If something anticipated arrives too late, it finds us numb, wrungout from waiting, and we feel, nothing at all. The best things arrive ontime.
Dorothy Gilman
To manipulate someone, shows how little you respect them.
Unknown
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small peoplealways do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can becomegreat.
Mark Twain
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to thething itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power torevoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are reallimits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Malcolm Gladwell
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was toadd to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only wayto make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make himuntrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Henry L. Stimson (1867 - 1950)
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millionsof dollars given in a humiliating way.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfatherwas.
Irish Proverb
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the worldtells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice,and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's lastis to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it,requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
La Fontaine
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do againstcold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will haveno power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience whenyou meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex yourmind.
Leonardo da Vinci
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneousdelight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e e cummings
For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
Dag Hammarskjold
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek themwith our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize thatwe ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life.Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless.Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition tothe pain?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vsdesire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It mayseem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in anew direction. But at least youíll feel alive.
Meri Williams
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in whichyou really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comesalong.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deterus from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it'sthe size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthlessabout it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.
Hugh Macleod
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice whatwe are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that givelife flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and weretender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessonsfrom those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage withyou?
Walt Whitman
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in tormentif you do not trust enough.
Frank Crane
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can havemore happiness.
Nicole Kidman
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorableas one's self!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in thateternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earthtogether, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.
Archibald MacLeish
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when theywere supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them onthe defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
Harry S Truman
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimesour actions are questions not answers.
John Le Carre
Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.
Milan Kundera
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birdssang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanismsof friendship.
Colette
A man does not insist on physical beauty in a woman who builds up hismorale. After a while he realizes that she is beautiful - he just hadn'tnoticed it at first.
from Time Enough For Love, by Robert Heinlein
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
Hasidic Saying
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimescheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people'sthinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own innervoice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything elseis secondary.
Steve Jobs
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies willnot believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
US author (1856 - 1915)
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable,you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is leftis a compromise.
Robert Fritz
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp andnoise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self,and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannotdo what they are told and those who can do nothing else.
Cyrus H. Curtis
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebodyelse. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own batthan by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
W. Somerset Maugham
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus.
Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC)
"He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. Their everythought is allied with power, and all obstacles are bravely met and wiselyovercome."
James Allen
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget,is a necessary condition for our existence.
Sholem Asch
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never reportwhat may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to concealit.
William Penn
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only wayto make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make himuntrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Henry L. Stimson
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakensus is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Ourself-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Carlos Castaneda
(Norm's note: He is correct about the ease and reasonsin which we are offended. But it is not self importance, but feeling superiourthat causes our anguish. Without self importance, how can we have selfrespect? If man is God's perfect reflection, is it not disrespecting Godto not have self importance?
This kind of muddled thinking also causes much anguish.)
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and youngalike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but andchiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell youthat virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money andevery other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching,and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievousperson.
Socrates
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story andhow their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their livesare more about the past than their future.
Chuck Palahniuk
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Frank Tyger
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look underfoot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your powerthan you think.
John Burroughs
Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt Cobain
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoesrevenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edward Chapin
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
Rod Steiger
The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstancesin which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.
Vaclav Havel
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you,but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out thatjudgment now.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really,if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself'.
Albert Einstein
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more originalthan our own.
Harold Bloom
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I willnot resign myself...
Trieu Thi Trinh
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but todo what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results ofwhich, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulatepassion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your companyneeds you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longerafford to pretend that isn't the case.
Hugh Macleod
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lieon the track of truth.
George Eliot
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater,broader and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny,and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where,the what.
Percy Cerutty
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat ispossible - not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorterour time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ), "A Wreath of Roses"
Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 12-29-05
The meek shall inherit the earth? Well... I don't think so. If by meekyou mean friendly and introverted, okay maybe, but if by meek you meanunwilling to take a chance, then never. If I was a betting man and I hadto wager on who I thought would inherit the earth, my money would be onthe curious.
Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
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