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Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.
- Helena Petrova Hahn Blavatsky (1831-1891)

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the . . . tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.-
- Helena Petrova Hahn Blavatsky

In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.
- Ivan Bloch

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'
- Roy Blount, Jr

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
- David Bly

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you.
- Mary Bly

In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.
- Louise A. Bogan (1897-1970)

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996)

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
- Erma Bombeck

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
- Erma Bombeck

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
- Erma Bombeck

Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels.
- Rabino Nilton Bonder

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.
- Margaret Bonano
get up early and watch the sunrise! or sleep in late...whatever you decide to do with your time, do it with a smile, it makes life easier

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
- Daniel Boone

Sic semper tyrannis! (Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged
- John Wilkes Booth
April 14, 1865 said after assonating President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
- James H. Boren

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge

Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
- Antoinette Bosco

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
- Phyllis Bottome

It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
- Christian Bovee

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
- Christian Bovee

Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
- Christian Bovee

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
- Christian Bovee

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
- Christian Bovee

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
- Elizabeth Bowen

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
- Elizabeth Bowen

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
- Elizabeth Bowen

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.
- Paul Bowles

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
- Boy George

Anyone who eats thee meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.
- L. M. Boyd

Did you ever get the feeling that your kids could relate to you better if you were a drawing?
- Harry Boyle
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
- Ray Bradbury

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance--the idea that anything is possible.
- Ray Bradbury

You can't TRY to do things; you simply MUST do them.
- Ray Bradbury

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
- F. H. Bradley

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Mists of Avalon

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
- Anne Bradstreet
sometimes when bad things happen we ask ourselves "why me"...we forget that the bad times are what make the good times so sweet...so when something not so great happens we should not ask "why" but instead try to turn it it into inner strength

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
- Dr. Harriet Braiker

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
- Stewart Brand

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorothea Brande

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
- Marlon Brando

Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
- Leonard Brandwein

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
- Robert Brault

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
- Bertold Brecht

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
- Robert Bresson

There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
- Kingman Brewster

Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are.
- Jean-Anthelme Brillat -Savarin

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own.
- Jacqueline Brisken

To win...you've got to stay in the game.
- Claude M. Bristol

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
- David Broder

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
- Jane E. Brody

But he that dares not grasp the thorn, Should never crave the rose.
- Anne Bronte (1820-1849)
The Complete Poems of Anne Bronte.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide.
- Emily Bronte

Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.
- Peter Brook

I just wake up and say, 'You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.'
- Garth Brooks

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole cover and die.
- Mel Brooks

To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
- Phillips Brooks

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three-meals-a-day and remembering to take out the trash.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
- Heywood Broun

Few companies would have reached the going concern stage without the inflated confidence of their founders. Entrepreneurs tend to be like eighteen-year-old marines who believe the bullet will go right through them without hurt or harm.
- Deaver Brown

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
- H. Rap Brown
Die Nigger Die, 1969.

The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.
- Helen Gurley Brown

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking -- can.
- Helen Gurley Brown

Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen.
- Jerry Brown

Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.
- James Brown

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- John Mason Brown

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.
- Les Brown

You must take action now that will move you toward your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
- Les Brown

The Human Spirit can never be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream.
- Michael Brown

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
- Rita Mae Brown

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
- Rita Mae Brown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
- Rita Mae Brown

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
- H. Jackson Browne

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
- Merry Browne

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!
- Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806-1861)

Light tomorrow with today.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for?
- Robert Browning

Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
- Robert Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?
- Art Buchwald
i hate watching politicians being politic

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

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
- Pearl Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
- Pearl Buck

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
- Pearl Buck

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.
- A. G. Buckham

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
- Gail Lumet Buckley

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
- Mary Buckley

'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, then bugger it. Go back to the factory, or go back to the desk.
- Eric Burdon

You cannot plan the future by the past.
- Edmund Burke

Good order is the foundation of all things.
- Edmund Burke

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- Carol Burnett

The most drastic, and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
- William Burnham

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
- George Burns (1896-1996)

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.
- George Burns

When a woman does me the honor to name me the father of her child, I shall always be too gallant to decline the honor.
- Aaron Burr (1756-1836)

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
- John Burroughs

What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be.
- Ellen Burstyn

From self alone expect applause.
- Marion L. Burton

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
- Robert Burton

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
- Dr. Leonardo Buscaglia

... my life has been a long series of interwoven relationships, both good and bad ... My relationships are my major source of stimulation, causing me to remain open, curious, eager to learn and challenged by change.
- Dr. Leonardo Buscaglia

Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health and growth, are among the most complicated skills. Before we can be successful at achieving relationships, it is necessary that we broaden our understanding of how they work, what they mean and how what we do and believe can enhance or destroy them ... Loving relationships cannot be taken lightly.
- Dr. Leonardo Buscaglia

Why is it so difficult for us to embrace each other fearlessly and with passion and to say, 'Human being, take my human hand'?
- Dr. Leonardo Buscaglia

We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'
- Dr. Leonardo Buscaglia

I recall ... watching an interview [with] actress Helen Hayes. None [of the personal questions] caused her to lose her composure until [the interviewer] suggested that she had never known a totally happy day. She ... responded to the effect of, 'Perhaps not a completely happy day ... but I knew moments of great ecstasy.'
- Dr. Leonardo Buscaglia

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
- Leo Buscaglia (1925-1998)
S author and educator

You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -
- Earl Bush
Press aide to Richard Daley

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
- Edward B. Butler

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
- Nicholas Murray Butler

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life.
- Philip Butler

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
- Samuel Butler

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.
- Samuel Butler

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
- Charles Buxton

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
- Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne