2. You cannnot change another person...only your perception of them.

3. If life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

4. "But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents." (Kant)

5. "It is heaven on earth to have one's mind move in clarity, rest in benevolence, and turn upon the poles of truth." (Francis Bacon-"On Truth")

6. "Things improve greatly when they are no longer important. Trust me. ( Arlo Guthrie)

7. "If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding." (Arlo Guthrie)

8. God created mercy for those who don't deserve it.

9. A distraction is only a distraction if you pay attention to it.

10. Even a short man casts a long shadow at dusk.

11. "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)

12. "From each according to his ability...to each according to his need." (Karl Marx)

13. "We need to clean the mirror of our souls so that we can reflect an image of love and forgiveness to others. We can do this by making a conscious effort to send everything that comes to our mind into our heart to be warmed by our spirit. Then, and only then, should it be sent back to the mind for final considersation before speaking a single word." (David K. Irwin)

14. People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care!

15. What you don't know yourself...you don't know.

16. We all live in ghettos of like-minded people.

17. "Rather than curse your misfortunes for what you have not...Praise the Lord for what you have." (David K. Irwin)

18. "But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea..." (Jesus Christ)

19. There are times when it's better to do the wrong thing for the right reason rather than the right thing for the wrong reason.

20. What's the meaning of goodness if there is no badness to overcome?

21. "Don't take life too seriously...you'll never get out of it alive!" (Bugs Bunny)

22. "Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." (anonymous)

23. "What's past is proloque." (William Shakespeare)

24. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." This was attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain but may very well be his own.

25. "Only good will, like a jewel, shine by it's own light, as a thing which has it's own value in itself." Emmanuel Kont

26. "The future does not exist and cannot be predicted. It must be imagined and invented." Gelatt

27. "We are brothers and sisters of the same blood, brothers and sisters of the same mud, from our mother the Earth. What seperates us from one another is lack of understanding." The Song Catchers (Native American)

28. "I've learned in life there are three ingredients to happiness...Faith, Family, and Friends (my 'F' words). Keep these close to your heart and in your mind, always!" David K. Irwin

29. I made myself a promise, some time back, that before speaking or taking any action I would always ask myself, "What would Jesus do?". Since then, I have come to a greater understanding of human nature and realized promises are just promises...living promises is a way of life. DKI

30. "One makes a science with facts in the same way that one makes a house with stones; but, an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house." Henri Poincare

31. "Football is not a contact sport; it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport." Vince Lombardi

32. "Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it." Afred North Whitehead

33. "Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp." Jeff MacNelly (Shoe)

34. "The only problem with home canning is that eventually you have to eat the stuff." J. Wagner (Crabby Road)

35. Noah: "Tell them to line up alphabetically...food-chain order might lead to problems." Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernest)

36. "Misers are no fun to live with, but they make great ancestors." Tom Snyder

37. "Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have." Oliver Sacks

38. Many people will walk in and out of your life, But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

39. To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart.

40. Anger is only one letter away from danger.

41. If someone betrays you once, it's his fault; if he betrays you twice, it's your fault.

42. Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

43. God gives every bird it's food, but He does not throw it in the nest.

44. He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses more; He who loses faith, loses all.

45. Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

46. Learn from the mistakes of others...you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

47. The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it.

48. Friends, you and me...you brought another friend and then there were three...we started our group, our circle of friends...and like that circle there is no beginning or end.

49. "My greatest desire is for people to know who they are from the inside out and to use that knowledge as a tool of empowerment and love." -- Iyanla Vanzant

50. Sitting in a church will no more make you a Christian than sitting in a hen house will make you a chicken.

51. Feed your Faith and your doubts will starve to death. -Holly J. Wolfe

52. "This was always on my Dad's desk..." I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. -Barb Nelson

53. "Live so that you wouldn't mind selling your pet parrot to the town gossip." - Will Rogers

54. "The only things in the middle of the road are yellow strips and dead armadillos." - Jim Hightower

55. "A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine" - Old West Pioneer Saying

56. "I can try to accept gracefully all things that affect my life. I can think and act, not react, I can study and learn. I can listen ..." - Barbara J. Miller, Powerquoter

57. "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."- Pope John XXIII

58. "The temple of our purest thoughts is silence." - Sarah J. Hale

59. "It's never crowded along the extra mile." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

60. "At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, 'I was always happy.' Hopefully, we will be able to say, 'I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.'" - Barbara Deangelis

61. "It's hard to wring my hands when I am busy rolling up my sleeves." - Linda Geraci

62. "Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too." - Lawrence Bixby

63. "Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action." - William James

64. "By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective." ~~~Stephen Covey

65. "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine" ~~~(Proverbs 17:22).

66. "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."~~~Albert Camus

67. "Our intention creates our reality." - Wayne Dyer

68. "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." ---Marcus Aurelius

69. "Even though life may be a struggle at many times it is still an art and it's up to each one of us to use the gifts that God gave us to the absolute fullest to make each one of our lives the masterpiece it can be." ---Craig Lock

70. " If [man] is not to stifle human feelings, he must practice kindness toward animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of man by his treatment of animals." --Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics

71. "You are the one who can stretch your own horizon." - Edgar F. Magnin

72. "Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule." ---Lewis B. Smedes, Forgive and Forget

73. "Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself." - Katherine Hepburn

74. "Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person." ---Jason Hurst

75. "To touch the soul of another huming being is to walk on Holy ground." ~~~~Stephen R. Corey

76. "Distance may seperate our bodies, but it will never seperate our hearts." --Unknown

77. "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye

78. "You cannot climb the ladder of success....with your hands in your pockets." ----- Zig Ziglar

79. "Don't rely too much on labels... for too often they are fables." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

80. "There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."---- Richard David Bach, American author

81. "Do not be dismayed at good-byes. A good-bye is necessary before meeting again. And meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends." --Richard Bach

82. "The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go." -- Dr. Dale E. Turner

83. "Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size."----- Sarah Ban Breathnach

84. "The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go." -- Dr. Dale E. Turner

85. "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"---Anne Frank

86. "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine"~~~~~(Proverbs 17:22).

87. "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."---Ray Bradbury

88. "The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."----- George Bernard Shaw

89. "Really believe in your heart of hearts that your fundamental purpose, the reason for being, is to enlarge the lives of others. Your life will be enlarged also. And all of the other things we have been taught to concentrate on will take care of themselves." ---Pete Thigpen

90. "Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God."------ Mary Manin Morrissey

91. "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." ---Dale Carnegie

92. "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years" ---- Abraham Lincoln

93. "Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles."----- Bryce Courtenay, Author

94. "The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it." --- Sylvia Bremer

95. "Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all." ----Pericles

96. "What we don't understand we don't possess."---- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

97. "We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance." --- Joan Wester Anderson

98. "Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas." ---- Mimfa A.Gibson

99. "The perfect antidote to envy is not, as you may suspect, perfect success. The perfect antidote to envy is self-love -- when you know deep inside that you are on the absolutely right path for yourself, or you are in the process of uncovering what that path is, and you are doing the best you can right now given all the external and internal parameters." ---Susan Page

100. "Choose this day how you will live. Choose this day to release all struggles. If you re-lease, you get a new lease on life. If you release, you move into real-ease. It's in the letting go that you find what you possessed all along." ----Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey, founder and spiritual leader of Living Enrichment Center, Wilsonville, OR and television and radio personality.

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