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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. (--- Charlie Tremendous Jones)
It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (--- Aristotle)
Remember, a bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.
Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit. (--- Mary Lou Retton)
The key to a woman's heart, is an unexpected gift, at an unexpected time.
I don't know if I'll ever make it. But you know something, if you're not shooting for the stars, you're not shooting.
Let any man examine his thoughts, and he will find them ever occupied with the past or the future. We scarcely think at all of the present; or if we do, it is only to borrow the light which it gives for regulating the future. The present is never our object; the past and the present we use as means; the future only is our end. Thus, we never live, we only hope to live. (--- Blaise Pascal)
Within all of us there is a storm. Some believe it will never end, but he who has faith in the heavens will weather any storm. (--- R. Kelly)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. (--- Henry David Thoreau)
Far away there 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 them. (--- Louisa May Alcott)
When on the ladder of success, don't let boys look up your dress!
Remember, you are the same today as you'll be in five years except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read. Choose both carefully. (--- Charlie Jones)
No matter how far you have travelled in the wrong direction; go back!
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. (--- B. C. Forbes)
The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy. (--- Jim Rohn)
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. (--- Brian Tracy)
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. (--- Marian Anderson)
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. (--- Dennis Green)
If you understand who you are and respect yourself, you will not see criticism as a problem but as an opportunity to become a better person. When you feel inadequate or imperfect, the criticism is threatening and makes you feel that you have to defend yourself. When you are secure - not perfect, but secure - you can listen to the criticism and consider its value. (--- Dr. Bernie Siegel)
Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. (--- Bertrand Russell)
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. (--- Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. (--- Joseph Joubert)
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
What do we live for; if not to make life less difficult for each other.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough.
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
One of these days you're gonna love me. You'll sit down by yourself and think about the time you turned from me and what good friends we might have been. And then you're gonna sigh a little, and maybe even cry a little, but one of these days you're gonna love me.
Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman, but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man.
It breaks your heart to see the one you love is happy with someone else, but it's more painful to know that the one you love is unhappy with you.
If I could rearrange the alphabets, then I would put U and I together.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. (--- Thomas Henry Huxley)
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. (--- Georges Bernanos)
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. (---Marya Mannes)
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. (--- Jim Rohn)
Only boring people get bored
If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated of it. (--- Henry Ward Beecher)
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. (--- Epictetus)
To be wronged or robbed is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
He will succeed if he remains firm in principle and goes beyond selfish considerations to mingle freely with those who do not share his feelings, as well as those who do.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal
A relationship lost because of honesty wasn't worth having to begin with. (--- Ellen Kreidman)
If two people agree on everything, then one of them is really not necessary in the relationship. (--- Ellen Kreidman)
The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority. The test of courage comes when we are in a minority.
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her body. (--- John Vanbrugh)
Whatever man has achieved, and more, can be achieved by mankind.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice sweetness, insight.
When Descartes said: "I think, therefore I Am." Should we therefore conclude that when we don't think we are no more?
One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the National Debt.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse (--- Anne-Sophie Swetchine)