Romance Sayings
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420
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You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
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Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
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Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets
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Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!
~Allison Gappa Bottke
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Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox
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Laziness will cause you pain. ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense
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If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison
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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
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Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown
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Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James
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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel
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Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr
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Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament," Idylls of the King
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I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"
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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters. ~Samuel Butler
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard
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Be careful not to drown in a mirage. ~Terri Guillemets
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On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation." ~Confucian Analects
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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson
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What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson
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To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)
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Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White
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Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?" Instead, they demand: "How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?" Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French
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Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepherd
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The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. ~Charles DuBois
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~John Lennon
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If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
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Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911
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Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis
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Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln
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It's better to fight for something than against something. ~Author Unknown
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The day will happen whether or not you get up. ~John Ciardi
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Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~George R. Kirkpatrick
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown
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Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown
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All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain. ~Epictetus
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
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Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ~Janis Joplin
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The biggest problem in the world
Could have been solved when it was small.
~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu
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What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard
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Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~Author Unknown
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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. ~Oscar Wilde
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Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee
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While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates
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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha
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Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers
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Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln
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"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company," The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber
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Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
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We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber
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Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec
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Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer
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The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker
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You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~Tad Williams
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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Aspire to a lower level of harm. ~Anonymous
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I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~Bill Veeck
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You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger
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When you lose, don't lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown
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There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John C. Collins
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Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger
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Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down. ~W. Migner
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young
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Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown
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The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown
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Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool. ~Richard Feynman
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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes
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I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson
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You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull
=======================================================
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
=======================================================
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
=======================================================
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau
=======================================================
Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets
=======================================================
Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!
~Allison Gappa Bottke
=======================================================
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
=======================================================
See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII
=======================================================
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
=======================================================
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
=======================================================
Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox
=======================================================
Laziness will cause you pain. ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense
=======================================================
If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison
=======================================================
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
=======================================================
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown
=======================================================
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht
=======================================================
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo
=======================================================
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James
=======================================================
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman
=======================================================
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles
=======================================================
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato
=======================================================
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel
=======================================================
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
=======================================================
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr
=======================================================
Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament," Idylls of the King
=======================================================
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"
=======================================================
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters. ~Samuel Butler
=======================================================
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt
=======================================================
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
=======================================================
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
=======================================================
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard
=======================================================
Be careful not to drown in a mirage. ~Terri Guillemets
=======================================================
On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation." ~Confucian Analects
=======================================================
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson
=======================================================
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson
=======================================================
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner
=======================================================
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)
=======================================================
Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White
=======================================================
Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?" Instead, they demand: "How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?" Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French
=======================================================
Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
=======================================================
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
=======================================================
One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepherd
=======================================================
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. ~Charles DuBois
=======================================================
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
=======================================================
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~John Lennon
=======================================================
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
=======================================================
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
=======================================================
Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911
=======================================================
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis
=======================================================
Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln
=======================================================
It's better to fight for something than against something. ~Author Unknown
=======================================================
The day will happen whether or not you get up. ~John Ciardi
=======================================================
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~George R. Kirkpatrick
=======================================================
Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
=======================================================
When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
=======================================================
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
=======================================================
When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
=======================================================
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown
=======================================================
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown
=======================================================
All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain. ~Epictetus
=======================================================
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
=======================================================
Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ~Janis Joplin
=======================================================
The biggest problem in the world
Could have been solved when it was small.
~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu
=======================================================
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
=======================================================
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
=======================================================
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard
=======================================================
Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~Author Unknown
=======================================================
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. ~Oscar Wilde
=======================================================
Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee
=======================================================
While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton
=======================================================
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates
=======================================================
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha
=======================================================
Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers
=======================================================
Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595
=======================================================
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln
=======================================================
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company," The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
=======================================================
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber
=======================================================
Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter
=======================================================
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
=======================================================
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber
=======================================================
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec
=======================================================
Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin
=======================================================
Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer
=======================================================
The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker
=======================================================
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
=======================================================
Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
=======================================================
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~Tad Williams
=======================================================
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian
=======================================================
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau
=======================================================
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
=======================================================
Aspire to a lower level of harm. ~Anonymous
=======================================================
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~Bill Veeck
=======================================================
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
=======================================================
It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger
=======================================================
When you lose, don't lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown
=======================================================
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John C. Collins
=======================================================
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger
=======================================================
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin
=======================================================
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down. ~W. Migner
=======================================================
When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
=======================================================
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer
=======================================================
Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young
=======================================================
Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown
=======================================================
The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown
=======================================================
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
=======================================================
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
=======================================================
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool. ~Richard Feynman
=======================================================
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes
=======================================================
I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson
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