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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is
only picking grapes or sorting laundry.
--E. B. White |
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature....
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
--Helen Keller |
"Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But
pretty soon, everything is different."
--Calvin & Hobbes |
"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of
cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's
worse than fear - it's active disengagement."
--Ken Burns, Historian |
It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a
conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow
exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a
deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that
they are making a difference for good in the world.
--Ernest Fitzgerald |
You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell
down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to
swim. Don't worry about failure.
My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
--Sherman Finesilver, Chief Judge, US District Court |
Sincerity is everything. And once you've learned to fake that,
you've got it made.
- George Burns |
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
--Richard Rosen |
Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the
future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out
people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn
whatever needs to be learned.
--John Holt |
Work is Love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only
with distaste, It is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the
temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.
-- Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet |
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small
stones.
--Chinese Proverb |
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I
don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get
up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
--George Bernard Shaw |
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because
your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think
you are.
--John Wooden |
| A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to
frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings
from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour. -- Aldous Huxley |
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about
yesterday all the time.
--Charles F. Kettering |
It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on
sometimes. What matters most is getting off.
You cannot make progress without making decisions.
--Jim Rohn |
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 |
Be the change you want to see in the world.
--Gandhi |
| Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work. --Thomas Edison |
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