"I'm as pure as the driven slush." -- Tallulah Bankhead
"Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." --Philip K. Dick
"Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another." - Kenny Ausubel
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all of the fun." --Katherine Hepburn"
"If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese." --Mike Schmidt
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, He speaks to us in our conscience, and shouts to us in the midst of our pain." -C.S. Lewis
"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." --Unknown
"La vida es duda, y la fe sin la duda es solo muerte." (Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.) - Miguel de Unamuno
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves." --Victor Hugo
"Life is not holding a good hand. Life is playing a poor hand well." --Danish Proverb
"In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite variety and mystery of it." - William Saroyan
"In America there seems to be an excess of everything except parking spaces and religion." - Frank McKinney
"Never is dawn nearer than when the night is darkest." -Ho Chi Minh
" If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." -- Henry David Thoreau
" When the past tries to dominate your thoughts, let your dreams ignite your day." - Anonomous
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self." --Aldous Huxley
" Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand." -- Karl Menninger
" I had no shoes and complained, Until I met a man who had no feet. " -- Unknown
"Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction." --Thomas Fuller
"The superior man...does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right...The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort." --Confucius
" Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." -- Bertand Russell
"If there is no struggle there is no progress." --Frederick Douglass
" You can often measure a person by the size of his dream." --Robert H. Schuller
" Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth." - Thich Nhat Hanh
" Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap a destiny." -- George D. Boardman
" Those who do not remember the past are doomed to relive it." -- Santayana
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." --Bill Cosby
"The wise teacher...knows that fifty-five minutes of work plus five minutes' laughter are worth twice as much as sixty minutes of unvaried work." --Gilbert Highet
" Kindness in words creates confidence, Kindness in thinking creates profoundness, Kindness in giving creates love." -- Lao-tzu
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." --Donald Marquis
"The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary." --Vidal Sasson
" Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance." --Bruce Barton
" Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat." -- Caroline Schoeder
"There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure." --Richard Marcinko
" You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. " -- Joe Lewis
" Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared." -- David Ben-Gurion
" There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else." -- Cyrus Curtis
" Tell me and I'll forget; Show me and I may remember; Involve me and I'll understand." -- Chinese Proverb
" Better to remain silent and thought to be a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. " -- Mark Twain
"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them." - Lily Tomlin
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." --Alexander Pope
" Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. " -- Mark Twain
" The most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or touched - they are felt by the human heart " -- Helen Keller
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers
" Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space " -- Diana Black
" If you were arrested for being kind, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" -- Unknown
" Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." -- Unknown
" The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality." -- Dante
"Never insult an alligator until after you've crossed the river." --Oriental Proverb
"If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it." --Suzette Haden Elgin
" Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams." -- Mary Ellen Kelly
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. " - Sir Winston Churchill
"I've believed ever since that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death." --John H. Johnson
" Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. " -- Joan Crawford
"The greatest enemy of man is not disease -- it's despair." --Unknown
"Neither despise, nor oppose, what thou dost not understand." --William Penn
"We would fain see others perfect, and yet our own faults we amend not." --Thomas à Kempis
" Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. " -- Dr. Joyce Brothers
"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose --- somehow we win out...." --- Ronald Reagan
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try." --- Anonymous
"If you can dream it, you can do it." --- Walt Disney
" The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume control also turns left." - Jerry M. Wright
" If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over." - Anonymous
"Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others." --Mencius
"She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other." --Sean in Good Will Hunting
"Son, there are two enormous powers operating in the world and one of them is fear. It is the greatest power of all, save one, and that is faith or believing." --Dr. Smiley Blanton
"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent that he cannot be excelled." --Baltasar Gracian
"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever." --Horace Mann
"The eye can see for the hand but not for the heart" --Henry David Thoreau
"I find the greatest thing in this world is not so much were we stand, but in what direction we are moving" --Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Character is what you are in the dark." --Dwight L. Moody
"In youth we learn, in age we understand." -- Wendell Evans
"Look out how you use proud words, when you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back." -- Carl Sandburg
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." -- Darrell Royal
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." -- Helen Keller
"No matter how high you climb you can always dream a little higher."
"Three may keep a secret it two of them are dead." -Ben Franklin
"A slip of the foot you may soon recover but a slip of the tongue you may never get over." -Ben Franklin
"A rotten apple spoils his companions." -Ben Franklin
"Happiness, like sand, is made up of many little things."
"Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." -Emerson
"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names." -Henry David Thoreau
"The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise." -Thoreau
"Heal the past, live the present, dream the future." -Mary Engelbreit
"When you've come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -Thomas Jefferson
"Sticks and stones may break our bones but words will break our hearts." -Robert Fulgham (from the world's BEST book: All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)
"Your life is only worth the impact you have on other people." -Jackie Robinson
"If you're going to walk on thin ice, you may as well dance."
"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do."
"A man can do anything he imagines." -Henry Ford
"Everything from the neck down is minimum wage." -Mr. Hubley
"We are what we repeatedly do." -Aristotle
"Where love is, God is also." -Leo Tolstoy
"You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt. There's only now, there's only here. Give into love or live in fear - no other path, no other way...no day but today..." -Jonathan Larson, "Rent"
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope; and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples can build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -Robert F. Kennedy
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." ~ Albert Einstein
"Yeah I'm crazy, but I get the job done." -Ben Folds Five
"Love isn't what makes the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." -Franklin Adams
"Just act normal, that's already crazy enough." -Dutch proverb
"Happiness isn't getting what you want it's wanting what you've got."
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