WORDS OF WISDOM

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It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. - Arthur C. Clarke

'Tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic. - Benjamin Franklin

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it. - Marilyn Monroe

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. - Edgar Allan Poe

Think like a man of action. Act like a man of thought. - Henri Bergson

The basic and essential human is the woman. - Orson Welles

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women. - Muhammad Ali

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work - blurring the lines between work and play - the gains will be greater. - Ellen Langer

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. - William Shakespeare

A wise man hears one word and understands two. - Yiddish Proverb

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending we lay waste our powers. Little we see in nature that is ours. - William Wordsworth

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling

I feel that there is someone in the world who can complete me, make me feel whole, and who I can laugh with. That person will love me not because he decides to, but because of the fact that when he is near me, he will feel the way I do: like one full entity, concerted. I also believe that love is something that no one person can fix the limits of, because it is as infinite and mysterious as the stars that it's written on. No one really should attempt to explain it, because it is one of the greatest natural phenomena in the world that all people should just have blind faith in. Love is trust and certitude in the unknown, for without that faith, emotions can die. - Mary Pat Michalek

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. - Colette

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air. - Walter Winchell

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. - James Dean

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. - Chief Seattle

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shiine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings. - Hodding Carter, Jr.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. - Robert Frost

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. - Leo Rosten

Laughter: n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. - Ambrose Bierce

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy. - Mark Twain

In youth we learn; in age we understand. - Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. - Jean Kerr

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. - Clarence Darrow

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. - Gallagher

Better keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than open it and remove any doubt. - Rami Belson

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they got for it, but what they become by it. - John Ruskin

People mistakedly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it. - Anthony De Mello

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. - Dr. Seuss

One kind word can warm 3 winter months. - Japanese Proverb

Religion is the opium of the masses. - Karl Marx

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. - Confucius

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. - General Patton

This is my 'depressed stance.' When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're goin to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. - Charlie Brown

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I am not able to reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they may lead. - Louisa May Alcott

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. - C.W. Ceran

One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson

Her life is a facade of colors drawn with the crayon of hope. She's naïve to think her mystical dream of loe will someday be a reality. Her wistful heart will not listen to the candor of her conscience. - Susan Ehring

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. - Ralph Ellison

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction. - Antoine De Saint Exupery

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

Failures are divided into two classes - those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. - John Charles Salak

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most. - Thucyclides (Athenian Historian)

Wise men don't need advice. Fools don't take it. - Benjamin Franklin

Shoot for the moon...'cause even if you miss you'll end up in the stars. - Les Brown

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. - Virgil Thomson

Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening...when you'd have preferred to talk. - D.J. Kaufman

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. - William Shakespeare

You can't hold a man done without staying down with him. - Booker T. Washington

Adversity reveals genius; prosperity conceals it. - Horace

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking. - Voltaire

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can; and I means to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. - Abraham Lincoln

We will not know unless we begin. - Howard Zinn

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast. And one day you will build something that endures; something worthy of your potential. - Epicetus (Roman Teacher & Philosopher)

Blessed is the man who has nothing to say and refrains from giving evidence to that fact.

Deferred joys purchased by sacrifice is always the sweetest.

When one door closes, another opens. Seize opportunity while the path remains lit.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road. Unless you fail to make the turn.

Treat the earth well: Remember that is was not given to us by our parents but was lent to us by our children.

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...Pursue those."

America was born upon the shoulders of men and women who gave their lives to freedom, pioneers who were not afraid of failure, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, and dreamers who had the courage to live their dreams.

"To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction. - Betty Anderson Stanley