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If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

 

 

The worst of my actions and feelings do not seem to me so offensive as the cowardice of not daring to admit them.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1553-1592)
French Philosopher, Essayist

 

 

A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.

 

 

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)
German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist 

 

 

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

 

If you wished to be loved, love.

Seneca (4BC-65AD)
Roman Statesman, Philosopher

 

 

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

Louisa May Alcott

 

 

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

 

 

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

Wilma Askinas (1926-  )
American Author

 

 

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas

 

 

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

 

 

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

 

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Joseph Joubert
French Essayist and Moralist, 1754-1824

 

 

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913)
English Naturalist, Banker, Statesman

 

 

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Dale Carnegie
American lecturer, author, 1888-1955

 

 

A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore (1882-1942)
American Actor

 

 

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

 

 

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

William Shakespeare

 

 

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
Greek philosopher, BC 341-270

 

 

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Oscar Wilde

 

 

 

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than necessary.

Sir James Matthew Barrie
Scottish Playwright, author of Peter Pan

 

 

 

There is only one way to find out if a man is honest ... ask him. If he says 'yes,' you know he's crooked.

Groucho Marx

 

 

When in doubt, tell the truth. You will gratify some of the people and astound the rest.

Mark Twain

 

 

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

If you don't know where you're going, you're liable to wind up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

 

 

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Mark Twain

 

 

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

 

 

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Oscar Wilde

 

 

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway

 

 

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

 

 

The goal of an argument should be progress, not victory.

Author unknown

 

 

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

 

I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to
accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

 

 

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

 

 

He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

Sun-Tzu (500BC)

Chinese Military Strategist, Philosopher

 

 

 

Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.

Author unknown

 

 

There is nothing greater in life than loving another and being loved in return, for loving is the ultimate of experiences.

Leo F. Buscaglia

 

 

To love is to take delight in the happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness one's own.

Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) Philosopher and mathematician

 

 

Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

 

 

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) Politician

 

 

We don't remain good if we don't always strive to become better.

Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) Writer

 

 

Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.

Spanish proverb

 

 

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

Rona Barrett

 

 

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Henry James

 

 

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Herb Caen (1916-1997)Journalist

 

 

Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.

Yogi Berra

 

 

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Frank Crane (1861-1929) American Clergyman, Journalist

 

 

 

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Michael J. Fox

 

 

 

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

 

 

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.

Aesop (620-560BC) Legendary Greek Fabulist

 

 

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius

 

 

It is only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

Henry David Thoreau

 

 

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