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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a person's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could, and should, do for themselves. Abe Lincoln 1861 If you think you can, you can. And if you think 0you can't, you're right. You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons but at the very least you need a beer --Frank Zappa Rivers of truth taste the same. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. --Confucius My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the night, But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. --Paul Harvey It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. --Chinese proverb Share what you know. Learn what you don't. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. --Robert F. Kennedy You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. -- Charles F. Kettering
Remain confident in the potential of the situation. Always. Remember the zig-zag course, remember to not seek validation, remember to not defend. Do not judge things by their outer appearance, walk on allow it to unfold ------------------------------------------------------ The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott --------------------------------------------------------- I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself.
Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others --
which no other man can ever know. - -- Joseph Conrad ---------------------------------------------------------------- Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. - A.W. Pinero --------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much.
We're all on the road to the grave --
but there's no need to be in the passing lane." -Robert Orben ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Fall seven times, stand up eight." --Japanese Proverb ---------------------------------------------------------- The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs. - Vance Havner ---------------------------------------------------------------- Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.
- -- Thomas Jefferson advising his daughter Martha, 1787. --------------------------------------------------------------------- What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others. - Arthur Schopenhauer ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. - Charles Lamb ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...
to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it! - Mother Teresa ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall. - Confucius ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. - Wilma Askinas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. - William J. H. Boetcker ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. - Thomas Carlyle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength. - Anonymous ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. - Francois Fenelon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. - Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893), British theologian and classicist --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. - Paul Goodman --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish historian and essayist ------------------------------------------------ Just because there is a road, it doesn't mean it leads anywhere. Just because we cannot see a destination doesn't mean there isn't one. ----------------------------------------------- It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside. ---------------------------------------------- The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ---------------------------------------------------- We cant solve our problems by using the same kind of thinking as we used when we created them ---------------------------------------------------------------- Be the change you want to see in the world. ----------------------------------------------------------- Time is fun when you are having flies. kermit ---------------------------------------------------------- Well, I'm sure we can resolve this in a mature way. Right, Mr. Poopypants? -- Leslie Nielsen ---------------------------------------------------------- never work for someone that has more problems than you. ---------------------------------------------------------- Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- H. H. Williams ---------------------------------------------------------- When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her? -- Montaigne ---------------------------------------------------------- Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -- Doris Mortman -------------------------------------------------------------- Fiction reveals truths than reality obscures. -- Jessamyn West --------------------------------------------------------------- Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. -------------------------------------------------------------- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. --------------------------------------------------------------- "By the time a man realizes that his father was usually right, he has a son who thinks he's usually wrong." ------------------------------------------------------------------ "A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." - Jean De La Fontaine ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it." - Barry Farber ------------------------------------------------------------------ You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. -- Henry Ford ---------------------------------------------------------------- I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Disraeli ---------------------------------------------------------- Beware the barrenness of a busy life. -- Socrates --------------------------------------------------------- "I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion" - Jerome K. Jerome ---------------------------------------------------------------- If you can shape it in your mind, you will find it in your life. --------------------------------------------
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