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"Everything else can wait but the search for God cannot wait - and love one another."
--George Harrison
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
--Plato
"The greatest gift
you can give another is the purity of your attention."
--Richard Moss
"Everywhere is walking distance if you
have the time."
--Stephen Wright
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough
good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
-- Vince Lombardi
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
--Joan Borysenko
No one means all he
says, yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
-- Henry Adams
"We are
apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and
to provide for it."
-- Patrick Henry
"I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed psychiatrist
is our friend."
--(excerpt from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey)
"I have faith that the truth is the right thing,"
-- Paula Poundstone
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
-- Robert R. Coveyou,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing
to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with
having proved you can meet life.
-- Ann Landers
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can
take the next thing that comes along.'"
--Eleanor Roosevelt
"We anticipate a global world-market with place
for perhaps five computers."
--Tom Watson, IBM 1949
"You express your soul by going through the fear."
--Earthlyn
Marselean Manuel
"The only place youll find success before work is in the dictionary."
--May B. Smith
"Nothing
is less like friendship than a love affair. Lovers are normally face to face absorbed in each other; friends are side by side
absorbed in some common interest. Above all eros while it lasts, is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being
the number necessary for friendship, is not even the best."
--C.S. Lewis
"There are two questions a man must
ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in
the wrong order, you are in trouble."
--Howard Thurman
"The length of a film should be directly related to the
endurance of the human bladder."
-- Alfred Hitchcock
"Not too many excellent people these days. If you are going
to have business, have an excellent business....., and excellent life."
--Joyce Meyer
"Sometimes our light goes
out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
--Albert Schweitzer
"If you foolishly ignore beauty, you'll soon find yourself without it. Your life will be
improverished. But if you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."
--Frank Lloyd Wright
"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and
taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."
--Margot Fonteyn
"You cannot
shake hands with a clenched fist."
--Indira Gandhi
"There is no greater source of strength and power for me
in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is."
--Oprah Winfrey
"Nobody, but nobody,
can make it out here alone."
--Maya Angelou
"Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another."
--May Sarton
"Forever is composed of nows."
--Emily Dickinson
"What you keep to yourself you lose; what you give
away, you keep forever."
--Axel Munthe
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about
other people."
--Virginia Woolf
"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely
precious things that cannot be taken from you."
--Oscar Wilde
"When humor goes, there goes civilization."
--Erma
Bombeck
"The most important things in life aren't things."
--Art Buchwald
"It's so hard when I have
to, and so easy when I want to."
--Annie Gottlier
"Respect ... is appreciation of the separateness of the other
person, of the ways in which he or she is unique."
--Annie Gottlier
"The time when you need to do something
is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done."
--Mary Frances Berry
"Do not
be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their
being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
--Confucius
The Wolf Credo:
"Respect the elders
Teach the young
Cooperate with the pack
Play when you can
Hunt
when you must
Rest in between
Share your affections
Voice your feelings
Leave your mark"
--Del Goetz
"As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is."
--Proverbs 23:7
"The time is always right to do what is
right."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
--Robert Byrne
"The
work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work."
--Unknown
And the child won't wait as a child.-ShaiyelSeltzer
"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that
as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him."
--James Allen
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
--Sir Francis Bacon
"Understanding is the
soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship."
--Woodrow Wilson
"Painting is just another way of keeping
a diary."
--Pablo Picasso
"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."
--Theodore Roethke
"In the
middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
--Albert Einstein
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance
when the need for illusion is deep."
--Saul Bellow
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
--Oscar Wilde
"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."
--Rita Mae Brown
"I
am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
--Pablo Picasso
"If you look
at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."
--Elizabeth Bowen
"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all
possible objections must first be overcome."
--Samuel Johnson
"All miseries derive from not being able to sit
quietly in a room alone."
--Pascal
"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
--Mohandas
K. Gandhi
"The aim of life is to live and to live is to be aware ... joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
--Henry Miller
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." --Carl
Jung
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
--Marie Curie
The probability that
we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-- Buddha
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp
I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.
- Tracy Chapman, Unsung Psalms
Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.
- Irving Berlin
"It is only with the heart that one can
see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
-- The Fox in "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupery.
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love,
that is the soul of genius."
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land
among the stars.
- Les Brown
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
- Michael Caine
"I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or has a silly heart. And I
sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job.
But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're ALL good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them
down and convince them they're no good."
--from movie, "Uncle Buck," John Candy's character
"I am the genius
of me."
--Pat Cooper
"One should eat to live, not live to eat." --Moliere
"Find out who you are and
do it on purpose."
-- Dolly Parton
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
--
Donald Laird
"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values."
--The Dalai Lama
"Always be
a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
--Judy Garland
People
will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
-- David Comins
Behind
every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
-- Bob Brown
"You've got to have something to eat and
a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave." "Sometimes it's worse to
win a fight than to lose."
--Billie Holiday
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other
people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
-- Audre Lorde
"The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment
to sacrifice what you are for what you could become."
-- Charles Dubois
The society which scorns excellence in
plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good
plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
-- John W. Gardner
Life does
not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Where there is love there is life.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you
can fake that, you got it made.
-- Groucho Marx
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility
upon him and to let him know that you trust him.
-- Booker T. Washington
And of course, with the birth of the
artist came the inevitable afterbirth - the critic.
-- Narrator in "History of the World: Part I"
There is no
disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
-- La Rochefoucauld
Well,
there are some things a man just can't run away from.
-- The Ringo Kid (John Wayne) in "Stagecoach"
The price
of greatness is responsibility.-- Sir Winston Churchill
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
-- Tennessee
Williams
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
--
Franklin Jones
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
-- Douglas Adams
The journey is the reward.
-- Taoist saying
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson
It
may help to think of language as a great field of word plants. Whenever most people focus their attention on one subject,
it's like a great dose of fertilizer and rain on that portion of the field. Existing words grow and flower into new meanings.
Nouns sprout verbs.
-- Allan Metcalf
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and
to let him know that you trust him.
- Booker T. Washington
This would be a great world to dance in if you didn't
have to pay the fiddler.
- Will Rogers
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine
writing, obey it -- whole-heartedly -- and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.
--
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
-- Alan Saporta
And of course,
with the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth -- the critic.
-- Narrator in "History of the World: Part
I"
Well, no wonder you look like him. But I still insist there is a resemblance.
-- Capt. Spaulding (Groucho Marx)
in "Animal Crackers"
Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
--
Sylvia Robinson
With calm eyes gauge your fellow men; with a calm heart deal with all matters; with a calm mind find
the reason in things.
-- Hong Yingming
"All change is not growth, all movement is not forward."
-- Ellen Glasgow
Why should
we pay taxes when we have no part in the honors, the commands, the state craft for which you contend?
-- Hortensia, c. First Century B.C.
The Lord God has special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States
of America.
-- Otto von Bismarck
Do not say, "I follow the one true path of the Spirit," but
rather, "I have found the Spirit walking on my path," for the Spirit walks on all paths.
-- Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
"You
can blame people who knock things over in the dark, or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about
the problem and choose to do nothing."
-- Paul Hawken
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
-- Golda
Meir
"And I will war, at least in words (and should my chance so happen -- deeds) with all who war with Thought,
-- and of Thought's foes by far most rude, Tyrants and sycophants have been and are. I know not who may conquer: if I could
Have such a prescience, it should be no bar to this my plain, sworn, downright detestation - O every despotism in every nation."
-Byron, (Don Juan, Canto 9 verse 24)
"Remember, we are all in this together."
("The Red Green Show" - Red Green character)
--Steve Smith
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