| From nero
Success moves clockwise, failure moves anticlockwise.
From Kathy Smith
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
-Psalm 139:14
From Drema Baker
The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is right now.
-African proverb
Amy Jackson
Before he died, Rabbi Zusya said: "In the world to come they will not ask me, 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?'"
-from the legends about Hasidic Rabbi Zusya of Hanipoli (died 1800)
Michella Neves
Those who don't know how to love Women, Music, and Wine will remain foolish for life.
-Martin Luther
From
Susanne Gleason
If God wanted holes in your ear, he would have put ‘em there!
-Philomena Pakel, beloved mom!
Got a bone in your stomach? Bend over and pick that up!
-Philomena Pakel, beloved mom!
From
David Kaim
Wealth buys necessities. Great wealth buys appetite.
Fate is what happens to you; Destiny is what you make happen with
that fate.
-Medieval rabbinic saying
From Brooke
The only difference between "try" and "triumph"
is a little umph.
From AnnaMaria
I only drink wine to make other people interesting.
-George Jean Nathan
From Debi O'Heran
The Inner Bitch isn't about controlling others through intimidation,
displays of temper, or other poor behavior. The Inner Bitch is all
about self-control, with the goal being the end of self-defeating
behaviors.
-The Inner Bitch
We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty
and some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different
colors, but they all have to live in the same box.
From Lisa Finney
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in service of
my vision—then it becomes less and less important whether
I am afraid.
-Audre Lord
From Mahree Hill
(For the power-hungry boss)
It is not necessary to direct traffic if the lights are working
properly.
From Kerry McCabe
We know ourselves to be made from this earth. We know this earth
is made from our bodies. For we see ourselves. And we are nature.
We are nature seeking nature. We are nature with a concept of nature.
Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.
-Susan Griffin
From Carmen Wootan
Chance favors the prepared mind.
-Louis Pasteur
From D. Cruz
Creative relativity...The notion that great ideas begin to gain
speed as they evolve and can inevitably be measured in terms of
"velocity towards fruition."
-Lei Lo
From [name withheld]
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport
photo.
-Al Gore
From Rod Strand
The madman shouted in the market place; no one stopped to answer
him. Thus, it was confirmed that his thesis was incontrovertible.
-Dag Hammarskjold, UN Secretary-General
It is important to answer the madman. It is important because, left
unanswered, his lies and his malice can poison the climate. They
can do worse. They can make other men mad. Left unanswered for long
enough, they can nourish everything in men and women that is hateful
and destructive and murderous. Our end is to ensure that every time
the madman shouts in the market place, he is answered.
-Roy McMurtry, Attorney General of Ontario
From Ryan Lamb
What you can't hold onto, don't let go; what you can't let go, don't
hold onto.
-Himself
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they
have exhausted all other alternatives.
-Abba Eban
From Cathy Moore
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be
a butterfly.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
-Linus Pauling
The more you reason, the less you create.
-Raymond Chandler
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil
are located in the same individual.
-Arthur Koestler
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
-Sylvia Plath
Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's
face.
-James D. Finley
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing
which ones to keep.
-Scott Adams
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
-Pablo Picasso
From Mike Middlemas
Every once in a while, someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
-Kin Hubbard
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been
hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
-Satchel Paige
From Kenn Macy
Even monkeys fall out of trees.
-Japanese proverb
When testing the depth of a river do
not use both feet.
-Japanese proverb
Shared happiness is double the happiness; Shared sorrow is half
the sorrow.
-Unknown
From Tom Townsend
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
From Rayat Cabot
your slightest look easily will unclose
me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose
-e.e. cummings
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the
beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than
inside it without her.
-Mark Twain
Stretch out your hand and take the
world’s wide gift of joy and beauty.
-Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
The worst will have come when truth and justice would no longer
find spokesmen on Earth.
-Father Pribilla, German Jesuit, 1935
No one is so foolish as to prefer war to peace: in peace children
bury their fathers, while in war fathers bury their children.
-Herodotus
From Tom Hering
But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is
permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing.
-Aldous Huxley
From Jeff Disney
A mother-in-law dies only when another demon is needed in hell.
Your opinion of me is none of my business.
From Marta Dair
We feel that what we are doing is just
a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that
missing drop.
-Mother Teresa
From Paula Gutiérrez
I’d like to help you out. Which way did you come in?
Pleasure delayed is pleasure doubled.
From Diane Jung
Love is forgiving...
Love is for giving...
From Alicia Carroll
"Hmmm.... Easy to point at; hard to fix."
-An Australian plumber
I have a feeling that when my ship
comes in I’ll be at the airport.
-Charles Shultz
From Sara McGoun
Nothing in life is above being honest.
-311
From Neeko
People can read me like an open book. Obviously you’re illiterate.
You have to expect things for yourself before you can do them.
-Michael Jordan
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends.
-Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
I take nothing for granted; I have only good days and great days.
-Lance Armstrong
From Damini Solomon
Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
-Stanislaw Lee
Rest and be thankful.
-Inscription on a stone seat at the top of a Scottish mountain
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn
hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the
dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
-Anne Lamott
From Stephanie Kiminsky
Don’t take life too seriously, for it is a situation that you cannot
get out of alive.
-David Boorman
From Julie Hayes
I cause problems.
From Cyndy Edmonds
Calvin: You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have
to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic.
-Bill Watterson
From Marcela Quiroz Luna
Life is short. Don’t make it
shorter.
From Lynn Howard
Today is the Tomorrow you worried about Yesterday.
From Kathy Wilson Anderson
The best way to overcome fear is to go out and scare yourself.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
From Jen Cairns
Leap and the net will appear.
-Zen saying
The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
-James Whitcomb Riley
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot
I am still learning...
-Michaelangelo
I know nothing with any certainty,
but the sight of stars makes me dream.
-Vincent Van Gogh
I’m not young enough to know everything.
-J.M. Barrie
Every day people are straying away from church and going back to
God.
-Lenny Bruce
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.
-Leonard Cohen
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
-Tom Stoppard
From Michelle Peele
In giving there is healing.
Tell me facts and figures and you touch my mind, but tell me a
story and you touch my soul!
With every goodbye you learn.
From Marne Potter
If there were Druids whose temples were the oak groves, my temple
is the swamp.
-Henry David Thoreau
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
-Elbert Hubbard
Only two things are infinite, the
universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
Photography is not documentary, but
intuition, a poetic experience. It’s drowning yourself, dissolving
yourself... First you must lose yourself. Then it happens.
-Henri Cartier-Bresson
Art allows us to expand the dimensions of our everyday life.
-Carlos Jurado
From Cecylyna Dewr
There are no wrong turnings, only
paths we had not known we were meant to walk.
-Guy Gavriel Kay
From M. Macha NightMare
Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around
the sun every year.
-Unknown
From Bartlett Meeks
Those who are externally brave do not fear death. Those who are
truly brave do not fear life.
-Chuang Tzu
Live your life so that whenever you lose, you’re ahead.
-Will Rogers
Pause beside wise men
Question idiots and madmen
Listen to stories
-The Mahabharata
Awe is the salve that heals our eyes...
-Rumi
Nanny’s philosophy was to do what seemed like a good idea at the
time, and to do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.
-Terry Pratchett
...And a good time was had by all. Even, presumably, the lady that
threw up.
-Anonymous (for good reason)
From Rebecca Keith
With stammering lips and insufficient
sounds,
I strive and struggle to deliver right
the music of my nature.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
From Stacy Weeks
But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds
of the heavens dance between you.
-Kahlil Gibran
Dreaming hitches the soul to the stars.
-Anonymous
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well!
-Joe Ancis
Experience is not what happens to you. It’s what you do with what
happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
-Winston Churchill
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to know herself as a person,
is by creative work of her own.
-Betty Friedan
Follow your bliss. Find where it is, and don’t be afraid to follow
it.
-Joseph Campbell
I dwell in possibility
-Emily Dickenson
Taking joy in life is a woman’s best cosmetic
-Rosalind Russell
How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.
-Anne Dillard
Who find a friend finds treasure.
- Irish Proverb
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner
need to complain.
-Jane Wagner
What America needs is more young people who carry to their job
the same enthusiasm for getting ahead as they display in traffic.
-M.A. Kelly
When in doubt, take a bath.
-Mae West
And silence comes to heal the blows of sound.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The trouble with resisting temptations is that you may not get
another chance.
-Edwin Chapin
Show me a day when the world wasn’t new.
-Sister Barbara Hance
If you obey all the rules, you miss
all the fun.
-Katharine Hepburn
From Stephen Long
Let each of us look within our own hearts and our own communities,
and let each of us put our shoulder to the wheel to root out injustice
wherever it exists.
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we
shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support
any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of
iiberty.
-John F. Kennedy
I look forward to an America... which will preserve the great old
American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which
will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.
-John F. Kennedy
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace
will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
-John Muir
Out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.
-Mark Twain
From Aderim Musliu
If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
-John Paul Getty
May hope be our best friend!
Planning to do shopping without a plan is the best plan you have ever done!
Changes are necessary to remain unchangeable.
From Chinedu Daniel Erondu
Any secret that speaks two languages is no longer a treasure hidden but unhidden.
From Stephanie
To succeed we must be prepared to fail at times.
From Kirstin Dion
Life is what you make it, make it last long.
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From Bridget O’Keefe
Once you have faced the impossible, only the possible remains
-Sudha Koul
It is impossible to be burned out if you have never been on fire.
-Dr Charlie Nelms
Ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking.
-Douglas Adams
One of the joys of travel is visiting
new towns and meeting new people.
-Genghis Khan
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized
by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before
you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead
of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining
that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
-George Bernard Shaw
Humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight
of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
-Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
I praise loudly; I blame softly.
-Catherine the Great
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.
The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more
you enjoy, the more you are indignant about—the more you have
left when anything happens.
-Ethel Barrymore
From
Charlie Savage
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
-Robert Fulghum
Actions lie louder than words.
-Carolyn Wells
We could have saved the earth but we were too damned cheap.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
From
Mike Sparks
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
-Rev Dr Martin Lurther King, Jr
From
Kate Fagan Burgun
The real adventure of experience is not about searching new countries but about the ability to look through new eyes.
-Marcel Proust
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead
From Carmen Trevino
While we sit in a circle and suppose, the secret sits in the center
and knows!
-Robert Frost
Within each man is a continent of undiscovered character; happy
is he who discovers the Columbus of his soul!
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
From Jody Donovan
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world
and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the
day.
-E. B. White
From Clarissa Pain
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain
cells.
-Dr Suess
From Cassandra
When they die, nobody says,
"I wish I'd spent more time at the office."
From Deauna
Common sense is not so common.
-Voltaire
Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail
better.
-Samuel Beckett
From Ann St John
Control the controllables and diminish the feeling of being a leaf
blowing in the wind.
-Herself
My request is to see the Divine in everything.
-Herself
From Dax Norton
The true test of character is not how
much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what
to do.
-John Holt
From Gina
To have beauty is to have only that, but to have goodness is to
be beautiful too.
-Sappho
From Jenn Robison
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
-Albert Camus
From Tom Coleman
Ask the questions before coming up with the answers.
From Val Pierce
It's an amazing scientific fact
that stardust could come together and contemplate itself.
-Himself
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake
that, you've got it made.
-Groucho Marx
Doctor, our flamingo is sick.
-Tom Waits
Life is good, even when it's not.
-Himself
From Gretchen Knapp
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
From Cavazos
What you think about, you bring about. What you focus on, you find.
From Julie Miller
It's in your moments of decision that
your destiny is shaped.
-Anthony Robbins
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-Dorothy Parker
In spite of illness, in spite even of the arch-enemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
-Edith Newbold Wharton
From Jill Fiore
Love is the single true prosperity of any moment.
-June Jordan
From Bridgette Swab
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.
-Henry Ward Beecher
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more
painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin
From Jason Karp
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
-Larry James
From Daniel McDeavitt
To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, but life
without meaning is the torture of restlessness and vague desire.
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
-Edgar Lee Masters
From Aaron Stanton
Reject fear—embrace hope.
-Himself
From Andrew Pelloso
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended
up where I intended to be.
-Douglas Adams
Don’t go crazy, but if you do, take me with you.
-Himself
From Arnie Mori
Necessity is the mother of much tension.
-Arnie Mori
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American
public.
-H.L. Mencken
The best way to keep children home
is to make the home atmosphere pleasant...and let the air out of
the tires.
-Dorothy Parker
You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
-Dorothy Parker
From Ira Weiss
Genius never sleeps.
From Jerry Downs
If you want to feel wonderful, be full of wonder.
-Himself
From Nadia Bernal
Love is like a Galaxy
magic and unknown
but you must know it...
You’ll be surprised
From Sue Havlish
The world is a book, and he who does
not travel reads only the first page.
-St. Augustine
From Laura Stull
Eating out is expensive....Eating with your family....priceless!
From [name withheld]
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there
is no creation: Know the nature of joy.
-The Upanishads
From Maryam Webster
Trust yourself. Think for yourself.
Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is
suicide.
-Marva Collins, Educator
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our
darkness, that most frightens us. And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As
we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates
others.
-as quoted by Marianne Williamson
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know
what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s
longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are, I want to know
if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for
the adventure of being alive....
-Oriah Mountain Dreamer, "The Invitation"
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for
every dream precedes the goal.
-Pamela Vaull Starr
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in service of
my vision—then it becomes less and less important whether I
am afraid.
-Audre Lord
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is
no path and leave a trail.
-Muriel Strode
From Diane Probst
Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.
-D.H. Lawrence
Do not spur a free horse.
-Latin Proverb
From Alan Spott
A witty saying proves nothing.
-Voltaire
Pain shared is lessened; joy shared, increased.
-Spider Robinson
Life is like high school, with longer halls.
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
-Michael McGriffy, MD
When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
-Will Rogers
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
-Darrell Royal
Art, like morality, consists in drawing
the line somewhere.
-G. K. Chesterton
Life is a bridge to somewhere.
-Judy O’Bannon
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-Albert Einstein
I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.
-Richard Burton
How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty’s self.
-John Keats
I wish I was still sixteen. I knew everything when I was sixteen.
-Unknown
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in
the proportion.
-Sir Francis Bacon
There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless
the heart acts as a mediator.
-Fritz Lang
From Chris Stanton
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t
matter and those who matter don’t mind.
-Dr Suess
I always wanted to be somebody. But
I see now I should have been more specific.
-Lily Tomlin
Who wills, can.
Who tries, does.
Who loves, lives.
-Anne McCaffrey
Sometimes I think that sanity is just a passing fad.
-Rupert Holmes
From Karen Luerssen
Absorb the speed bumps of your day.
-Richard Carlson, Ph.D.
Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a
feminist.
-Rita Mae Brown
Joy is a net of love by which you catch souls.
-Mother Teresa
We make a LIVING by what we get. We make a LIFE by what we give.
Surviving is important. Thriving is Elegant.
-Maya Angelou
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced
by it.
-Maya Angelou
Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
-Albert Einstein
To give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
-Unknown
All that I seek is already within me.
-Unknown
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
-Helen Keller
Do what you want to do;
Go where you want to go;
Be what you want to be:
LIVE!!
I finally figured out the only reason
to be alive is to enjoy it.
-Rita Mae Brown
People are like tea bags... if you want to know what’s inside them,
just drop them in hot water.
-Unknown
From Norman Mills
Darwin had it all wrong. Man did not evolve through the ape, he
evolved through the hog.
-Herschel Hunt, professor of physical chemistry, Purdue University,
1958
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats
look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
-Winston Churchill
From Joan Middendorf
Thirty-five is when you finally get
your head together and your body starts falling apart.
-Caryn Leschen
From Jill Adler
One thing is inevitable: if government continues to fall down the people will rise up.
Time is a dressmaker specializing in
alterations.
-Faith Baldwin
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to
open it and remove all doubt.
-Mark Twain
If you can explain what you do with any conventional terminology, you’ve already been outsourced to India.
-Bruce Sterling
The opposite of ”real” is ”optional.”
-Thomas De Zengotita
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
-Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr
One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many
reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face,
or the face becomes a mask.
-Yvette Guilbert
I do not want to die until I have faithfully made the most of my
talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last
small twig has grown.
-Kathe Kollwitz
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis
of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must rest somewhere
on pure joy!
-Louise Bogan
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedy.
-Groucho Marx
Be brave, that you may survive among the blessed.
-Druid maxim
Life is not as dramatic as your ego
imagines it to be.
-The Dalai Lama
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter
for the millionth time the reality of experience.
-James Joyce
From Kay Daniel
Good, Fast, Cheap.
Pick any two.
-Print shop sign
Forty is the old age of youth; Fifty, the youth of old age.
-Victor Hugo
From Jack Brubaker
Must be present to win.
From Brian Kleber
I am not the same, having seen the
moon shine on the other side of the world.
-Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
From Laurent Castellucci
We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had—the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, patriotism.
-Mark Twain, 1908
If a law is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent
of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
-Henry David Thoreau
I and the public know, what every
school child learns. Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return.
-W.H. Auden
From Angela Berzins
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your
hunger, but it won't taste good.
-Joe Paterno
It’s not getting what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve
got.
-Unknown (not Sheryl Crow)
From Jim Stinson
Failure to communicate: men driving Interstate 69 when they could
have telecommuted.
-Jim Stinson
From Christine Romano
Many a book is like a key to unknown
chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
-Franz Kafka
From Richard Bruck
Good conversation is as stimulating
as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
From
Zeqe Gashi
It is in peoples' nature to have rules put over them.
If you are not understandable it does not mean that you are an artist.
Every step backward is a step forward toward going backward.
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From Georgia Gorringe
You can never do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
-Oscar Wilde
From Cynthia Bretheim
One less stressful thought in your mind equals one more peace in your world.
From
Yaël Ksander
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes
you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world
needs is people who have come alive.
-Harold Whitman
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.
You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.
-Billy, age 4
From Jeff Mease
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't
matter and those that matter don't mind.
-Dr. Seuss
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then there
will be peace.
-Jimi Hendrix
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will
forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them
feel.
-Maya Angelou
From Evan Duning
The anticipation of chocolate on my lips is only surpassed by the
fear of where I hid it.
From Vivien Reyes
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-Peter Ustinov
From Jerrie Hildebrand
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles,
have strengthened me.... 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
Give yourself to love itself, without a shred of you remaining.
Die completely into loving. When you return, when your sense of
self is recollected, you will be refreshed through and through,
washed awake by the innocence lying wide on the other side of surrender.
-David Deida
Once you label me, you negate me.
-Soren Kierkegaard
The biggest social disease of human beings on the planet is the
need to be right.
-Werner Erhardt
From Daphne Patai
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data."
-Raymond Tallis
Vocabulary is the intellectual's form of conspicuous consumption.
-Herself (with a nod to
Thorstein Veblen)
Living is dangerous.
-Joao Guimaraes Rosa
From Caitlin Tiller
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something
mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From Deborah Carole Barnes
Argue your limitations, and surely they will be your own.
From Josie Randall
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all
himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
-James Barrie
From Qaseem Gul
If you look at everything with my eyes, they are not the same as
what your eyes see.
Do not forget the past! The past was present and you are living
the future.
Peace gives birth to Peace.
Don't wait beneath the shadow of the tree for the apple to fall;
mount up and grab it by hand.
From Kennifer Tstein
Tolerance is seeing with your heart instead of your eyes.
From Kevin Lacy
Live by your word.
From Sylvie de Wit
Humanity's problem is that we are and will always remain a bunch
of highly evolved monkeys. Every now and then the monkey inside
us reaches out for a good old primitive banana.
No man can call himself a genius if he does not recognise the genius
in every other man he meets.
From Gregory Volan
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-Mark Twain
From [name withheld]
He's as nervous as a long-tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs
From Andrea Dine
Be the change you wish to see in the
world.
-The Mahatma Ghandi
From Donald McDonald
Attack life— it's going to kill you anyway.
From Megan House
The only impossibilities are the ones you create for yourself.
-Unknown
Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they’re yours.
-Richard Bach
My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll
become a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the
pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
-Picasso
I’m not young enough to know everything.
-J.M Barrie
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which
actually happened.
-Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
-Mark Twain
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
-Don Marquis
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
-Yogi Berra
Magic lives in our hope.
-Michelle Alcott
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
-Thomas Jefferson
You gain strength, courage, and confidence
by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the
face...you must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
When it feels like life has got you by the horns, remember: you
don’t have horns.
-Unknown
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
-William Shakespeare
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In
the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence
then is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle
From Meryl K. Evans
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
The greatest enemy to creativity is
good taste.
-Picasso
You can bend it and twist it.... You can misuse and abuse it....
But even GOD cannot change ...The Truth.
-Michael Levy
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it
within himself.
-Galileo
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t
really living.
-Gail Sheehy
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing,
you’re right.
-Henry Ford
Dreams are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline.
-Amelia E. Barr
Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships; that is why
good ideas are always initially resisted.
-Hugh MacLeod
I’m only comfortable when I’m uncomfortable.
- Jay Chiat
A home without books is a body without a soul.
-Cicero
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
-Cicero
Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person
perfectly.
-Anon
I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened
of the old ones.
-John Cage
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
-Henry David Thoreau
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
-Anthony J. D’Angelo
No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.
Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
My karma ran over your dogma.
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you
just sit there.
-Will Rogers
It’s never too late to be who you might have been.
-George Eliot
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
- Ernest Hemingway
If I am not for myself,
Who will be for me?
If I am only for myself,
What am I?
If not now,
When?
- Hillel
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Live for the journey, not the destination.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Love your enemy—it will scare
the hell out of them.
-Mark Twain
From Sean Pendergast
Some’s bastards, some’s ain’t, that’s the score.
-Old Bull Lee (from Kerouac’s On The Road)
From Luci Englert McKean
Happiness is available. Help yourself.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
From Jeduthun Hughes
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children; ...To know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
This will be our reply to violence:
To make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than
ever before.
-Leonard Bernstein
From Connie Scheer
I will—because I can.
From Jim Johnson
It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to
be unhappy.
-Groucho Marx
Dead people: Can’t live with ’em,
can’t live without ’em.
From Janet Hendel
Many a long dispute among divines may
be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.
-Benjamin Franklin
Take a rest; a field that has rested
gives a beautiful crop.
-Ovid
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something
to love, and something to hope for.
-Allan K. Chalmers
If you haven't got charity in your heart, you have the worst kind
of heart trouble.
-Bob Hope
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to
do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-Joseph Addison
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire
to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
-G.K. Chesteron
From Ruth Velasquez
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
-Dorothy Parker
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all
the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
-Rumi
Success is not final, failure is not
fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
-Churchill
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-Mark Twain
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker
will be sorry.
-Mark Twain
From Mike Christoff
October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came -
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band.
-George Cooper, October's Party
Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature.
-Jean Baitaillon
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
-Ansel Adams
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge
block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look
like an elephant.
-Author Unknown
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
The large print giveth, but the small print taketh away.
-Tom Waits, Small Change
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to
a dancing star.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the
life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases
by being shared.
-Buddha
Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be
only afraid of standing still.
-Chinese proverb
He who hurries cannot walk with dignity.
-Chinese proverb
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
-e.e. cummings
Solitary trees, if they grow at all,
grow strong.
-Sir Winston Churchill
You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never
were; and I say Why not?
-George Bernhard Shaw
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the
stars.
-Jill McLemore
I am an artist…I am here to live
out loud.
-Emile Zola
From Jamie Long
WWJLPD?
[What Would Jean-Luc Picard Do?]
From [name withheld]
It loved to happen.
-Marcus Aurelius
From Elizabeth Barrette
[All quotes original]
Just because you can’t do something as well as you’d like is no
excuse not to do it as best as you can.
If the concept "can’t we all just get along" is a pipe
dream, then I think more people should be smoking that pipe.
When you come to the place where there’s no more road, is that
the end, or the beginning?
It is not necessary to point out holes by sticking one’s fingers
through them.
Exasperation is the mother of invention.
Warning: My life is not PC-compatible.
Before it’s set in stone, I want to know who’s holding the chisel.
I refuse to be civilized by people I don’t like.
Home is where you don’t have to hide your altar.
Don’t bother me; it’s been one of those lives.
Knowledge pays; ignorance costs.
This is an emergency. Please panic
quietly and in an orderly fashion.
Tolerance is decking the halls when
you want to deck your relatives.
I don’t hate your guts. On the contrary, I think they’d
make very nice bowstrings.
It’s hard to see eye-to-eye when you’re wearing a blindfold.
If this is the price of society, when do I get my change?
From Tracy Lane
You can protect your child from every thing but love.
From Jane
You say I loved you, I say I didn't. I say you loved me, you say who didn't?
From Marion Licchiello
(all quotes original)
Whatever you focus on is what you get, negative or positive; so focus on the positive and you'll bring more positive into your life.
Life is filled with experiences.. it's a journey for us to explore. If we don't explore all the paths we might regret it. If we do someone can get hurt but we have to keep ourselves open and vulnerable to that. If we didn't get hurt in life we wouldn't grow and learn. We wouldn't progress on to a new level, a new path, a new journey. However, if we take the path that we're unsure of and break through our comfort levels we could experience joy, ecstasy and things that we never believed possible. Enjoy life. Do what makes you happy.
Goals are what push us forward! Without goals there is no target to aim at...without a target it's a crap shoot...win or lose...you never know!
From Michael Northrop
Ambition cannot be taught, but it can be learned. |
