Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up and hope and history rhyme.
~ Seamus Heaney ~
When one door of happiness closes, another opens. But often we look
so long at the closed door, that we do not see the one which has been opened before us.
~ Helen Keller ~
If you throw all of the good apples away all you will have is a basket
of rotten apples.
~ John Lemerond ~
The man is a marvel, but it is a shame about his brains.
~ Jewel Kilcher ~
When I was a boy, my big brother held on to my hand, and he made me
slap my own face. I looked up to him then and still do.
~ Perry Ferral ~
I may be paranoid, but I'm not an android.
~ Thom Yourke ~
Beauty is Truth-Truth Beauty, that is all you know on Earth and all
you need to know.
~ John Keats ~
Science does not always have an explanation for the unexplained,
~ Gillian Anderson ~
Readers would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a
Novel.
~ John Keats ~
So then Love walked up to Like and said, "I know that you don't like me
much."
~ Tori Amos ~
Call me crazy, but sometimes laughing out loud can make it all
right.
~ Dave Matthews ~
What we call human nature is actuality is human habit
~ Jewel Kilcher ~
Dreams are made of hope, and everyone dreams.
~ Matt Perry ~
Life's a dance, you learn as you go. Sometimes you lead,
sometimes you follow, don't worry about what you don't know, life's a
dance, you learn as you go.
~ Michael Montgomery ~
Loved ones are like golden anchors, so prescious, yet so hard to carry
on your shoulders.
~ Matt Perry ~
The best dreams happen when you're awake.
~ Nicole Lawrence ~
The class clown is the person who runs across the field naked at Homecoming. The class comic is the person who talked them into it.
~ Billy Crystal ~
It must be worth losing if it is worth something.
~ Tori Amos ~
Oh, I'm so inadequate -- and I love myself!
~ Meg Ryan ~
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
~ Mother Teresa ~
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
~ Carl Jung ~
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
~ Duke Ellington ~
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the
stars.
~ Les Brown ~
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the darkness comes the light.
~ Shaun Giraudoux ~
Love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan."
~ Robinson Jeffers ~
One would first learn to fall if one would fly.
~ Richard Bach ~
Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.
~ Margaret Mitchell ~
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas. They've gone through and through me like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
~ Emily Bronte ~
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
~ Albert Einstein ~
Use the talents you posess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.
~ Henry Van Dyke ~
I don't want to be the glue that holds your pieces together.
~ Alanis Morisette ~
Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.
~ Thomas Appleton ~
Men create war to compete with women, who create life.
~ Sharon Doubiago ~
A good laugh is good for the spirits, it's true, but a good cry is good for the soul.
~ Bette Midler ~
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
~ Anais Nin ~
An eye for an eye, and the world would go blind.
~ Ghandi ~
The most precious posession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
~ Joseph G. Hollard ~
I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
Love yourself and a lifelong romance follows.
~ Oscar Wilde ~
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
~ Frank Llyod Wright ~
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 ~
I've loved and I've hated. I find I like hate better. Hate doesn't hurt as much when taken away."
~ Kevin Howell ~
We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams.
~ Arthur O'Shaugnessy ~
God did not call you to be canary birds in a little cage, and to hop up and down on three sticks, within a space no larger than the size of the cage. God calls you to be eagles, and fly from sun to sun, over continents.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
I am not afraid of anything.
~ Elizabeth I ~
Be true to yourself, and you will never fall.
~ Beastie Boys ~
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they are still beautiful.
~ Alice Walker ~
All of our dreams can come true, if we only have the courage to pursue them.
~ Walt Disney ~
I'd rather burn than fade away.
~ Kurt Cobain ~
Money and greed fuck everything up.
~ Jo Adams ~
Immerse yourself in love.
~ Radiohead ~
Children are likely to live up to what we believe of them.
~ Lady Bird Johnson ~
Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of someone else.
~ Judy Garland ~
Hold on to nothing as fast as you can.
~ Tori Amos ~
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~ Walter Bagehot ~
Winning is not a sometime thing; It's an all the time thing. You
don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while;
you do them right all the time.
~ Vince Lombardi ~
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced
and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness
the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart,
others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of
sympathy.
~ Thomas Carlyle ~
Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits
are and deal with them accordingly.
~ Nolan Ryan ~
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because
it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs
are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
~ Mary Webb ~
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
~ Harry S. Truman ~
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr. ~
Sorry is such a simple word, so why is it so hard to say?
~ Terri Wetterberg ~
I love you not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
~ Roy Craft ~
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed,
whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have
been the consequence of action without thought.
~ Bernard M. Baruch ~
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~ John Quincy Adams ~
If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably
don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
~ Hale Irwin ~
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something
I hate.
~ George Burns ~
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
~ Eugène Delacroix ~
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate
the future.
~ Marilyn Ferguson ~
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's
places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves
in their places.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why
not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make
them bloom?
~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
~ Sara Teasdale ~
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them
to do because they want to do it.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
~ Les Brown ~
The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he
knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real, perhaps
they are.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.
However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches
shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats
into victories.
~ Bjorn Borg ~
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
~ Edmund Burke ~
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
~ Milton Berle ~
"He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me" -- those
who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
~ Buddha ~
When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot
go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What
a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a
new page.
~ Eileen Caddy ~
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
~ Publilius Syrus ~
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever
been accomplished without passion.
~ Georg Hegel ~
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise
and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances
that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody.
No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings,
to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
~ Andre Maurois ~
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false
standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and
admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious
thing in life.
~ Sigmund Freud ~
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he
does when he's absolutely free to choose.
~ William M. Bulger ~
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
~ Wayne Dyer ~
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own
thinking.
~ Robert H. Schuller ~
The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate
the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices
are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits
that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become
the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
~ J. Paul Getty ~
Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.
~ Bruce Jenner ~
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
~ Peter F. Drucker ~
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
And when we die we become an onion, a cabbage, a carrot, or a squash, a vegetable.
~Naomi Ginsberg~
Be a star-screwer!
~Gregory Corso~
Sometimes a man wants to do somthing stupid if it let's him do something
his cleverness forbids.
~Lance Fanger~
Often more pleasure is attained when desiring something than from actually attaining it.
~Lance Fanger~
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
~ Shirley Hufstedler ~
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and
cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.
~ Jean de La Fontaine ~
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and
cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought
or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in
our lives.
~ Sidney Madwed ~
Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
~ Richard E. Byrd ~
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed,"
you find that it simply means to follow through.
~ F. W. Nichol ~
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed
and the doors are not all shut.
~ Maxwell Maltz ~
You did then what you thought you had to. Now that you know better, you
do better.
~ Maya Angelou ~
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost
power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
~ Bishop Robert South ~
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
~ William Shakespeare ~
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
~ Jean De La Bruyère ~
The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity.
~ Michael Wickett ~
Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language -- and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control.
~ Donna Gephart ~
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
Beauty is only skin deep. But ugly -- now that's probably got some nasty roots on it.
~ Crabby Road ~
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
What it comes down to is, when you come into the world you have nothing... when you leave you have nothing... and in between there's the IRS.
~ Bob Thaves ~
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge
you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~
A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.
~ Dan Seligman ~
The big advantage of a book is it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.
~ Jerry Seinfeld ~
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of
work.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon ~
"Charity begins at home." At about 6:30, when they call you and interrupt your dinner.
~ Crabby Road ~
The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.
~ Earle Hitchner ~
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
~ Marian Anderson ~
Anyone with money to burn will always find himself surrounded by people with matches.
~ Joe Ryan ~
I was once in a spelling bee, but I lost because the other contastents cheeted.
~ Paul Paternoster ~
I won't stand for gossip! No, I sit down and make myself comfortable for gossip.
~ Crabby Road ~
He conquers who endures.
~ Persius ~
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness - simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain. By the proper use of experience and thought one can draw much from oneself, by determination and patience once can even restore one's health... so let us live life as it is, and not be ungrateful.
~ George Sand ~
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