Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many,not
on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
-- Charles Dickens, from the novel
Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
-- Evan Davis
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting
started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small
manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
-- Mark Twain
"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that
would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."
-- Confucius, Chinese philosopher
When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless
craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the
mountain view.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with reason, sence, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth
"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to
conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into
energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a
power that can move the world."
-- Mahatma Gandhi, Indian philosopher
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain
exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of
thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
-- Will Cuppy
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three
unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and
the prudence never to practice either.
-- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can
obscure truth."
-- Maya Angelou
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the
ashes.
-Chinese Proverb
You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a
smiling face. It's nothing against you to fall down flat, But to lie
there, that's disgrace.
-- Edmund Vance Cooke
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
-- Winston Churchill
The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.
-- Moliere
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart
and can sing it
back to you when you have forgotten the words."
---unknown
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
-- Franklin P. Jones
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
-- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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