"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." -Swedish Proverb
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." -Harvey Fierstein
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -William James
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." -W. M. Lewis
"May you live every day of your life." -Jonathan Swift
"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?" -Eugene Kennedy
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -Socrates
"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." -Charles Simic
"He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts." -Fletcher, Love's Cure, 1647
"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden
"Freedom is just another word for 'nothing left to loose' " - Janis Joplin
"When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced, live your life in such a manner, that when you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice."
"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart." Benjamin Franklin
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." Hugh Downs
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
"Most problems don't get solved because people are always saying they think something is the problem with something else when really it isn't and they waste all this time trying to find the solution to a problem that doesn't exist when the actual problem is sitting over here and is getting worse because nobody realizes that it's the problem...so that's what I think the problem is." - a wise person indeed
"There comes a time in everyone's life when we must take that first step into darkness, at this point God will either place something solid under your feet or teach you how to fly"-Patrick Overton
"You are only genuinely happy when you don't know why"
"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."
