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WORDS OF WISDOM

June 19, 2008

Knowledge
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
…Albert Einstein

May 5, 2008

The First Step
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
…E.E. Cummings

April 14, 2008

Success vs. Happiness
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
…Dale Carnegie

April 7, 2008

Age
I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
…Henri Frederic Amiel

March 28, 2008

Chaos vs. Order
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
…Henry B. Adams

March 25, 2008

Appreciation
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
…Margaret Cousins

March 24, 2008

Anger and Jealousy
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
…George Eliot

March 21, 2008

Equality
Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.
…Malcolm X

March 19, 2008

Time
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
…M. Scott Peck

March 18, 2008

Simplify
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
…Henry David Thoreau

March 16, 2008

Friendship
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
…C. S. Lewis

March 13, 2008

Life
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
…Emily Dickinson

March 12, 2008

Ambition
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
…Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

March 10, 2008

Anger
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
…Confucius

March 6, 2008

Imagination
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
..Michelangelo

March 5, 2008

The Saving Sense
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
…Jacob August Riis

March2, 2008

Society
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
…George Orwell

February 29, 2008

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

February 28, 2008

Action
Action is the foundational key to all success.
…Pablo Picasso

February 26, 2008

Hope
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
…Franklin D. Roosevelt

February 25, 2008

Contemplation of Experience
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
…Ralph Bourne

February 24, 2008

Mystery
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
…Neil Armstrong

February 22, 2008

The Present Moment
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
…Buddha

February 21, 2008

Forgiveness
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
…Ausonius

February 20, 2008

Dreamers
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
…Orison Swett Marden

February 19, 2008

Doubts
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
…William Shakespeare

February 18, 2008

Deception
Deception is a cruel act…it often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.
…Donna A. Favors

February 17, 2008

Nothing Stays the Same
Nothing stays the same, not even the worst times of your life.
…Betsy Carter

February 15, 2008

Truth
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
…Aristotle

February 14, 2008

Courage
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
…Anais Nin

February 12, 2008

The Meeting
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
…Carl Jung

February 11, 2o08

Art
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
..Pablo Picasso

February 10, 2008

Changes
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
…Anatole France

February 9, 2008

Use the Experience Wisely
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
…Auguste Rodin

February 8, 2008

Friendship
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
…Cicero

February 7, 2008

Those Few
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
…George Washington

February 6, 2008

The Goal
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
…Zeno

February 5, 2008

Skepticism
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
…George Bernard Shaw

February 4, 2008

Truth
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
…Mark Twain

February 3, 2008

Live the Life
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
…Henry David Thoreau

February 2, 2008

To Decide
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
…Napoleon Bonaparte

February 1, 2008

The Way…
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
…Benjamin Franklin

January 31, 2008

Never Stop Fighting
To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.
…E.E. Cummings

January 30, 2008

Tolerance
We need not think alike to love alike.
…Francis David

January 29, 2008

Courage
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
…Vincent van Gogh

January 28, 2008

Time
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
…Leonardo Da Vinci

January 27, 2008

Imagination
The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.
…Latin Proverb

January 26, 2008

Love
Love that is not madness is not love.
…Pedro Calderon de la Barca

January 25, 2008

Experience
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
…Oscar Wilde

January 24, 2008

It is Us
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
…Vivian Greene

January 23, 2008

Fate
There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
…Diana Trilling

January 22, 2008

Problems
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
…Albert Einstein

January 21, 2008

Virtue
The strength of a man’s virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.
…Blaise Pascal

January 20, 2008

Everything is in Relation
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
…Buddha

January 19, 2008

Humor
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
…Mel Brooks

January 18, 2008

Imagination
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
…Edmund Burke

January 17, 2008

To Achieve the Impossible
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
…Tom Robbins

January 16, 2008

Not to Lose it All
It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.
…Albert Camus

January 15, 2008

Peace
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
…Eleanor Roosevelt

January 14, 2008

Unlocking Our Potential
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
…Winston Churchill

January 13, 2008

Everything
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
…George Bernard Shaw

January 12, 2008

Dreams
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
…E. V. Lucas

January 11, 2008

Experiences
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
…Abigail Van Buren

January 10, 2008

Suffering
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
…George Eliot

(thanks DontDateThatDude for discovering this great quote!)

January 9, 2008

Friends
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
…Thomas Fuller

January 8, 2008

Be Thyself
Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.
…Matthew Arnold

January 7, 2008

Morality
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life.
…Henry David Thoreau

January 6, 2008

An Eye for an Eye
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
…Mohandas Gandhi

January 5, 2008

Wisdom
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

January 4, 2008

Something to Say
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
…Robert Frost

January 3, 2008

The Future
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
…Dean Acheson

January 2, 2008

Life
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
…Soren Kierkegaard

January 1, 2008

Comfortable
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
…Author Unknown

December 31, 2007

Determination
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
…Ayn Rand

December 30, 2007

Confidence
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
…Marie Curie

December 29, 2007

The Mind
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
…Colin Wilson

December 28, 2007

Truth
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
…Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

December 27, 2007

Humility
Arrogance invites ruin; humility receives benefits.
…Chinese proverb

December 26, 2007

Always Do Right
Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
…Mark Twain

December 25, 2007

Appreciation
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
…Voltaire

December 24, 2007

Opportunity
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
…Albert Einstein

December 23, 2007

Resolution to Succeed
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
…Abraham Lincoln

December 22, 2007

Owning Yourself
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
…Friedrich Nietzsche

December 21, 2007

Friendship
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
…Eleanor Roosevelt

December 20, 2007

Trust
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
…E.M. Forster

December 19, 2007

Commitment
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.
..Peter Drucker

December 18, 2007

Stepping Stones
Life’s ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones.
…Marsha Sinetar

December 17, 2007

Never Give Up
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
…Harriet Beecher Stowe

December 16, 2007

Sacred
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
…Ralph Waldo Emerson

December 15, 2007

Opinions
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
..Sophocles

December 14, 2007

Believe
Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.
…Cynthia Kersey

December 13, 2007

Mistake
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
…Elbert Hubbard

December 12, 2007

A Wise Man
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
…Epictetus

December 11, 2007

Dreams
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
…Desmond Tutu

December 10, 2007

The way
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
…Benjamin Franklin

December 9, 2007

Can’t Buy Happiness
Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot about puppies.
…Author Unknown

December 8, 2007

Greatness
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
…Author Unknown

December 7, 2007

Hope
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
…Arthur Miller

December 5, 2007
Life
Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
…Charlotte Bronte

December 4, 2007

Things
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
…Anais Nin

December 3, 2007

Say the Right Thing
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
…Benjamin Franklin

December 2, 2007

A Wise Girl
A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left. …Marilyn Monroe

December 1, 2007

Finest Moments
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
…M. Scott Peck

November 30, 2007

Power
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
…Marcus Aurelius

November 29, 2007

Defect of Character
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
…Ralph Waldo Emerson

November 28, 2007

Happiness
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
…Joseph Addison

November 27, 2007

We
We are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary for the ungrateful.
..Author Unknown

November 26, 2007

The Character of a Man
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
…Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

November 25, 2007

On Living
Men live by forgetting. Women live on memories.
…T.S. Eliot

November 24, 2007

Regrets
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
…Arthur Miller

November 23, 2007

Blunders
Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?
…Friedrich Nietzsche

November 22, 2007

Happy
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
…Carl Jung

November 20, 2007

That which is worth having
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
…Bernadette Devlin

November 19, 2007

To love another
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. …Rainer Maria Rilke

November 18, 2007

The Heart
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. …Antoine De Saint-Exupery

November 17, 2007

What they want
Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
…Don Marquis

November 16, 2007

Pessimists
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
…Don Marquis

November 15, 2007

Truth
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
…Gloria Steinem

November 14, 2007

Patience and Perseverance
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
…John Quincy Adams

November 13, 2007

Kindness
Kindness is the ability to love someone more than they deserve.
…Author Unknown

November 12, 2007

Popularity
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
…Author Unknown

November 11, 2007

Love
We come to love not by finding a perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
…Author Unknown

November 10, 2007

What we give
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
…Winston Churchill

November 9, 2007

Trying to Forget
Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met.
…Author Unknown

November 8, 2007

Supreme Happiness
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
…Victor Hugo

November 6, 2007

Arithmetic of Love
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
…Mignon McLaughlin

November 5, 2007

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