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Far too many people have a keen sense
of the obvious.
Mark Evans
Pastor, The Church at Rock Creek
We can't solve
problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created
them.
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
Nothing is permanent in
this wicked world - not even our troubles.
Charlie
Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
British actor, director, & screenwriter
The mind is
not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
The seeds of your future are planted in the fields of
your past.
Mark Evans
In prosperity our
friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
(1848-1908)
Critic and educator
The key is not
to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your
priorities.
Stephen R.
Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Failure is an event,
never a person.
William D. Brown
Live for
something--Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue
that the storms of time can never destroy.
Thomas
Chalmers (1780-1847)
Theologian and philanthropist
If I'm content with a little, enough is as good as a
feast.
Isaac Bickerstaffe (c. 1735-1812)
Dramatist
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
American Writer
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid
counterfeit of Nature.
Honore de Balzac
Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds
should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by
day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
F.W. Faber
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 (1884-1962)
Some people make things happen, some watch things
happen, while others wonder what has happened.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow
spot, but there are others, who with the help of their art and their
intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
Pablo Picasso
It matters not what a person is born, but who they
choose to be.
Joanne
Kathleen Rowling (1965 - )
English Writer
Every moment of each day counts. Our best recourse is
to live life with intensity and exhilaration—in
thought, experience, action, and deed.
Paul
Kurtz (1925- )
American Philosopher
Wise men speak because they have something to say;
Fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato
He who does not understand your silence will probably
not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
American
editor, publisher and writer
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is
to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk (1961- )
American
Journalist, Satirist and Novelist
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Author and Satirist
It is good to love as many things as one can, for
therein lies true strength, and those who love much, do much and
accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making
rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
British Poet, Critic, Translator
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and
you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Luck has a
peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it.
Vitality shows
in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940)
We all have
our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some
take us forward, they're called dreams.
Jeremy Irons
British
Actor
Nobody holds a
good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope
(1815–1882)
English
novelist
Luck is what
happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
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
(1930–1999)
American
poet, cartoonist
Laughter is
man's most distinctive emotional expression.
Margaret Mead
(1901-1978)
American
anthropologist
The world is
full of willing people; some willing to work, the others willing to
let them.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
I was wise
enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I
had.
Margaret Mead
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