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“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” -D. H. Lawrence

“A mind too active is no mind at all.” -Theodore Roethke

“Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.” -Marcus Aurelius

“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.” -John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” -Lou Holtz

“A closed mouth catches no flies.” -Miguel de Cervantes

“They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.” -Harold Rosenberg

“Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.” -Arnold Glasgow

“Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.” -Cicero

“There have been too many things that have happened in my life to look at anything as coincidence.” -Lauren Hill

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” -Emily Dickenson

“It’s too early in the morning for it to be too early in the morning.” -Terry Pratchett

“Every winner has scars.” -Herbert N. Casson

“One is never so happy or so unhappy as one thinks.” -Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“Never use the word "impossible". Throw it into the verbal waste bucket.” -Unknown

“When you are down and out something always turns up-and it is usually the noses of your friends.” -Orson Welles

“Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times. ” -Voltaire

“Education is the art of making man ethical.” -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“It is the ability to choose which makes us human.” -Madeleine L’Engle

“Trying is the first step to failure.” -Homer Simpson

“What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.” -Henny Youngman

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” -Theodore Roosevelt

“You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.” -Jim Rohn

“Persuasion is often more effectual than force.” -Aesop

“He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.” -Benjamin Franklin

“We all have to take defeats in life.” -Muhammad Ali

“Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.” -Robert Collier

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” -Robert Frost

“The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart. ” -Mencius

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” -Elbert Hubbard

“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches IS never sure.” -Segal’s Law

“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.” -Adlai Stevenson

“If you choose not to decide — you still have made a choice” -Neil Peart

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ” -Dale Carnegie

“Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.” -Sir John Harington

“Valour needs first strength, then a weapon.” -J. R. R. Tolkien

“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.” -J. F. Clarke

“All cruelty springs from weakness.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die.” -Thomas Ford

“In adversity keep motivated, because often the best results come from difficulties. ” -Unknown

“No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.” -Anonymous

“Power is paradoxical.” -Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength. ” -Anonymous

“He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.” -Thomas Fuller

“The basis of a democratic state is liberty.” -Aristotle

“Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.” -Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“In the end, the size of a man’s accomplishments can best be measured by the size of their heart. ” -Unknown

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.” -Booker T. Washington

“True friends are like diamonds precious but rare. Fake friends are like fall leaves found everywhere.” -Unknown

“We only do well the things we like doing. ” -Unknown

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” -Oscar Wilde

“But love is many things, none of them logical.” -William Goldman

“I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don’t work out, that’s when I’ve really learned.” -Carol Burnett

“Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.” -Marva Collins

“Lying is done with words and also with silence.” -Adrienne Rich

“The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.” -John Adams

“Continual improvement is an unending journey.” -Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason

“Knowledge begets knowledge. The more I see, the more impressed I am not with what we know but with how tremendous the areas are as yet unexplored.” -John H. Glenn, Jr.

“Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.” -George Bernard Shaw

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.” -Richard Hughes

“Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.” -Anonymous

“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.” -Van Morrison

“Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.” -Belgian Proverb

“Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.” -Malcolm Gladwell

“The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out” -Baron Thomas Babington Macauley

“The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” -Ronald Reagan

“Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be” -Miguel de Cervantes

“Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.” -Edward W. Howe

“If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.” -Louise L. Hay

“Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else. ” -Brian Tracy

“Philosophy is the highest music.” -Plato

“Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.” -Ruth McKenney

“The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds that there is no top. ” -Nancy Barcus

“If your boat doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” -Jonathan Winters

“Teaching is the royal road to learning.” -Jessamyn West

“Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.” -Albert Camus

“To ask the hard question is simple.” -Wystan Hugh Auden

“A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.” -J. Hawes

“Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.” -Burt Lawlor

“Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.” -Josh Billings

“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” -Eugene Ionesco

“In real love you want the other person�s good. In romantic love you want the other person.” -Margaret C. Anderson

“Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.” -Ronald Reagan

“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.” -John Updike

“Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough” -Arthur Freed

“The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.” -Japanese Proverb

“For with God all things are possible. ” -Mark 10:27

“Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.” -Chinese Proverb

“Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Feel the fear and do it anyway.” -Susan Jeffers

“It’s like being a Knight of the Garter. It’s an honor, but it doesn’t hold up anything.” -Fulton John Sheen

“Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.” -Fran Lebowitz

“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.” -Aldous Huxley

“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man’s nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.” -Francis Bacon

“many versions exist: The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” -Richard Buckminster Fuller

“Ability is nothing without opportunity.” -Napoleon Bohaparte

“There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.” -Hal Borland

“Timing is everything. There is a tide in the affairs of men which when taken at the flood leads on to fortune.” -William Shakespeare