Quote For The Week
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
...George Bernard Shaw
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I am not afraid of storms,
for I have learned how to sail my ship.
...Louisa May Alcott
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain
of improving, and that's your own self.
...Aldous Huxley
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Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that? We must have perseverance
and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something
and that this thing must be attained.
...Marie Curie
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In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing,
like what you are doing,
and believe in what you are doing.
...Will Rogers
Quote For The Week
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou
hast just blown the weekly grocery budget.
...Unknown
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Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
...James Thurber
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If brevity be the soul of wit, shut up!
...Darlene Jacobs
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Animals are such agreeable friends,
they ask no questions,
they pass no criticisms.
...George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
British writer
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Life itself can't give you joy
Unless you really will it.
Life just gives you time and space -
It's up to you to fill it!
...Unknown
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Well done is better than well said.
...Benjamin Franklin
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I cannot give you the formula for success,
but I can give you the formula for failure,
which is: Try to please everybody.
...Herbert Bayard Swope, journalist
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I dread success. To have succeeded is
to have finished one's business on earth...
I like a state of continual becoming,
with a goal in front and not behind.
...George Bernard Shaw
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The world is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
...Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
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Our greatest glory consists not in never failing,
but in rising every time we fall.
...Vincent Van Gogh
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That you may retain your self-respect,
it is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right
than to temporarily please them
by doing what you know is wrong.
...William J. H. Boetcker
Quote For The Week
For I have learned to look on nature,
not as in the hour of thoughtless youth,
but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
...William Wordsworth
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Change is not merely necessary to life.
It is life.
...Alvin Toffler
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Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
...from "Invictus"
by William Ernest Henley
Quote For The Week
Science without religion is lame;
religion without science is blind.
...Albert Einstein
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Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
...Mark Twain
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Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach
And which a master hand alone can reach.
...Alexander Pope (1711)
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And we should consider every day lost
on which we have not danced
at least once.
And we should call every truth false
which was not accompanied
by at least one laugh
...Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
...Horace
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He who angers you controls you.
...Unknown
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It's a miracle that I can laugh every day
and walk through my life with pride and confidence,
because our culture is unrelenting
when it comes to large people.
I don't understand it and I doubt I ever will.
We hurt nobody. We're just fat.
...Camryn Manheim, actress and
author of Wake Up, I'm Fat!
Quote For The Week
I would rather sit on a pumpkin
and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
...Henry David Thoreau
Quote For The Week
Think for yourself and let others
enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
...Voltaire
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The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
...John Milton, Paradise Lost
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If eyes were made for seeing,
then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
...Ralph Waldo Emerson
from "The Rhodora"
Quote For The Week
What is truth? ...The truth,
it has a thousand faces -- show only one of them,
and the whole truth flies away!
But how to show the whole?
That's the question...
...Thomas Wolfe
from You Can't Go Home Again
Quote For The Week
'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
...Alexander Pope (1711)
Quote For The Week
The line between good and evil, hope and despair,
does not divide the world between "us" and "them."
It runs down the middle of
every one of us.
...Robert Fulghum
Quote For The Week
On the surface, good intentions
look like nothing at all.
...Anonymous
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Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
...from Desiderata by Max Ehrmann, 1927
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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
...Ana�s Nin
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The world is round and the place which may seem
like the end may also be the beginning.
...Ivy Baker Priest
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It takes courage to grow up and
turn out to be who you really are.
...e. e. cummings
Quote For The Week
Don't say you don't have enough time.
You have exactly the same number of hours
per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,
Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
...H. Jackson Brown
Quote For The Week
People of a private nature are often
misunderstood because they are too shy
or too proud to explain themselves.
...Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Quote For The Week
Show respect for age.
Drink good scotch for a change.
The old believe everything;
the middle-aged suspect everything;
the young know everything.
...Oscar Wilde
Quote For The Week
To be nobody but yourself in a world which
is doing its best, night and day,
to make you everybody else means to fight
the hardest battle which any human being can fight
and never stop fighting.
...e. e. cummings
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
...Kahlil Gibran
Quote For The Week
When the heart weeps for what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices for what it has found.
...a Sufi saying
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame
By her just standard, which is still the same;
Unerring Nature, still divinely bright,
One clear, unchanged, and universal light---
...Alexander Pope (1711)