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"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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  1. "Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own."
    -Anon.

  2. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it."
    -Christopher Darlington Morley

  3. "I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in."
    -Henny Youngman

  4. "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads."
    -Anon.

  5. "Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live."
    -Anon.

  6. "Where words fail, music speaks."
    -Anon.

  7. "Kindness and intelligence = the ultimate aphrodisiac."
    -Anon.

  8. "If you do not understand my words, you will not understand my silence."
    -Anon.

  9. "A true friend never demands that you do not change but remembers the way you were."
    -Anon.

  10. "The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze."
    -Anon.

  11. "Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
    -Anon.

  12. "Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."
    -Anon.

  13. "All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power."
    -Anon.

  14. "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
    -Anon.

  15. "You never lose by loving. You lose by holding back."
    -Anon.

  16. "Common sense is the collection of prejudices aquired by age eighteen."
    -Anon.

  17. "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't you are usually right."
    -Anon.

  18. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It Goes On."
    -Anon.

  19. "True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."
    -Anon.

  20. "One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us."
    -Anon.

  21. "No one cares what you know until they know how much you care."
    -Anon.

  22. "Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
    -Anon.

  23. "Keep your fears for yourself, but share your courage with others."
    -Anon.

  24. "Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
    Criticize me, and I may not like you.
    Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
    Encourage me, and I may not forget you."
    -Anon.

  25. "Show me the person you honor, and I will know what kind of person you are, for it shows me what your idea of character is, and what kind of person you long to be."
    -Anon.

  26. "There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only few will catch your heart..."
    -Anon.

  27. "The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone."
    -Anon.

  28. "Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely."
    -Anon.

  29. "Always remember the last thing you say to people each day. Because what if it happened to be the last thing you ever get to say to them?"
    -Anon.

  30. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
    -Anon.

  31. "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."
    -Anon.

  32. "Choose your love wisely. Love your choice always."
    -Anon.

  33. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
    -Anon.

  34. "Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind."
    -Anon.

  35. "Patience is the companion of wisdom."
    -Anon.

  36. "Words are powerful things. They can make someone feel ten feet tall, or two inches small. Choose your words wisely and well."
    -Anon.

  37. "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
    -Anon.

  38. "There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth -- not going all the way, and not starting."
    -Anon.

  39. "Dreaming permits each of and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
    -Anon.

  40. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
    -Anon.

  41. "The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
    -Anon.

  42. "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
    -Anon.

  43. "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
    -Anon.

  44. "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."
    -Anon.

  45. "I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain."
    -Anon.

  46. "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, ...it doesn't matter."
    -Anon.

  47. "Your heart understands what your head cannot yet conceive; trust your heart."
    -Anon.

  48. "Stand up for what is right, even if you are standing alone."
    -Anon.

  49. "Before you can master the world, you must master yourself."
    -Dan Wallace

  50. "Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."
    -André Dubus

  51. "This above all; to thine own self be true."
    -William Shakespeare

  52. "The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
    -Frederick Douglas

  53. "Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."
    -Nora Ephron

  54. "Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions."
    -David Borenstein

  55. "The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed."
    -Alexis Carrel

  56. "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
    -Abraham Lincoln

  57. "The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice."
    -Doug Larson

  58. "Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."
    -Michael Korda

  59. "I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do."
    -Helen Keller

  60. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
    -Confucius

  61. "Fall seven times, stand up eight."
    -Japanese Proverb

  62. "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"
    -John Greenleaf Whittier

  63. "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
    -Sydney J. Harris

  64. "He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."
    -Chinese Proverb

  65. "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
    -Kahlil Gibran

  66. "The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it."
    -Anon.

  67. "Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."
    -J. B. Priestley

  68. "When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."
    -Bernard Bailey

  69. "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past."
    -George Orwell

  70. "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."
    -Charles Simic

  71. "Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
    -J. B. Yeats

  72. "A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
    -Nelson Mandela

  73. "Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."
    -H. Ross Perot

  74. "Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
    -Napoleon Hill

  75. "Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
    -George Bernard Shaw

  76. "It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved."
    -Niccolo Machiavelli

  77. "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
    -Desiderius Erasmus

  78. "He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened."
    -Lao Tzu

  79. "The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."
    -Kahlil Gibran

  80. "Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven."
    -Yiddish Proverb

  81. "The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."
    -Orison Swett Marden

  82. "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
    -Ann Landers

  83. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
    -Carl Sagan

  84. "Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye."
    -Anon.

  85. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
    -John Powell

  86. "There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
    -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

  87. "As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."
    -John Lancaster Spalding

  88. "Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it."
    -Georges Duhamel

  89. "They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
    -Carl W. Buechner

  90. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
    -Friedrich Nietzsche

  91. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
    -Lao-Tzu

  92. "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
    -Judy Garland

  93. "You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
    -Henry Drummond

  94. "Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
    -Charles Caleb Colton

  95. "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
    -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

  96. "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
    -James Baldwin

  97. "A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him."
    -Brendan Francis

  98. For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
    -Laura Swenson

  99. "Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be."
    -Jeremy Schwartz

  100. "Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
    -Jean-Paul Sartre

  101. "Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive."
    -Warren Miller

  102. "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
    -W. M. Lewis

  103. "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
    -Mahatma Gandhi

  104. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
    -Robert Frost

  105. "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  106. "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
    -John Burroughs

  107. "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
    -Buddha

  108. "The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
    -Joan Borysenko

  109. "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
    -Josh Billings

  110. "Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
    -Richard Bach

  111. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
    -S. G. Tallentyre

  112. "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
    -Hubert Humphrey

  113. "Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
    -Kahlil Gibran

  114. "He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times."
    -Johann von Schiller

  115. "The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind."
    -John Allston

  116. "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
    -Confucius

  117. "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
    -Don Herold

  118. "A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune."
    -Anon.

  119. "Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
    -Friedrich Nietzsche

  120. "The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."
    -Sebastian R. N. Chamfort

  121. "It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer."
    -William Blackstone

  122. "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
    -Douglas Adams

  123. "Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions."
    -Ben Stein

  124. "'He means well' is useless unless he does well."
    -Plautus

  125. "Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
    -Marcus Aurelius

  126. "Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
    -Don Marquis

  127. "There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
    -Edmund Burke

  128. "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
    -George Bernard Shaw

  129. "I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel."
    -Peter Nivio Zarlenga

  130. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
    -Albert Einstein

  131. "Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."
    -Anon.

  132. "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
    -Bertrand Russell

  133. "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
    -Johann von Goethe

  134. "Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."
    -Walter Kerr

  135. "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
    -Linus Pauling

  136. "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
    -Victor Hugo

  137. "The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset."
    -Anthony D'Angelo

  138. "If you have a lemon, make lemonade."
    -Howard Gossage

  139. "Hope is the denial of reality."
    -Margaret Weis

  140. "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

  141. "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!"
    -Emiliano Zapata

  142. "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
    -Mark Twain

  143. "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."
    -Sophocles

  144. "Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure."
    -Joseph Sugarman

  145. "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
    -Thomas Jefferson

  146. "If you can't duct it, FUCK IT!"
    -Heard From Dan Wallace

  147. "Knowledge is power."
    -Francis Bacon

  148. "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
    -Henry Ward Beecher

  149. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
    -Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

  150. "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
    -Albert Camus

  151. "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."
    -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  152. "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
    -G. K. Chesterton

  153. "It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."
    -Ornette Coleman

  154. "The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."
    -Richard Harding Davis

  155. "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
    -Rene Descartes

  156. "The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person."
    -Vi Putnam

  157. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
    -Anon.

  158. "Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
    -Anon.

  159. "You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
    -Anon.

  160. "The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
    -Colin Wilson

  161. "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
    -Confucius

  162. "Confidence is the hinge on the door to success."
    -Mary O'Hare Dumas

  163. "Recognition is the greatest motivator."
    -Gerard C. Eakedale

  164. "I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work."
    -Thomas Alva Edison

  165. "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
    -Albert Einstein

  166. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  167. "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
    -E. M. Forster

  168. "Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."
    -Harry Emerson Fosdick

  169. "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."
    -Alfred Hitchcock

  170. "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
    -G. C. Lichtenberg

  171. "Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself."
    -John MacNaughton

  172. "There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."
    -William Makepeace Thackeray

  173. "All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people."
    -Alexis Carrel

  174. "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
    -Confucius

  175. "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."
    -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  176. "When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
    -W. Somerset Maugham

  177. "When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
    -Lao-Tzu

  178. "If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
    -John Lennon

  179. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
    -Henry David Thoreau

  180. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  181. "Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."
    -Christopher Morley

  182. "Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly."
    -U. Peter

  183. "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger."
    -Franklin Jones

  184. "The important thing is not to stop questioning."
    -Albert Einstein

  185. "When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing."
    -Joseph Roux

  186. "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
    -Anon.

  187. "You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."
    -Harry Firestone

  188. "One that would have the fruit must climb the tree."
    -Thomas Fuller

  189. "Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."
    -Laurence J. Peter

  190. "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
    -Theodore Roosevelt

  191. "To do two things at once is to do neither."
    -Publilius Syrus

  192. "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
    -Will Rogers

  193. "There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."
    -Josh Billings

  194. "Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
    -Aldous Huxley

  195. "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
    -William Jennings Bryan

  196. "I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time."
    -Charlie Brown

  197. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
    -William Blake

  198. "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
    -John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  199. "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."
    -Friedrich Nietzsche

  200. "When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy."
    -Anon.

  201. "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
    -Muhammad Ali

  202. "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  203. "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
    -Elbert Hubbard

  204. "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
    -George Washington

  205. "True friends stab you in the front."
    -Oscar Wilde

  206. "We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
    -Joseph Roux

  207. "Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
    -Kahlil Gibran

  208. "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
    -James Barrie

  209. "If you can't return a favor, pass it on."
    -Louise Brown

  210. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
    -Martin Luther King, Jr.

  211. "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
    -Scottish Proverb

  212. "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
    -Allan K. Chalmers

  213. "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy."
    -Cynthia Nelms

  214. "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
    -Mark Twain

  215. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
    -Oscar Wilde

  216. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
    -Henry Ford





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