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"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious but because it has been playful, rebellious and immature."
-Tom Robbins

You have to ask yourself: "Am I part of the cure
or am I part of the disease?"
-Clocks by Coldplay, album A Rush of Blood to the Head

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
-H.G. Wells

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."
-Harold MacMillan

"You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
-William Adams

"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching."
-Randall G Leighton

"Look not for beauty nor whiteness of skin
but look for the heart that is loyal within.
For beauty may fade and white skin grow old
but the heart that is loyal will never grow cold."
-Marie Davis

"Nobody is worth your tears and the one who is won't make you cry."
-Unknown

"Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone."
-Unknown

"Someday someone might come into your life and love you the way you've always wanted. If your someday was yesterday, learn. If your someday is tomorrow, hope. If your someday is today, cherish."
-Unknown

"Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts."
-Unknown

"Hire character. Train skill."
-Unknown

"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others."
-Samuel Johnson

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
-Eddie Cantor

"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
-Don Marquis

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
-Chinese Proverb

"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
-Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)

"Be a queen. A queen is not afraid to live or fail. Failure is the stepping-stone to greatness."
-Oprah Winfrey

"Don't think you are, know you are."
-Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in The Matrix

"Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."
-Dandemis

"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."
-Paul Valery

"We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us watchers, guarding against the darkness. You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved...well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were."
-Nora, from the book Watchers by Dean Koontz

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."
-Unknown

"To be successful, you need friends. To be very successful, you need enemies."
-Constantin Demiris, in the novel The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon

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

"Success is never final, failure is never fatal, it's courage that counts."
-Winston Churchill

"Tell me and I'll forget.
Show me and I'll remember.
Involve me and I'll understand."
-Confucius

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
-Madame Curie

"I never stop studying. There's always lots to learn. When you stop learning, that's about the end of you."
-John Morton-Finney

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few."
-Shunryu Suzuki

"I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it."
-Art Williams

"All things are difficult before they are easy."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."
-Thomas H. Huxley

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
-Voltaire

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
-Emile Zola

"Always do what you want and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr. Seuss

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."
-Maureen Dowd

"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult."
-Charlotte Whitton

""Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty."
-Konstantin Stanislavsky

"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others."
-Blaise Pascal

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

"There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself."
-Anthony Rapp

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
-Mark Twain

"The view from the top may be great but when you're the little guy lookin' up from the bottom you can see where they've stumbled."
-Ziggy

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."
-David Frost

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
-Tommy Lasorda, 'Hall of Fame' Baseball Manager

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
-Mary Pickford

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."
-Dale Carnegie

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
-Jean Cocteau

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