"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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- Bertrand Russell

"About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age."

- Gloria Pitzer

"A short saying often contains much wisdom."

- Sophocles

"God gives food but does not cook it."

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame."

- Erica Jong"A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver."

- Proverbs

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

- Confucius

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

- Cyril Connelly

"A good wife and health are man's best wealth."

"Every man must carry his own cross."

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed
indeed."

- Harold MacMillan

"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."
- Roseanne Barr

"A thing easy to get is easy to lose."

"When children stand quiet, they have done something wrong."

"When the student is ready, the master appears."

- Buddhistic proverb

"Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward
progress and peace."

- Ronald Reagan

"There is only one small letter between the words can and can't and that one letter will totally change
your destiny."

- Doug Firebaugh

"Failure teaches success."

"Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration."

- Claude Monet

"Honest hearts produce honest actions."

- Brigham Young

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

- Auguste Rodin

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."

- Rita Mae Brown

"Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

- Galileo

"Love is like the moon; when it doesn't increase, it decreases."

- Portuguese proverb

"Speak the truth and shame the devil."

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

- Eric Hoffer

"In politics, a man must learn to rise above principle."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

- Allan Bloom

"What is this talked of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?"

- Robert Frost

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emmerson

"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short."

- Confucius

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry
on."

- Walter Lipmann

"Rats desert a sinking ship."

"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose."

- Woody Allen
"After a storm comes a calm."

"Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today."

- Og Mandino

"Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right
or wrong."

- Richard Armour

"He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves."

"The days you work are the best days."

- Georgia O'Keefe

"The blind man's wife needs no make-up."

"If all the world were ugly, deformity would be her monster."

"It is the fancy, not the reason of things, that makes us so uneasy."

"There are tricks in every trade."

"Don’t halloo till you are out of the woods."

"Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"One good turn deserves another."

"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect."

- G. K. Chesterson

"Whoever is not ashamed of his sins, sins double."

"A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense."

- Proverbs

"I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be."

- M. M. Coady

"The man who knows most, forgives most."

"It is never crowded at the top."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No man is indispensable."

"Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather
than better."

- Jane Auer

"A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting bread."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Think much, speak little, write less."

- Italian proverb

"The sleeping fox catches no poultry."

- Benjamin Franklin

"I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you."

- Ann Richards

"He laughs best who laughs last."

- English proverb

"To whom you reveal your secret, you yield your liberty."

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."

- Christopher Reeve

"He who seeks a friend without fault remains without."

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."

- French proverb

"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."

- Havelock Ellis

"At the center of your being you have the answer; You know who you are and you know what you
want."
- Lao Tzu

"Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress."

- Alfred A. Montapert

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Goals are dreams with deadlines."

- Diana Schart Hunt

"He that seeks trouble always finds it."

- English proverb

"Seldom set foot in your neighbor's house; too much of you, and he will hate you."

- Proverbs

"The tongue breaks bone, though itself has none."

"The world is a fine book but of little use to him who knows not how to read."

- Italian proverb

"If the cap fits, wear it."

"Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?"

- Robert Orben

"A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are."

- Chauncey Mitchell Depew

"It costs more to do ill than to do well."

"Strike while the iron’s hot."

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is
true."

- James Branch Cabell

"He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses."

- Indian proverb
"We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy."

- Martin L. Gross

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think, they'll hate
you."

- Don Marquis

"That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts; Of kindness and love."

- William Wordsworth

"Every age explores old errors and creates new ones."

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

- Stevie Wonder

"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both failed."

- Kin Hubbard

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."

- Jonathan Winters

"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom."

- Michel de Montaigne

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."

- Oprah Winfrey

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."

- Willa Cather

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."

- T. S. Eliot

"Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left."

"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done."

- Buddha
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no
ideas at all."

- Edward de Bono

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

- Ambrose Bierce

"When drink enters, wisdom departs."

"The first step is the hardest."

"Nothing is impossible to a willing heart."

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."

- Raymond Lindquist