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."
"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."
"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
"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."
"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."
"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
"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."
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
"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."
"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."
"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"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must
wait till that other is ready."
"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."
"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."
"Write drunk; edit sober."
"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."
"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."
"Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single
petitioner confessedly unworthy."
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the
black flag, and begin slitting throats."
"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."
"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."
"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 medicine cures what happiness cannot."
Gabriel Garca Mrquez
"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 Garca Mrquez (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."
"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you
remember it."
"...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."
"If I knew that today would be the last time Id 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, Id 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, Id 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, Id tell you I
love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already."
"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."
"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of
unrequited love."
"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 Garca Mrquez (Collected Stories)
"The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and
literature goes as freight."
"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 Garca Mrquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)
"There is always something left to love."
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old
because they stop pursuing dreams."
"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."
"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 peoples time. I learned, in short, that love is not a
condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac."
Gabriel Garca Mrquez (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."
"sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love"
"A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth."
"Freedom is often the first casualty of war."
Gabriel Garca Mrquez (The General in His Layrinth)
"He was still too young to know that the hearts memory eliminates the bad and
magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of
the past"
"The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love."
"She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the
maggot broth of memory."
"He is ugly and sad... but he is all love."
"... wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."
"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."
"What does he say? he asked.
Hes very sad, rsula answered, because he thinks that youre gong to die.
Tell him, the colonel said, smiling, that a person doesnt die when he should but when
he can."
"...and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday &
eternal reality was love..."
"There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age."
"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."
"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."
"Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buenda would
remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice."
"Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest."
"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."
"She felt the abyss of disenchantment."

"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."
"Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in
order to recount it"
"my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house"
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"A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart"
"They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation."
"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."
"It was a love of perpetual flight."
"Be calm. God awaits you at the door. "

"You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."
Gabriel Garca Mrquez (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."
"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must
be rebuilt every morning after breakfast."
"Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses."
Gabriel Garca Mrquez (Of Love and Other Demons)
"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."
Gabriel Garca Mrquez (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."
"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."
"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 Garca Mrquez (Memories of My Melancholy Whores)
Solitude
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
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
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
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, its 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 dont want to see, but you cant close your heart
to things you dont 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
someones 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
Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein
"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."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates
empirically."
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we
created them."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in
school."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for
existing."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are
still greater."
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an
equation is something for eternity."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is
keeping your mouth shut."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about
the the universe."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as
they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will
be fought with sticks and stones."
"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all,
be a sheep."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of
accident for someone who's dead."
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even
if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that
goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of
chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
"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."
"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our
equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a
matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of
thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had
known, I should have become a watchmaker."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter
cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary
prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of
all true art and all science. 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."
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education,
and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor
way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after
death."
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it
seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of
life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational
knowledge."
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means
nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between
past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New
York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio
operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there.
The only difference is that there is no cat."
"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one
liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had
passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems
distasteful to me for an entire year."
"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from
everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of
one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from
the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal
cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with
at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and
ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an
action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act
of murder."
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in
time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something
separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This
delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from
this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be
counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
How to Flourish: 17 Quotes On Living,

Being, and Doing
Ill 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 cant 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 dont 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-Exupry
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 dont need money, love like youve never been hurt, and dance like
no ones watching
Unknown Author
18. Try a thing you havent 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 youre on the right track, youll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
20. People often say that motivation doesnt last. Well, neither does bathing thats
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. Ive 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 werent 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. Weve 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 Im
beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone elses
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. Theres 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 dont mind what Congress does, as long as they dont 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.
Andr Gide
43. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without

accepting it.
Aristotle
44. Id rather live with a good question than a bad answer.

Aryeh Frimer
45. We learn something every day, and lots of times its 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. Dont ever wrestle with a pig. Youll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
Cale Yarborough
48. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesnt 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!
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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 thats 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
Pre 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
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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
Thats what faiths about, believing what you dont 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 burnI 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

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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 doesnt make you a bad person, it just means your
hearts too big. -Riding In Cars With Boys
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.
Ron
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!
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, thats 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.
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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. - Dawsons Creek
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung
Ive 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. - Dawsons Creek
Everything changes eventually. Thats 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. Dawsons Creek
The truth may hurt but it's those lies that kill. Dawsons Creek
I think everyone feels alone and wants to be normal but I don't think everyone ever really does. Dawsons 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 dont 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
Im at a stage in my life where Im having a hard time caring about things. Fortunately, I dont 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 shouldnt. 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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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 doesnt mean things are perfect, it just means youve 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.
Im a first believer in the power of change. But there is one thing Ive learned, and thats 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.
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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 readers mind or to stimulate ones
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.
Id 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
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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 youre 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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Have you ever heard a song from long ago with so many memories tied to it that it made you cry? And
didnt 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 its 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 theyre 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
Thats the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. Youre 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 hes absolutely free to
choose.
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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
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, Im so angry and
bitter. But it doesnt 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 theyre busy
doing things they think are important. This is because theyre 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 well 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 youre in the dark. Even when youre 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 dont 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
youre 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 Im going through, fear and pain
from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions -- if you dont allow yourself to go all the way
through them -- you can never get to being detached, youre too busy being afraid. Youre afraid of the
pain, youre afraid of the grief. Youre 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, its 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 whats going on? When people are manipulating you,
telling you to buy this perfume and youll 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 whats 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, youre 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 doesnt 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.
this is a collection of quotes from my Twitter FatimahsQuotes, my friends &

followers!
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; thats 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 youll always remember: Youre 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
do
nothing
is
sometimes
good
remedy.
~Hippocrates
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."
from
failure to failure
-Winston
without
loss of
Churchill
"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
is
in
the
soul
and
spirit,
not
in
muscles.
Alex
Karras
For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. - Henry
Wadworth
Longfellow
If you dont like where you are, change it! Youre 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 cant build on it; its 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 cant build on it; its 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
ones innocence with the loss of ones 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. - Dawsons 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
Dont 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.
Its just that its 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 cant even imagine when youre
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 thereA 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
COOL SAYINGS 13
"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
Bruce Lee
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The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

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Knowledge will give you power, but character, respect.

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Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water. Now you put water in a cup, it
becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it into a
teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out and look for a
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If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.
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I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has
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A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
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 dont mind, it doesnt 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.
Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its 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.
Its good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Man a creature made at the end of the weeks 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 Im 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 dont 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 Ive done it
thousands of times.
Denial aint 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.
Dont tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, dont 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 mans 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 ones confidence as the knowing how to do a thing.
We have the best government that money can buy.
I didnt attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isnt.
Nothing so needs reforming as other peoples habits.
If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything.
I dont 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 wont.
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.
Dont 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 havent 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 dont 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 youre 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 Christians 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 Austens books alone would make a fairly good library out of a
library that hadnt 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 mans 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 dont 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 mans 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 dont know
anything and cant 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 aint 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 persons 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, its a sure sign youre
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 individuals 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, peoples 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 doesnt read good books has no advantage over the man who cant 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 onethe solitary onethat possesses malice. That is the basest of all
instincts, passions, vicesthe most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for
sport, knowing it to be pain. Alsoin all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty
mind.
Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weaponlaughter. Power, money,
persuasion, supplication, persecutionthese can lift at a colossal humbugpush it a
littleweaken 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 mans left hand, except a ladys watch.
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can
contain without bursting ones clothes.
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenitythese 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 cant 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 cant reach old age by another mans road. My habits protect my life but they
would assassinate you.
All right, then, Ill 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 youre 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, youre 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
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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
Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

General George S. Patton
Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.

American Indian Proverb
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Within every difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein
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
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
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
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw
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
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to

satisfy personal greed.
Mwai Kibaki
Death solves all problems. No person, no problem.

Josef Stalin
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
In the colorful reflection we have what is life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Aristotle
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having
no goal to reach.
Benajamin Mays
Live long or die young.

Anonymous
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to
motivate them.
John C. Maxwell
We aren't that different after all.We're the same flavour,only of a different dish...
Soky (16/03/2009)
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 aint 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
doesnt 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 dont 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 didnt get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. Its supposed to be. Its not something to
regret. Its 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.
Thats the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, youre not really
losing it. Youre 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 its 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 mothers approval, a fathers
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 Eddies father and his death. Mickey is Eddies fathers best
friend, who in a drunken stupor, tried to make a move on the fathers 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 dont die because of loyalty.
They dont? 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?
Thats 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
(Eddies dead wife is talking to him.)
Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, thats all. You cant 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 doesnt.

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. Thats 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
"Ones 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. 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 didnt realize how much I loved him until he was standing there and he wasnt mine
any more.
- Laura Esparz
No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, youll never get through it
without your friends.
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. Its like death.
- Dennis Quaid
From an angels 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 its better to leave them broken than try to hurt
yourself putting it back together.
Everyone tells me I should forget about you, you dont deserve me. Theyre right, you
dont 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 dont 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 its 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 cant 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 alivethat you can touch the miracle of
being alivethen 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 availablemore 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
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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
Don't tell us the sky is the limit when there are footsteps on the moon.
Unknown
Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your lifeIt 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
Inspire and bring joy to all those you touch.

Rod Williams
Musician
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
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
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
(1802-1885); Poet, Novelist, Playwright
In the hour of adversity, be not without hope; for crystal rain falls from black clouds.
Nizami
(1141-1203); Poet
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
A trying journey can only result in a phenomenal blessing.

Dawn M. Harvey
Motivational Speaker And Author
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings: Kings it makes gods, and meaner
creatures kings.
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616); Dramatist, Poet
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
Once you choose hope, anything is possible.

Christopher Reeve
(1952-2004); Actor, Producer, Director, And Writer; Best Known For His Role As Superman
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller
(1880-1968); Author, Lecturer, Activist
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most
poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer
(1902-1983); Philosopher
Never, never, never give up.

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
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
(1892-1973); Novelist, Humanitarian

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Bhagavad Gita
(born 500);
Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.

Sir Robert Baden-Powell
(1857-1941); Founder Of The Boy Scouts
I have the greatest weapon, I have hope.

Sophia Mendoza
Master Sergeant, Us Army
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
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
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the
sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790); Politician, Writer, Scientist
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
Where hope grows, miracles blossom.

Elna Rae
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882); Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
Sophocles
(496-406); Greek Tragedian
Someone with their feet planted firmly on the ground has no hope of reaching the
stars.
Kelsey Dunn
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope
(1688-1744); Poet, Critic, Translator
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

Elna Rae
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
It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.

Proverb
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
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
It's always too early to quit.

(1898-1993); Preacher, Author
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
I cannot look back with regrets, but I can look forward optimistically.
Cornelius Kilgore
(born 1973); Military
A life full of enthusiasm, hope and contributions through one's own talent is a life well
lived.
Kimberly Day
American Writer And Poet
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
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
Gustave Flaubert
(1821-1880); Novelist
I have the greatest weapon, I have hope.

Sophia Mendoza
Master Sergeant, Us Army
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
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963); 35th Us President
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Alex Karras
(born 1935); Athlete, Actor
Try it one more time.

Unknown
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
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
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
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
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
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Ouida [Marie Louise De La Rame]
(1839-1908); Novelist
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus
(1913-1960); Author And Philosopher
David Emerald
Author
Christopher Reeve
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
The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862); Naturalist, Author, Philosopher

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
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope
(1688-1744); Poet, Critic, Translator
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Christian D. Larson
New Thought Leader
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most
poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer
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.
Franois Duc De La Rochefoucauld
(1613-1680); Writer, Moralist
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nizami
(1141-1203); Poet
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Alexandre Dumas
(1802-1870); Writer
Helen Keller
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
Thomas Moore
(1779-1852); Poet
A trying journey can only result in a phenomenal blessing.

Dawn M. Harvey
Motivational Speaker And Author
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

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
John Perry Barlow
(born 1947); Essayist, Lyricist
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

Elna Rae
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
Never, never, never give up.

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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
(1898-1993); Author, Preacher
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
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
David Emerald
Author
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
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
We live by our genius for hope; we survive by our talent for dispensing with it.
V.S. Pritchett
(1900-1997); Writer, Critic
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
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
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
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

Wisdom begins in Wonder.

Socrates
(470-399); Greek Philosopher
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);
Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence
and zeal and loyalty. It is lan, esprit de corps and determination.
George C. Marshall
(1880-1959); U.S. Army General
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
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
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
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
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
Helen Keller
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

Alexandre Dumas
(1802-1870); Writer
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Christian D. Larson
New Thought Leader
To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.

William James
(1842-1910); Psychologist, Philosopher, Author
Someone with their feet planted firmly on the ground has no hope of reaching the
stars.
Kelsey Dunn
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
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
Christopher Reeve
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through
devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry Miller
(1891-1980); Author, Writer
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
Gustave Flaubert
(1821-1880); Novelist
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
David Emerald
Author
Nizami
(1141-1203); Poet
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

J.B. Morgan and Ewing Webb
Authors
The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
Sir Henry Taylor
(1800-1886); Author
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
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
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Ouida [Marie Louise De La Rame]
(1839-1908); Novelist

Alexandre Dumas
(1802-1870); Writer
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865); 16th U.S. President
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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. Im glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how
full your life may seem, theres 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""""""""
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory.
Mohandas Gandhi
Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.
W. Kelly Griffith
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Thomas Fuller
(1608-1661); Clergyman, Historian
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace
(65-8); Roman Lyric Poet
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up
in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.

Stephen G. Weinbaum
(1902-1935); Science Fiction Author
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
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
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
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
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vincent "Vince" Lombardi
(1913-1970); Athletic Coach
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work.
Thomas Edison
(1847-1931); Inventor, Businessman
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
There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison
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
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
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
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
It seems the harder I work, the more luck I have.

Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826); 3rd U.S. President
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
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
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
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
By the work one knows the workman.

Jean de La Fontaine
(1621-1695); Author, Fabulist
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
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle
Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but improves its chances.

B.J. Gupta
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
Henry Ford
(1863-1947); Founder Of Ford Motor Company
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there
is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average
effort.
Colin Powell
(born 1937); 65th U.S. Secretary Of State
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
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.
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis
(1908-1989); Bette Davis
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
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
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

John Ruskin
(1819-1900); Poet, Writer, Art Critic
Success is dependent on effort.

Sophocles
Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the
engines.
Gary Sinise
(born 1955); Actor, Director
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
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie
(1860-1937); Novelist, Dramatist
The greatest oak was once a little nut that held it's ground.
Unknown
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
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually

without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
If there is no wind, row.

Latin Proverb
Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and
dedication.
Roger Staubach
(born 1942); Athlete
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
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Eric Hoffer
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
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
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
- Abraham Lincoln | Ability and Achievement Quotes

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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.
- Abraham Lincoln | Adversity Quotes

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
- Abraham Lincoln | Advertising Quotes

If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully,
- Abraham Lincoln | America and Americans Quotes

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
- Abraham Lincoln | Critics and Criticism Quotes

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln | Democracy Quotes

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln | Family and Ancestry Quotes

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.
- Abraham Lincoln | The Future Quotes

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
- Abraham Lincoln | Goals and Ambition Quotes

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

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes

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.

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.

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own
existence?

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.

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.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
- Abraham Lincoln | History and Historians Quotes

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.
- Abraham Lincoln | History and Historians Quotes

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory.
- Abraham Lincoln | Marriage Quotes

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

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
- Abraham Lincoln | Personal Appearance Quotes

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 | Politicians Quotes

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.
- Abraham Lincoln | Politics Quotes

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the presidency.
- Abraham Lincoln | The Presidency Quotes

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.'

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.

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

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
- Abraham Lincoln | Women Quotes

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln | Happiness Quotes

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.

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

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

Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
- Abraham Lincoln | God Quotes

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

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln | Self-Reliance Quotes

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
- Abraham Lincoln | The Past Quotes

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln | The Future Quotes

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.
- Abraham Lincoln | Positive Quotes

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln | Enthusiasm Quotes

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and
enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln | Role Models Quotes

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.
- Abraham Lincoln | Creating Positive Change Quotes

- Abraham Lincoln | Motivation Quotes

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
- Abraham Lincoln | Realistic Expectations Quotes

- Abraham Lincoln | Goals Quotes

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
- Abraham Lincoln | Risks Quotes

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln | Success Quotes

With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.
- Abraham Lincoln | Success Quotes

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln | Commitment Quotes

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
- Abraham Lincoln | Commitment and Belief Quotes

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

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
- Abraham Lincoln | Action Quotes

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
- Abraham Lincoln | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
- Abraham Lincoln | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

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 | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

- Abraham Lincoln | Adversity Quotes

- Abraham Lincoln | Worthy Victories Quotes

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
- Abraham Lincoln | Events Quotes

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
- Abraham Lincoln | Events Quotes

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

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

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln | Lighten up Quotes

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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.
- Abraham Lincoln | Capital and Labor Quotes

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
- Abraham Lincoln | Conservatism Quotes

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 | Deception Quotes

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
- Abraham Lincoln | Democracy Quotes

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 | Duty Quotes

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.
- Abraham Lincoln | Equality Quotes

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 | Faith Quotes

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
- Abraham Lincoln | Force Quotes

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln | Cowardice Quotes

... That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.
- Abraham Lincoln | Cowardice Quotes
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.
- Abraham Lincoln | Friends Quotes

"We trust, Sir, that God is on our side." "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."
- Abraham Lincoln | Glory Quotes

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln | Government Quotes

A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and
half-free.
- Abraham Lincoln | Government Quotes

All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln | Mother Quotes

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.
- Abraham Lincoln | Oath Quotes

This struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
- Abraham Lincoln | Office Quotes

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
- Abraham Lincoln | Opinion Quotes

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

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

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.

Important principles may and must be flexible.
- Abraham Lincoln | Principle Quotes

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.
- Abraham Lincoln | Revolution Quotes

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

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
- Abraham Lincoln | Slavery Quotes

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.
- Abraham Lincoln | Soldier Quotes

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

Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
- Plato | Children and Childhood Quotes

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
- Plato | Deception Quotes

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
- Plato | Drink, Drinking and Drinkers Quotes

All learning has an emotional base.
- Plato | Education Quotes

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.
- Plato | Men Quotes

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.
- Plato | The Mind Quotes

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
- Plato | Politics Quotes

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
- Plato | Reason Quotes

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.
- Plato | Happiness Quotes

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Plato | Helping Other People Quotes

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
- Plato | Self-Knowledge Quotes

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.
- Plato | Self-Reliance Quotes

Time is the moving image of eternity.
- Plato | One Day Quotes

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
- Plato | Right Quotes

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
- Plato | Motivation Quotes

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness,
and both of discontent.

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
- Plato | Courage Quotes

Courage is a kind of salvation.
- Plato | Courage Quotes

To be is to do.
- Plato | Getting Going Quotes

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
- Plato | Concentration Quotes

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato | Beginnings Quotes

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the
inward places of the soul.
- Plato | Applause Quotes

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
- Plato | Body Quotes

A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
- Plato | Boy Quotes

Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.
- Plato | Conquest Quotes

Excellent things are rare.
- Plato | Excellence Quotes

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
- Plato | Injustice Quotes

Love - a grave mental disease.
- Plato | Love Quotes

Every man is a poet when he is in love.
- Plato | Poet Quotes

Science is nothing but perception.
- Plato | Science Quotes

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- Plato | Speech Quotes

States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.
- Plato | State Quotes

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