Mahatma Gandhi
The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.
Danah Boyd, apophenia, 01-08-07
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W. N. Taylor
I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.
Totie Fields
She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
Henry James
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
Robert Byrne
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Edward Teller
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Michel de Montaigne
It is only the first step that is difficult.
Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
Ivan Pavlov
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01-15-04
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
Sir William Osler
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you’ll know right away what you amount to.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Words are a heavy thing…they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn’t fly.
Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992
Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don’t give up after a mistake, when something doesn’t come easily but we throw ourselves into trying,when we’re not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Friedan
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Saint Jerome
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Sir Francis Bacon
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Henry Winkler
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
Washington Irving
What if this weren’t a hypothetical question?
Unknown
Men who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre Lorde
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.
David Russell, I Heart Huckabee’s
No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?
Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City,
Escape from New York, 2000
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.
Leonard Bernstein
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble
to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell’s Life of Johnson
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar, “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, 1984
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
Gail Pool
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards–and living up to them–is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put
into it.
Seth Godin, Seth Godin’s Blog, 07-28-06
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar, Esar’s Comic Dictionary
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
Henry S. Haskins
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
Richard Lewis
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare, “All’s Well That Ends Well”, Act 1 Scene 1
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention,
Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
Liberace
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, October 2002
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Thomas Jefferson
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
J. G. C. Brainard
Stubbornness is also determination. It’s simply a matter of shifting from “won’t power” to “will power.”
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
Laurence J. Peter
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
Robert M. Hamilton
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal’s TV listing for
“The Wizard of Oz”
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
Barbara Tober
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody.
W. S. Gilbert
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don’t back down and don’t give up - then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.
Bob Dylan
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.
Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
There’s no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
Moliere
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicate
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
Goldie Hawn
Don’t get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that’s already broken! You can’t get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!
R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 11-06-06
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
Erica Jong
A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it’s a whisper.
Barry Neil Kaufman
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
Christina Baldwin
If your head is wax, don’t walk in the sun.
Benjamin Franklin
You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever ‘the old’ means for you.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.
Rita Mae Brown
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
In the end, everything is a gag.
Charlie Chaplin
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you’re doing.
Jessica Alba
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation.
Jack Nicklaus, ‘My Story’
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saadi
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Iris Murdoch, O Magazine, February 2004
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