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If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
– Chinese Proverb
Insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting different results, but if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
– Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
– James Allen
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
– Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
– Charlie Chaplin
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
– Colonel Sanders
In life, we have three choices; to lead, follow or resist the change. The last choice is the usually the most expensive one.
– Med Jones
Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse.
– G. C. Lichtenberg
The older you get the stronger the wind gets-and it's always in your face.
– Jack William Nicklaus
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
– Charles Spurgeon
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
– James Baldwin
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
– Plato
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
– Robert Francis Kennedy
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
– Thomas a Kempis
Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.
– Thomas à Kempis
Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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 Gustav Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
– Gilbert Highet
First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
– Charles C. Noble
Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
– Andrew Carnegie
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
– Saadi
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
– Charles De Gaulle
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
– Wilson Mizner
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
– Evan Esar
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
– H. G. Wells
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
– Josh Billings
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
– Emily Dickinson
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
– Agnes Repplier
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
– Jules Renard
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little bit more.
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
– Omar Khayyám
A hair divides what is false and true.
– Omar Khayyam
If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.
– Dr. Robert Anthony
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
– Napoleon Hill
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
– John Andrew Holmes
Walking is the world's oldest exercise and todays modern medicine. -Johnny The Walker
– Johnny Wowk
You may delay, but time will not.
– Benjamin Franklin
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
– Lao Tzu
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
– The Midrash
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
– Isaac Asimov
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
– John Keats
Health is my expected heaven.
And fundamental to love is knowledge, is empathy, is compassion, is knowing another's struggle, if you love someone, you see their worth, you see their dignity. You know that your destiny is interwoven with them.
– Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Truth is always the strongest argument.
– Sophocles
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
– Lewis Carroll
By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
– Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
– Bertrand Russell
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
– Oprah Winfrey
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
– Frank A. Clark
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
High expectations are the key to everything.
– Sam Walton
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
– George Burton Adams
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Sir Winston Churchill
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
– George Herbert
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
– Epictetus
All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
The best things in life aren't things.
– Art Buchwald
Every man's memory is his private literature.
– Aldous Huxley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
– Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts", 1932
I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen.
– C. S. Lewis
You are never too old to dream a new dream or set another goal.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
– Joseph Addison
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
– Will Rogers
Lord, let me live until I die.
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
– Robert J. Sawyer
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
– Anais Nin
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
– Albert Camus
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
We are what we repeatedly do.
– Aristotle
Failure is success if we learn from it.
– Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
1. Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. 2. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. 3. As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person. 4. The greatest revenge is to accomplish what others say you cannot do.
– Pythagorus
Respect yourself most of all.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
– Marilyn Ferguson
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
– Thomas Huxley
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
– Michel de Montaigne
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
In love, one and one are one.
Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?
– Groucho Marx
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
– George Bernard Shaw
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
– Miguel de Unamuno
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
– Erica Jong
When you talk, you repeat what you already know. When you listen, you often learn something.
– Jared Sparks
To teach is to learn twice.
– Joseph Joubert
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
Never cut what you can untie.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.
– Eden Phillpotts
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
– Harold Taylor
Keep Walking......Define Yourself By Where You Are Headed!
– George Santayana
The earth has music for those who listen.
When you think positive, good things happen!
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
– Edmund Burke
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
– Leo Tolstoy
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
– Henry Ford
Happiness isn't a destination, it's a mode of travel. Don't worry be happy.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
– William Arthur Ward
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
– Seneca
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
– Marcel Archard
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
– Samuel Johnson
Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
– Saint Augustine
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
– Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge.
– The Talmud
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
If you wish to know how much preferable wisdom is to gold, then observe: if you change gold you get silver for it, but your gold is gone; but if you exchange one sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh knowledge, and at the same time keep what you possessed before.
Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, Grow, Grow
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
– Paul Valery
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Time heals what reason cannot.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
– Mother Teresa
The only journey is the one within.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, 'He's so big, we can never kill him.' But David looked at the same giant and thought, 'He's so big, I can't miss him.'
– Dr. Dale E. Turner
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.
– Henry Louis Mencken
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.
There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
Major breakthroughs often come after major breakdowns.
– Matshona Dhliwayo
Alone you are a warrior; together we are an army.
Your dreams are ink; reality is the canvas. Paint masterpieces.
Be a star in someone's dark sky.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
– Adlai Stevenson I
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Always be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
If you can't go over, you must go under.
– Jewish Proverb
Worries go down better with soup than without.
If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
– Herbert V. Prochnow
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.
– Thomas Szasz
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
– Andre Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
– Thomas Jefferson
Without music, life would be a mistake.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
– John D. MacDonald
Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
To know and know that you know, not to know and know that you don't know, that is to know.
Climb mountains to see lowlands.
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.
– Marcus Aurelius
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
– Peter Drucker
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
The quieter you become the more you can hear.
– Baba Ram Dass
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
– Henri Matisse
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
– Leonardo DaVinci
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
– Winston Churchill
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.
– Havelock Ellis
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
– Arthur Balfour
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
I never forgive, but I always forget.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
– Alfred Hitchcock
Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
– Henry David Thoreau
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.
– Peter McWilliams
True refinement seeks simplicity.
– Bruce Lee
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit--it hits all by itself.
Things are seldom what they seem.
– Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
– Hippocrates
Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
– M. Scott Peck
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
– Lin Yutang
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
– Christopher Morley
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
– Emile Coue
To love someone is to identify with them.
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
– Ralph Waldo Trine
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
