| Quote | Author |
| "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" | Hunter S. Thompson |
| Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. | Mark Twain |
| One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
| Rabbi Harold Kushner
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| Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
| Mark Twain
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| Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
| Henry James
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| "You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action." | Anthony Robbins |
| "If you don`t like something, change it. If you can`t change it, change your attitude. Don`t complain." | Maya Angelou |
| "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better." | John Updike |
| Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
| Pablo Picasso
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| It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
| Sally Kempton
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| Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
| Aristotle, `Nicomachean Ethics`
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| To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
| Anatole France
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| God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
| Thomas H. Huxley
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| I`m glad I don`t have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
| Mignon McLaughlin
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| "The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life." | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
| Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
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| Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
| Reggie Leach
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| Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
| George Sewell
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| "Always be a first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else." | Judy Garland |
| Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let every on know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
| James A. Garfield
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| Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
| Liberace
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| The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
| Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
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| Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
| Paul Theroux, in The Washington Post
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| EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for something, though we’re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.
| Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2003
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| I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we`re allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
| Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
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