Men...employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses." -- Alphonse Karr "The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention." -- Roger Nash Baldwin (1884-1981) "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."--Will Rogers "Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers." --Mignon McLaughlin "Adventure is worthwhile in itself." --Amelia Earhart "Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers." --Walter Hagen "Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example." --Duc de La Rochefoucald "It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." -- Sister Elizabeth Kenny (1880?-1952) "A scholar knows no boredom." -- Jean Paul Friedrich Richter "Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much." --Joan Collins "Your wealth is where your friends are." --Plautus "I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel." --Gloria Naylor "The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong." --Thomas Carlyle "If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere." --Malcolm Forbes "The cure for grief is motion." --Elbert Hubbard
"I hope you never lose your sense of wonder, "The beginning is half of every action." --Greek proverb "Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat." --Ann Landers "To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon." -- Chinese Proverb "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." -- G.K. Chesterton "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." -- Lao-tzu "It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it." -- Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-60) "When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed." -- I Ching (BC 1150) "Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1." -- Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (b. 1943) "It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.” -- A. A. Hodge "If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?" -- Douglas Noel Adams "I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." --Madonna "If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself." --Fyodor Dostoyevsky "If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can." --Yiddish proverb "There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." --Christopher Morely "I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly." --Oprah Winfrey "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." --Charles Dickens "No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship." --Francis Marion Crawford "A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all." --Evelyn Scott "Do each daily task the best we can; act as tough the eye of opportunity were always upon us." --William Feather "All we are asked to bear we can bear." --Elizabeth Goudge "The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." --George C. Scott "Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts." --Arnold Bennett ". . . just to be alive is a grand thing." --Agatha Christie "The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." --Bertrand Russell "How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms." --Aristotle "There's only one thing worse than the man who will argue over anything, and that's the man who will argue over nothing." --Laurence Peter "There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear." -- Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821) "Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers." --Agnes Thornton "To remain young one must change." --Alexander Chase "The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"These days the stars seem out of reach
"Stay up and make some memories here, with us now "Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” --Anon. "We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be." --May Sarton "Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed." -- Buddha (563?-483? BC) "Deep faith eliminates fear." --Lech Walesa "We create our fate every day we live." --Henry Miller "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.” --Ralph Waldo Emerson "If we only knew the real value of a day." --Joseph Farrell "I learn by going where I have to go."--Theodore Roethke "It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it." --Baltasar Gracian "Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world." --Robert Hillyer "The work will teach you how to do it." --Estonian proverb "Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey." --Cynthia Ozick "Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye." --Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis "If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things." -- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-86) "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." -- Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-99) "The key to change . . . is to let go of fear." --Rosanne Cash "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." --William Feather "Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude." --Katherine Mansfield "Keep breathing." --Sophie Tucker "Truth is what stands the test of experience." --Albert Einstein "He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good." --Yiddish proverb "Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans." --Anon. "The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." --Robert Maynard Hutchins "Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten." --B. F. Skinner "Keep your promises to yourself." --David H. Fink "Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't and dead men can't." --John H. Patterson "Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake." --Robert Moses "Fear is a fine spur." --Irish proverb "It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) "Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground." -- Malayan Proverb don't keep me waiting here, feed me to your soul -The Beatles "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence." --Helen Keller "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." --John Steinbeck "Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together." --Anais Nin "Each bird must sing with his own throat." --Henrik Ibsen "Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, / Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes." --Alfred, Lord Tennyson "I've distilled everything to one simple principle – win or die." --Glenn Close, "Dangerous Liaisons" "Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries." --Corita Kent "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." --Hans Hoffman "That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end." --Francis Quareles "For me, the safest place is out on a limb." --Shirley MacLaine "We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." --John F. Kennedy "It's an ill plan that cannot be changed." --Latin proverb "The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you can't accept losing, you can't win." --Vince Lombardi "Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard think makes it impossible." --George C. Lorimer "Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods." -- Aristotle (384-322 BC) "There is nothing mysterious about originality, nothing fantastic. Originality is merely the step beyond." --Louis Danz "Never eat more than you can lift." --Miss Piggy "Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital.... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket." --Andrew Carnegie "Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any." --Plato "People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." --Abigail Van Buren "Unrest of spirit is a mark of life." --Karl Meninger
"Hands on a window pane "The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." --Aristotle (384-322 BC) "My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate – that's my philosophy." --Thornton Wilder "There is no substitute for hard work." --Thomas Edison "She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself." --Anais Nin "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." --Helen Keller "Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear." --Elbert Hubbard "Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress." --Alfred A. Montapert "The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge." Erich Fromm (1900-80) "Silence is one of the hardest things to refute." --Josh Billings "So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
"Look at us spinning out in "This--this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape." -- Roger Bannister "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." -- Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1612-72)
"Do you see the way that tree bends? "Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human." --Elie(zer) Wiesel (b. 1928) "There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head." --Teddy Roosevelt "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." --Anna Freud "True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful." --Paul Sweeney "What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do." --Anon. "I wanted to be scared again . . . I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged." --Connie Chung
"Smile though your heart is aching "Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them." --Alfred North Whitehead "If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." -- Mary Engelbreit "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." --George Bernard Shaw "No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy." -- F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
"Here I stand, sad and free. "Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart." -- Anthony J. D'Angelo "The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something." -- Andy Anderson "The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." -- Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913) "I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this; dream a great dream." -- John A. Appleman "Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength." --Eric Hoffer "If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused." --Walter Mondale "The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning." --George Sand "A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity." --Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-88) "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." -- Abraham Lincoln "In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope." -- O. Carl Simonton "When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." --Tuli Kupferberg "One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." --Jonathan Kozol "First things first, second things never." --Shirley Conran "We most always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden." --Johann von Goethe "Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old." -- Æschylus (525-456 BC) "If you planted hope today In any hopeless heart If someone's burden was lighter Because you did your part, If you caused a laugh That chased some tears away If tonight your name is named When someone kneels to pray Then your day has been well spent." -- Unknown "All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking." --C. H. Parkhurst "The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime." --Mignon McLaughlin "Emotion has taught mankind to reason." --Marquis de Vauvenargues "There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving -- by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done." --Aldous Huxley "Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding." --Diane Arbus "A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something." --Anon. "One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it." --Henry Moore
"...but I threw you the obvious "Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind." --Timothy Fuller "Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is." --Margaret Mitchell "Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge." -- Isaac Friedmann "Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized." --Francis R. Havergal "Don't let other people tell you what you want." --Pat Riley "We are what we believe we are." --Benjamin N. Cardozo "Acceptance of what happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune." --William James "Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." --Anon. "What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable." --Louise Nevelson "If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night." -- Dicky Barrett "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Sharing what you have is more important than what you have." --Albert M. Wells, Jr. "Oh – I listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking." --Bing Crosby "All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making." --Ordway Tead "The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." --Richard Bach "The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it." -- Peggy Fleming (b. 1948) "Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness." -- Athenæus (Circa 200 A.D.) "Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." --Denis Diderot "You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself." --Ethel Barrymore "You win the victory when you yield to friends." --Sophocles
"Don't even think about reachin' me, I won't be home "Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others." --H. Jackson Brown "The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. 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 Bryant (1860-1925) "These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future." --Vernon Cooper "Courage is rarely reckless or foolish . . . courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced." --Margaret Truman "All serious daring starts from within." --Eudora Welty "Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in the morrow." --Horace "Redeem thy mis-spent time that's past: / Live this day, a if 'twere they last." --Bishop Thomas Ken "The life so short, the craft so long to learn." --Hippocrates "When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die." --Eleanor Roosevelt "Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach." --Sydney Smith "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." --Margaret Thatcher "Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." -- Dr. Joyce (Diane Bauer) Brothers (b. 1929) "Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." --Napoleon Hill "The great thing, and the hard thing, is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery." --Janet Erskine Stuart "The truth is more important than the facts." --Frank Lloyd Wright "Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects." --Arnold Glasow "The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings." --Henri Frederic Amiel "Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you." --Joey Adams "We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch." --John F. Kennedy "Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own." --Jacqueline Brisken "To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice". --Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." --Louisa May Alcott "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder." --Æschylus (525-456 BC) "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life." -- Sandra Carey "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." --George Orwell "Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less." -- Robert Edward Lee (1807-70) "I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something—a great deal—to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words, by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds." --Adrienne Rich “One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters; but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may break into a wild irrational gallop.” –Edith Wharton “She laid her other hand on his, and they looked at each other with a kind of solemnity, as though they stood in the presence of death. Something in truth lay dead between them—the love she had killed in him and could no longer call to life. But something lived between them also, and leaped up in her like an imperishable flame: it was the love his love had kindled, the passion of her soul for his.” –Edith Wharton “Things may change—but they don’t pass. You can never go out of my life.” –Wharton "Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever." -- Gail (Kathleen) Godwin (b. 1937) "In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it." --Ivan Bloch "Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life." --Hugh Prather "Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are." --Madeline L'Engle "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening." --Marge Piercy "Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes . . . ." --Rev. Jesse Jackson "The morning is wiser than the evening." --Russian proverb "If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few blisters." --Abigail Van Buren "Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow." --Henry S. Haskins "The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it." --Harvey Milk "Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him." --Henry Miller "A danger foreseen is half avoided." --Thomas Fuller "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." --Erica Jong "Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results." -- James Lane Allen (1849-1923) "When you blame others you give up your power to change." --Anon. "For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance." --Mignon McLaughlin "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." --Henry Ford "A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness." --Bernard de Fontenelle "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." --Henry David Thoreau "Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due." --William R. Inge "I have always been waiting for something better – sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me." --Dorothy Reed Mendenhall "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." --Benjamin Disraeli "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." --Aldous Huxley "Boldness be my friend." --William Shakespeare (from Cymbeline) "The greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances." --Martha Washington "The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so." --David Hume "Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind." --Alice Meynell "To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic." --Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine "If one truly has lost hope, one would not be around to say so." --Eric Bentley "Wait for that wisest of counselors, Time." -- Pericles We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. - Pablo Picasso There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple, which complete each other like man and woman. - Vincent van Gogh "The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much intermittent gloom." --Margaret Drabble "Speak when you're angry – and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret." --Laurence Peter
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