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When
I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was
difficult to change the world, so
I tried to change my nation. When I
found I couldn't change the
nation, I began to focus on my town. I
couldn't change the town and as an
older man, I tried to change my
family. Now, as an old man, I
realize the only thing I can change is
myself, and suddenly I realize
that if long ago I had changed myself,
I could have made an impact on my
family. My family and I could have
made an impact on our town. Their
impact could have changed the nation
and I could indeed have changed
the world.
-- Author Unknown
In life, no matter how tall your
parents were, you still have to do your own growing.
-- Author Unknown
All our dreams can come true, if
we have the courage to pursue them.
-- Walt Disney
People often say that motivation
doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing,
that's why we recommend it daily.
-- Zig Ziglar
Sometimes the majority only means
that all the fools are on the same side.
-- Author Unknown
The more I want to get something
done, the less I call it work.
-- Richard Bach
Bravery is being the only one who
knows you're afraid.
-- Col. David Hackworth
Any ship can be a minesweeper
-- once.
-- Author Unknown
I believe that unarmed truth and
unconditional love will have the final
word in reality. This is why
right, temporarily defeated, is stronger
than evil triumphant.
-- Martin Luther King jr.
Swallow your pride occasionally,
it's non-fattening!
-- Author Unknown
None are so empty as those who are
full of themselves.
-- Benjamin Whichcote
Humor is the hole that lets the
sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.
-- Author Unknown
Never ruin an apology with an
excuse.
-- Benjamin Franklin
I never think of the future.
It comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein
When life demands more of people
than they demand of life - as is
ordinarily the case - what results
is a resentment of life almost as
deep-seated as the fear of death.
-- Tom Robbins
What cannot be cured must be
endured.
-- Meher Baba
It's possible to own too
much. A man with one watch knows what time it is;
a man with two watches is never
quite sure.
-- Lee Segall
Cowboy-style Philosophy,
Never approach a bull from the
front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.
A bronc rider should be light in
the head and heavy in the seat.
Broke is what happens when a
cowboy lets his yearnin's get ahead of his earnin's.
Any cowboy can carry a tune. The
trouble comes when he tries to unload it.
When in doubt, let your horse do
the thinkin'.
When a cowboy's too old to set a
bad example, he hands out good advice.
Worry is like a rockin' horse.
It's something to do that don't get you nowhere.
Poor is having to sell the horse
to buy the saddle.
Thanks to Sandy (AKA Ms
Sam)
What lies behind us and what lies
before us
are small matters
compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can easily forgive a child who is
afraid
of the dark; the real tragedy
of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-- Plato
Don't be afraid to give up the good
for the
great.
-- Kenny Rogers
Ever tried? Ever failed?
No matter,
try again. Fail again. Fail better.
-- Samuel Beckett
Sing as though no one can hear you.
Dance as
if no one were watching.
Love as if you've never been hurt. Live as
though heaven is on earth.
-- Author Unknown
While goals are chosen, a purpose is
discovered.
Our purpose is something
we have been doing all along, and will continue
to do, regardless of
circumstances, until the day we die.
-- Peter McWilliams
In the province of the mind, what
one believes
to be true, either is
true or becomes true.
-- John Lilly
Anything the mind can conceive and
believe,
it can achieve!
-- Napoleon Hill
Think like a man of action. Act like
a man
of thought.
-- Henri Bergson
The only real mistake is the one
from which
we learn nothing.
-- John Powell
Why get a Philosophy
degree?
It's more respectable than a theatre
degree, but you still get to drink lots of
espresso.
-- Author Unknown
As I would not be a slave, so I
would not be
a master. This expresses
my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Life is not measured by the number
of breaths
we take, but by
the moments that take our breath away!
-- Author Unknown
I don't know the key to success, but
the key
to failure is trying to please
everybody.
-- Bill Cosby
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is
about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Give until it hurts and then give
until it
feels good.
-- George Fraser
You must first get along with
yourself before
you can get along with others.
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Between two evils, I always pick the
one I
never tried before.
-- Mae West
If you can't be a good example, then
you'll
just have to be a
horrible warning.
-- Catherine Aird
If one is master of one thing and
understands
one thing well, one has at the
same time, insight into and understanding
of many things.
-- Van Gogh
The key to motivation is to look at
how far
I have come rather than how
far I have to go.
-- Hugh Prather
Often the test of courage is not to
die but
to live.
-- Vittorio Alferi
You can't plant a seed and pick the
fruit the
next morning.
-- Jesse Jackson
I shall not waste my days in trying to
prolong
them.
-- Ian Fleming
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and
remember
what peace there
may be in silence.
-- Author Unknown
Never believe that a few caring people
can't
change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
-- Margaret Mead
Life's like a boom-a-rang. The more good
you
throw out, the more
you receive in return.
-- Josh S. Hinds
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until
you get there.
-- Harvey Mackay
The more I want to get something done, the
less I call it work.
-- Richard Bach
To attain happiness in another world we
need
only to believe something;
to secure it in this world, we must do
something.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000
ways
that won't work.
-- Thomas Alva Edison
When making your choices in life, do not
neglect
to live.
-- Samuel Johnson
A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A
woman must do what he can't.
-- Rhonda Hansome
Remember that you are never too old to
learn
new things.
Constantly look for new experiences that will
help you
grow. Trying new things stretches your comfort
zone and
forces you to develop in new directions.
-- June Sandercock
The smile is the shortest distance between
two people.
-- Victor Borge
Go on working, freely and furiously, and
you
will make progress.
-- Paul Gauguin
The wisdom of life consists in the
elimination
of nonessentials.
-- Lin Yutang
Duty is what one expects from others, it is
not what one does oneself.
-- Oscar Wilde
I always say shopping is cheaper than a
psychiatrist.
-- Tammy Faye Baker
Our very business in life is not to get
ahead
of others, but to get
ahead of ourselves.
-- Thomas L. Monson
Children are likely to live up to what you
believe of them.
-- Lady Bird Johnson
If there be any truer message of a man than
by what he does, it must
be by what he gives.
-- Robert South
Persistence is the twin sister of
excellence.
One is a matter
of quality; the other, a matter of time.
-- Marabel Morgan
Freedom begins between the ears.
-- Edward Abbey
Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who
finds himself,
loses his misery.
-- Matthew Arnold
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot
hear
what you say.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never wear a watch, because I always know
it's now--and now is
when you should do it.
-- Steve Mariucci
Arriving at one goal is the starting point
to another.
-- John Dewey
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my
conversation.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln
The important thing is not so much that
every
child should be
taught, as that every child should be given
the wish to learn.
-- John Lubbock
Only those who dare to fail greatly can
ever
achieve greatly.
-- Robert F. Kennedy
Believe and act as if it were impossible to
fail.
-- Charles F. Kettering
My creed is that happiness is the only
good.
The place to be
happy is here. The time to be happy is now.
The way to be happy
is to make others so.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
Tolerance is only another name for
indifference.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
Resentment is like drinking poison and
waiting
for the other person to die.
-- Cindy Clabough
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.
-- Mark Twain
True intimacy and romance always flourish
at
tables, not on sofas.
At the table you have the best eye contact,
and that's what it's all
about. People push their empty plates
to one side and linger longer
at the table. Once, people used to move
from the dining room table
to the couch. That was a disaster
because
all the intimacy they had
built up disappeared, and they had to start
all over. A table is the
most beautiful piece of furniture there is.
-- Jan des Bouvrie
Keep your face to the sunshine and you
cannot
see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller
You can easily judge the character of
others
by how they treat
those who can do nothing for them or to them.
-- Malcolm Forbes
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when
pursued,
is always just beyond
your grasp, but which, if you will sit down
quietly, may alight
upon you.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Discretion is being able to raise your
eyebrow
instead of your voice.
-- Author Unknown
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
-- Mike Ditka
Luck is what happens when preparation meets
opportunity.
-- Coach Darrel Royal
In the sea there are riches beyond compare
... but if it's safety
you seek, your place is on the shore.
-- Sufi poet, 15th Century
Intelligence without ambition is a bird
without
wings.
-- C. Archie Danielson
There is a great difference between knowing
and understanding you
can know a lot about something and not really
understand it.
-- Charles F. Kettering
Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.
-- Steven Coallier
You can't do much about the length of your
life, but you can do a
lot about its depth and width.
-- Author Unknown
No such thing as a man "willing" to be
honest.
That would be like
a blind man "willing" to see.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I really don't want to wax philosophic, but
I will say that if you're
alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs,
you've got to jump
around a lot, you've got to make a lot of
noise, because life is
the very opposite of death. And therefore,
as I see it, if you're
quiet, you're not living. You've got to be
noisy, or at least your
thoughts should be noisy and colorful and
lively.
-- Mel Brooks
Every day I live I am more convinced that
the
waste of life
lies in the love we have not given, the powers
we have not
used, the selfish prudence that will risk
nothing and which,
shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
-- Mary Cholmondeley
Generosity lies less in giving much than in
giving at the right moment.
-- Jean De La BruyFre
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will
conquer
the world.
-- Kaiser Wilhelm
Philosophy is to the real world as
masturbation
is to sex.
-- Karl Mar
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
Success is how high you bounce when you hit
bottom.
-- General George Patton
So long as they don't get violent, I want
to
let everyone say what
they wish, for I myself have always said
exactly
what pleased me.
-- Albert Einstein
I can explain it for you, but I can't
understand
it for you.
-- Author Unknown
What you keep to yourself you lose, what
you
give away, you keep forever.
-- Axel Munthe
