Thoughts
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. Sigmund Freud
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than 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 invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. Edward F. Halifax
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor. H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. Dale E. Turner
Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain. Francois FéNelon
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal them to their own. Disraeli
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
Louise Beal
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz
One sign of maturity is to be comfortable with people who are not like us. Virgil A. Kraft
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. Olin Miller
Ideas are precious. An idea is the only lever which moves the world. Arthur F. Corey
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. Jodie Foster
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words. Goethe
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard Bach
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. Buddha
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Hannah Moore
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang but the best. Henry Van Dyke
Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson
Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs
It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
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 knows great enthusiasms,
the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best, knows in the end 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 timid souls
who know neither victory or defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life. Sigmund Freud
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. J. Bartlett Brebner
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington
All men and women are born, live, suffer, and die; what distinguished us from one another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do t make them come about. We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live. Joseph Epstein
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. Malcolm Bradbury
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 to endure 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
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon
Everything great that we know has come from neurotics never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. Marcel Proust
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you we are in charge of our attitudes. Charles Swindoll
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. Aleister Crowley
To often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia
Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH. Ambrose Bierce
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. Carl Jung
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
'Tis the set of sail and not the gales
Which tell us the way to go.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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 Roosevelt
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. Buddha
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food. Dean McLaughlin
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Stephan Grellet
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; its in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Nelson Mandela
To change one's life: 1. Start immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. William James
If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass through our doors, we, at least, are responsible for those which we admit and entertain. Charles B. Newcomb
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual." Soren Kierkegaard
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. Charles Evans Hughes
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. Edward Everett Hale
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. George Bernard Shaw
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. Samuel Butler
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again—and that it well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. Mark Twain
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? Dick Cavett, mocking the TV-violence debate
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. Ashleigh Brilliant
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. Sigmund Freud
True greatness lies not always
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In the winning of worldly fame,
Nor doing our best spurred on by the cheers
And plaudits that follow our name.
But he who can face with a cheery grace
The everyday of life,
With its petty things that rasp and sting,
Is a hero in the strife.
Fannie Herron Wingate
To live happily is an inward power of the soul. Marcus Aurelius
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Ambrose Bierce
Nothing is permanent but change. Heraclitus
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derek Bok
A fool uttereth all his mind. Proverbs 29:11
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least though in acquiring. La Rochefoucauld
To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no better role to play among the great than that of the jester. Denis Diderot
As for conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I don't think much of that. Henry David Thoreau
The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed. Sebastien R.N. Chamfort
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. I John 4:18
Do not do unto other as you would they should do unto you. Their taste may not be the same. George Bernard Shaw
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. Karen Kaiser Clark
Do not follow where the oath may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Muriel Strode
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
The future is not something we enter. It is something we create. Leonard I. Sweet
The United Stated Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. Ben Franklin
This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. Shakespeare
Because you have occasional low spells of despondency, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night but it rises again all right the next morning. Henry Van Dyke
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives. Indian Proverb
God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power and of love and of a sound mind. II Tim 1:7
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