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Quotes.
We enjoy including wonderful quotations throughout the site. We know that many
of you love to ponder on them further, so we're placing them all here on these pages,
and will add the new ones each month. Choose a group to read related quotes:


LIFE AND LIVING

 

 

  T. Robbins   "Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence."
  J Bolen   "Past experience is compost."
  Isaac Bashevis Singer   "Everthing is taken from one's life. You can call them emotions or thoughts. These are all names for   experiences."
  e.e.cummings   "It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."
  Rollo May   "Courage is not the absence of despair. Rather it is the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."
  Issac Bashevis Singer   "It is a little step between being happy and being depressed."
  Gypsy Rose Lee   "Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly."
  Eddie Cantor   "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."
  Eric Maisel   "I achieve better balance by giving myself the opportunity to savor life more."
  Gary Holdgrafer   "You're not going to do this again. are you?"
  Joseph Campbell   "We are at this moment participating in one of the very greatest leaps of the human spirit."
  Mary Oliver   "Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
  David Suzuki   "How you imagine the world determines how you live in it."
  Max Beckmann   "Space is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
  Cecilia Davis Cunningham   "There is a time for the labor of digging and mixing the earths, a time for the heat of fire, and a time
  for contemplating what is done."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson   "Adopt the pace of nature."
  Herman Hesse   "Grace or the Tao surrounds us always, whenever we are open to it for a moment, it enters into us."
  Joseph Campbell   "It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely
  and nobly."
  Meister Eckhart   "If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'thank you', that would suffice."
  Rumi    "There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
  Nei Ching   "In winter people should retire early at night and rise late in the morning and they should wait for the
  rising of the sun."
  Hippocrates   "Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: in the first place, consider the seasons
  of the year and what effect each of them produce."
  Mom   "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
  Mom said this too   "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."
  Robert Henri   "I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it."
  Folk Wisdom   "Make the least of all that goes, and make the most of all that comes."
  Oliver Wendell Holmes   "The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."
  G. B. Shaw   "A life making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life doing nothing."
  S. Grey   "The saints are the sinners who keep on going."
  Cato the Elder   "I can pardon everyone's mistakes but my own."
  Peter London   "The real world does not conform to our expectations and predictions."
  Chinese Proverb   "First live and then develop a philosophy."
  Helen Keller   "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but my chief duty is to accomplish small tasks as if
  they were great and noble."
  Oscar Wilde   "Duty is what one expects from others - it is not what one does oneself. "
  Ernest Keen   "Making a decision is a commitment. It always involves the risk of failure."
  Thich Nhat Hanh    "There is no enlightenment outside of daily life ."
  Paul Hawken    "Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous."
  Henry David Thoreau   "Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify ."
  Thai proverb    "Life is so short, we must move very slowly."
  Indira Gandhi    "You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."
  Buddha    "Let yourself be open and life will be easier."
  Golda Meir    "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it."
  Annie Dillard    "How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives."
  Emily Dickinson   "If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more
  control over your life by paying attention to the little things."
  Samuel Johnson    "When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."
  Eddie Cantor   "Slow down and enjoy life."
  Socrates    "You may have habits that weaken you. The secret to making a shift is to focus your energy on
  building the new instead of fighting the old."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson    "It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another
  without helping himself."
  Henry David Thoreau    "Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows."
  De Chardin Teilhard    "The whole life lies in the verb - seeing."
  S. Kopp   "Escape is not a dirty word. You can't face life head on all the time."
  Albert Einstein    "Out of clutter, find simplicity."
  Oprah Winfrey   "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."
  Unknown   "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson   "To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children - this is to have succeeded."
  David Suzuki    "The event of creation did not take place many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking.
  Creation is taking place every moment of our lives."
  Eric Maisel   "I am disturbed by what I see, but I will bear witness."
  Tony Williams   "If I live my life like I play my drum, I wouldn't have any problems."
   Anthony deMello   "Nothing has changed but my attitude. Everything has changed."
  Epictetus   "People are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them."
  Joan Rivers   "Does fashion matter? Always – though not quite as much after death."
  Confucius    "The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live."
  Eric Maisel    "I have not always aimed for balance in life, but now I see that if I want to realize my dreams I must
   maintain a fine balance."
  Louise Bourgeois    "I am in my studio all day working, often in that deep and violent way, and when evening comes and
   family life reclaims me, then I feel stabilized."
  Virginia Woolf    "To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."
  Sharon Daloz Parks    "Busyness and distraction lead to numbness."
  Joni Mitchell    "And the seasons, they go round and round."
  Joni Mitchell    "It won't be long now till you drag your feet to slow the circles down."
  Marlon Riggs    "Much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection."
  Robert Herrick    "But ne'er the rose without the thorn."
  Henry Van Dyke    "The best rose bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest    roses."
  The Talmud    "Live well. It is the greatest revenge."
  Paul Gaugin    "Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge."
  Ralph Marston    "Truly appreciate life, and you will find that you have more of it."
  Wayne Dyer    "Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."
  Dan Wakefield    "Becoming aware of the miracle of being alive can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle."
  Katherine Hepburn    "To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop next time."
  Plato    "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
  Robert Fulghum    "Don't worry that children never listen to you, worry that they are always watching you."
  Elizabeth Lawrence    "There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colours are brighter, the air softer,
   and the morning more fragrant than ever before."
  Maria Montessori    "One test of the correctness of an educational method is the happiness of the child."
  Unknown    "If you kick the person in the pants responsible for your trouble, you will not sit down for a month."
  Goethe    "Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."
  Buddha    "All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
  Francois de la Rochefoucauld    "The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."
  Pearl Bailey    "The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self."
  Woody Allen    "I was thrown out of school for cheating on a metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the person
   sitting next to me."
  Vince Lombardi    "Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect
   for authority."
  George Will    "Football combines two of the worst things in life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings."
  Theodore Roosevelt    "In doing your work in the world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I heard on the football field.
   Don't flinch, don't fall, hit the line hard."
  Irma Bombeck    "If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead."
  Seneca    "There exists no more difficult art than living."
  Friedrich Nietzsche    "For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks."
  G. K. Chesterton    "Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall."
   Karl Baker    "Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees."
  Sidney Harris    "Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure."
  Miguel de Cervantes    "It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
  Ovid    "There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it."
  Alden Nowlan   "The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent. The day he forgives them, he becomes an adult. The day he forgives himself, he becomes wise."
  Abraham Lincoln   "You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
  Christopher Morley   "We have had bad luck with children. They have all grown up."
  Albert Einstein   "The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.."
  Sarah Orne Jewett   "Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading."
  Albert Einstein   "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
  William Cole   "Life would be boring, and life would be grim, If children were all goody-goody and prim "
  E. B. White   "What fantastic creatures boys are!"
  Sir John Lubbuck   "What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
  Mike Myers   "Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again."
  Scott Adams   "The best things in life are silly."
  Horace   "Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it is lovely to be silly at the right moment."
  Allan Johnson   The past is history
The future is a mystery
This moment is a gift
That is why it is called the present
Enjoy it. "
  Douglas Noel Adams   "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
  Isak Dinesen   "You must not think that my life has been wasted, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know."
  John Galsworthy   "The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy."
  Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943   "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
  Unknown   "Confidence is the feeling you have before you fully understand the situation."
  Alice Walker   "Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise."
  Charlotte Bronte   "Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."
  Elie Wiesel   "Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life."
  Victor Frankl   "What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled."
  Woodrow Wilson   "You are not here merely to make a living; you are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
  Ivy Compton-Burnett   "Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing was necessary"
  Charles R. Swindle   "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
  Syndey J. Harris   "When I hear someone sign, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
  Curnonsky   "In cooking as in all arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection."
  Swedish Proverb   "Life without love is like a year without summer."
  William Carlos Williams   "In summer the song sings itself."
  Laurence J. Peter   "When I want your opinion, I will give it to you."
  Franklin Delano Roosevelt   "There are as many opinions as there are experts."
  Wim Wenders   "The more opinions you have, the less you are."
  Unknown   "Some people think it is holding on that makes them strong. Sometimes it is letting go."
  Unknown   "There are things that we never want to let go of…but keep in mind that letting go is not the end of the world, it is the beginning of a new life."
  Oprah Winfrey   "Breath. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."
  Andy Rooney   "Elephants and grandchildren never forget."
  Ruth Goode   "Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves."
  Tom Potts   "The birth of a grandchild is a wonderful and exciting event."
  Thomas Szasz   "People say that a person has not found himself. But the self is not something one finds. It is something one creates."
  Alan Alda   "You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover is yourself."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson   "It is not the length of life, but the depth of life."
  Buddha   "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate on the present moment."
  Horace   "Carpe diem."
  Dr. Seuss   "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you will go."
  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn   "Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words."
  Ronald Dahl   "So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall."
  Mother Teresa   "I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only love."
  George Sand   "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
  Unkown   "Love is like an earthquake - unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are."
  Unkown   "A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right."
  Arthur Godfrey   "I am proud to pay taxes. I would be just as proud for half the money."
  Mark Twain   "The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
  Eleanor Roosevelt   "Since we get more joy out of giving joy to others, we should put a great deal of thought into the happiness we are able to give."
  Winston Churchill   "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
  Audrey Hepburn   "You will discover that you have two hands. One is for helping yourself and the other is for helping others."
  Cicero   "In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made."
  Jamie Paolinetti   "Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
  Sven Goran Eriksson   "The great barrier to success is fear of failure."
  Bill Vaughn   "It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back."
  Doug Larsonn   "Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days."
  Franklin Pierce Adams   "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."
  George F. Will   "Football features two of the worst parts of North American life-violence punctuated by committee meetings."
  London Times   "Football is an occasion at which dancing girls, bands, tactical huddles and commercial breaks are interrupted by short bursts of play."
  Heywood Hale Brown   "Football is a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it."
  Arnold H. Glascow   "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching it, not smashing the egg."
  Saint Augustine   "Patience is the companion of wisdom."
  Barbara Johnson   "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping the gears."
  Unknown   "Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson   "A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for all the traits of his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and all his wants."
  Lauren Bacall   "I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."
  Thomas Browne   "It is a common wonder of all people, how among so many faces, there should be none alike."
  Winston Churchill   "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
  Mother Teresa   "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
  Albert Einstein   "The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving."
  Corey Ford   "Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend."
  Phil Pastoret   "If you think dogs cannot count, put three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give your dog only two of them."
  Dave Barry   "Dogs feel strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing, right in your ear."
  James Beard   "Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts."
  M.F.K. Fisher   "The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight."
  Epicurus   "Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance."
  Bob Basso   "If it’s not fun, you’re not doing it right."
  Walt Disney   "It’s kind of fun to do the impossible."
  Pamela Wallin   "If you say yes more often than no, you will do interesting things in your life."
  Mignon McLaughlin   "The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine."
  Eskimo Proverb   "Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in the heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy."
  Amelia Burr   "Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die."
  Ian Griffith   "Every set of published accounts is based on books which have been gently cooked or completely roasted."
  Ben Franklin   "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
  Sir JohnTempleton   "The four most dangerous words in investing are "this time it's different.""
  Anatole France   "Man is made so that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."
  Leonardo Da Vinci   "Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgement will be surer."
  Sidney J. Harris   "The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
  Anne Bradstreet   "If we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
  Doug Larsen   "Spring is when you whistle with a shoe full of slush."
  Margaret Atwood   "In the spring at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
  Robin Williams   "Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party.""
  Mark Twain   "It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so."
  Proverb   "No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow."
  Margaret Atwood   "In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
  Dave Barry   "Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool is your neighbor’s garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest he buy one."
  Wendell Berry   "One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener’s own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race"
  Emily Dickinson   "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
  Sir William Osler   "To know what has to be done, then to do it comprises the whole philosophy of a practical life."
  William James   "By changing the inner attitudes of our minds, we can change the outer aspects of our lives."
  Fred Brooks   "How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time."
  Unknown   "Anything worth doing would have been done already."
  Unknown   "I will never put off until tomorrow what I can forget about forever."
  Marilyn Ferguson   "Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest."
  May Becker   "We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."
  Betty Friedan   "Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
  Mark Twain   "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter."
  John Barrymore   "A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
  Unknown   "We are young only once, after that we need another excuse."
  Joseph Chilton Pearce   "What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become."
  Clarence Buddinton Kelland   "My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
  Roy L. Smith   "We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching."
  John Lennon   "Rituals are important. Nowadays it is hip not to be married. I am not interested in being hip."
  Francis Bacon   "Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."
  Mark Twain   "Habit is habit and not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."
  Tim Cahill   "A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles."
  Charles Dudley   "There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it."
  Martin Buber   "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
  Sven Goran Eriksson   "The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure."
  Jesse Jackson   "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it."
  Peter T. Mcintyre   "Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."
  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe   "Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting."
  Napoleon Bonaparte   "Chance is the providence of adventurers."
  Amelia Earhart   "Adventure is worthwhile."
  Grace Morrison Hopper   "I handed my passport to the immigration officer, he looked at it, looked at me, and said, “What are you?”"
  Joe Pasquale   "If you look like your passport photo you’re too ill to travel."
  Al Gore   "Air plane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo."
  Thomas Chandler Haliburton   "Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."
  John McCain   "We have nicknames for one another. I call him That One, he calls me George W. Bush."
  Thomas Paine   "Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title."
  Charles Dickens   "Do all the good you can and make as little fuss as possible."
  Catherine Pulsifer   "People never forget a helping hand especially when times are tough."
  Albert Schweitzer   "Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid."
  Michael Althsuler   "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
  Thomas Edison   "There is time for everything."
  Gary Holdgrafer   "Time flies whether or not you're having fun."
  Helen Hayes   "All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I have adored them all."
  Julia Glass   "There is one question many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he, he paid for it."
  Corey Ford   "There is nothing like a well-behaved person around the house to spread the dog's blanket or bring him his supper."
  Alice James   "It is so comic to hear myself called old, even at 90 I suppose."
  Henry David Thoreau   "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
  Albert Einstein   "People like us, though mortal like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...we never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."
  Franklin P. Jones   "Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
  Erich Fromm   "Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
  Nora Roberts   "Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul and delight the heart. And both take practice."
  John Steinbeck   "What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
  John Steinbeck   "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it."
  John Steinbeck   "I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless."
  George Carlin   "Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big."
  Bill Cosby   "Is the glass half full or half empty? It depends on whether you are pouring or drinking."
  Janeane Garofalo   "I prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."
  Ashleigh Brilliant   "Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story."
  Maya Angelou   "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
  Groucho Marx   "If you have heard this story before, don't stop me because I'd like you to hear it again."
  Jan Glidewell   "You can clutch the past so tight to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present"
  George Eliot   "It's but little good you'll do watering last year's crops"
  Ralph Waldo Emerson   "With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now"
  Henry Ward Beecher   "He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."
  Eleanor Roosevelt   "Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
  Margaret Young   "Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. "
  Harold T. Stone   "The sky is blue so we know where to stop mowing."
  Unknown   "The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence but you still have to mow it."
  James Dent   "A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing and the lawn mower is broken."
  Julie Andrews   "I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it."
  Maureen O'Hara   "Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
  Perry Como   "Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died."
  Helena Rutherfurd Ely   "I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get ride of."
  Dave Berry   "Crabgrass can grow on a bowling ball in a dark and airless room and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons."
  Slim Acres   "Roses are red, violets are blue; but they don't get around like the dandelions do."
  Margaret Mead   "The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends in large measure upon how our children grow up today."
  J.K. Rowling   "Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men (and women)are guilty if they forget what it is to be young. "
  Steven Wright   "The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there.."
  Shana Alexander   "Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal."
  Unknown   "Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like."
  Fran Lebowitz   "Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers."
  Ted Turner   "To be truly happy in this world, first you need a cell phone then you need an airplane. Then you are truly wireless."
  Song title by Jimmy Buffett   "If the phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me"
  Joe Bob Briggs   "Apparently we love our own cell phones but hate everyone else's."
  Laurence J. Peter   "Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager to wonder about each other."
  Erma Bombeck   "Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."
  Doug Larson   "Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
  Raymond Duncan   "The best substitute for experience is being sixteen."
  Patti Tinsman Schaffer   "To deny art in us as being derivative would be to deny our own history in the arts."
  Martha Cole   "Success is mostly defined as a variation of "building on what has come before."
  Tom McFall   "Derivative should be a neutral word."
  Alyssa Farmerl   "Obstacles are put in our way to see if we really want to reach our goals or if we just thought we did."
  Ann Landers   "Nobody gets to live life backwards, look in front of you, that is where your life lies."
  Dr. Seussl   "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind."
  Alan Simpson   "If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."
  Mary Austin   "Man is not himself only. He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources."
  Shirley Serviss   "I'd hate to think I had to do it all alone."
  Helen Keller   "I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble."
  Henry Louis Mencken   "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
  Shirley Serviss   "Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive."
  Paul Gaugin   "Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
  Henri Matisse   "It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else."
  Auguste Renoir   "One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity."
  Mark Twain   "Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d all have frozen to death."
  Billy Connelly   "There is no such thing as bad weather-only the wrong clothes."
  Kin Hubbard   "Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation."
  Mike Ditka   "Before you can win you have to believe you are worthy.."
  Auguste Renoir   "Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose."
  Napoleon Bonaparte   "Victory belongs to the most persevering.."
  Anonymous   "Memory is the mother of wisdom."
  Oscar Wilde   "Memory ...is a diary we all carry with us."
  Alfred Mercier   "What we learn with pleasure we never forget."
  Tom Brokaw   "It’s all storytelling, you know. That’s what journalism is all about."
  Siberian Elder   "If you don’t know trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don’t know stories you may be lost in life "
  Harvey Cox   "All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have stories to live by."
  Isak Dinesen   "To be a person is to have a story to tell."
  Unknown   "In the old days a man who saved money was a miser, now he is a wonder."
  Gloria Steinem   "We can tell our values by looking at our receipts."
  Albert Einstein   "Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted."
  Dolly Parton   "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."
  Peter T. Mcintyre   "Confidence comes from not always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."
  Jesse Jackson   "If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it."
  Sven Goran Eriksson   "The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure."
  Christopher Morley   "April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks go."
  Proverb   "No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow."
  Hal Borland   "April is a promise that May is bound to keep."
  Natalie Goldberg   "Stress is an ignorant state. It believes everything is an emergency."
  Pooh's Little Instruction Book inspired by A.A. Milne   "Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear and not bothering. "
  William S. Burroughs   "Your mind will answer most questions if you relax and wait for the answer."
  Ella Harris   "A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job."
  Dianne Ackerman   "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
  Indian Saying   "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice."
  Virgil   "Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says, "I am coming.""
  Marion C. Garretty   "A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost."
  Vietnamese Proverb   "Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet."
  Author Unknown   "In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips."
  Isadora James   "A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a gold thread to the meaning of life."
  Barry Lopez. In Crow and Weasel   "If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive."
  Robert McKee   "Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact."
  Bill Mooney and David Holt,
The Storyteller’s Guide		   "History is nothing but a series of stories, whether it be world history or family history."
  Leonard Cohen   "Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in."
  Goethe   "Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.."
  Anna Quindlin   "The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.."
  Oprah Winfrey   "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
  Prince Charles   "I rather go by bus."
  Denis Leary   "A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it."
  Tom Brokaw   "It's easy to make a buck. It's harder to make a difference. "
  Anne Frank   "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
  Dr. Seuss   "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
  Bojangles   "My presence of mind is often absent."
  Mark Twain   "It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
  Ben Franklin   "Lost time is never found again."
  T. S. Elliott   "Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity."
  Larina Kase   "Do you want to know a surefire way to stay anxious? Don't do the thing that makes you nervous!"
  Richard Abell   "Anxiety is the space between the "now" and the "then." "
     

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