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Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. - Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” -Lao Tzu

There is nothing quite like experiencing a deep, passionate love. You deserve nothing less. Settle for nothing less. ~ KYB

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. - Ralph W. Sockman

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” -George Orwell

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath. - Laurence Binyon

Dr. Seuss
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” -Epicurus

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” - Elbert Hubbard

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.” -Allen Saunders

Give a man a mask
and he will show
his true face.

- Oscar Wilde

You have to give people something to dream on. - Jimi Hendrix

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. - William Barclay

Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too—
Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
~Thomas Ingoldsby, "The Ghost," 1837

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. - Stewart Udall

A little poison now and then—maketh pleasant dreams. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves. ~Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. ~Raymond Inmon

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~Henry David Thoreau

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. - Mignon McLaughlin

I dream of hiking into my old age. ~Marlyn Doan

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The butterfly is a flying flower... ~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. - Francis Bacon, "On Innovation," Essays, 1597

More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination. ~Wilbur Wright

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. ~Alexander Chase, "Perspectives," 1966

The bluebird carries the sky on his back. ~Henry David Thoreau

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. ~Buddy Hackett

The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. ~Plato

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you. ~Bill Walton

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” -Bernard M. Baruch

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” -Sigmund Freud

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. ~George S. Patton

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.” - Robert Frost

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. - Sarah Bernhardt

“Never memorize something that you can look up.” -Albert Einstein

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. ~Andre Gide

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." -Tom Bodett

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ~Arnold Glasow

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. ~Henry H. Tweedy

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” -Alexander Pope

Fear is the highest fence. ~Dudley Nichols

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

~Ernest Hemingway

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” -Mother Teresa

Music is what feelings sound like. ~Author Unknown

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

~Dalai Lama

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” -Andy Warhol

He who sings scares away his woes. ~Cervantes

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.” -Kurt Vonnegut

I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown

“You may delay, but time will not.” - Benjamin Franklin

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” -Bill Watterson

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~Victor Hugo

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.” -Lao Tzu

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde

“Time is what we want most,but what we use worst." -William Penn

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. ~Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.” -Edgar Allan Poe

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. ~Aldous Leonard Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932

“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” -Mahatma Gandhi

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ~Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” -Alan W. Watts

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

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
― Rumi

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. - Author Unknown

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~Auguste Rodin

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

~Stephen Hawking

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

― Oscar Wilde

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” - Elbert Hubbard

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

― Mark Twain

“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. ~Rita Mae Brown

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

― Winston S. Churchill

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

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

― Mark Twain

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. ~John Updike

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

― Albert Einstein

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. ~Author Unknown

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

― Confucius

There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams. ~Stoddard King, Jr.

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