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No one has completed his education who has not learned to live with an insoluable
problem.
Edmund J Kiefer
If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the
greatest fact of all.
Jim Fiebig
Dig the well before you are thirsty.
Chinese Proverb
The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying.
Paul Roud
Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds
that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the
gentle Autumn’s rain. I am the swift uplifting rush when you awaken in the morning
hush of quiet birds circles flight. I am the soft star that shines at night. Do not stand
at my grave and cry—I am not there, I did not die.
Unknown
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost
something.
Life’s Little Instruction Book
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers
Mignon McLaughlin
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
Lord, thou knowest better than I know myself that I am growing older and will some day
be old.
Keep me from getting talkative and particularly from the fatal habit of thinking I must
say something
on every subject and on every occasion.
Release me from craving to try to straighten out everybody’s affair.
Keep my mind free from the recital of endless details
give me wings to get to the point. I ask for grace enough to listen to the tales of
others’ pains. Help
me to endure them with patience.
But seal my lips on my own aches and pains, they are increasing and my love of rehearsing
them is
becoming sweeter as the years go by.
Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally it is possible that I may be mistaken.
Keep me reasonably sweet; I do not want to be a saint—some of them are so hard to
live with—but
a sour old woman is one of the crowning works of the devil.
Make me thoughtful, but not moody; helpful, but not bossy. With my vast store of wisdom,
it seems
a pity not to use it all, but thou knowest, Lord, that I want a few friends at the end.
The Nun’s Prayer (written in the 17th century)
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and
which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
M. Forster
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
Most people are born and years later die without really having lived at all. They play
it safe and tiptoe through life with no aspiration other than to arrive at death safely.
Tony Campolo, Carpe Diem
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history
– with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
William Lloyd George
I never think of what I said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous
statements on a given question, but to be consistent with the truth as it may present
itself to me at a given moment.
Mohnandas Gandhi
They fuck you up, your mom and dad,
They may not mean to, but they do.
They give you all the faults they had,
And add a few extra, just for you.
Philip Larkin
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it’s just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith
When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you
can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
E.W. Howe
Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for
acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark Twain
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s
work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
…it is not through sin that he opposes God. The Devil’s strategy for
our times is to make trivial human existence and to isolate us from one another while
creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands, or economic
anxieties.
C.S. Lewis
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their
prejudices
William James
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Tacitus
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most time he will pick hemself up and
carry on.
Winston Churchill
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
If the people in a democracy are allowed to do so, they will vote away the freedoms
which are essential to that democracy.
Snell Putney
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s
life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Longfellow
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that’s a really
good argument; my position is mistake," and then they would actually change their
minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t
happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes
painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that
happened in politics or religion.
Carl Sagan
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what
happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
Booth Tarkington
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
William G. McAdoo
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people
seriously.
K. Chesterson
How can we be wrong when we’re so sincere?
Charlie Brown
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious
conviction.
Pascal
Why do we get angry about what we believe" Because we don not really believe it.
Or else what we pretend to be defending as the truth is really our self-esteem. A man of
sincerity is less interested in defending the truth than in stating it clearly, for he
thinks that if the truth be clearly seen, it can very well take care of itself.
Thomas Merton
when sitting in a circle it is very important that you observe the other members of the
group, most especially the person sitting directly opposite you. That person is spirit
reflection of yourself. The things you see in that individual that you admire are
qualities within yourself that you wish to make more dominant. The actions, appearances,
and behavior that you do not like are things about yourself that need working on. You
cannot recognize what you deem to be good or bad in others unless you yourself have the
same strengths and weaknesses at some level of your being.
Marlo Morgan
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger
and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of
energy which found no outlet in our quiet life
Leo Tolstoy
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were
rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were
not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. The hospitality was as cold as
the ices.
Henry David Thoreau
Time and space are modes in which we think, and not conditions in which we live
Einstein
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman
church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any
church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine
The last Christian died on the cross.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian
Religion.
George Washington
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