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Wise words Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420 Youve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and youre not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière Dont wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956 Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson If you dont like how things are, change it! Youre not a tree. ~Jim Rohn In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. ~Liz Armbruster, on robertbrault See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of lifes affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion - of fun, love, or something that will outlast you - so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions. ~Terri Guillemets Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotics Notebook, 1960 Now that its all over, what did you really do yesterday thats worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox Laziness will cause you pain. ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949 Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown Sometimes its more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht [O]wning your burdens is half the battle. ~From the television show Scrubs Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotics Notebook, 1966 I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words So far. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know its me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Neibuhr A day is Eternitys seed, and we are its Gardeners. ~Erika Harris, lifeblazing People cannot go wrong, if you dont let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938 The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Last Tournament, Idylls of the King I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, The Philosopher Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters. ~Samuel Butler Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotics Notebook, 1960 Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and dont notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982 Be pleasant until ten oclock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard On the bathing-tub of King Tang the following words were engraved: If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation. ~Confucian Analects The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner There is a time for departure even when theres no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier) Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? Instead, they demand: How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French Just remember, theres a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter Dont look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepherd Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. ~Charles DuBois Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~John Lennon It is every mans obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~Albert Einstein Decorate yourself from the inside out. ~Terri Guillemets Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. ~Charles Dickens We have a choice every day - to act on yesterdays good intentions or get an early start on tomorrows regrets. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault When you start treating people like people, they become people. ~Paul Vitale Be kind to your shadow. ~Rebecca Lawless I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out its something you have to choose to do. ~From the television show Scrubs If you have to do it every day, for Gods sake learn to do it well. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotics Notebook, 1960 Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson You do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (Theyre contagious.) ~Dr. SunWolf Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault Dont judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911 Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln Its better to fight for something than against something. ~Author Unknown The day will happen whether or not you get up. ~John Ciardi Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then mans success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~George R. Kirkpatrick One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~N. Smith When Why not do it? barely outweights Why do it? - dont do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotics Notebook, 1960 If you hate your lot but wouldnt trade it, its not your lot you hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotics Notebook, 1966 Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 When you invite trouble, its usually quick to accept. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Giving up doesnt always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain. ~Epictetus Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. ~Poohs Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne Dont compromise yourself. Youre all youve got. ~Janis Joplin Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein The biggest problem in the world Could have been solved when it was small. ~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer Dont ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost What you cant get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotics Notebook, 1960 Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, wildthymecreative Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. ~Robert Charles Whitehead Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~Author Unknown The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. ~S.A. Sachs Now and then it is a joy to have ones table red with wine and roses. ~Oscar Wilde It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark. ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979 Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when youre tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595 Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault Its a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door, he used to say. You step into the Road, and if you dont keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. ~J.R.R. Tolkien, Three Is Company, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954 There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber The essential question is not, How busy are you? but What are you busy at? ~Oprah Winfrey Dont get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter Never undertake anything for which you wouldnt have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg Being loved by all is little fun Unless youre also loved by one. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin Dont despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker Youve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. Youll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~Tad Williams It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up. ~Chris Fedak and Allison Adler, Chuck, Chuck Versus the Ring It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~Horace Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~Thomas Edison Aspire to a lower level of harm. ~Anonymous I try not to kid myself. You know, I dont mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~Bill Veeck You cant truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotics Notebook, 1966 Its all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger When you lose, dont lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John C. Collins Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin Be nice to people on your way up because youll need them on your way down. ~W. Migner When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody elses eyes. ~From the television show Scrubs Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown It isnt what you know that counts, its what you think of in time. ~Author Unknown The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown For visions come not to polluted eyes. ~Mary Howitt Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise mans only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and youre the easiest person to fool. ~Richard Feynman Dont let it be all in your head, nor all in your body. ~Terri Guillemets Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson
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