Quotes

Intro

General

• Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.
• You can only go as far as you push.
• Actions speak louder than words.
• Don't let the past hold you back, you're missing the good stuff.
• Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while you might miss it.
• What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry?
• Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

Friends

• Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
• A BEST FRIEND is like a four leaf clover, HARD TO FIND and LUCKY TO HAVE.
• Some people make the world SPECIAL just by being in it.
• BEST FRIENDS are the siblings God forgot to give us.
• When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your BEST FRIEND will be there.
• TRUE FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS. Friends are FOREVER.
• Good friends are like stars....You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
• Most people walk in and out of you life, but only friends leave footprints in your heart.

Love

• To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
• The essential saddness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you love them.
• Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
• The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.
• Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.
• Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile.

People Quotes

• Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? - Margot Fonteyn
• When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. - Otto von Bismarck
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citi- zens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
• Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller
• I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. - Maxine Hong Kingston
• A beautiful soul has no other merit, but it's existence. - Von Schiller
• Humility is always proof of intelligence - Rael
• There is a continuing, mandatory need for heresy in its most profound sense; for freedom to choose and follow truth wherever it leads. - William Edelen (Contemporary American author/clergyman)
• Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do. - Karl Weick
• You are not thinking. You are merely being logical. - Neils Bohr
• Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. - Vernon Law
• One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. - Robert Lynd
• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. - Dale E. Turner
• People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. - Carl G. Jung
• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. - Napoleon
• You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire Universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha
• He that will not reason is a bigot, He that cannot reason is a fool, He that dares not reason is a slave. - William Drummond
• Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. - Robert F. Kennedy
• A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne. - Georges Clemenceau, French Diplomat
• A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence stops. - Henry Adams
• Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does. - Mary's Almanac
• It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessaryto understand everything. - Rene Coty
• Fashions fade - style is eternal. - Yves Saint Laurent
• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein
• Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. - Stephen Vincent Ben�t
• The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. - Dennis Waitley
• He that lives upon hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin
• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - R.W. Emerson
• Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. - John V. Lindsay
• The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. - Alexander Haig
• One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it. - Sun Tzu
• If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril. - Sun Tzu
• When a man does a piece of work which is admired by all, we say that it is wonderful; but when we see the changes of day and night, the sun, the moon, and the stars in the sky, and the changing seasons upon the earth, with their ripening fruits, anyone must realize that it is the work of someone more powerful than man. - Santee-Yanktonai Sioux, AKA Chased-by-Bears (1843-1915)
• Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture the happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy. - Anne Frank
• On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies. - Sun Tzu
• I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. - Brian Tracy
• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. - General Omar Bradley
• An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. - Dan Rather
• We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we will never surrender. - Winston Churchill
• Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nestell Bovee
• Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is the light that leads and the strength that lifts people on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of professional labor. It robs endurance of difficulty, and makes pleasure of duty. - Bishop Doane
• We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems. - Arthur O'Shaunessey
• Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority of government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put on this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer. - Ronald Reagan
• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity...and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. - William Blake
• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. - Charles Mingus
• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. - Khalil Gibran
• A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars. - Henry Adams
• It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. - Rollo May
• The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win. - J.M. Charlier
• If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer. - Frank Bianco
• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author
• It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. - I Ching
• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know. - Rene Daumal
• I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo
• He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than illumination. - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
• Success is that peace of mind that comes from knowing you've done everything in your power to become the very best you're capable of becoming. - John Wooden
• I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature. - Rousseau
• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie
• That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. - Immanuel Kant, 18th Century Philosopher
• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. - Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize winning author
• Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. - Flower A. Newhouse
• It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. - Arthur Calwell
• The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. - David Friedman
• The Constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. - Samuel Adams, 1788
• The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. - Thornton Wilder
• I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson
• There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. - Frederick Faber
• There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale
• True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. - Akhenaton
• Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. - Elbert Hubbard
• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Plato

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