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“Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” -Mahatma Gandhi

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” -Oscar Wilde

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared. ~Jack Handey

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. ~Charles Gordy

“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.” -Robert Frost

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Do not pray for an easy life,
Instead pray for the strength to endure a difficult one- bruce lee.

“It is not the length of life, but the depth.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. ~Francesco Guicciardini

Memory is always faulty. Emotions are always true. ~Author Unknown

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. ~John Sterling

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ~Jim Rohn

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~William Faulkner

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~John Archibald Wheeler

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. ~Osbert Sitwell

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles Dickens

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” -Mark Twain

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” -Edgar Allan Poe

Time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day," 1937 (Thanks, George)

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” -Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” -Virginia Woolf

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! ~Thomas Carlyle

If the King loves music, it is well with the land. ~Mencius

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” - Ernest Hemingway

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” -Mark Twain

A person terrified with the imagination of spectres, is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. ~Joseph Addison

Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you're in the middle of a dire pronouncement. ~Kelley Armstrong, The Reckoning

He stood looking after them... as though he had perceived that they had come back accompanied by a ghost a-piece. ~Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Arnold H. Glasow

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” -Socrates

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. ~Søren Kierkegaard

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso

Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~Frederick B. Wilcox

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? ~Frank Scully

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. ~Tim McMahon

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul. ~Drew Barrymore

You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. ~Wayne Gretzky

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. ~G.K. Chesterton

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.” -Alexandre Dumas-fils

I have died so little today, friend, forgive me. - Thomas Lux

The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success. ~Author Unknown

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. ~John Allen Paulos

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” -Robert Frost

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. ~Jon Stewart

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. ~Ernestine Ulmer

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” -Robert Frost

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” -Socrates

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” -Confucius

I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~Jason Love

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” -Voltaire

Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos. ~Don Kardong

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! ~Albert Einstein

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.” - Thomas Jefferson

The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer. ~Author Unknown

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~Henry Ward Beecher

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny." - Stephen Hawking

To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” - Gautama Buddha

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. ~Jim Davis

Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when we are eating. ~Edward Everett Hale, "How to Get the Best of It," c.1892

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” -Leonardo da Vinci

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. ~Alfred Sheinwold

The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson. ~Author Unknown

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ~Elbert Hubbard

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon. ~Doug Rader

The tides are in our veins. ~Robinson Jeffers

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard

The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. - Theodore M. Hesburgh

Praise the sea; on shore remain. ~John Florio

I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis. - Star Trek, Mr. Spock

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ~Phyllis Theroux

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care” -Theodore Roosevelt

“The knowledge of all things is possible” -Leonardo da Vinci

Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb

“What is now proved was once only imagined.” -William Blake

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ~Jacques Barzun, God's Country and Mine, 1954

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ~Lord Byron

“To know that you do not know is the best.
To think you know when you do not is a disease.
Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.” -Lao Tzu

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” - Isaac Newton

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. ~Liz Carpenter

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