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"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream."--Harry Kemp
"All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."--Charles Kingsley
"We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves."--Thomas Merton
"I like the man who faces what he must, / With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; / Who fights the daily battle without fear."--Sarah Knowles Bolton
"Courage is always the surest wisdom."--Sir Wilfred Grenfell
"The champion makes his own luck."--Red Blaik
"Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned."--Ignazio Silone
"The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make."--Brian Koslow
"There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be."--George Sheehan
"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."--Anonymous
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."--Anthony J. D'Angelo
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."--Scott Hamilton
"It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to."--Annie Gottlier
"Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself."--John W. Raper
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."--Henry Ford
"I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."--Sylvester Stallone
"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."--John Lubbock
"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see."--G. K. Chesterton
"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."--Henry Ford
"Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still."--Chinese proverb
"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."--Charles Evans Hughes
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."--Anatole France
"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side--I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts."--Bethania McKenstry
"To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color."--Toller Cranston
"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."--Alan Simpson
"You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself."--Gene Mauch
"Go and wake up your luck."--Persian Saying
"I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short."--Shelley Winters
"The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates."--Dave Barry
"When we lose twenty pounds, we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty."--Woody Allen
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."--Eartha Kitt
"The biggest liar in the world is 'They Say'."--Douglas Malloch
"Difficulties are things that show what men are."--Epictetus
"Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs."--Yiddish proverb
"Goals are dreams with deadlines."--Diana Scharf Hunt
"Being busy and being productive are not necessarily related."--Brian Koslow
"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"--Frank Scully
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."--Seneca
"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."--Frederick B. Wilcox
"Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly."--Eskimo proverb
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."--Napoleon
"If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito."--Michelle Walker
"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."--Zig Ziglar
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."--William James
"What you see in yourself is what you see in the world."--Afghani proverb
"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."--Margaret Fuller
"He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes."--Spanish proverb
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."--Abraham Lincoln
"Be prepared."--Boy Scouts of America motto
"Readiness is all."--William Shakespeare
"All things come to him who waits--provided he knows what he is waiting for."--Woodrow Wilson
"One thing you can't recycle is wasted time."--Anonymous
"Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway."--Mary C. Crowley
"It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down."--George MacDonald
"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere."--Glenn
"Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision."--Anonymous
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."--Benjamin Franklin
"Misery is a communicable disease."--Martha Grahame
"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."--O. S. Marden
"If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so."--Eric Bentley
"There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one."--Elmer G. Leterman
"Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow."--Glen Beaman
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."--Albert Einstein
"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."--Sylvia Plath
"If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk."--Raymond Inmon
"If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything."--Win Borden
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."--Hans Hofmann
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."--Leonardo DaVinci
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."--Lin Yutang
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."--Sydney J. Harris
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."--Lao Tzu
"To travel hopefully is better than to arrive."--Sir James Jeans
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."--Thomas Jefferson
"Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff."--Adlai Stevenson
"Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand."--Lord Northcliffe
"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."--Napoleon
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once."--Calvin Coolidge
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."--Henry David Thoreau
"Other people's eggs have two yolks."--Hungarian proverb
"Congenial labor is the secret of happiness."--Arthur C. Benson
"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains."--Dutch Proverb
"Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil."--Bernard Baruch
"He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head."--Margot Asquith
"The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."--Mignon McLaughlin
"The only things you regret are the things you don't do."--Michael Curtiz
"In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it."--Charles Baudeliare
"When in doubt, do it."--Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."--Confucius (551-479 B.C.)
"Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it."--Thomas Eakins
"Surround yourself with people who believe in you."--Brian Koslow
"Friendship is a plant which must be often watered."--Anonymous
"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."--Abraham Tucker
"A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat."--Louis L'Amour
"If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin."--Katharine B. Hathaway
"Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come."--Greer Garson
"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it."--Julia Child
"Purpose is what gives life a meaning."--C. H. Parkhurst
"All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent."--Smiley M. Blanton
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."--Robert Byrne
"Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river."--Cordell Hull
"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say."--Ingrid Bergman
"Change is inevitable--except from a vending machine."--Robert C. Gallagher
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."--Confucius
"Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in."--Dwight L. Moody
"Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving ...."--David Sarnoff
"It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane."--Charles Lindbergh
"One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other."--Chinese proverb
"As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it . . . you cannot do everything."--Phillips Brooks
"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."--Marcel Proust
"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."--Logan Pearsall Smith
"You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit card."--Andrew Tobias (in 1982)
"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."--Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
"Why not learn to enjoy the little things? There are so many of them."--Anonymous
"If you think it's going to rain, it will."--Clint Eastwood
"We are betrayed by what is false within."--George Meredith
"One's lifework . . . grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it, and the first thing you know, you'll have made a life of it."--Theresa Helburn
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."--Woody Hayes
"Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale."--Adlai Stevenson
"Swallow your pride occasionally, it's nonfattening!"--Anonymous
"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves."--Benjamin Whichcote
"No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today."--Brendan Francis
"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes."--Hugh Prather
"All things come round to him who will but wait."--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"God grant us patience!"--William Shakespeare
"I am happy and content because I think I am."--Alain-Rene Lesage
"During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively."--Brian Koslow
"The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it."--Brian Koslow
"The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you've been in the race."--Nellie Hershey Smith
"The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition."--Nick Seitz
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."--Machiavelli
"People living deeply have no fear of death."--Anais Nin
"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."--Horace
"Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."--Elbert Hubbard
"You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go."--Jeanette Rankin
"Everyone needs help from everyone."--Bertolt Brecht
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."--Herman Melville
"Half of today is better than all of tomorrow."--Jean de La Fontaine
"Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous."--Corita Kent
"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."--George Herbert
"I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand."--Jane Wagner
"Fashions are induced epidemics."--George Bernard Shaw
"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well."--Daniel J. Boorstin
"Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them."--Norman Vincent Peale
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself."--Thomas Paine
"Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it."--James Stephens
"Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?"--Laurence Peter
"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, / Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be."--Alexander Pope
"You will only get well when you are sick of being sick."--Anonymous
"Everything is sweetened by risk."--Alexander Smith
"Luck is believing you're lucky."--Tennessee Williams
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."--Doris Mortman
"The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others."--Anonymous
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims."--Harriet Woods
"My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions."--Ertha Kitt
"If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone."--Maxwell Maltz
"A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis."--Ralph W. Sockman
"Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses."--Latin proverb
"The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working."--Ernest Newman
"Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself."--Audrey Giorgi
"The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish."--Brian Koslow
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."--Thomas Carlyle
"One major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions."--Edward R. Murrow
"The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."--Thomas Edison
"Kill them with kindness."--Anonymous
"Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional."--Anonymous
"It's not what happens that counts--it's your response to what happens that counts."--Anonymous
"We are all victims of victims."--Anonymous
"If nothing changes nothing changes."--Anonymous
"Let nothing others do alter your treatment of them."--Anonymous
"There is no future in the past."--Anonymous
"Happiness is wanting what you have, not having what you want."--Anonymous
"When the pain is of no more value, the healing is instantaneous."--Anonymous
"A problem shared is a problem halved."--Anonymous
"Listening is love in action."--Anonymous
"Comedy is tragedy plus time."--Anonymous
"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."--Bernard M. Baruch
"My motto--sans limites."--Isadora Duncan
"It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground."--James H. Boren
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."--A. B. Alcott
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."--Will Rogers
"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."--Laurence Peter
"Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."--Claude Helvetius
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."--Walter Bagehot
"To be free is to have achieved your life."--Tennessee Williams
"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."--Christine Bovee
"The biggest liar in the world is They Say."--Douglas Malloch
"Nothing is ours except time."--Marcus Seneca
"All my possessions for a moment of time."--Queen Elizabeth I
"Possessions dwindle; I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time."--Latin Proverb
"The only real training for leadership is leadership."--Anthony Jay
"Try to know everything of something, and something of everything."--Henry Peter
"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength."--Henry Ward Beecher
"I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned."--Gwyn Thomas
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."--G. K. Chesterton
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."--English proverb
"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear--fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety."--H. L. Mencken
"Envy is an insult to oneself."--Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."--William Arthur Ward
"The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep."--Henry Maudsley
"Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."--Natalie Clifford Barney
"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."--John Vance Cheney
"Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way."--Daniele Vare
"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."--Robert Half
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity."--William Menninger
"Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders."--Rabindranath Tagore
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry."--John Jensen
"Never miss a good chance to shut up."--Anonymous
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."--Richard Bach
"Too often we ... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."--John F. Kennedy
"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."--Latin proverb
"Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.'"--Tony Robbins
"Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it."--Amelia Earhart
"We must accept life for what it actually is--a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature."--Ida R. Wylie
"There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us."--Evelyn Mandel
"All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do."--David Graydon
"Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view."--Ella Wilcox
"Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save from change?"--Marcus Aurelius
"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait."--Ellen Metcalf
"Practice being excited."--Bill Foster
"Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly."--James Russell Lowell
"There is no data on the future."--Laurel Cutler
"Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting."--Anonymous
"There is no physician like a true friend."--Anonymous
"There is no time like the present."--Anonymous
"No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it."--Ellen Glasgow, 1873-1945
"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."--Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963
"You can't slice up morals."--John Steinbeck, 1902-1968
"The world always looks brighter from behind a smile."--Anonymous
"Take it from me, someone who was once convinced that I was forever doomed . . . miracles are out there for the sickest of the sick. Life can actually become precious. What a concept, huh?"--Richard Lewis, comedian
"You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be."--Wayne W. Dyer
"The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it."--Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
"When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best."--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Paths clear before those who know where they're going and are determined to get there."--Leonard Roy Frank
"This world is but canvas to our imagination."--Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
"To make headway, improve your head."--B. C. Forbes
"Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions."--Edward R. Murrow
"When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence, applaud yourself!"--Rusty Berkus
"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."--Helen Keller
"Many things are lost for want of asking."--English proverb
"A flatterer is a man who tells you your opinion and not his own."--Anonymous
"Compliments were made for strangers, not for friends."--Anonymous
"Leadership is action, not position."--Donald H. McGannon
"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."--John Ruskin
"People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve."--John Miller
"What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?"--Benjamin Franklin
"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for."--Florence S. Shinn
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."--Anonymous
"Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead."--Brian Koslow
"To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."--Mother Teresa
"The sun is new each day."--Heraclitus
"Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement."--Thomas N. Carruther
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."--Indira Gandhi
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."--Charles H. Spurgeon
"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."--George Jean Nathan
"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."--Kahlil Gibran
"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."--C. W. Ceram
"The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men."--Julius Charles Hare
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"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.
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Love your enemy--it will drive him nuts."--Eleanor Doan
"Use your free time for self-development. Listen to motivational or educational cassettes while driving to work."--Brian Koslow
"Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference."--Anonymous
"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them."--Michel de Montaigne
"Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling."--John Draper
"You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars, because each days is different."--Phillip Hewett
"To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself."--Francis Marion Crawford
"To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are."--Anonymous
"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."--Mark Twain
"Order is heaven's first law."--Alexander Pope
"A place for everything, and everything in its place."--Samuel Smiles
"Good order is the foundation of all things."--Edmund Burke
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories."--Felix Cohen
"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another."--John Burroughs
"As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't."--Laurence Peter
"Men of few words are the best men."--William Shakespeare, Henry V
"The real great man is the man who makes everyone feel great."--G. K. Chesterton
"Everything that can be said can be said clearly."--Ludwig Wittgenstein
"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."--Sally Field
"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not."--Anonymous
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."--Michael Jordan
"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."--John Dewey
"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted."--David Bly
"If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again."--Chris Evert
"Great families in England bear date from William the Conqueror; the rest from Adam and Eve."--Anonymous
"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."--Clifton Fadiman
"Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement."--Thomas N. Carruther
"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."--Mark Twain
"A year from now you may wish you had started today."--Karen Lamb
"Procrastination is the thief of time."--Edward Young
"The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up."--Anonymous
"Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own."--Ambrose Bierce
"When you hear a man talk of nothing but his father or grandfather, or some great-uncle, what they said and did, what places of honour or profit they filled, you may then take it for granted that he has no merit of his own to recommend him."--Anonymous
"To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce."--William Safire
"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead."--Gelett Burgess
"The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good."--Ruth Benedict
"In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired."--Anonymous
"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind."--Anonymous
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."--Carl G. Jung
"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"--A. L. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."--Frank Lloyd Wright
"Actually a marriage in which no quarreling at all takes place may well be one that is dead or dying from emotional undernourishment. If you care, you probably fight."--Flora Davis
"The Japanese have a word for it. It's judo--the art of conquering by yielding. The western equivalent of judo is, "Yes, dear.'"--J. P. McAvoy
"Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings."--Vicki Baum
"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."--Dale Carnegie
"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.--Dinah Shore
"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our mental and physical resources."--William James
"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers."--Erich Fromm
"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."--Ashley Montague
"Opportunities are everywhere."--Brian Koslow
"To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born."--A. P. Gouthey
"It may be those who do most, dream most."--Stephen Leacock
"The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart."--Mencius
"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood."--Rachel Carson
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."--Pablo Picasso
"Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye."--Meridel LeSueur
"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."--John Gunther
"Records are made to be broken."--baseball saying
"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are."--Greta Ehrlich
"Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life."--Kathleen Norris
"Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life."--Philip Butler
"Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress."--Nicholas Murray Butler
"Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I am going to complete every pass."--Ron Jaworski
"Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest."--Thomas Fuller
"Make yourself necessary to somebody."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you learn to live for others, they will live for you."--Paramahansa Yogananda
"The greatest tragedy is indifference."--The Red Cross
"We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves: fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future."--Michel de Montaigne
"When you produce results you gain credibility. When you have credibility, you will have an easier time producing results."--Brian Koslow
"Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day."--Sharon Gold
"If we lead good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times."--St. Augustine
"Hope is like a road in the country; there never was a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."--Lin Yutang
"A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fastens his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences."--Norman Cousins
"Faith is necessary to victory."--William Hazlitt
"I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution."--Werhner von Braun
"My opinion is a view I hold until . . . well, until I find something that changes it."--Luigi Pirandello
"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."--Maya Angelou
"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they were willing to actually remain fools."--Alice Walker
"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."--Margaret Mead
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument."--William G. McAdoo
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away."--Sir Arthur Helps
"An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to."--Laurence J. Peter
"You should only read what is truly good or frankly bad."--Gertrude Stein
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good."--Dr. Samuel Johnson
"No two people read the same book."--Edmund Wilson
"The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself."--James Baldwin
"Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another."--Anonymous
"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing."--Nancy Astor
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."--Bernard Berenson
"All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye."--Alexander Pope
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."--Charles Dickens
"If at first you don't succeed you're running about average."--M. H. Alderson
"Agree, for the law is costly."--William Camden
"Two farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by a lawyer."--Jewish parable
"It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands."--Spanish proverb
"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night."--Marion Howard
"A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow."--General George Patton
"The only joy in the world is to begin."--Cesare Pavese
"God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them."--Anonymous
"Know your limits ... but never stop trying to exceed them."--Anonymous
"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."--Arnold H. Glasow
"If you think you can or you think you can't--you are right!"--Anonymous
"Ya gotta do what ya gotta do."--Sylvester Stallone
"They know enough who know how to learn."--Henry Adams
"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."--Walt Disney
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."--Storm Jameson
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."--W. Edwards Deming
"One today is worth two tomorrows."--Benjamin Franklin
"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present."--Anonymous
"It's not that 'today is the first day of the rest of my life,' but that now is all there is of my life."--Hugh Prather
"You have enemies? Good! It means you've stood up for something at least once in your life."--Anonymous
"Energy will do anything that can be done in this world."--Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."--Michael Evans
"Work is the best method devised for killing time."--William Feather
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."--Mark Twain
"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."--Lucille Ball
"We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves?"--Morris Adler
"The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart."--Julien Green
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"--Stephen Levine
"Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount."--Clare Booth Luce
"Wealth lost--something lost; Honor lost--much lost; Courage lost--all lost."--German proverb
"Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency."--Maya Angelou
"The only way to keep a good reputation is to continuously earn it."--Brian Koslow
"If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?"--Thomas a Kempis
"Flattery is all right--if you don't inhale."--Adlai Stevenson
"I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point."--Susan Sarandon
"If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around."--Cybil Shepherd
"A great many people think that polysyllables is a sign of culture."--Barbara Walters
"People are more easily led than driven."--David H. Fink
"They can because they think they can."--Virgil
"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo."--Dr. Sara Jordan
"To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution."--Joe Cordare
"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend."--Walter Savage Landor
"Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence."--Francois de Fenelon
"Two monologues do not make a dialogue."--Jeff Daly
"Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment."--Ira Gassen
"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness."--Margaret Millar
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."--Laertius Diogenes
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power."--Lord Tennyson
"It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid."--James A. Michener
"So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health."--A. J. Reb Materi
"The first wealth is health."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time--pills or stairs."--Joan Welsh
"All forms of fear produce fatigue."--Bertrand Russell
"The soul of dispatch is decision."--William Hazlitt
"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."--Johann Kaspar Lavater
"The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads."--Dorothy Dix
"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves."--William Penn
"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."--Charley Reese
"I had rather wear out than rust out."--George Whitefield
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."--Milton Berle
"An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything."--Lynn Johnston
"Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired."--Jules Renard
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."--C. Archie Danielson
"One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints."--proverb
"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."--Seneca
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."--Mark Twain
"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."--Josh Billings
"It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment--but who can be sure that the imagination is not the torch- bearer?"--Lord Byron
"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."--P. D. James
"I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."--James R. Cook
"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it."--Jacques Pr'vert
"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."--Anonymous
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."--Anonymous
"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."--Swedish proverb
"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."--Donna Roberts
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."--George Santayana
"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will."--A. W. Tozer
"Ah, but I was so much older then, / I'm younger than that now."--Bob Dylan
"You are as old as the last time you changed your mind."--Tim O'Leary
"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."--Helen Keller
"Life is hard. Next to what?"--Anonymous
"Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them."--Voltaire
"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."--Burton Hills
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."--William Shakespeare
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble."-- Arabic saying
"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."--Thomas Carlyle
"Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs."--Sir Robert Peel
"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."--Rita Mae Brown
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."--Mary Lou Cook
"Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity."--B. C. Forbes
"We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. The man is best who has fewest."--Horace
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god."--Napoleon
"It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks."--Theodore Roosevelt
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I learn by going where I have to go."--Theodore Roethke
"Nerves provide me with energy . . . . It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried."--Mike Nichols
"Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety."--Henry H. Tweedy
"Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival."--Hannah Arendt
"Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."--Anonymous
"If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street."--Ben Nicholas
"All we are asked to bear we can bear."--Elizabeth Goudge
"About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age."--Gloria Pitzer
"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits."--Nathaniel Hawthorne
"If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns."--Anonymous
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places."--Anonymous
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."--Josh Billings
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."--Newt Gingrich
"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."--Thomas Szasz
"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence."--Anonymous
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something."--Thomas A. Edison
"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap."--Carrie Snow
"The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep"--E. Joseph Cossman
"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
"Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist."--Laurence Peter
"Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day."--William Shakespeare
"Time bears away all things."--Virgil
"Your three best doctors are faith, time, and patience."--Chinese saying
"Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is gone."--William Shakespeare
"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."--Thomas Jefferson
"Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death."--Gilbert Highet
"After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life."--Evelyn Underhill
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."--Francis Bacon
"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ."--John Steinbeck
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."--Albert Einstein
"Character isn't inherited."--Helen Gahagan Douglas
"Confidence and certainty will get you further than anything else will."--Brian Koslow
"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties."--Samuel Johnson
"To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence."--Arthur Schopenhauer
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."--Epicurus
"Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day."--Benjamin Franklin
"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."--Elbert Hubbard
"I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me."--Angela L. Wozniak
"Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum."--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."--William James
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."--Alfred Lord Tennyson
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."--Francis Bacon
"I began my education at a very early age--in fact, right after I left college."-- Winston Churchill
"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'"--Grace Hopper
"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."--Benjamin Disraeli
"Love is not blind--it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."--Rabbi Julius Gordon
"Luck is where preparation meets opportunity."--Anonymous
"The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor."--Christian Bovee
"Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast."--William Shakespeare
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."--Vincent van Gogh
"The art of life lies in constant readjustment to our surroundings."--Okakura Kakuzo
"Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs."--Theodore Roosevelt
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment"--Dorothy Nevill
"The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut."--Anonymous
"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."--Peter Benchley
"You'll have time to rest when you're dead."--Robert De Niro
"It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean."--Luther Burbank
"Your thorns are the best part of you."--Marianne Moore
"A good laugh is sunshine in a house."--William Makepeace Thackeray
"When you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you."--Joe Goodwin and Larry Shay
"God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter."--Sydney Harris
"It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."--Whitney Young
"You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."--Ray Bradbury
"The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette."--Henry S. Haskins
"Big results require big ambitions."--James Champy
"I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need."--Laurel Cutler
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."--C. Archie Danielson
"If you build it, he will come."--William P. Kinsella (Shoeless Joe)
"If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk."--Raymond Inmon
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."--Archibald McLeish
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake."--Marie Beyon Ray
"The best way out of a difficulty is through it"--Anonymous
"What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly."--Thomas Paine
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."--Marlene Savant
"When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze."--Thomas Carlyle
"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire."--William Yeats
"I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages."--Robert Bosch
"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."--Rodan of Alexandria
"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."--Aristotle Onassis
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win--if you don't, you won't."--Bruce Jenner
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."--James Baldwin
"I think there are two keys to being creatively productive. One is not being daunted by one's fear of failure. The second is sheer perseverance."--Mary-Claire King
"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."--Richard Whately
"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will."--James Stephens
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."--Eleanor Roosevelt
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."--Betty Smith
"We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were."--Natasha Jasefowitz
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."--William Faulkner
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."--Confucius
"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."--David Frost
"Television: chewing gum for the eyes."--Frank Lloyd Wright
"I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called 'brightness,' but that doesn't work."--Anonymous
"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
"Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."--Washington Irving
"Fall seven times stand up eight."--Japanese Proverb
"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience."--Elbert Hubbard
"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works."--William Strong
"The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance, the wise person grows it under his feet."--James Oppenheim
"Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression."--Karen Horney
"Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it."--Steven V. Thulon
"Others have done it before me. I can too."--John Faunce
"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"--Henry Ford
"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."--John Andrew Holmes
"Don't just count your years, make your years count."--Ernest Meyers
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."--Michelangelo
"Every artist was first an amateur."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I learned ... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness."--Brenda Ueland
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."--Charles Mingus
"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."--Warren Bennis
"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."--William Arthur Ward
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."--Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile ... initially scared me to death."--Betty Bender
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."--E. Joseph Cossman
"Expect problems and eat them for breakfast."--Alfred A. Montapert
"What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite."--Thomas Carlyle
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."--Leonardo da Vinci
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself."--John Luther
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."--Rabindranath Tagore
"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."--Barbara Kingsolver
"We cannot all be masters."--William Shakespeare
"No one is expected to achieve the impossible."--French Proverb
"We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves."--William Styron
"I am an old man and have known many troubles, but most of them never happened."--Mark Twain
"If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep."--Yiddish proverb
"If a man would move the world, he must first move himself."--Socrates
"Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around."--Catherine Denueve
"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse [to the trap] gets the cheese."--Anonymous
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."--Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."--Franklin P. Jones
"Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time."--Ida Scott Taylor
"The reward of a life well done is to have done it."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."--John Dewey
"One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made."--Jean de La Fontaine
"They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations."--Francis Bacon
"There is no wisdom greater than kindness."--Chinese fortune cookie
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."--proverb
"You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice."--Steven D. Woodhull
"We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one."--John Updike
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."--Anonymous
"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."--Dodie Smith
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."--Paul Dudley White
"A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work."--Geoffrey Norman
"Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know."--George Boas
"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target."--Patrick Toche
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."--Andr' Gide
"The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."--Ivy Baker Priest
"Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?"--Anonymous
"Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction."--Oliver Prince Smith
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