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"Take the time to come home to yourself everyday." --Robin Casarjean "The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing." --John Lennon "The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." --George Santayana "O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!" --John Keats "Men who never get carried away should be." --Malcolm Forbes "If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater." -- Unknown "Never take counsel of your fears." -- General Thomas Jonathon [Stonewall] "The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides humanbeings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started." -- Norman Cousins "Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continunace." -- Frank Moore Colby "Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice." --Edgar Watson Howe "Fear drives you and makes you better." --Donna Shalala "An optimist is the human personification of spring." --Susan J. Bissonette "Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will." --Jawaharlal Nehru "Only those who dare, truly live." --Ruth Freedman "When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage." --Jewish proverb "Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth." --Horace "To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." -- E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition aspired, and success achieved." --Helen Keller "If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.” --Calvin Coolidge "Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient." -- Eugene S. Wilson "I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat." --David Berry "The days that make us happy make us wise." --John Masefield "All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today." --Dale Carnegie "You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow." --Harriet Martineau "Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." -- Henry Ford "Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life … Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it." --Joe Kapp "If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life." --Chris Evert "Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic." --Jean Sibelius "Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?" -- Alex Noble "Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." --William James "What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better." --Wendell Phillips "Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." --Judy Garland "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." --Gen. George S. Patton "Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." --Chinese proverb "Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind." -- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling "The real essence of work is concentrated energy." --Walter Begehot "Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power." --Shirley MacLaine "When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange -- my youth." -- Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) "Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is." -- Bhagavad Gita "If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?" - Linda Ellerbee "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be." -- Abraham Maslow "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing." --Marcus Aurelius "Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self." --Millicent Fenwick "It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life." --Queen Christina, of Sweden "Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little." --Edna Ferber "Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm." --Benjamin Disraeli "The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to." -- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." -- Bible, Romans 3:23 "We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released." --Jean Houston "A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control." -- Robert F. Bennett "People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise." --W. Somerset Maughm "We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid." --William Faulkner "Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery "It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself." -- (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) "Chance favors those in motion." --James H. Austin "All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost." -- J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkein (1892-1973) "The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer." -- Elias Canetti (b. 1905) "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." -- Janos Arnay "Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep." -- Mark Beltaire "There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." --Tennessee Williams "The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides." --Henri Fredric Amiel "None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives." --Kathleen Norris "Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change." --Ramsay Clark "When things go wrong, don't go with them." --Anon. "It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true." -- Roger Ward Babson (1875-1967) "It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.” --James Thurber "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." -- Langston Hughes "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." --Albert Einstein "Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention. It is part of our collective lives, entwining our past and our future... a particularly rewarding aspect of life itself." --Shirley Temple Black "It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to- day basis." --Margaret Bonnano "There is no such thing as a great talent without great will- power." --Balzac "The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly." --Corra Harris "In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion..." --Albert Camus "Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have of our words, the more successful our adjustment will be." --Bergan Evans "The principle part of faith is patience." --George MacDonald "You can only predict things after they have happened." --Eugene Ionesco "I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?" --Henry Moore "If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it." --Anon. "Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." --Joaquin Setanti "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." --Leonardo da Vinci "The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple." --Rebecca West "To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward." --Margaret Fairless Barber "We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves." -- (John) Michael Crichton "Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so." --John Stuart Mill
"What's the latest trend you're jumping into "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk or discourse, but to weigh and consider." --Francis Bacon "Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so." --John Stuart Mill
"there's no heart you can't melt "The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first." --Ginger Rogers "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one." --Elbert Hubbard "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." --John F. Kennedy "The important thing is not to stop questioning." --Albert Einstein "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." --Rene Descartes "For all sad words of tongue or pen, / The saddest are these: `It might have been.'" --John Greenleaf Whittier "The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner." --Tallulah Bankhead "Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit." -- Napolean Hill "The most important thing about having goals is having one." -- Geoffrey F. Albert "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 "To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life." --Malcolm Forbes "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." --H. L. Mencken "No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." --Helen Keller "Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget." -- Charles Hamilton Aide "One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today." -- Dale Carnegie "Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination." -- Melissa Mayer "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative." -- Woody Allen "Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible." -- Mary McLeod Bethune "Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees." -- Marcel Proust "No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living." --Marie Beynon Ray "A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world." --Sigmund Freud "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable." --Paul Tillich "There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside." --Pearl Bailey "What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties." --Katherine Mansfield "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." --Michael Evans "I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things." -- William J. Locke "If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." --Anon. "As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more." --Jules Renard "Fate loves the fearless." --James Russell Lowell "Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it." --Mae West "Difficulties exist to be surmounted." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "Luck is largely a matter of paying attention." --Susan M. Dodd "All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them." --William F. Halsey "Pain is the root of knowledge." --Simone Weil "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --George Burns (1896-1996) "The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future." -- Hillary Rodham Clinton
"Old friends, memory brushes the same years, "Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues." --Hugh Prather "If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea." --David Belasco "Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company." --Hannah Arendt "Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."-Woody Allen "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."-Emerson "No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back." --Turkish proverb "A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." --Miguel de Cervantes "If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires." --Abigail Van Buren "Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to." -Mark Twain What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. "Hope is a risk that must be run." --Georges Bernanos "When thinking won't cure fear, action will." --W. Clement Stone "Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion." --Francis Bacon "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." --Tallulah Bankhead "Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life." --Antoinette Bosco "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." -- Mahatma Gandhi "Love builds bridges where there are none." -- R. H. Delaney "Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." --Charles O. Finley "Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all: This, too, shall pass." --Ann Landers "He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak." -- Michel de Montaigne
Love is ... running into his arms, "Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it." --Joseph Campbell "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." -- Nathaniel Hawthorne "The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing." --Anon. "True affluence is not needing anything." --Gary Snyder "A laugh is a terrible weapon." --Kate O'Brien "Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow" --Aesop "Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do." --Terry McMillan "Live in the past, but don't remember too much." --Roger Rosenblatt "The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."--Helen Rowland "Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream." --Reinhold Niebuhr "I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick' . . . A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm." --James Thurber "A man is more complex, infinitely more so, than his thoughts." --Paul Valery "Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear." -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180) "I've been searching for you I heard a cry within my soul I never had a yearning quite like this before Now that you are walking right through my door All of my life where have you been I wonder if i'll ever see you again and if that day come i know we could win I wonder if i'll ever see you again" -Lenny Kravitz "Again" "The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man." --Roy L. Smith "Procrastination is opportunity's assassin." --Victor Kiam "Why always, 'not yet?' Do flowers in spring say, 'not yet?'" --Norman Douglas "The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep." ~ Clinton aide George Stephanopolous "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." ~ Rita Mae Brown "When everything has to be right, something isn't." --Stanislaw Lec "The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." –Voltaire "Jealousy is all the fun you think they had." --Erica Jong "To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self." --Joan Didion "Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are." --Julius Charles Hare "Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." --Francis Bacon "Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones." -- I Ching (BC 1150) "Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." --William James "No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself." --James Russell Lowell "You must change in order to survive." --Pearl Bailey
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I know it's sometimes hard It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye. --The Little Prince by: Antoine De Saint-Exupery "True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, andchangeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance." -- Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC) "Time flies, but you shouldn't." --Anon. "Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) "Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons." --Ruth Ann Schabaker "Greed lessens what is gathered." --Arab proverb "Be happy. It's one way of being wise." --Colette
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" If my fist clenches, crack it open, "What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean." --Christopher Fry "To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory." --Pierre Corneille "Circumstances alter faces." --Carolyn Wells
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"Some say love, it is a river "A woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life." --Kim Chernin "Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic." --Rosalind Russell Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh "Never mistake motion for action." --Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) "I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes." --Sara Teasdale “Something, someone, some spirit was pursing all of us across the desert of life and was bound to catch us before we reached heaven. Naturally, now that I look back on it, this is only death: death will overtake us before heaven.” –Jack Kerouac “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?—it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” –Jack Kerouac “And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into the timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies seething roar which wasn’t in my ear but everywhere and had nothing to do with sounds.” –Jack Kerouac “Suddenly I had a vision of Dean, a burning shuddering frightful Angel, palpitating toward me across the road, approaching like a cloud, with enormous speed, pursuring me like the Shrouded Traveler no the plain, bearing down on me, I saw his huge face over the plain with the mad, bony purpose and the gleaming eyes; I saw his wings; I saw his old jalopy chariot with thousands of sparking flames shooting out from it; I saw the path it burned over the road; it even made its own road and went over the corn, through the cities, destroying bridges, drying rivers.” –Jack Kerouac “The mere thought of looking out…was like recoiling from some gloriously riddled glittering treasure-box that you’re afraid to look at because of your eyes, they bend inward, the riches and the treasures are too much to take all at once.” –Jack Kerouac “…the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairies.” –Jack Kerouac “…we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by” –Jack Kerouac "A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows." --John Powell "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second" --Logan Pearsall Smith "Faith is the only known cure for fear." --Lena K. Sadler "What worries you, masters you." --Haddon W. Robinson "Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure and stop to smell the flowers." --Walter Hagen "That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." --Doris Lessing "It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them." --Joanna Field "Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best." --Reverend Oliver G. Wilson "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." --Jean Rostand "The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant." --Lord David Cecil "The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."--Albert Einstein
"Sometimes I need some time. . . on my own "Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it." --David Guy Powers "Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift." --William James "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." --Martin Luther King, Jr. "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." --Jonathan Winters "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." --Francis Bacon "Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience." --Eddie Rickenbacker "In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for..." -- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) "What is now proved was once imagined." --William Blake "Do whatever you do intensely." --Robert Henri Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ---Scott Adams "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 "Do not do onto others as you would they should do onto you. Their tastes may not be the same." --George Bernard Shaw "We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities." --Agnes Repplier "Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be here, but you will have ceased to live." --Lady Nancy Astor "Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect." --Margaret Mitchell "Lord of himself, though not of lands, / And having nothing, yet hath all." --Henry Wotton “Dreams we dreamed at night were never meant to come to life I can't understand the ease she pulled away her hand This time in my life I was hurt enough to care I guess from now on I'll be careful what I share" -Blues Traveler, "The Mountains Win Again", Four "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in schoool. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you haven't really learned anything." -- Muhammad Ali "It is such a secret place, the land of tears." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it." -- Josephus Daniels "You don't learn to hold your own by standing guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself." -G.B. Shaw "We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it." -- Mark Twain "You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life – so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself." --Jane Seymour "Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor." --John Milton "If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead." --Ralph Waldo Emerson Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh "I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change . . . . I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back . . . ." --Erica Jong "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."--Francis Bacon "It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within—that you can begin to take control." --Oprah Winfrey “…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’” –Jack Kerouac sets her a-thinking. –Aphra Behn |
