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Success is more attitude than aptitude.     -Anonymous  

There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.          -General Powell  

Never question the good things in life, just take them as they come.

The mind of man is capable of anything.    -Joseph Conrad

 I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.    -Thomas Jefferson

...a learned man is...a person who can incorporate what he has learned in the conduct of his daily life.

We all have our own kind of life to pursue,/ Our own kind of dream to be weaving.../ And we all have the power to make wishes come true/ As long as we keep on believing.           ~ Louisa May Alcott

 I feel now the future in the instant.              -Lady Macbeth;   Shakespeare,   Macbeth

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,/  Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,/  To the last syllable of recorded time;/  And all our yesterdays have lighted fools/  The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!/  Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player/  That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/  And then is heard no more: it is a tale/  Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/  Signifying nothing.                -Macbeth; Shakespeare, Macbeth

Nought's had, all's spent,/  Where our desire is got without content:/  'Tis safer to be that which we destroy/  Then by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.           -Lady Macbeth

 We are not what we should be.           ~Childe Harold; Lord Byron

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at? We don't arrive at it by standing on one leg? or on the first day of our setting out - but though we may jostle one another on the way that is no reason why we should strike or trample - elbowing's enough.  - I am all for moderation...             -Lord Byron; letter to Murray, May 9, 1817

Punishment is a limit which the past imposes on the experienced present and the imagined future.               -Bernard Beatty

'tis hard to quit the dream,/  Which haunt the unsuspicious soul        -L. Byron

life's enchanted cup but sparkles/  near the brim                 -Childe Harold, L. Byron

The road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom.                         -Blake

There is a strange coincidence sometimes in the little things of this world.     -Sterne

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.       -Lord Byron; Dec. 12, 1813

Men are often more happy than they would wish.                 -Alain

And men go abroad to gaze at the lofty mountains, and the great waves of the sea, and the wide flowing rivers, and the circle of ocean, and the revolution of the stars, - and pass themselves, the crowning wonder, by.          -St. Augustine

...there is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.             -L. Byron; letter to Hodgson; Dec. 4, 1811

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.     -Pope

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.                -Anonymous

You only gave me a smile,/  My name you did not call, /  And yet it made my day/  The brightest day of all./  But smiles elicit smiles/  And we each won a friend./  For something free; I'd say/  That's quite a dividend.            -Perry Tanksley

 I learn by going where I have to go.         -Roethke

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.           -R.L. Stevenson

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.             -Thoreau

Within the circuit of this plodding life /  There enter moments of an azure hue,/  To console man for his grievances.                -Thoreau

There's a solitude from which none of us can escape, no matter how deep our relationships turn out to be.       -Anonymous

We are solitary, we may delude ourselves and act as though this were not so. That is all. At bottom it is not something one can take or leave. How much better it is to realize that we are so, yes, even to begin by assuming it.                -Rilke

There is no happy life; there are only happy days.                   ~Anonymous

For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes yesterday a dream of happiness. And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.         -The Salutation of the Dawn; the Sanskrit

...glad that I was alone. I was in no mood to be fussed over and advised, studied and commented upon as if I were some weird specimen. Everyone meant well, but constant sympathy unnerved me. Pain is a more private matter than pleasure.     -Anonymous

They hand in hand with wandering steps and slow,/  Through Eden took their solitarie way.                -Milton

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.                -L. Byron

people usually think the beautiful is photogenic, but for me, it's the ugly, strange, violent. the beautiful depict what we want, but the ugly portray who we are.             -robert m. eversz; "shooting elvis"

 And friendships were form'd, /  too romantic to last.        ~Lord Byron

Over self-confidence is equal to being blind.

One enjoys what ever is uncommon, even when it is something painful.                   ~Chateaubriand

Men find, in the greatness of their past, courage and confidence for the future.

Civilizations pass away, but the glory of the men who toiled to build them remains forever.

Is not the past all shadow?     -L. Byron; ‘The Dream'

I entirely forgot the human race, and created for myself societies of perfect beings, heavenly alike in their beauties and virtues; trusty, tender, and loyal friends such as I have never found in this world below. I found such pleasure in soaring into the empyrean...  -St. Augustine;      Confessions, book ix

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star.            -Nietzche; Thus Spake Zarathustra

He stood a stranger in this breathing world,/  An erring spirit from another hurled  -L. Byron

But I have lived, and have not lived in vain:/  My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire,/  And my frame perish even in conquering pain;/  But there is that within me which shall tire/  Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire;/  Something unearthly, which they deem not of,/  Like the remember'd tone of a mute lyre,/  Shall on their soften'd spirits sink, and move/  In hearts all rocky now the late remorse of love.               -Lord Byron; Childe Harold

...everybody has killed something that he wishes he had kept alive, and the fullest of lives is wrapped around the taint of an inner death.             ~Northrop Frye

Saying goodbye didn't matter, not a bit. What mattered were all the days you were together before that, all the things you remembered.           -Patricia Reilly Giff; "Lily's Crossing"

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.        ~James Stephen

Define the universe and give three examples.  -anonymous graffiti

A room without books is like a body without a soul.       ~Cicero

Writers have an island, center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.    -Wright Morris

Writing is not apart from living./  Writing is a kind of double living.       -Catherine Drinker Bowen

In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself.    -Alfred Kazin

Between two world life hovers like a star,/  'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge./  How little do we know that which we are!/  How less what we may be! The eternal surge/  Of time and tide rolls on, and bears afar/  Our bubbles: as the old burst, new emerge, /  Lash'd from the foam of ages; while the graves/  Of empires heave but like some passing waves./             ~Lord Byron

"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "Without pictures and conversation?"       -Lewis Carroll; Alice in Wonderland

I write the world.          -Lord Byron

Hope deterred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.        -Psalms 13:12

Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.        -Psalms 42:7

Each was the other's mirror, and but read/    Joy sparkling in their dark eyes like a gem,/  And knew such brightness was but the reflection/  Of their exchanging glances of affection.           -L. Byron; Manfred

Gazing upon the ground, with thoughts that dare not glow...         -L. Byron; Childe Harold

The tragedy of the marriage, as of many another, is that what each saw in the other was not the whole truth.         -H. J. C. Grierson

Life as it flows is so much time wasted, and nothing can ever be recovered or truly possessed save under the form of eternity, which is also the form of art.        ~Santayana

...a wild dedication of yourselves/  To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores.        -from "Winter's Tale"

America is a Model of force and freedom & moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.     -L. Byron; letter to Hobhouse, Oct. 12, 1821

"You're getting damned romantic."      "No, bored."        -Ernest Hemingway

Do you know how few creative people are left in this world? So many conformists and imitators... Original. It's very rare.       ~Robin Jones Gunn; Waterfalls

And thou didst shine, thou rolling moon, upon/  All this, and cast a wide and tender light,/  Which soften'd down the hoar austerity  Of rugged desolation, and fill'd up,/  As 'twere, anew, the gaps of centuries;/  Leaving that beautiful which still was so, /  And making that which was not, till the place/  Became religion, and the heart ran o'er/  With silent worship of the great old!         -Lord Byron; Manfred, Canto 3

Life is too short to sit on the shore and only wonder.               -Robin Jones Gunn

...people who walked around with wrinkled foreheads were people who had no imaginations.        -Robin Jones Gunn; Waterfalls

...nevertheless life's various circumstances do unmistakably embody distinct patterns of contrast and resemblance.      -Andrew M. Cooper

Life is, in itself and forever, shipwreck. To be shipwrecked is not to drown. ...consciousness of shipwreck, being the truth of life, constitutes salvation.       -Ortega y Gasset; 'In Search of Goethe from Within'

Love is more than an emotion. It's a choice first. That choice leads to commitment.           -Robin Jones Gunn

What you do is simply what you do; it's not who you are.               -Robin Jones Gunn

Moments at the waterfall should not be rushed.              -Robin Jones Gunn; Waterfalls

...it [poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake...      -Lord Byron

I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?            -Lord Byron; letter to Moore, July 5, 1821

...if I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.    -Lord Byron

The proper study of mankind is man.           -St. Augustine ?

I live not in myself, but I become/  Portion of that around me...         -L. Byron; Childe Harold

 We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.            -Phillip Brooks

My best acquaintances are those/  With whom I spoke no word.             -Donne ?

In my youth my wings were strong and tireless/  But I did not know the mountains./  In age I knew the mountains/  But my weary wings could not follow my vision./  Genius is wisdom and youth.     ~Masters

...if we don't change, things don't change, we might as well stay babies all the time. 'Cause when we grow, we bound to change. You oughta understand that.            -Mildred D. Taylor; "Let the Circle Be Unbroken"

Yet the mud and the rain and the dust would all pass. I knew and understood that. What happened... in the night I did not understand, but I knew it would not pass. And I cried for those things which had happened in the night and would not pass.             -Mildred D. Taylor; 'Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry'

The people you love might love you just a little more if you were easier on them. Let us make our own mistakes, lead our own lives. Just try it.          -Susan Beth Pfeffer; A Matter of Principle

A lot of people care. Maybe at some point that will make a difference.           -Susan Beth Pfeffer

But let there be spaces in your togetherness,/  And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.           -Kahlil Gibran; The Prophet

You give little when you give of you possessions./ It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.            -Kahlil Gibran; The Prophet

Your soul often times a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.      -Kahlil Gibran

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:/  Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls./  Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup./  Sing and dance together and be joyous,/ but let each one of you be alone,/  Even as the strings of a lute are alone,/  though they quiver with the same music.      -Kahlil Gibran; The Prophet

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.            -E.B. White

No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, man cannot discover its meaning. Even if a wise man claims he knows, he cannot really comprehend it.              Ecclesiastes 8:17  

The angels keep their ancient places -Turn but a stone and start a wing!              -Francis Thompson; The Kingdom of God

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.          -Scottish saying

May I burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels.         -Rainer Maria Rilke; Duino Elegies

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