You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it himself. - Galileo

The only period of time you can ever act upon is right now. - Paul Parker

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
ญ John Ruskin

There is one thing over which each person has absolute, inherent control, and that is
his mental attitude. -- Clement Stone

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
- Franklin

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
- James D. Rogers

If you want to lead the orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.
- Anonymous

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is
struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
ญ William Hazlitt

It is not doing the thing we like, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life happy.
ญญ Goethe

If one would know one's destiny, one has only to examine his passions.
- A.P. Gouthey

If I had said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying
many things to please him. ญญ Samuel Johnson

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
ญญ Abraham Lincoln

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ญญ Demosthenes

There are people who always anticipate trouble, and in that way they manage to enjoy many sorrows
that never really happen to them. - H.W. Shaw

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
- Roger Babson

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand things well.
ญญ Hugh Walpole

No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.
- O.S. Marden

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Hannah More

Few great men could pass Personnel.
- Paul Goodman

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to the next with undiminished enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
- Publius Syrus

"A truly great person is the one who gives you a chance."
- Paul Duffy, Writer

Things must first happen in your mind before they can happen in your outer world.
- Harold Sherman

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
- George M. Adams

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible and that its activity will continue through eternity.
It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
- Goethe

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.
-- Jean Sibelius

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
- Mme. du Deffano

You are only as big as the world you are interested in.
- Roy L. Smith

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute. What you can do, or think you can, begin it.
-- Goethe

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
- Emerson

A promise made is a debt unpaid.
- Shakespeare

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
- Charles Kettering

People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
- Sinclair Lewis

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
- Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich (1574-1656)

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. - Robert Louis Stevenson

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
- Margaret Thatcher

Does he have 17 years of experience or one years of experience 17 times?
- Paul Weisenfeld

A fool who persists in his folly becomes wise.
- George Bernard Shaw

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.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
- Wilson Mizner

It is better to be both right and consistent. But if you have to choose . . . you must choose to be right.
- Winston Churchill

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.
- Hofmannsthal

Many people go throughout life committing partial suicide -- destroying their talents, energies, creative qualities.
Indeed, to learn how to be good to oneself is often more difficult than to learn how to be good to others.
- Joshua Loth Liebman

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
- John Burroughs

The universe pays every man in his own coin. If you smile, it smiles upon you in return; if you frown, you will be frowned upon; if you sing, you will be invited to gay company; if you think, you will be entertained by thinkers; if you love the world and earnestly seek for the good therein, you will be surrounded by loving friends, and nature will pour into your lap the treasures of the earth.
- N.W. Zimmerman

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Longfellow

Every man who refuses to accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
- Baudelaire

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
- Nietzsche

Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world, it will come through the expression of your own personality,
that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
- Bruce Barton

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
- William James

Who lies for you will lie against you.
- Bosnian proverb

Happiness is good for the body, but sorrow strengthens the spirit.
- Marcel Proust

Love is a sport in which the hunter must contrive to have the quarry in pursuit.
- Kerr

His soul will never starve for exploits or excitements who is wise enough to be made a fool of.
To be "taken in" everywhere is to see the inside of everything.
- G.K. Chesterton

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound!
- Joubert

I can live for two months on a good compliment.
- Mark Twain

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. - William Penn

If you want something, think upon it, say it over enough times. Your personality moves in this direction. You move toward what you dwell upon. - William Lantz

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
- Déscartes

Nothing is ever accomplished by a committee unless it consists of three members,
one of whom happens to be sick and the other absent.
- Hendrik van Loon

Forget not on every occasion to ask thyself, is this not one of the unnecessary things?
- Marcus Aurelius

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it.
If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned;
if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness,
and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
- William James

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.
- Dr. George Crane

Joy and Temperance and Repose, Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time is the most valuable thing a person can spend.
- Theophrastus

Habit is not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- Schopenhauer

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway

Some wicked people would be less dangerous had they no redeeming qualities.
- La Rochefoucauld

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.
- Thomas Merton, (Trappist monk and author; 1915--68)

The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.
- Chinese saying

It is harder to hide feelings than to feign those we lack.
- La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.
- Thomas Cole

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
- Leo Tolstoy

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
- MacKintosh

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- Voltaire

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
- E.V. Lucas

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
- Fannie Hurst

This is the best day the world has ever seen. Tomorrow will be better.
- R.A. Campbell

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo, not for a man.
- Samuel Butler II

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent,
even though he is in the right.
- Cato

Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride,
money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars,
God, and eternal hopes, is to be all but dead.
- Babcock

No man is free who cannot command himself.
- Pythagoras

The only safe and sure way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.
- Mark Twain

Think, when you are enraged at anyone, what would probably become your sentiments should he die during the dispute.
- Shenstone

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
- Blake

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
- William James

Love is space and time made directly perceptible to the heart.
- Proust

We begin to walk on the road to happiness when we learn the art of relaxation,
when we learn that relaxation is a habit we all can acquire, a healthy habit every day, like brushing our teeth.
- Maxwell Maltz

A truly spiritual person's creed is not live and let live, but live and help live.
- Roger Babson

He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.
- Seneca

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.
- Pavese

The motive for a deed usually changes during its performance: at least, after the deed has been done, it seems quite different.
- Herbel

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.
- Jules Verne

In life, the great secret of progress is never to hurry or never to loiter.
- John Lubbock

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
- Chinese fortune cookie

Many persons have a wrong idea about what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
- Logan Pearsall Smith

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united.
- Alexander Humboldt

In cultivating the mind we must not neglect the body. Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
- John Lubbock

To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work
is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
- A.P. Gouthey

It is better to be praised by one's own works than by the words of another.
- L'Estrange

If I have done the public any service, it is due to patient thought.
- Sir Isaac Newton

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning round.
- Thoreau

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
- George Santayana

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
- Ellen Glasgow

Make sense of the past to uncover future possibilities. - Freud

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain

Temper merely shows lack of control and places you temporarily in the ranks of lunatics and fools. - William Nickerson

The struggling for knowledge hath a pleasure in it like wrestling with a fine woman.
- Lord Halifax

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. - Christian N. Bovee

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
- LordChesterfield

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. - Swedish proverb

Wisdom is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. - Roger Babson

Necessity can make a doubtful action innocent, but it cannot make it commendable.
- Anonymous

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. - WilliamHazlitt

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. - Thomas Edison

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
- Diogenes

Over-optimism is waiting for your ship to come in when you haven't sent one out.
- Irv Riley

There is not a thought in our heads which hasn't been worn shiny by other brains.
- Henry S. Haskins

Every man is a builder of a temple called his body. - Goethe

There are many religions, but there is only one morality. - John Ruskin

Every society rests on the death of men. - O.W. Holmes, Jr.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. - Mark Twain

It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
- Robert Schumann

If you wish to astonish the whole world, tell the simple truth. - Rahel

A wise person knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody. - Anonymous

Down in their hearts, wise people know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
- Elbert Hubbard

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. - Arnold Bennett

Be kind. Remember, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - T.H. Thompson

What he lacks in intelligence he makes up for in stupidity. - Gene Autry

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. - Charles Schwab

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. The tree which moves some to tears of joy is, in the eyes of others, only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees. - Blake

Though a man go out to battle a thousand times against a thousand men, if he conquers himself he is the greater conqueror. -- Buddha

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost

Definition: Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
- Oliver Hereford

Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.- Clemenceau

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of the body by judicious, daily exercise. - - Grenville Kleiser

Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't. -- Anonymous

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. -- Cecil de Mille

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self. -- Hoffer

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.-- Robert Smith Surtees, "The Analysis of the Hunting Field" (1846)

Amusement is the happiness of those that cannot think. -- Alexander Pope

People are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. -- Walpole

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. -- Thoreau

People are not punished for their sins, but by them. -- E. Hubbard

Never tell a young person that something cannot be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do just that. -- J.A. Holmes

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. -- Louis D. Brandeis

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit. -- Billings

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. -- Sydney Smith

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prayers should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. -- English proverb

The future comes one day at a time. -- Dean Scheson (1893-1971)

Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied person, I will show you a failure. -- Thomas Edison

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russel

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
-- Fitzgerald

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.
-- Karl Humboldt

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence. -- Henry Ward Beecher

If you are not having problems, you are missing an opportunity for growth.-- Thomas Blandi

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
-- William James

Nothing is worth more than this day. -- Goethe

The greatest responsibility entrusted to man is that of developing himself. -- William Ross

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford

Most people don't think radically. They take what they know and tinker with it a little bit.
-- Mayo Clinic Workshop

Express gratitude to the people at work who are important to you. -- Mayo Clinic Workshop

A company is stronger if it is bound buy love rather than fear. - Herb Kelleher,
former CEO SW Airlines

The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the power of all true science. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. -- Albert Einstein

Don't just do what you are told. Improvise on the spot to get something done and accomplish more. Everything can be improved. -- C.W. Barron

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Kierkegaard

When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
-- Anonymous

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do.
-- Olin Miller

A person is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.
-- Lew Wallace

Be kind & considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are. -- Don Herold

This world belongs to the man who is wise enough to change his mind in the presence of the facts.-- Roy L. Smith

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backward. -- E.K. Piper

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. -- Robert G. Ingersoll

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -- Walter Bagehot

When I go to bed, I leave my troubles in my clothes. -- Dutch proverb

Never trust a person who speaks well of everybody. -- Collins

Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. -- Vincent van Gogh

No one can make a real masterpiece of life until he sees something infinitely greater in his vocation than bread and butter and shelter. -- O.S. Marden

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. -- Whitehead

There cannot be a precise answer to a vague question. -- Wendell Johnson

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to the next with undiminished enthusiasm. -- Winston Churchill

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. -- James Stephens

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
-- Martin Vanbee

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not. -- Benchley

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. -- Tocqueville

The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he contracted in the former. -- Jonathan Swift

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. -- Anonymous

Our ambition should be to rule our self, the true kingdom for each one of us.-- John Lubbock

A wise man thinks before he speaks what he ought to say; the fool speaks and thinks afterwards what he has said. -- French proverb

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself. -- Ethel Barrymore

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and the concerned person solves a problem. -- Harold Stephens

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. -- John Lubbock

Some minds are like concrete: mixed up and permanently set. -- Ralph Sander

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
-- Wilson Mizner

Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love. -- Lavater

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise; because of impatience we cannot return. -- Kafka

Fidelity in small things is at the base of every great achievement. -- Charles Wagner

Some people go through life getting results; others get consequences. -- E. Stanley Jones

A man is what he thinks about all day long. -- Emerson

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. -- Samuel Johnson

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.-- Carl Schurz

There are two kinds of discontent: the discontent that works and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants; the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success; there is no cure for the second. -- Gordon Graham

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky is by no means a waste of time. -- John Lubbock

What is money, anyway? It is something that merely passes through our hands on its way to Washington. -- Alice Morgan

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.-- Lord Mansfield

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.-- John Erskine

The manly man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself.-- H.W. Beecher

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
-- Thomas Edison

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know. -- Hofmannsthal

Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies. -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

If you mean to profit, learn to please. -- Winston Churchill

You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. "I cannot" never has accomplished anything; "I will try" has wrought wonders.
-- J. Hawkes

When two people in a business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. -- William Wrigley, Jr.

I wonder whether man will ever permit himself the happiness that his intelligence has made physically possible. -- Bertrand Russell

Who ends the day with wholesome food, begins the next in a happy mood.
-- ancient saying

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. -- Woodrow Wilson

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
-- Saint-Exupéry

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
-- François de la Rochefoucauld

I think and think, for months, for years; ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right. -- Albert Einstein

True happiness is impossible without true health. And true health is impossible without exercise. -- Vic Tanny

Besides the noble art of leaving things undone, the wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. -- Lin Yutang (1895-1976)

Act quickly, think slowly. -- Greek proverb

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
-- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives. -- Jacki Robinson (1919-1972)

If your morals make your dreary, depend on it they are wrong. -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. -- Ovid 43 BC - AD 17)

In love, you must give three times before you take once. -- Brazilian proverb.

People forget how fast you did a job; but they remember how well you did it.
-- Howard W. Newton

The world belongs to the energetic. -- Emerson

To be energetic, act energetic. -- Clement Stone

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if your don't try. -- Beverly Sills (1929-)

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.
-- Lucille Ball (1911-1989)

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with another; people are friends in spots. -- George Santayana (1863-1952)

If you don't want to work, you have to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
-- Odgen Nash

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. in the expert's mind there are few.
-- Shunro Suzuki (1870-1966)

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
-- Marlene Dietrich (1901-1990)

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin (1923-)

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. -- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
-- Joan Baez (1941-)

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. -- Ethiopian proverb

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. -- Seneca (c. 4BC - A.D 65)

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed as an evil to mankind. -- Jonathan Swift

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Just as we outgrown a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc at times - - and this is the worst of all - - before we have new ones. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact.It is better to say "I am suffering," than to say "This landscape is ugly." -- Simone Weil

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

In economics the majority is always wrong. -- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-)

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it. -- Chinese proverb

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. -- William James (1842-1910)

Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year. -- Victor Borge (1909-)

Progress might have been alright once, but it's gone on too long. -- Ogden Nash (1902-1971)

Salt: the color of snow; the taste of tears; the enormity of oceans. -- SAS salt packet

No one can ruin your day without your permission.

Most people will be about as happy as they decide to be.

Others can stop you temporarily but only you can do it permanently.

Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.

Success stops when you do.

When "your ship comes in", make sure you are willing to unload it.

You will never "have it all together."

Life is a journey, not a destination. Enjoy the trip!

The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.

Ultimately, takers lose, givers win.

Lfie's precious moments don't have value unless shared with others.

If you don't start, it certain you won't arrive.

We often fear the thing we want most.

He or she who laughs, lasts.

Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.

Look for opportunities, not complaints.

Life is what's coming, not what was.

Success is getting up one more time.

When things go wrong, don't go with them.

Never be idle.

Always speak the truth.

When you speak to a person, look into his eyes.

Your character can essentially not be injured except by your own acts.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

There is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Always be honest.

Clean your desk.

Relish your problems.

Admit your mistakes.

Cherish your failures.

Become an expert.

Do it differently.

Concentrate your powers.

Life is a moving target.

Be humble.

Everything goes in cycles.

Strive for excellence.

Don't give up.

The truth always emerges.

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Date: 97-12-05 05:39:06 EST

From: mdsharp@earthlink.net (MaryDell Sharp)

Subject: Thoughts to live by...

I've Learned.......

I've learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing "Silent Night". Age 6

I've learned that you can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk. Age 7

I've learned that when I wave to people in the country, they stop what they are doing and wave back. Age 9

I've learned that just when I get my room the way I like it, Mom makes me clean it up. Age 13

I've learned that if you want to cheer yourself up, you should try cheering someone else up.

Age 14

I've learned that although it's hard to admit it, I'm secretly glad my parents are strict with me. Age 15

I've learned that silent company is often more healing than words of advice. Age 24

I've learned that brushing my child's hair is one of life's great pleasures. Age 26

I've learned that wherever I go, the worlds worst drivers have followed me there. Age 29

I've learned...that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it. Age 39

I've learned that there are people who love you dearly but just don't know how to show it. Age 41

I've learned that you can make someone's day by simply sending them a little card. Age 44

I've learned that the greater a person's sense of guilt, the greater his need to cast blame on others. Age 46

I've learned that children and grandparents are natural allies. Age 47

I've learned that singing "Amazing Grace" can lift my spirits for hours. Age 49

I've learned that motel mattresses are better on the side away from the phone. Age 50

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a man by the way he handles these three things:

a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. Age 52

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you miss them terribly after they die. Age 53

I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life. Age 58

I've learned that if you want to do something positive for your children, try to improve your marriage. Age 61

I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. Age 62

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. Age 64

I've learned that if you pursue happiness, it will elude you. But if you focus on your family, the needs of others, your work, meeting new people, and doing the very best you can, happiness will find you. Age 65

I've learned that whenever I decide something with kindness, I usually make the right decision. Age 66

I've learned that everyone can use a prayer. Age 72

I've learned that it pays to believe in miracles. And to tell the truth, I've seen several. Age 73

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. Age 82

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love that human touch - holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. Age 85

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. Age 92

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15 THINGS THAT IT TOOK ME 50 YEARS TO LEARN, By DAVE BARRY

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the
same night.

2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not
achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

3. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want
you to share yours with them.

5. And when God, who created the entire universe with all of its glories,
decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will NOT use as His messenger, a
person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.

6. You should not confuse your career with your life.

7. No matter what happens...somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

8. When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual
who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often that person is crazy.

9. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

10. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

11. Never lick a steak knife.

12. Take out the fortune before you eat the cookie.

13. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender,
religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we
ALL believe that we are above average drivers.

14. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that
you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her
at that moment.

15. Your friends love you anyway.