Quotes
| There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.-- Oscar Levant | |
| When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. --Helen Keller | |
| Forgive your enemies, but never forget their
names. -- John F. Kennedy |
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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln |
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| We're our own dragons as well as our own
heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins |
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be
entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne |
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| You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.-- Anonymous | |
| Nothing ventured, nothing gained - but if everything is ventured and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.--Peter Wastholm | |
| Many a man has finally succeeded only
because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat,
he would never have known any great victory. - Orison Swett Marden |
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| "Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." --Benjamin Franklin | |
| Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." -- Ann Landers | |
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.--
Elbert Hubbard
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| Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven. Know then that world exists for you. --Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Opportunity may knock only once, but
temptation leans on the doorbell. - Anonymous |
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| The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams -- Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order. --Katherine Paterson | |
| "People must believe in each other, and feel that it can be done and must be done; in that way they are enormously strong. We must keep up each other's courage." --Vincent van Gogh | |
| Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. -- Edward R. Murrow | |
"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." -- George Washington Carver |
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| A man can't get rich if he takes proper care
of his family. - Navaho saying |
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| There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. --Albert Einstein | |
| Life is to be fortified by many friendships.
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. - Sydney Smith |
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| Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace. --Ajahn Chah | |
| Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is
about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw |
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"The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious." -- Ted Levitt |
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| "Watch your thoughts; they become your words.
Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -- Frank Outlaw |
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| "It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." -- Whitney Young Jr | |
| "More important than leaving an inheritance is leaving a legacy." -- Author Unknown | |
| Do not keep the alabaster box of your
friendship sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with
sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier. The kind of things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go. --George W. Childs |
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| We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. --Sir Thomas Browne | |
| People will do anything, no matter how absurd,in order to avoid facing their own soul. --Carl Gustav Jung | |
| Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. -- Rumi | |
| "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."-- Henry David Thoreau | |
| "Alter your life by altering your attitudes." --William James | |
"Never underestimate the power of giving. It shines like a beacon throughout humanity." -- Unknown |
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| In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley | |
| "One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea
never regains its original dimensions."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| "We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive." – Aldo Leopold | |
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| "Achievement to most people is something that you do...to the high achiever...it is something that you are..." --Doug Firebaugh | |
| "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." --Colin Powell | |
| Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. --Czech Proverb |