Thoughts to Live By....

... in the small matters trust your mind,
in the large ones trust your heart...
-- Freud

There ain't no answer.
There ain't going to be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
That's the answer.
--Gertrude Stein

If you always do what you did--
you will always get what you got.
--Unknown

When I die, I want to go peacefully and quietly in my sleep
like my grandfather did--
Not screaming and shouting
like the passengers in his car at the time.
--Unknown

I have noticed that nothing I never said
ever did me any harm.
--Calvin Coolidge

Things never were "the way they used to be."
Things never will be "the way it's going to be someday."
Things are always just the way they are for the time being.
And the time being is always in motion.
--Robert Fulghum

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
--Alan Alda

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
--Hector Berlioz

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
--Samuel Butler

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, from The Silver Stallion

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
--Martin H. Fischer

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
-- Mark Twain

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
--Mark Twain

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
-- E.B. White

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
-- Israel Zangwill

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, But great actions speak to all mankind.
-- Emily P. Bissell

You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.
-- Joan Baez

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.
-- Agnes Repplier

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions

Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-- James Thurber

Here is a test to find out if your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our heart and we are never, ever the same.
-- Anonymous

Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
-- Anonymous

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe



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