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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it.
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.
No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.
Love is strengthened by working through conflicts together.
The dreams you choose to believe in come to be.
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
A married man with a family will do anything for money.
War does not determine who is right, war determines who is left.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
It wasn't easier said than done if you did it faster than it took you to explain what you needed to do.
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.
One of a charmed pair must always supply what the other might lack.
In a perfect union, the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
The reason most individuals run into obstacles, is because they continue to focus on what is behind them.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
They that marry where they do not love, will love where they do not marry.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
There may be some things better than sex, and some things worse than sex. But there is nothing exactly like it.
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
The less you talk, the more you are listened to.
God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
I can give you a six word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through." (--- Eddie Rickenbacker)
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much. (--- Jim Rohn)
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. (--- Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau)
Once you have loved, you will always love. For what's in your mind may escape but what's in your heart will remain forever.
There are so many stars in the sky only some get noticed. Among those you choose to ignore is the one which was willing to shine for you forever even if your glance remained elsewhere.
You came from nowhere, and in no time got close... not to me, but to my heart.
Never love a love that hurts, never hurt a love that loves.
The measure of love is when you love without measure.
If the opportunity exists, I will find it. If not, I will create it (--- Stephen Sukman).
The greatest achievements of mankind have been strengths of knowledge and wisdom not from the mind but rather of the heart, where all things are created.
Each person you meet is in a specific stage of their life, a stage you may not have passed or not yet reached. Judging them by your standards and experience is therefore not only unfair, but could lead to unnecessary anger and frustration.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut (--- Ernest Hemingway)
The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you love them.
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. (--- Friedrich Nietzsche)
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self (--- Agnes Repplier)
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane (--- R. D. Laing)
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him (--- Aldous Huxley)
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind. (--- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr)
Don't let your past rent space in your head today. Move forward.
Success is not measured by what one brings but rather by what one leaves.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them (--- Walter Bagehot)
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us (--- Socrates)
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune (--- Socrates)
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste (--- Lucille Ball)
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do (--- Goethe)
Man knows more than he understands.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth (--- Alfred Adler)
Give God what is right... not what is left
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it (--- Margaret Thatcher)
The years teach much that the days never know. (--- Emerson)
The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.
Love without return of love is like a question without an answer.
In a separation, it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway (--- Mary Kay Ash)
A hard man is good to find (--- Mae West)
You don't have to love in words, because even through the silences, love is always heard.
Always speak the truth and you will never be concerned with your memory.
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You cannot reread a telephone call.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Marriage is the art of solving problems together... that you didn't have when you were alone.
I have discovered that those who constantly complain, will in their very circumstances constantly remain (--- Brian G. Jett)
He who beat his dog in the presence of his visitor should not blame the visitor for doing the same.
No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.
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.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered (--- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom)
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence (--- Vince Lombardi)
There is nothing so frustrating as expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. (--- John F. Kennedy)
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. (--- Confucius)
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. (--- Benjamin Franklin)
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."
The main accomplishment of almost all organised protests is to annoy people who are not in them.
You should not confuse your career with your life.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. (--- Alphonse de Lamartine)
Discussion is the exchange of ideas. Argument is the exchange of ignorance.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. (--- Kahlil Gibran)
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. (--- Richard Dawkins)
Money doesn't bring you happiness, but it enables you to look for it in more places.
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. (--- Hannah Arendt)
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. (--- Leo Buscaglia)
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward. (--- Lewis Carroll)
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
Teenage boys who whistle at girls are just going through a stage which will probably last fifty years.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. (--- Albert Einstein)
The older I grow, the better I was.
Some people read quotes for guidance, I read them to see if they are true. (--- John Arbizo)
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. (--- Demosthenes)