The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to
himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest these "It might have been!"
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Luck is the crossroads of opportunity and preparation.
Anonymous
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The world is a mirror of our mind.
Phra Ajarn Chah, one of Thailand's greatest monks and sage
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Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Chinese proverb
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Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
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A man is what he thinks about all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A teacher is indeed wise if he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you into the threshold of your own mind.
Confucius
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Those who stand for nothing are apt to fall for anything.
Anonymous
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Anonymous
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A mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Anonymous
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In view of the future or possible, we should live quite laxly and undefined in front, our outlines dim and misty on that side, as our shadows reveal an insensible perspiration toward the sun.
An apt description of Henry David Thoreau's philosophy, taken
from
Waldenpond Campfire
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At different stages of our lives, the signs of love may vary --
dependence,
attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief -- but at heart, the
source
is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with
each other, against every odd. We hurtle, bonded by blood or desire,
into
the question "What next?" -- our futures temporarily one, our pasts
conjoined
in unlikely, fragile alliance.
Love makes us larger and limits our possibilities. It changes our
history
even as it breaks a new path through the present. It may, through
accident
or inattention, through expediency or tragic circumstances, cease, but
once in place it can never afterward not have been.
Michael Norris
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It's not pining. It's passed on. This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to see its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. It's an ex-parrot.
John Cleese, from Monty Python's "The Dead Parrot" sketch.
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by reason.
Bertrand Russell
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When observed calmly, all things have their fulfillment.
Basho, Japan's great haiku, master penned this beautiful Zen
flavoured
sentence.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can do without.
Henry David Thoreau
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The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the
crowd.
The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one
has ever been.
Alan Ashley-Pitt
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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world
Sigmund Freud
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The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Walpole
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A snowflake never falls in the wrong place.
Zen saying.
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer
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Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't follow in the footsteps of the old poets, seek what they sought.
Masuo Basho
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Our characters are the result of our conduct...
Aristotle
* * *One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (from The Little Prince)
Life is a daring adventure or nothing.* * *
Helen Keller
Last updated June 2004