Ibsen
"Man seems to be capable of
great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not
of keeping his temper."
~G. K. Chesterton
"Nothing living
should ever be treated with contempt.
Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird,
should be touched gently, because the time is short.
Civilization is another word for respect for life."
~ Elizabeth Goudge ...
When a deep injury is done
to us, we never recover until we forgive.
~Alan Paton
Man does not live by a
turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and
hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call
retreat.
~E. Merrill Root
The highest reward for a
man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
~John Ruskin
A new gadget that lasts only
five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone."
~Francis Picabia
"Is sloppiness in speech
caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."
~William Safire
"The minute one utters a
certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
~May Sarton
"Don't let
the fear of striking out hold you back."
~Babe Ruth
"He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house."
~Zsa Zsa Gabor
"All is connected... no one thing can change by itself."
~Paul Hawken
God gives every
bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
(J.G. Holland, American poet, 1819-1881)
“The best wood in most
amateurs’ golf bags is the pencil.”
~Chi Chi Rodriguez
“If you think it’s hard to
meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.”
~Jack Lemmon
“Tee your ball high…air
offers less resistance than dirt.”
~Jack Nicklaus
“He who has the fastest golf
cart never has a bad lie.”
~Mickey Mantle
You cannot
get ahead while you are getting even."
~Dick Armey
"Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered."
~Al Capp
"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
~Gilda Radner
Life consists not in holding
good cards but in playing those you hold well."
~Josh Billings
"Art is magic delivered from
the lie of being truth."
~Theodor Adorno
"Love is the master key that
opens the gates of happiness."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A dog is the only thing on
earth that loves you more than you love yourself."
~Josh Billings
"A nickel ain't worth a dime
anymore."
~Yogi Berra
"Always end the name of your
child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry."
~Bill Cosby
A master
can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher though, awakens your own
expectations.
~ Patricia Neal
Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like
fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
~ George Washington
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the
weak and the strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these.
~George Washington Carver
Every man has his own
courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other
persons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Small deeds done are better
than greater deeds planned.
~ Unknown
It's time to start living
the life you've imagined.
~ Henry James
The Constitution only gives
people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The really frightening thing
about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
~ Doris Day
You cannot add to the peace
and goodwill of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and
love right where you live and work.
~ Thomas Dreier
People are made of flesh and
blood and a miracle fiber called courage.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, "I'll try
again tomorrow."
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage is what it takes to
stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
~ Winston Churchill
Accept no one's definition
of your life, but define yourself.
~ Harvey Fierstein
Forgiveness does not change
the past, but it does enlarge the future.
~ Paul Boese
When you look at yourself
from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that
there are bigger and better things to worry about.
~ Albert Einstein
The hills of one's youth are
all mountains.
~ Mari Sandoz
Looking repeatedly into the
past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather
with the phenomenon of memory.
~ Patricia Hampl
I have a terrible memory. I
never forget a thing.
~ Edith Konecky
No one gossips about other
people's secret virtues.
~ Bertrand Russell
I can understand that memory
must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot
understand is why it selects what it does.
~ Virgilia Peterson
How we remember, what we
remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
~ Christina Baldwin
If we have learned one thing
from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run and
often in the short one, the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
--Arthur C. Clarke
Some memories are realities
and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
--Willa Cather
I wear the key of memory and
can open every door in the house of my life.
--Amelia E. Barr
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.
~ Cyrus H. Curtis
No matter who says what, you
should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
~ Mother Teresa
The world is moved not only
by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
~ Helen Keller
There is a sense of
exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the truths and saying, "We will
never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will
find a way to prevail."
~ Jim Collins
We must not allow the clock
and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle
and mystery.
~ H.G. Wells
There is only one corner of
the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
~ Aldons Huxley
Five minutes of today are
worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised and
wise and our own, today.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we play is life.
~ Louis Armstrong
It is one of the blessings
of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good listener is not only
popular everywhere, but after awhile, he gets to know something.
~ Wilson Mizner
There is never time to do it
right, but there is always time to do it over.
~ Carl W. Buechner
Adversity has the effect of
eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
~ Horace
The person who says it
cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
~ Chinese proverb
If I had my life to live
over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some
music at least once a week.
~ Unknown
If you're never scared or
embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
~ Julia Sorel
The abundant life does not
come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their paths by
others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
~ William Mather Lewis
I have always been delighted
at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of
magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
~ J.B. Priestly
The young do not know enough
to be prudent and therefore, they attempt the impossible; and achieve it,
generation after generation.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Next in importance to
freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor
justice can be permanently maintained.
~ James A. Garfield
The sad truth is that
excellence makes people nervous.
~ Shana Alexander
It is not worth an
intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already
enough people to do that.
~ G.H. Hardy
An
optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to
make sure the old year leaves."
~Bill Vaughn
"People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year,
but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and
Christmas."
~Unknown
"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
~Charles Lamb
Any person capable of
angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself
to be disturbed by him.
~ Epictetus
Happiness is mostly a
by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
~ Dr. Benjamin Spock
Something which we think is
impossible now is not impossible in another decade.
~ Constance Baker Motley
A person starts to live when
he can live outside himself.
~ Albert Einstein
There is never time to do it
right, but there is always time to do it over.
~ Carl W. Buechner
Success is simply a matter
of luck. Ask any failure.
~ Earl Nightingale
Some people are always
grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
~ Allophones Karr
You can find on the outside
only what you possess on the inside.
~ Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros
Happiness is good health and
a bad memory.
~ Ingrid Bergman
The human race has one
really effective weapon and that is laughter.
~ Mark Twain
Courage does not always
roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try
again tomorrow."
~ Unknown
Learn from the past, set
vivid, detailed goals for the future and live in the only moment of time over
which you have any control: now.
~ Denis Waitley
Maybe it's what's inside
that counts, but being told you look good feels good.
~ Takayuki Ikkaku
Confidence on the outside
begins by living with integrity on the inside.
~ Brian Tracy
We need a renaissance of
wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream,
the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.
~ E. Merrill Root
It is hard enough to
remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want a happy, good
life, keep control of your tongue and guard your lips from telling lies.
~ 1 Peter 3:10
I do not fear computers, I
fear the lack of them.
~ Isaac Asimov
A boy becomes an adult three
years before his parents think he does and about two years after he thinks he
does.
~Lewis B. Hershey
The truest greatness lies in
being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
~Unknown
I don't like work, but I
like what is in work. The chance to find yourself. Your own reality. For
yourself, not for others. Which no other man can ever know.
~Joseph Conrad
It's okay if you mess up.
You should give yourself a break.
~ Billy Joel
It is not easy to find
happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
~ Agnes Repplier
A problem not worth praying
about isn't worth worrying about.
~ Glen Wheeler
Middle age is the awkward
period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature."
~Harold Coffin
"A computer once beat me at
chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."
~Emo Philips
"Never trust a computer you
can't throw out a window."
~Steve Wozniak
The world
is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who
look on and do nothing.
~ Albert Einstein
No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will
and moral courage of free men and women.
~ Ronald Reagan
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites
for success.
~ Alonzo Newton Benn
"It is the ability to take a
joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."
~Max Eastman
"You can discover more about
a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
~ Plato
"I learned long ago, never
to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."
~George Bernard Shaw
Throughout life people will
make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things
they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
~Will Smith
It's amazing that the amount
of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the
newspaper.
~Jerry Seinfeld
Remember this: that very
little is needed to make a happy life.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Excellence is an art won by
training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or
excellence, but rather, we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what
we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
~Aristotle
How we remember, what we
remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
~Christina Baldwin
How wonderful it is that
nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
~Anne Frank
The test of a first-rate
intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time
and still retain the ability to function.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Defeat is not the worst of
failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
~George E. Woodberry
Music expresses that which
cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
~Victor Hugo
Some memories are realities
and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
~Willa Cather
"Memory is the diary we all
carry about with us."
~Mary H. Waldrip
"Memory is a magnet. It will
pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract."
~Jessamyn West
While we are mourning the
loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil."
~John Taylor
"Is it so bad to be
misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood. And Socrates and Jesus and Luther
and Copernicus and Galileo and Newton and every pure and wise spirit that ever
took flesh."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The body says what words
cannot."
~Martha Graham
"An optimist may see a light
where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
~Rene Descartes
"Be kinder than necessary,
for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
~Unknown
"Waste your money and you're
only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost part of your life."
~Michael Leboeuf
Two men look out the same
prison bars: one sees mud and the other stars."
~Frederick Langbridge
"Mistakes are part of the
dues one pays for a full life."
~Sophia Loren
"We are all of us living in
the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
~Oscar Wilde
Search others for their
virtues, thyself for thy vices."
~ Benjamin Franklin
"Treasure the love you have
received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have
vanished."
~ Unknown
"If you wish to know what a
man is, place him in authority."
~Yugoslav proverb
Love me when I least deserve
it, because that's when I really need it."
~ Swedish proverb
"He spake well who said that
graves are the footprints of angels."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Yesterday is a dream,
tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of
happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this
day."
~Sanskrit proverb
An old monkey never makes a
pretty face."
~François Rabelais
"The boat is made of dry
reeds, and a monkey is steering it."
~Punjabi Proverb
"Artistic genius is an
expansion of monkey imitativeness."
~W. Winwood Reade
Don't judge each day by the
harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
~Robert Louis Stevenson
"You, yourself, as much as
anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
~Buddha
"The secret of health for
both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or
anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
~Buddha
You may delay, but time will
not."
~Benjamin Franklin
"In youth, the days are
short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long."
~Pope Paul VI
"A computer once beat me at
chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."
~Emo Philips
"A person who has not done
one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half
undone."
~Emily Bronte
"If you can't beat them,
arrange to have them beaten."
~Unknown
"I know that there are
people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like
that."
~Unknown
Don't do what you want. Do
what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that
scare you the most.
~Chuck Palahniuk
When you blame others, you
give up your power to change.
~Dr. Robert Anthony
"I can't do it" never yet
accomplished anything. "I will try" has accomplished wonders.
~George P. Burnham
Fear not a jest. If one
throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places."
~Latin Proverb
"Society, my dear, is like
salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow."
~Arthur Stringer
"A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes
a grain of salt with everything he says to her."
~Helen Rowland
A champion is someone who
gets up when he can't.
~Jack Dempsey
It's better to light a
candle than to curse the darkness.
~Chinese proverb
Don't worry about the world
coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
~Charles Schultz
If one dream should fall and
break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and
begin again.
~ Flavia Weedn
Consider the postage stamp.
Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
~ Josh Billings
God could not be everywhere,
so He created mothers.
~ Jewish proverb
Half of the world's misery
comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence."
~Baslo
"If you think education is
expensive, try ignorance!"
~Andy McIntyre
On the first day of school,
my parents would send a note with me for the teacher that read: "The opinions
expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents."
~Unknown
"An incompetent attorney can
delay a trial for months or years. A competent attornety can delay one even
longer."
~Evelle J. Younger
"I bought some used paint.
It was in the shape of a house."
~Steven Wright
"I don't care how much you
and your cat love each other, if you were one inch smaller than the sweet little
kitty, he'd eat you in a heartbeat."
~Tom Gard
Asthma doesn’t seem to
bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother
me most would be a dog smoking a cigar."
~Steve Allen
"Don't tell fish stories
where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the
fish."
~Mark Twain
"In matters of style, swim
with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock."
~Thomas Jefferson
Ah! Don't say you agree with
me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong."
~Oscar Wilde
"It's inexcusable for
scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists
and politicians."
~Henrik Ibsen
"Man seems to be capable of
great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not
of keeping his temper."
~G. K. Chesterton
When a deep injury is done
to us, we never recover until we forgive.
~Alan Paton
Man does not live by a
turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and
hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call
retreat.
~E. Merrill Root
The highest reward for a
man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
~John Ruskin
The secret of creativity is
knowing how to hide your sources."
~Albert Einstein.
"If you want anything done
well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes."
~Bob Edwards
"Don't worry about people
stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down
people's throats."
~Howard Aiken
When the only tool you own
is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."
~Abraham Maslow
A cannibal was late for
dinner—he ended up getting the cold shoulder.
~Unknown
Do illiterate people get the
full effect of alphabet soup?
~Unknown
Pray that your loneliness
may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
--Dag Hammarskjold
There is never time to do it
right, but there is always time to do it over.
--Carl W. Buechner
We are all of us living in
the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
--Oscar Wilde
"Do not think you will
necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment."
~Dogen
"My reality check bounced."
~Unknown
"A great wind is blowing,
and that gives you either imagination or a headache."
~Catherine the Great
"I refuse to spend my life
worrying about what I eat. There's no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra
three years in the geriatric ward."
~John Mortimer
"The first law of dietetics
seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you."
~Issac Asimov
"My doctor told me to stop
having intimate dinners for four; unless there are three other people."
~Orson Welles
Instant gratification takes
too long."
~Carrie Fisher
"Always remember, money
isn't everything—but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool
nonsense."
~Earl Wilson
"Friends and good manners
will carry you where money won't go."
~Margaret Walker
You're never too old to
learn something stupid.
~Unknown
"He who lives in the present
lives in eternity."
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
"You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely."
~Unknown
A man who
exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
~Samuel Johnson
I have never been drunk, but I've often been overserved.
~George Gobel
"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk
is automatically a good bartender."
~Jim Bishop
Art must take reality by
surprise."
~Francoise Sagan
"Life is something to do
when you can't get to sleep."
~Fran Lebowitz
"Because of a great love,
one is courageous."
~Lao Tzu