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Alan Moore

"Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose."

Rita Mae Brown

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts."

Diane Von Furstenberg

"Life is a risk."

Chilo

"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity."

William Arthur Ward

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

Joan Didion

"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs."

Tallulah Bankhead

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."

Samuel Johnson

"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."

Catherine de Hueck Doherty

"Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you."

Toni Morrison

"She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."

Lin Yutang

"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst."

Eric Wald

"Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air."

Shakti Gawain

"When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously."

Saadi

"Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend."

Rebecca West

"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

"May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility."

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."

Benjamin Franklin

"Wish not so much to live long as to live well."

Salma Hayek

"Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process."

Real Live Preacher

"This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you�re doing, or it comes out flat. You can�t fake your way through this."

Jimi Hendrix

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

May Sarton

"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."

Scott Westerfeld

"Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents."

Linda Berdoll

"It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not pertinent. At least there was a line in which to subsist."

Edward L. Flom

"One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others."

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

"What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!"

John Green

"The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real."

David Cronenberg

"The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution."

Lawana Blackwell

"For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children."

Anthony Starr

"Sport is imposing order on what was chaos."

Anna Sewell

"I am never afraid of what I know."

Elizabeth Aston

"Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason."

Barbara Schapiro

"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

The Mishnah

"Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure."

Shirley Trusty Corey

"The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future."

Edmund Burke

"Good order is the foundation of all things."

William Jennings Bryan

"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

Jeph Jacques

"Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable."

Jane Goodall

"People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside."

John Quincy Adams

"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."

Sophocles

"What you cannot enforce, do not command."

Bono

"There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious."

Martha Burgess

"Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's."

Charles Dickens

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

G. K. Chesterton

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

the Dhammapada

"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source."

Lois McMaster Bujold

"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."

Dr. Thomas Dooley

"Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end."

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

Oprah Winfrey

"Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine."

Alanis Morissette

"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."

Confucius

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

Saint Francis de Sales

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."

Woody Allen

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

L. M. Montgomery

"Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it."

Eric Hoffer

"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will."

Pythagoras

"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."

Edmund Spenser

"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please."

Norman Vincent Peale

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."

Colette

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

J. K. Rowling

"Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it."

Henry L. Stimson

"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."

Henry Miller

"Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!"

Saadi

"Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant."

Robert Altman

"To play it safe is not to play."

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

"Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them."

W. Somerset Maugham

"I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world."

Eric Schmidt

"None of us is as smart as all of us."

Bob Newhart

"All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!"

Christina Baldwin

"Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out."

Jennifer Hudson

"If you�re... asking yourself why I have this success and you don�t, don�t be angry with me�stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back."

Henry Bromel

"There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try."

David Hume

"Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man. "

Mark Twain

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

Kathleen A. Sutton

"When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have."

John Green

"That�s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."

Arthur Miller

"The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star."

Angela L. Wozniak

"I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me."

Jean Nidetch

"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

"The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across."

Mahatma Gandhi

"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."

Sylvia Plath

"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."

Albert Ellis

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny."

Hugh Elliott

"Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world..."

Ecclesiastes

"Be not slow to visit the sick."

Indira Gandhi

"We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."

Publilius Syrus

"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."

Laurence J. Peter

"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going."

Matthew Prior

"Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind."

Kahlil Gibran

"If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully."

Sean Stewart

"Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for."

Winifred Holtby

"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing."

Novalis

"There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man."

William Penn

"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

Terri Minsky

"It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes."

Scott Westerfeld

"Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear."

Francis Quarles

"Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse."

Oprah Winfrey

"My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good."

Jerry Van Amerongen

"I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!"

John Keats

"I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else."

William Shakespeare

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."

Krishnamurti

"When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important."

Thomas A. Edison

"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

Malcolm X

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

Blaise Pascal

"We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart."

Dinah Shore

"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."

A. Sachs

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

Margaret Atwood

"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Albert Schweitzer

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint."

Heather Armstrong

"He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it."

J. K. Rowling

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

John Barth

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

Mary Pettibone Poole

"He who laughs, lasts!"

Eli Attie

"We al have family disfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole."

Conan O'Brien

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you�re kind, amazing things will happen."

Henry Miller

"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"

Edgar Allan Poe

"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

Lois McMaster Bujold

"Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it."

Andre Gide

"Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable."

John Wayne

"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."

Jennifer Hudson

"The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations."

Norah Jones

"If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose."

Italian Proverb

"It is not enough to aim; you must hit."

Linda Berdoll

"Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own."

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

"Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open!"

Aristotle

"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."

Sir Winston Churchill

"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."

J. H. Holmes

"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent."

Pablo Picasso

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape..."

Socrates

"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

Albanian Proverb

"When you have given nothing, ask for nothing."

Shlomo Bernartzi

"Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us."

David Assael

"Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others."

Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde

"Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards."

Zelda Fitzgerald

"[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn�t boring."

George Moore

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

Anne Tyler

"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

William S. Burroughs

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."

Real Live Preacher

"Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'"

Plutarch

"The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it."

Thomas K. Mattingly II

"It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space."

Agatha Christie

"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

Bob Dylan

"When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks."

Michel de Montaigne

"Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved."

Joyce Carol Oates

"If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it."

Goldie Hawn

"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile."

Ivan Pavlov

"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."

Sir Walter Scott

"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit."

Millicent Fenwick

"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self."

Ann Radcliffe

"Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value."

Kathy Sierra

"In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are."

Whitney Young

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self."

Bible

"Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you."

Meryl Streep

"My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

Rene Descartes

"One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another."

The Dhammapada

"Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone."

Peter McWilliams

"The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going."

Ann Richards

"I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system."

Kevin Smith

"More often than not, a hero�s most epic battle is the one you never see; it�s the battle that goes on within him or herself."

Roseanne Barr

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

Mary Pettibone Poole

"People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt."

Hyman Rickover

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."

Samuel Butler

"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."

Henry Ford

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

Ken Kesey

"Take what you can use and let the rest go by."

Jane Austen

"It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

C. Kent Wright

"To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak."

Sugar

"You don�t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don�t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don�t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don�t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts./ You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth./ But that�s all."

Oprah Winfrey

"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around."

Seneca

"The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed."

Benjamin Franklin

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."

L. M. Montgomery

"I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."

Norman Thomas

"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values."

Peter Ustinov

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

Ilya Prigogine

"The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity."

Whoopi Goldberg

"We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."

Thomas Hobbes

"Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair."

Alan Bennett

"The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters."

Richard Feynman

"No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it."

Joel Hawes

"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself."

Clarence Thomas

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."

Fred Brooks

"How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time."

Walt Whitman

"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."

Jewish Proverb

"Don't live in a town where there are no doctors."

Marcel Proust

"The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others."

Danny Kaye

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can."

Marquis de Vauvenargues

"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Give all to love; obey thy heart."

Randy K. Milholland

"I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens."

James Joyce

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

Epictetus

"When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?"

Calvin Coolidge

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

Eric Hoffer

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

Mitch Albom

"But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."

Sharon Olds

"The older I get, the more I feel / almost beautiful..."

Oswald Spengler

"This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on."

Kevin Bacon

"The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously."

William H. Sheldon

"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation."

E. M. Forster

"But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable."

John Keats

"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance."

Thomas a Kempis

"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."

Stuart's Law of Retroaction

"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission."

Eddie Rickenbacker

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."

Mark Twain

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran

"Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

Peter McWilliams

"Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed."

Andy Rooney

"Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head."

Real Live Preacher

"You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone."

Cynthia Ozick

"I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips."

Jay Leno

"Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances."

Harold Bloom

"We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own."

W. S. Gilbert

"If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance."

Victoria Holt

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

Charles Kingsley

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

Cato the Elder

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."

Jane Austen

"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of."

Charles Dickens

"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

Ellen Glasgow

"Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty."

Will Rogers

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Joel Spolsky

"An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it."

Malcolm Gladwell

"Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking."

Sylvia Robinson

"Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go."

Leo Rosten

"I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe."

Walker Percy

"To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something."

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad."

Doris Lessing

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

Henry David Thoreau

"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each."

Bell Hooks

"Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books."

Agnes de Mille

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how�We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."

Robin Green

"I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight."

Mary Stewart

"I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark."

Laura Moncur

"You learn a lot about people when you play games with them."

Lisa Williams

"It�s really easy to complain. If you�re not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good."

Sydney Smith

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed."

Marlene Dietrich

"It�s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter."

Mary MacCracken

"Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child."

Robert Heinlein

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. "

James Gordon

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."

W. Somerset Maugham

"Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi."

Margaret Cho

"People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in."

Richard Wagner

"Joy is not in things; it is in us."

Jesse Stuart

"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it."

Anatole France

"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

Wilson Mizner

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."

Hugh Elliott

"I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race."

George S. Patton

"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his."

Barack Obama

"You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come."

William Shakespeare

"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."

Wilfred A. Peterson

"The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."

Jennifer Hudson

"Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it."

Ann Richards

"The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense."

George Washington

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

James A. Garfield

"A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck."

W. Lee Grant

"Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings."

A. L. Kitselman

"The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you."

Amelia Burr

"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die."

Pierre Corneille

"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."

Real Live Preacher

"When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship."

Adele Brookman

"Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life."

Pythagoras

"Above all things, reverence yourself."

George Santayana

"Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel."

Frances Moore Lappe

"I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are."

Oprah Winfrey

"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice."

Louisa May Alcott

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

Hortense Calisher

"This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out."

Anna Quindlen

"The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong."

Dag Hammarskjold

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

Madeleine L'Engle

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."

Randy Pausch

"I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice."

Abigail van Buren

"The best index to a person's character is/ (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and/ (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."

Marie Leneru

"To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you strike at a king, you must kill him."

Lawrence Kaplow

"Perseverance does not equal worthiness."

Marian Evans

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

Marilyn Ferguson

"Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest."

John Green

"Breaking up isn�t something that gets done to you; it�s something that happens with you."

Robert Veninga

"Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope."

Henry David Thoreau

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Bishop Richard Cumberland

"It is better to wear out than to rust out."

Terry Pratchett

"Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'"

Dianne Houston

"Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it."

Denis Diderot

"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."

Israel Salanter

"Promote yourself, but do not demote another."

Franz Kafka

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

Seneca

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

David McCullough

"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love."

Dr. Smiley Blanton

"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent."

Latin Proverb

"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it."

Scott Adams

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

Lisa Alther

"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic."

Ayn Rand

"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."

Albert Camus

"We only know of one duty, and that is to love."

Robert J. Sawyer

"The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore."

Helmuth von Moltke

"First weigh the considerations, then take the risks."

C. S. Lewis

"Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair."

Barbra Streisand

"Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth."

Elizabeth Goudge

"Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing."

Max L. Forman

"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level."

Anna Sewell

"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."

Og Mandino

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."

W. Beran Wolfe

"If you observe a really happy man, you will find... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day."

Sydney Smith

"Live always in the best company when you read."

Matthew Arnold

"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."

Hunter S. Thompson

"Buy the ticket take the Ride"

Ernst Haas

"Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'."

Voltaire

"...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

James Boswell

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."

W. Somerset Maugham

"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life."

Sallust

"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."

Phillips Brooks

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle."

Mahatma Gandhi

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."

Dorothy Day

"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."

Randy Pausch

"Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older."

Carlos A. Urbizo

"Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at."

Sally Kempton

"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer."

Meryl Streep

"Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia."

George Washington

"It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing."

Walt Whitman

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

Marcus Valerius Martialis

"Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."

Marie de Sevigne

"When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it."

Ben Jonson

"Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times."

Barry Neil Kaufman

"A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper."

Kurt Lewin

"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration."

Anne Michaels

"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."

Thomas Jefferson

"If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."

Sir Winston Churchill

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

Fulton J. Sheen

"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."

Gwendolyn Brooks

"To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well."

Shirley MacLaine

"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."

Real Live Preacher

"I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient."

Saint Jerome

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."

Arnold Toynbee

"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

Gordon Parks

"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed."

Dag Hammarskjold

"For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes."

Jimmy Carter

"We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself."

Edward Fitzgerald

"Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy."

Anna Quindlen

"When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life."

Ben Azai

"Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place."

Ayn Rand

"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."

Salvador Dali

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

Pico Iyer

"Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred."

Thomas J. Watson

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."

John Mitchell Mason

"Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity."

Cheryl Tiegs

"Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it."

Quintilian

"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."

John Fletcher

"Deeds, not words shall speak me."

General Douglas MacArthur

"There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity."

Virginia Woolf

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

Voltaire

"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."

Latin Proverb

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."

Evenius

"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

Kyran Pittman

"Different and new is just the same old if you keep doing it over and over."

Alexander Woo

"The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that."

Oprah Winfrey

"If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't."

George Herbert

"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot."

Laura Moncur

"There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

Kathleen Casey Theisen

"Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it."

Dorothea Brande

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."

Meredith Willson

"Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today."

Steve Jobs

"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."

Rita Mae Brown

"The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself."

William James

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."

Elain Heffner

"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."

Anita Roddick

"The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you."

Alfred North Whitehead

"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."

Lord Chesterfield

"Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you."

Hugh Macleod

"The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy."

Edward R. Murrow

"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."

Plato

"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."

Langston Coleman

"Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent."

David P. Mikkelson

"Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few."

Shana Alexander

"We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again."

Hasidic Saying

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

Og Mandino

"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive."

Socrates

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

Benjamin Franklin

"Drive thy business or it will drive thee."

Carl Jung

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves."

Frank Herbert

"There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh."

Sharon Salzberg

"By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it."

Jim Beggs

"What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of."

Kahlil Gibran

"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."

Maya Angelou

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

Lawana Blackwell

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes."

John Milton

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. "

Norman Maclean

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."

Roy M. Cohn

"Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously."

John Herschel

"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."

Moliere

"There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket."

Lois McMaster Bujold

"War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with."

Eugene S. Wilson

"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."

William Shakespeare

"We are advertis'd by our loving friends."

Eric Schmidt

"In a networked world, trust is the most important currency."

Mark Twain

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. "

Chilo

"Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse."

Christina Rossetti

"[Spring is] when life's alive in everything."

Joel S. Goldsmith

"God must become an activity in our consciousness."

Nicole Kidman

"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."

Wall Street Proverb

"Buy on the rumor; sell on the news."

Epictetus

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Ellen DeGeneres

"You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful."

Pablo Casals

"I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life."

Andre Gide

"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."

Brendan Gill

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."

Ed Greenwood

"Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise."

Jennifer Aniston

"I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well."

Mary Daly

"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God."

Leo Tolstoy

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

Meryl Streep

"Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art."

Aldous Huxley

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

Horace

"If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself."

Elsa Maxwell

"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."

Dorothy Draper

"Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible."

Elizabeth Aston

"There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one."

Chinese Proverb

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

William Langland

"There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame."

Joseph Joubert

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Matt Witten

"Parents are never as bad as kids think they are."

Jenny Bicks

"The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun."

Lillian Hellman

"It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you."

Oprah Winfrey

"Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up."

J. K. Rowling

"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."

Bonnie Prudden

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

Coleman Cox

"Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed."

George Fabricius

"Death comes to all/ But great achievements raise a monument/ Which shall endure until the sun grows old."

Freeman Dyson

"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

Julian Jaynes

"Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else."

Anthony Walton

"America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better."

The Belzer Rabbi

"Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones."

Sophocles

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."

Real Live Preacher

"You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman�s name and claim to love her."

Doris Lessing

"All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh."

Aaron Copland

"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness."

George Lois

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."

R. Stevens

"Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!"

Jennie Jerome Churchill

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction."

Milan Kundera

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object."

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Now just click the donate button here. and enter project name which you wants to support, and whit your email address, and you can choose any amount you want to donate. In return for the donation, you will get chans to choose a completely optional e-book, and you will get totally free from me.

I'm always looking for proofreaders to my books. As a proofreader means you always get to read my new books for free, and also long before they come out and have been published. You register by sending an e-mail to me at swede@2b4y.com and writable "proofreader" in the title bar.

I hope you do not forget to press the share button on this post, so all your friends get a great opportunity to take advantage and benefit from this too.

Chuang-tzu

"Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."

Marya Mannes

"Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal."

Thomas Jefferson

"Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment."

Plutarch

"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."

Paul Graham

"Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity."

Joyce Maynard

"A good home must be made, not bought."

William Hazlitt

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

"Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done."

Looking for corporate sponsors to the following projects .......

This is my current crowdfunding projects that´s I'm working on now:
One travel project
Two food project
Three new e-book project

I always work with crowdfunding in all my projects. This means that the more your comapny donates and supports the project, the more can I give back to you as corperate supportive donor.

You as the corperate donor will be a part of the exclusive group. As will have and get the chance to be those who can influence on how and what you think will happen and be in their various projects.

If you and your company have some ideas and questions on how we can collaborate together, and you want to discuss this with me. Do not hesitate to contact me immediately and directly on swede@2b4y.com.

Now just click the donate button here. and enter project name which you wants to support, and whit your email address, and you can choose any amount you want to donate. In return for the donation, you will get chans to choose a completely optional e-book, and you will get totally free from me.

I'm always looking for proofreaders to my books. As a proofreader means you always get to read my new books for free, and also long before they come out and have been published. You register by sending an e-mail to me at swede@2b4y.com and writable "proofreader" in the title bar.

I hope you do not forget to press the share button on this post, so all your friends get a great opportunity to take advantage and benefit from this too.

Barack Obama

"What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government."

Colby Dorr Dam

"Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement."

Barbara Hall

"You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good."

John Berry

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."

Albert Ellis

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."

Albert Camus

"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."

George W. Bush

"I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."

Paul Tillich

"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."

Joseph Addison

"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."

Malcolm X

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

Erica Jong

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

Read and learn how corporate sponsors can support projects

This is my current crowdfunding projects that´s I'm working on now:
One travel project
Two food project
Three new e-book project

I always work with crowdfunding in all my projects. This means that the more your comapny donates and supports the project, the more can I give back to you as corperate supportive donor.

You as the corperate donor will be a part of the exclusive group. As will have and get the chance to be those who can influence on how and what you think will happen and be in their various projects.

If you and your company have some ideas and questions on how we can collaborate together, and you want to discuss this with me. Do not hesitate to contact me immediately and directly on swede@2b4y.com.

Now just click the donate button here. and enter project name which you wants to support, and whit your email address, and you can choose any amount you want to donate. In return for the donation, you will get chans to choose a completely optional e-book, and you will get totally free from me.

I'm always looking for proofreaders to my books. As a proofreader means you always get to read my new books for free, and also long before they come out and have been published. You register by sending an e-mail to me at swede@2b4y.com and writable "proofreader" in the title bar.

I hope you do not forget to press the share button on this post, so all your friends get a great opportunity to take advantage and benefit from this too.

Antonia Brenner

"I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people."

Sharon Salzberg

"If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again."

Marilyn vos Savant

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

William Congreve

"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise."

John Grogan

"We could have bought a small yacht with what we spent on our dog an dall the things he destroyed. Then again, how many yachts wait by the door all day for your return?"

Steve Jobs

"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."

Tina Turner

"The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered."

Sue Patton Thoele

"Abundance is, in large part, an attitude."