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At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian Proverb
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate. - Michael Jordan
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. - Mark Twain
Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a man says drunk he has thought sober. - Flemish proverb
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. - James Matthew Barrie
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin
In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth - teaching others. - Ibn Gabirol
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Live a balanced life - Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. - Robert Fulghum
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. - Chinese proverb
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. - John Quincy Adams
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. -Rabindranath Tagore
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts. - George Matthew Adams
When we dream alone, it is only a dream, but when we dream together, it is the beginning of reality.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. -Mohandas K. Gandhi
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. - Robert Frost
Never look down on anyone unless youre helping him up. - Jesse Jackson
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Those who say only sunshine brings happiness have never danced in the rain.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. - Thomas Szasz
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. - Mark Twain
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. - Alan Alda
Be a pianist, not a piano. - A.R. Orage
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best. - Henry Van Dyke
All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach. - M. Scott Peck
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. - Goethe
It's not where you go. It's how you get there. - Gus Van Sant
Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you are talking to the man upstairs that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he doesn't care some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
It is easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them. - Alfred Adler
Its amazing how long your life can stay the same, but its even more amazing how fast it can change.
No yesterdays are wasted for those who give themselves to today. - Brendan Francis
All the darkness in the world can not extinguish the light of a single candle. - St. Francis of Assisi
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. - Aldous Huxley
We could learn a lot from Crayons: Some are sharp, some are pretty. Some are dull, while others bright. Some have weird names, and we have to learn how to live in the same box.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
- Ricky Fitts in American beauty
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life may not always be the party we expect it to be, but we may as well dance anyway.
To the world you may just be someone, but to someone you may be the world.
We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers
Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve.
Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong, but sometimes it's letting go.
When life gets difficult, when the task becomes tiring, when you are about to give up, remember that the snail got to Noahs Ark inch by inch.
Life is 10% how you make it, and 90% how you take it.
Look around and choose your ground for long you live and high you fly, smiles youll give and tears youll cry, and all that you touch and all that you see is all your life will ever be. - Pink Floyd
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. - Andre Gide
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. - David Starr Jordan
It may be true that we dont know what we have till isnt gone, but it is also true that we dont know what weve been missing until it comes along.
You cant have a rainbow without the rain.
Don't count life by the breaths you've taken, but by the moments that have taken your breath away.
To be a star you must shine your own light follow your own path and don't worry about the darkness, for that's when the stars shine brightest.
Simple pleasures bring great happiness.
You never know when you are making a memory!
Too much of a good thing...is wonderful!
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might at well dance on it!
Dont frown, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
Remember, amateurs built the ark and professionals built the Titanic.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, that is why we call it the present.
I'd rather have a moment of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.
In 3 words I can sum up everything I learned about life: it goes on.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
God places the biggest burden on those who can carry its weight.
Sometimes someone says something really small and it just fits into this empty place in your heart.
It is not in falling that one fails, but in not getting up again.
He who can laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you just don't stop.
Character is what you are in the dark.
Dance like no one's watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like no one's listening, live like it's heaven on earth.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart. - Helen Keller
Everything is okay in the end. If its not okay, its not the end.
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind - Dr. Suess
When you were born, you were crying and the people around you were smiling. Try to live your life so that when you die, youre smiling and the people around you are crying.
Anyone who thinks you arent worth their time isnt worth yours.
Listen to your heart and proceed with confidence.
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness- for that is when the stars shine the brightest.
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens
Behold the turtle - he only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
Tears are words your heart cant say.
Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. - Kevin Arnold
Do whatever you do intensely. - Robert Henri
No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it. - Grace Slick
Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it. - David Guy Powers
Life is what you make of it. The hard part is figuring how and what to make of it.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you a purpose and meaning.
Don't count the days.....make the days count.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great. - Mark Twain
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Every minute spent angry is sixty seconds of happiness wasted.
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Experience is not what happens to a person. It is what a person does with what happens to them.
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? - Stephen Levine
Laugh when things are good; laugh even more when things are bad.
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, wear work boots.
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 and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use you heart.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
Learn from the mistakes of others; you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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 endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better than we found it, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social situation; to know even one life breathed easier because you lived - this is to have succeeded.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
If you haven't much education you must use your brain.
You can't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
Pain and suffering are inevitable but misery is optional.
Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today. - James Dean
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Being kind is more important than being right.
Sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
Be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.
The Lord didn't do it all in one day. What makes us think we can?
If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.
To ignore the facts does not change the facts.
There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.
I always knew looking back on my tears would make me laugh but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. - J.F.K
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. - Plato
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emmerson
What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other? - George Eliot
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. - Herman Hesse
Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.
We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we are all going to perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Three grand essentials to happiness in life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each Day has enough trouble of it's own. - Matt 6:34
If the world didnt suck, we would all fall off.
Life is like a poop sandwich. The more bread you have, the less poop you have to eat.
Not one day goes by that we don't think of the people we've loved, those we've lost, and those that somehow we never got a chance to know. Live each day to offer a smile to those who wonder who you really are.
I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures never replace having been there, memories good or bad will bring tears, and words can never replace feelings.
The universe may not play fair, but its got a hell of a sense of humor.
To grow and become stronger you must be able to forgive the past and trust the future.
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. - Willam Dement
We never truly grow up, we just learn how to act in public.
What is now proved was once imagined. - William Blake
Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. - Brendan Francis
Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift. - William James
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
Time is all we have, so take the time to make the time and make time to take the time.
Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.
There's nothing quite like being sure of what's inside your heart.
There is nothing harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
There are so many souls, so many beautiful people. - Darren Hayes
Don't take offense, Better make amends, Rip it all to shreds and let it go. - Garbage
The great at anything do not set to work because they are inspired but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration. - Ernest Newman
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. -La Rochefourauld
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. - Pearl S. Buck
Be not the slave of words. - Thomas Carlyle
You know, you can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. - Anouk Aimee
It is the sense of possession that gives us sorrow.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
To whom much is given, much is required.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
Faith goes up the stairs that love builds and looks out windows which hope has opened.
Remember that anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it's his fault; if he betrays you twice, it's your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses more; he who loses faith, loses all.
The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it.
I believe in the sun even when it is not shining; I believe in love, even when feeling it not; I believe in God, even when he is silent. - Inscription found on a cellar wall in Colongne, Germany, where Jews hid from the Nazis
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you got. - Janis Joplin
Affection is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
If you tell the truth you never have to remember anything.
The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
One sincere apology is worth more than all the roses money can buy.
Words harshly spoken are as difficult to retrieve as feathers in a gale.
It is best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.
The less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Either you control your attitude or it controls you.
Heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
Sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones to help you get back up.
Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
It isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you are to learn to forgive yourself.
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world will never stop for your grief.
Every now and then I wish it were now instead of then.
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
You have to give up to go up.
A diamond is a lump of coal that performs well under pressure.
In the race to be better or the best, do not miss out on the joy of being.
What you declare, you will achieve.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them enough.
What you want to be eventually, you must be every day.
If you think you can, you will.
Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.
Image is the cage of the soul.
Life is a great big canvas. Throw all the paint on it you can.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
God created memories so that we might have roses in December.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny in comparison to what lies within us.
Life is not a dress rehearsal. Do it now, love it now, or change it now.
Curiosity is more important than knowledge. - Einstein
Enjoy the journey, it might be better than the destination.
Forgiveness can't change the past, but it can change the future.
A positive anything is better than a negative nothing.
With force borders can be moved...with care they can be opened.
Celebrate we will, cause life is short but sweet for certain. - Dave Matthews Band
Don't burn the day away. - Dave Matthews Band
Everyday things change but basically they stay the same. - Dave Matthews Band
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. - Ziggy
Your life is made up of years that mean nothing at all and moments that mean it all.
Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but its the middle that makes it all worthwhile.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. - John Steinbeck
If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice. - Laurence J. Peter
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. - Gloria Naylor
You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first. - Anon.
Just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie
A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all. - Evelyn Scott
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. - George C. Scott
A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste. - Anon
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. - Yiddish proverb
Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries. - Corita Kent
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. - Oprah Winfrey
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. - E. H. Chapin
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers
The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you. - Elmer Davis
When things go wrong, don't go with them. - Anon.
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 endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave this 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
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character. - Isabelle Eberhardt
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. - Samuel Lover
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. - Rita Mae Brown
It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy. - Anon.
I dont value objects. My most valuable thing would be relationships. - Darren Hayes
The days that make us happy make us wise. - John Masefield
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. - Harriet Martineau
I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat. - David Berry
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty. - Lao-tzu
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut
Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after lifelive it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it. - Joe Kapp
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. - Rita Mae Brown
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. - Martha Grimes
What you will do matters. All you need is to do it. - Judy Grahn
Communicate anyway, anyhow. - Savage Garden (Crash & Burn video)
I quote others only the better to express myself. - Michel de Montaigne
Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgment. - Roy Smith
Fate loves the fearless. - James Russell Lowell
What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. - Katherine Mansfield
The harder they fall, the harder they bounce.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette
Envy is an insult to oneself. - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. - H. G. Wells
Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable. - Joanna Field
You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself. - Jane Seymour
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents. - Eric Hoffer
The completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it. - Anne W. Schaef
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for? - Robert Browning
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. - Joan Lunden
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. - Artur Rubenstein
If you succeed, revel in your success, and if you fail, at least fail while daring greatly, so that your place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Our eyes are placed in front because it is more important to look forward than to look back.
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. - Maxwell Maltz
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. - Paul Harvey
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. - Sir Winston Churchill
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. - Maurice Setter
The biggest chance you can take is not taking a chance at all. - Glen Sather
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. - I Corinthians, 14:11
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