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These are my views. If you don't like them, I have others, too. (--- Groucho Marx)
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. (--- Virginia Satir)
Our lives begin to end, the day we become silent about the things that matter. (--- Martin Luther King Jr.)
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. (--- Edward F. Halifax)
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. (--- Colin Powell)
The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, and wills. (--- Richard Needham)
A razor may be sharper than an axe, but it cannot cut wood. (--- African Proverb)
Paralyze resistance with persistence. (--- Woody Hayes)
It's not fortune, fame nor possessions that people leave behind that matter, but the name
People don't resist change. They resist being changed!
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. (--- Ann Landers)
An aphorism is never exactly true. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half. (--- Karl Kraus)
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. (--- Hesketh Pearson)
Contrary to popular myth, abusers do not suffer from anger management problems. They manage their anger just fine - whenever there are witnesses.
A girl and a guy can be 'just friends', but at one point or another they will fall for each other. Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever...
Marriage is like a belt. Too tight and it soon becomes uncomfortable. Too loose and the pants come off. But if it is just right, one doesn't even feel it!
All that is not given is lost.
It's never too little when you give all you've got. (--- Alfonso Milagro)
The person who criticizes others all the time is, in reality, unhappy with oneself. He or she concentrates on what's wrong with everything instead of what's right with it. This person concentrates on the specks of dust that may be found on any masterpiece and, as a result, goes through life missing the beauty and the wonders of life. (--- Earl Nightingale)
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. (--- Theodore Roosevelt)
At the end of life, we'll find that the only things we've lost were those we tried to keep.
Don't get upset about getting another year older. Birthdays are a case of mind over matter: If you don't mind, it doesn't matter!
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider. (--- E. M. Forster)
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. (--- Louis D. Brandeis)
Here is where the road divides, here is where we realize the sculpting of our Father's great design. Through time you've been a friend to me, now time is now the enemy, I wish we didn't have to say good-bye. But I know the road he chose for me is not the road he chose for you.
If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way.
The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past. (--– Brian Tracy)
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. (--- Winston Churchill)
Waiting for circumstances to change so you can feel good is like looking in a mirror waiting for your reflection to smile first.
Remember the poor. It costs nothing.
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. (--- Pythagoras)
The differences between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how we us them.
Life is a constant series of questions. Then when you finally get all the answers, it's over. So I plan to keep on asking questions. I'll die with my mouth still moving. (--- Bob Perks)
Attempting to love someone is hard; trying to get over someone you've attempted to love is even harder.
I have never seen or felt such compassion, than that which I have felt bestowed upon me by a woman. They truly are special creatures. I owe, to the ladies in my life, everything good, gentle and beautiful that I know. Few blessings I count more precious than that of the beauty of which the ladies I have known in my life have graced me with by their presence and their hearts.
I've learned that good byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace being there, memories (good or bad) will bring tears, and words will never replace feelings.
Why buy a buffalo, when you can get milk in the market.
A marriage might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. (--- Anthony Robbins)
Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools talk because they have to say something. (--- Plato)
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. (--- Zig Ziglar)
One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph.
In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.(--- Theodore Roosevelt)
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles. (--- Sun Tzu)
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it. (--- G.C. Lichtenberg)
What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more. (--- William J. H. Boetcker)
The hardest thing about growing up is that you have to do what's best for you even if it means breaking someones heart. Including your own.
Never question if you are in love or not, because if you are you wouldn't need to ask.
Intelligence is like a river. The deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
One who know does not speak, one who speaks does not know (--- Tao-Te-Ching)
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. (--- Elbert Hubbard)
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. (--- Orlando A. Battista)
I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father. (--- Greg Norman)
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. (--- William Butler Yeats)
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. (--- Sam Levenson)
The best years in a woman's life are those in which she is trying to get married.
"How busy" is not as important as "why busy". The bee is praised - the mosquito, swatted.
Even a mosquito does not get a slap on the back until he starts working.
There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honour it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again. (--- Gary Zukav)
There are three questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions (--- John Lubbock)
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.(--- James Baldwin)
When you think of your past love, you may view it as a failure. But when you find a new love, you view the past as a teacher. In the game of love, it doesn’t really matter who won or who lost. What is important is you know when to hold on and when to let go.
You cannot finish a book without closing its chapters. If you want to go on, then you have to leave the past as you turn the pages. Love is not destroyed by a single failure or won by a single caress. It is a lifetime venture in which we are always learning, discovering, and growing.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. (--- Frederick Douglas)
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or nation. (--- Oscar Wilde)
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl. (--- Benjamin Jowett)
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. (--- Theodore Roosevelt)
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others. (--- Indira Gandhi)
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Arguing with your Boss is like wrestling with a pig in mud. After a while you realize that while you are getting dirty, the pig is actually enjoying it.
Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk.
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? (--- George Eliot)
When they say the odds are against you, bet on your heart and prove them wrong.
Everyone needs to be loved, especially when they do not deserve it.
A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.
The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. (--- Madonna)
Your own doubt is your opponent's greatest strength. (--- Ralph S. Marston, Jr.)
You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. (--- Chuck Carlson)
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. (--- Dr. Laura Schlessinger)
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. (--- Sidney J. Harris)
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. (--- Christopher Morley)
Winners make decisions based on the future they desire, while losers make decisions based on the present they desire.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. (--- Sam Ewing)
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now, and do it. (--- William Durant)
The individual that discourages you is usually the one that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them. (--- Joseph Henry)
If in doubt go without.
You are the master of the unspoken word and the slave of the spoken word.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires, than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is the victory over self. (--- Aristotle)
A man is only as strong as the people that love him most.
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love? (--- Leo Buscaglia)
Blessed are those who's attitudes are shaped by their hopes, and not the hurts.