"A path is only a path, and there is no affront
to oneself or to others, in dropping it,
if that is what your heart tells you.
Look at every path closely and deliberately.
Try it as many times as you think necessary.
Then ask yourself alone, one question
Does this path have a heart?
If it does, the path is good;
If it doesn't it is of no use."
~~Carlos Castaneda,
The Teachings of Don Juan

"I, as I do not know anything, do not think I do either"
~~~Socrates (Contributed by Illavatar)

"Obstacles cannot crush me:
every obstacle yields to stern resolve."
~~~Leonardo da Vinci (Contributed by GeeHaw)

"Tho love unites the bodies, pain unites the souls"
~~~(Contributed by Robert)

"Marriage may be compared to a cage:
the birds outside frantic to get in
and those inside frantic to get out."
(Montaigne 1588)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
~~~Emerson

"If only the best birds sang
the forest would be a quiet place"
(Contributed by Nyk)

"How can you say that you seek out the truth
if you will not look inside your self?"
(Contributed by Sir Partholon)

"Battle not with monsters lest you become one."
~~~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die
even the undertaker will be sorry."
~~~Mark Twain

"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."
~~~Henry David Thoreau

"Every child is an artist...
The problem is...
how to remain an artist after growing up."
~~~Pablo Picasso

"In the world of life...reality is but a dream away"
~~~To King David from Lady Blue Deztiny

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
~~~Oscar Wilde

"The best leaders....
almost without exception and at every level
are master users of stories and symbols."
~~~Tom Peters

"No man is fit to command another
that cannot command himself."
(William Penn; "No Cross, No Crown")

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong,
gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
(Thomas Paine - Common Sense)

"The price of greatness is responsibility."
~~~Winston Churchill

"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."
(Albert Einstein 1879-1955)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

"We are each of us angels with only one wing,
and we can fly by embracing each other."
~~~~~~Lucian de Crescenzo

"The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed..
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes."
~~~William Shakespeare




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