Quotes 7

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong
desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

" The best way to predict the future . . . .
. . . . is to create it."

Animals have these advantages over men: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonious, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire

When you tell someone something bad about yourself and you're
scared they won't love you anymore. But then you get surprised
because, not only do they still love you, they love you even
more. -- Child's answer to the question, "What is love?"

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
~ Robert Frost

"It's OK when you stumble; it just means you're moving forward."

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

"You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of
focus."
-- Mark Twain

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to
get out of.
-- Johnny Bench

"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent."
-William Blake

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
~Adam Lindsay Gordon

"Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below."
-John Dryden

"The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants
another one which will last forever."
-- Anatole France

��"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."��
Conte Vittorio Alfieri

"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in
what I cannot fear.I learn by going where I have to go."
--Theodore Roethke