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"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster." - Isaac Asimov

"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer." - Dean Acheson

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." - Benjamin Franklin

"In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared." - Louis Pasteur

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for

knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." - Bertrand Russell

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." - Simone de Beauvoir

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Rudyard Kipling

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut

"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice." - George Eliot

"None of us is as smart as all of us." - Phil Condit

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world." - John Locke

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of

challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." - Jean De La Bruyere"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even

when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of

corruption by authority." - Lord Acton

"When twenty years ago a vague terror went over the earth and the word socialism began to be heard, I thought

and still think that fear was translated into doctrines that had no proper place in the Constitution or the common

law. Judges are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need

education in the obvious - to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear

to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who

put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote

100%." - Andrew Carnegie

"Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious ... the fundamental emotion which stands at the

cradle of true art and true science." - Albert Einstein | TOTD Archive

"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." - Rene Descartes

"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts." - Voltaire

"When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I

shall have no health to enjoy life. I suppose it’s the discipline I need; but it’s rather hard to love the things I do, and

see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my rewardperhaps." - Louisa May Alcott

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the

shadow of the other." - Carl Gustav Jung

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

"Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true." -

Samuel Johnson

"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." - William Shakespeare



"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your action. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make

the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a

lightning bug." - Mark Twain

"To be successful, grow to the point where one completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause."

- Booker T. Washington

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

"The music than can deepest reach, / And cure all ill, is cordial speech." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures

has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance." -

William Faulkner

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The uniformity of earth’s life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we

derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled." - Lewis Thomas

"What will our children remember of us, ten, fifteen years from now? The mobile we bought or didn't buy? Or the

tone in our voices, the look in our eyes, the enthusiasm for life - and for them - that we felt? They, and we, will

remember the spirit of things, not the letter. Those memories will go so deep that no one could measure it, capture

it, bronze it, or put it in a scrapbook." - Sonia Taitz"Always be a little kinder than necessary." - James M. Barrie

"The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books." - Oliver

Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just

common sense, dancing." - Clive James

"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." - Samuel Butler

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything." - Oscar Wilde

"Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others." - H.

Jackson Brown

"Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy

every idle hour." - John Boswell

"Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the

contrary." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body.

It warmed your heart ... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever." - Bess Streeter Aldrich

"Peace, peace is what I seek and public calm,

Endless extinction of unhappy hates." - Matthew Arnold

freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do his best not only in our own lands, but

throughout the world. And in that faith let us march toward the clean world our hands can make." - Stephen Vincent

Benet

"Life is a tragedy full of joy." - Bernard Malamud

"No matter what you have done to this moment, you get 24 brand new hours to spend every single day." - Brian

"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction,missions, callings." - Abraham Maslow

"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. " -

Hal Borland

"The power to command frequently causes failure to think." - Barbara Tuchman

"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed." - Benjamin Franklin

"Much unhappiness has come into this world because of things left unsaid." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Your very silence shows you agree." - Euripides



"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway

"It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people." - James Madison

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be

strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of

those?" - Gilbert Highet

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H. G. Wells"How far that little candle throws his beams!

So shines a good deed in a naughty world." - William Shakespeare

"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to

be understood." - William Penn

"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement." - John Stuart Mill

"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." -

Albert Camus

"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old." - Oliver

Wendell Holmes

"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint." - Marianne Moore

"Nothing endures but personal qualities." - Walt Whitman"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide." - Cicero

"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine." -

Frederick Perls

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else

in darkness and then is suddenly gone." - Hodding Carter

"Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means

standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above

all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals." - Ida M. Tarbell

"Technology ... the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it." - Max Frisch

"How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age.

Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative - or thankful. Thankful

children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people." - Sir John Templeton

"The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you

can do that, you can do anything." - Richard Linklater

"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out." - Arthur Hays Sulzberger

"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or

cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come

out as I do, and bark." - Samuel Johnson

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." - Charles Caleb Colton

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller

"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer"Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and

good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions." - Roger Babson

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent." - Norman R. Augustine

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

"The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless." - Dorothy L. Sayers

"To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man

patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him." - Honore De Balzac



"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another

human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." - Albert Schweitzer

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind." - James Russell Lowell

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." -

"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government." - Jeremy

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." - Henry David Thoreau

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." - Aldous Huxley"We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot

"We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate

over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way,

not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend

each other." - Lewis Thomas

"Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders." -

Margaret Mead

"The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." - Thomas Carlyle"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the

potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And

what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!" - Soren Kierkegaard

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." - Robert Frost

"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to

endure it." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Respect yourself and others will respect you." - Confucius

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road." -

Henry Ward Beecher

"Money often costs too much." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction

sap the vigors of the mind." - Leonardo Da Vinci

"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the

abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly

blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every thing else!… Guard with jealous attention the public

liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel." - Patrick Henry

"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." - Confucius

"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them." - Edward R.

Murrow

"You lose it if you talk about it." - Ernest Hemingway

"I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects

of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to setour young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us." - Lord Byron

"Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to

do with the time he gains - except kill it." - Erich Fromm

"A feller is a-feelin’ at his best,

With the risin’ sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest,

As he leaves the house, bare-headed, and goes out to feed the stock,

When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock." - James Whitcomb Riley

"In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined." - Thomas Szasz



"I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -

public opinion." - Clarence Seward Darrow

"Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves

and their personal happiness." - Leo Tolstoy

"There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to

mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish." - Alfred Adler

"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing

task is to teach people how to learn." - Peter F. Drucker

"Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages." - George Washington

"A stiff apology is a second insult.... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been

wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt." - G.K. Chesterton

"Always aim for achievement, and forget about success." - Helen Hayes

"Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far." - Jean Cocteau

"Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself." - John Dewey

"To create something you must be something." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people." - Leo Tolstoy

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success,

you know." - William Saroyan

same state, only a little dirtied. 2. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for thesake of getting through the time. 3. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4. Mogul diamonds,

equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also." - Samuel Taylor

Coleridge

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." - Feodor Dostoyevsky

"Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life’s currents, when, actually, the boat

is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the

water and swim for the shore." - Thomas Szasz

"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given

himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-

aged habit and convention." - Aldous Huxley

"Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are

yours." - Swedish proverb

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which more than anything else will affect its successful

outcome." - William James

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Never let yesterday use up too much of today." - Will Roger

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate

life." - Brigham Young

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young

children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if

vain or important, cannot learn at all." - Thomas Szasz

"He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you

stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot." - Horace Greeley

"Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely

and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but

from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the

limited patterns which the market offers." - Learned Hand

"This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man." - William Shakespeare



"The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative

flow dries up, all we have left is our importance." - Eric Hoffer

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by

adults to children, and by children to adults." - Thomas Szasz

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do." - Jose Ortega Y Gasset

"Illness is in part what the world has done to a victim, but in a larger part it is what the victim has done with his

world." - Karl Menninger

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines

and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... Tooting,

howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His

inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation." - Jean Arp

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." -

Herm Albright

"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that

happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails." - Richard Rybolt

"Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day." - W. Earl Hall

"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt." - George Sewell

"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact." - Thomas Huxley"And none will hear the postman's knock / Without a quickening of the heart. / For who can bear to feel himself

forgotten?" - W.H. Auden

"An open mind is all very well, but it ought not to be so open that there's no keeping anything in or out." - Samuel

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life." - Joseph

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to

put the other somewhat higher." - Thomas Henry Huxle

"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who

put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote

100%." - Andrew Carnegie

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the

shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." -

Thomas Jefferson

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity." - Louis Pasteur

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,

that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

"The devil we know is better than the devil we don't." - Anonymous

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." - William Blake

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - - Aldous"The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the

past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. The

facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to

wealth." - Edmond De Goncourt

"A word after a word after a word is power." - Margaret Atwood

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them." - Leo Tolstoy

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Rudyard Kipling



"It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards

censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief." - Samuel Johnson

"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world." - Thomas

"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct." - Benjamin Disraeli

"A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition." - William Arthur Ward

"If people behaved in the way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets." - Tennessee William

"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and

never directly inherited." - Margaret Mead"On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of

creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent

loss of social unity in the society as a whole." - Arnold Joseph Toynbee

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we

destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

"The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the

intelligent folks are so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of

others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it

violates the rights of the individual." - Thomas Jefferson

"When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole newlife." - Christopher Morley

"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are." - David C

McCullough

"Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity." - L.A. Safian

"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of

committee." - F. Lee Bailey

"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations." - Johann Paul Richter

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts." - Edmund Burke

"Those who make the worst use of their time most complain about its shortness." - Jean de la Bruyere

"People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -

George Orwell

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." - Charles

Darwin

"It [television] is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the

same time, and yet remain lonesome." - T. S. Eliot

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich

Wilhelm Nietzsche

"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece." - Ludwig

"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the

eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic." - E. Merrill Root

"The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level

home, kitchen equipment." - Herbert Marcuse"If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor,

and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the

ancient civilizations in the years of their decay." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be

achieved." - William Jennings Bryan

"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them." - William

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." -

William James



"Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a

success." - William J. H. Boetcker

"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself." -

John MacNaughton

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley

"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of

doing and becoming." - Soren Kierkegaard

"A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood." - Chinese Proverb

"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-

righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give

it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity." - Herbert Butterfield

"Happiness is a state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." - Ayn Rand

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." - Plato

"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." -

Samuel Johnson

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin

"Reputation is a bubble which a man bursts when he tries to blow it for himself." - Emma Carleton

"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself." -

Louis L'Amour"Forever is composed of nows." - Emily Dickinson

"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no

support, we've put it in an impossible situation." - Margaret Mead

"The pupil, who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do." - John Stuart Mill

"All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography." - Federico Fellini

"If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't." -

Hyman G. Rickover

"I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that

belittles their intelligence." - Alice Walker

"I can, therefore I am." - Simone Weil

"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit." -

George Santayana

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." - William James

"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want

to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed." -

Bernard Edmonds

"Not to know is bad. Not to want to know is worse. Not to hope is unthinkable. Not to care is unforgivable." -

Nigerian saying

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Words are things; and a small drop of ink / Falling like dew upon a thought, produces / That which makes

thousands, perhaps millions, think." - Lord Byron

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

"A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a coldiron." - Horace Mann

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter." - Denis Diderot

"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"I dream, therefore I exist." - J. August Strindberg

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling

"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine." - Hosea Ballou

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain

"Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway." - Elbert Hubbard



"For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever

explaining things to them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H.L. Mencken

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Louis L'Amou

Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be

their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. - Lao-tzu

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. - Henri MatisseThe most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. - Pablo Casals

Only a mediocre person is always at his best. - W. Somerset Maugham

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people

under the pretense of taking care of them. - Thomas Jefferson

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and

causing a panic. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential,

for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is

so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! - Soren Kierkegaard

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the

appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best inothers; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To

know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Bessie Stanley

lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. -

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress

except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. - Tom Stoppard

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. - Albert Camus

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. - Horace Mann

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

- Sir Laurens van der Post

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the

world. This makes it hard to plan the day. - E. B. White

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. - Lloyd Alexander

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow

dries up, all we have left is our importance. - Eric Hoffer

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. - Pauline Kael

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. - John

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Erich Fromm

It is the weakness and danger of republics that the vices as well as virtues of the people are represented in their

legislation. - Helen Hunt Jacksonrich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. - Logan Pearsall

Smith

The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to

say as if it had never been said before. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The earthly paradise is where I am. - Voltaire

I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep

feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know about things, and their pride from showing off what they know.

But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar. - Margaret Anderson



A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. - Joseph Campbell

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window

through which you must see the world. - Sir Walter Besant

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the l ittle-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will

permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where

the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Frank Herbert

"Be not afraid!" - John Paul II

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, onlybecause I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to

the general and eternal source." - Leo Tolstoy

"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."

Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;

The secret anniversaries of the heart." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you

from feeding yourself." - Thomas Szasz

"When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of

words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman." - Thomas Hobbes

"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity." - Cicero

"I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way." - Carl Sandburg"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals." - Benjamin Franklin

"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." -

Bertrand Russell

"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a

tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which

make it a living thing." - John Stuart Mill

"The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments

fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the

world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as

the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." - Clarence Day

"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to

meet the shadowy future, without fear." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make

you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there

must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population." - Albert Einstein

"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has." - Will Rogers

"History is a vision of God's creation on the move." - Arnold Toynbee

"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong." - Thomas

"No loss of flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of

so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed." - Helen Keller

"When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true

necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because theypreferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left. But alert and healthy natures remember that

the sun rose clear. It is never too late to give up our prejudices." - Henry David Thoreau

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning

walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in

spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life." - John Burroughs

"People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at

the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering." -

Saint Augustine



"Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back." - Thomas Sowel

"Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward." - Mark Twain

"i thank You God for most this amazing

day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes" - E.E. Cummings

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." - Albert Schweitzer

"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat." - John Morley"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old." - Oliver

Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that

never leaves." - Buddha

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." - John Ciardi

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country. - John Fitzgerald

It is the epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists

of the chance without the capacity. - Mark Twain

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a

revolution. - G. K. Chesterton

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we findourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants. - Samuel Johnson

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your

hand, the path of right just before you. - Robert Louis Stevenson

What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what

leads us - what convictions, what courage, what faith - win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but

a militant party wedded to a principle can. - Adlai Ewing Stevenson

is he who in the midst of a crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - Ralph Waldo

Emerson

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. - Montaigne

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we

shall end in certainties. - Sir Francis Bacon

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

can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in

turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking. -

Isaac Asimov

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single

citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. - Albert Einstein

To achieve, you need thought... You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. - Ayn Rand

It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness. - Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins

sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises,

laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor andwho would rob me of human aliveness, humility and dignity but for my fool. - Theodore Rubin

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that

democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all

those other forms that have been tried from time to time. - Sir Winston Churchill

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. - Albert Camus

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. - French proverb



The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you

get. - Bertrand Russell

which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse. It is to answer for its moderation with its life.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and

for every thing you gain, you lose something. If riches increase, they are increased that use them. If the gatherer

gathers too much, nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. -

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. - Maurice-Auguste Chevalier

A democracy unsatisfied by support of the people cannot long survive ... We live in probably the most turbulent

and tormented times in the history of this nation. Criticize ... disagree, yes, but also we have as leaders an obligation

to be fair and keep in perspective what we are and what we hope to be. - John Bowden Connally

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems

is a problem. - Theodore Rubin

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. - Charles

Caleb Colton

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. -

Arabian Proverb

In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade. - Irving Berlin

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. - Thomas CarlyleThe possession of facts is knowledge, the use of them is wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let him that would move the world, first move himself. - Socrates

The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right;

and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without

a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. - Thomas Jefferson

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man

speaks. - Ben Jonson

Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to

succeed. - Booker T. Washington

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind

could comprehend it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. -

Pearl Buck

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18

months and 90 years. - James Thurber

without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. -

Jane Austen

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. - Henry Ward Beecher

my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the

true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much. - Albert

Schweitzer

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children beforethey are deformed by adult society. - Jean Piaget

Love, is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is

not there but someplace else. - Morton Hunt

Before seeking revenge, first dig two graves. - Chinese proverb

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained

themselves not to say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. They understand their job to be to

make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit.... This is what

creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. - Peter Drucker



At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato

one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. - George

Orwell

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo Da Vinci

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details

we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. - Albert Einstein

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever

knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred

excellences and endowments of the human mind. - Cicero

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. - Marilyn Vos Savant

The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of

cliches the first prize. - Saul Bellow

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard Baruch

Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a

clock during a thunderstorm. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing

that ever has. - Margaret Mead

If a dog jumps into your lap it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing it is because your lap iswarmer. - Alfred North Whitehead

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think

yourself. - James Stephens

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for

something, we shall fall for anything. - Peter Marshall

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy! - Henry Louis Mencken

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be

patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives ... not looking for

flaws, but for potential. - Ellen Goodman

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether or not it is the same

problem you had last year. - John Foster Dulles

Yes, I am the nation, and these are the things that I am. I was conceived in freedom and, God willing, in freedom I

will spend the rest of my days. / May I possess always the integrity, the courage and the strength to keep myself

unshackled, to remain a citadel of freedom and a beacon of hope to the world. - Otto Whittaker

In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;

Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;

Be not the first by whom the New are try'd,

Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside. - Alexander Pope

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the

beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. - Thomas Mann

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the

outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise. To suffering

must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. - Anne

Morrow Lindbergh

Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is

allowed to be still. - Deng Ming-Dao



A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. - Arthur C. Clarke

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. - Carl Gustav Jung

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and

you never forget what you have said. - Sam Rayburn

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else. All our lauded

technological progress - our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. - Viktor Frankl

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. - Robert LouisStevenson

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. - Arthur Schopenhauer

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. - Margaret Fuller

We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force. There is still a voice crying out through

the vista of time, saying: Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.

Then, and only then, can you matriculate into the university of eternal life. That same voice cries out in terms lifted

to cosmic proportions: He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword. And history is replete with the bleached

bones of nations that failed to follow this command. We must follow nonviolence and love. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness

against themselves. - Aldous Huxley

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. - J. R. TolkienHe is no more than the chief officer of the people, appointed by the laws, and circumscribed with definite powers,

to assist in working the great machine of government erected for their use, and consequently subject to their

superintendence. - Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. - Charles Darwin

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop

Than when we soar. - William Wordsworth

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. -

Bernard Berenson

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. -

Eleanor Roosevelt

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to

differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to

know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get. - William Feather

It is always the secure who are humble. - G.K. Chesterton

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. - Charlotte P.

When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. - Anonymous

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who

get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them,

make them. - George Bernard Shaw

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. - Mark Twain

"The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned." - Somerset Maugham"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false,

and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great

heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving,

one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life." - Helen Keller

"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 Benet

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves." - La Rochefoucauld



"We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent." - Ronald Reagan

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit." - George

Santayana

"There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth." - John Kenneth Galbraith

"The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones." -

Somerset Maugham

"If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?" - Dolores Huerta

may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing todo. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his

vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development." -

Joseph M. Dodge

"To be free is to have achieved your life." - Tennessee Williams

"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only." - Samuel Butler

"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does." - Josh Billings

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." - Lao Tzu

"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others." -

Cyril Connolly

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome." - Samuel Johnson

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is takenor not, and never persist in trying to set people right." - Hannah Whitall Smith

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Sir Winston

Churchill

"All sunshine makes a desert." - Arabic proverb

"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which

should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other." - Reinhold Niebuhr

"Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day

there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we

ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are

ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so

deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits." - William James

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who

get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them,

make them." - George Bernard Shaw

"We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves." -

"If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton

"Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales." - Byron J.

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought

and speculation at a standstill." - Barbara Tuchman

"Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William

Faulkner" Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination. “

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do"

Every thing which floats may not avoid us from sinking, thats why wise people always acquire art of Swiming -

(Sharad Jadhav)

Each new day is a new challenge. To stay fresh and alive in spirit, there must be change. Find new tactics, methods

and modes of operation that are right for today's situation; otherwise you'll be left behind.

If you don't accomplish anything else today except show love to all you meet, you'll be a great success.

Though God's ways of operating may perplex us at times, if we trust him, in due time we will understand.



Better to be nobody ,yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food. "Proverb"

(Stanley Mathew)

Better to be nobody & yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody & have no food "proverb"

Stanley Mathew

A painting is made up of many different colors, each one important and necessary.

A painting is made up of many different colors, each one important and necessary.

Better to be nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food "Proverb"

Stanley MathewIt always pays to put others before yourself. It's the path to true happiness.

God offers to take away your feelings of misery and gloom and replace them with peace beyond understanding and

happiness that's stronger than circumstances.

Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even

harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve - LN Mittal

If you knew today was your last day of life, what would you do differently?

Look for five things on which you can compliment your spouse, children or friends today.



Better to be nobody & yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody & have no food "Proverb"

Stanley MathewBetter to be nobody & yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody & have no food "Proverb"

Stanley Mathew

"Experience is the comb you recieve after you loss your hair".

Stanley Mathew

Whatever you teach a child, whether it's through your words or through your actions, lives on forever in his or her

Whatever you teach a child, whether it's through your words or through your actions, lives on forever in his or her

If you want a share of the fame, you've got to be willing to take a share of the blame.

The Ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in summer. "Proverb"

Stanley Mathew

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard." Proverb"

Stanley Mathew.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches & loving favour rather than silver & gold. " Proverb"

Stanley Mathew

"No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count

upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam." - Charles Lamb

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