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People are never satisfied
--My Dad
Don't miss out on what you have, in search of what you don't.
--CatTrek
Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them
--Joseph Joubert
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
--Len Wein
Comedy is tragedy--plus time
--Carol Burnett
It's a rare person who wants to hear, what he doesn't want to hear.
--Dick Cavett
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
--F.P. Jones
There are only two things to do with a problem: solve it, or eliminate the source.
---James Carter, B.T. Washington High
The highest reward for a person's toil, is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
--John Ruskin
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal
--E. Joseph Cossman
Love does not seek loopholes.
--Watchtower 9/1/96 pg 17
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
--Albert Einstein
Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.
--Unknown
Love is that condition in which another's happiness is essential to your own.
--Robert A. Heinlein
It's not a matter of mapping stars...it's the possibilities of existance
---Q (All Good Things... - the final episode)
REMEMBER! No matter where you go, there you are.
---Doug Foss
If you want to be interesting, be interested; if you want to be pleasing, be pleasant; if you want to be loved, be loveable; if you want to be helped, be ready to help.
--WT 11/15/96 pg 18
Patience in a moment of anger will spare you a hundred days of anguish.
--Chinese Proverb.
A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are
stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.
--Yanni
Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not charge because you are a vegitarian.
---Shari R.
Tolerant men are never stupid, and stupid men are never tolerant.
--Chinese proverb
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
--Voltaire
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
--Peter Ustinov
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
--Cullen Hightower
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
--Charles F. Kettering
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
--Sir Winston Churchill
Experience is one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job.
--Unknown
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
--Unknown
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
--Frank Tyger
The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.
--D. Chopra
Most of the troubles in life are the result of saying "yes" too soon, or "no" too late.
--Unknown
Things may come to those who wait..but only the things left by those who hustle.
--Unknown
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
--Mark Twain
Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not anger.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30
years of his life.
--Muhammed Ali
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
--Bertrand Russell
The graveyards are full of indispensable people.
--Charles de Gaulle
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.
--Voltaire
Life is easier to take than you'd think: all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
--Kathleen Norris
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
--Marcus Aurelius
No great genius ever existed without some touch of madness.
--Seneca
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.
--Alexander Graham Bell
If you build castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
--Henry David Thoreau
...If you take a frown and turn it upside down, the person you are holding by the ankles will probably pass out after awhile.
--Unkown
What you are is God's gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to God.
--Unknown
If you can keep your head while others around you are losing theirs, you've probably misjudged the situation
--Unknown
To make a seesaw work, you have to take turns being down.
--Unknown
Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dirt.
--Unknown
You think your book bag is the heaviest until you pick up someone else's by mistake.
--Unknown
Crying gets you more attention, but not more friends.
--Unknown
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
--George Washington Carver
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
--Unknown
Life is a book on fire, read by the light of its own burning pages.
-- Unknown
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
--Anonymous
Reprove a friend in secret, but praise him before others.
--Leonardo da Vinci
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. This is the first lesson to be learned.
--Thomas Henry Huxley
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
--Elbert Hubbard
The best rule of thumb for character is to remember that if you can't be big, don't belittle.
--Unknown
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
--Maurice Seitter
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by the wrong tone of voice.
--Unknown
(About friends) You are the time-worn pages of my favorite book.
--Unknown
The future is that time when you'll wish you'd done what you aren't doing now.
-- Unknown
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
--Montesquieu
Too many people are ready to carry the stool when the piano needs to be
moved.
--Unknown
Going to worship doesn't make you a holy person any more than going to a garage makes you a car.
--Unknown
Fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
--Chinese Proverb
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
--George Bernard Shaw
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
--W.H Auden
If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.
--Unknown
Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out.
--Unknown
I am better than I was yesterday, and worse than I will be tomorrow.
--Unknown
True friends are those who when you've made a fool of yourself don't think you have done a permanent job.
--jan
Empathy is your pain in my heart.
--Watchtower 8/1/97 pg 15
There are two kinds of men that never amount to much, those who cannot do what they're told to do, and those who can do nothing else.
--Cyrus H
Keep your words sweet you may have to eat them.
--Unknown
Very few people are big enough to become small enough for God to use. --Unknown
A pat on the back moves you forward, A finger in the face moves you backward
--Unknown
Many are to busy making a living to make life worth living.
--Unknown
Reasons that sound good aren't always good sound reasons.
--Unknown
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
--Unknown
You can give without loving, But you can't love without giving.
--Unknown
If you want long friendships, develope a short memory.
--Unknown
Humans were made to run on love, and they do not function well on anything else.
--Unknown
We don't need more to be thankful for, we need to be more thankful for what we have.
--Unknown
Unity= You-N-I
The best rule of thumb for character is to remember that if you can't be big, don't belittle.
--Unknown
The future is that time when you'll wish you'd done what you aren't doing now.
--Unknown
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
--Montesquieu
Equal treatment is not always fair and fair treatment is not always equal.
--Unknown
Love is the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the
recongnition.
--Unknown
The best way to keep your word is not to give it.
--Unknown
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
--Mother Theresa
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it, it's only good for wallowing in.
--Unknown
When you do what you love, the necessary resources will follow.
--Unknown
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
--Unknown
The thing always happens that you believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
--Unknown
Creative ability could be discribed as a type of learning process where teachers and pupil are located in the same individual.
--Unknown
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
--Unknown
My philosophy is that not only are your responsible for your life, but doing the best at the moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
--Unknown
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
--Unknown
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.
--Unknown
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
--Unknown
He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.
--Unknown
The only way to approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
--Unknown
Facts do not cease to exsist because they are ignored.
--Unknown
The chains of habit are to weak to be felt until they are to strong to be broken.
--Uknown
Men always want to be a women's first love; women have a more subtle
instinct; what they like is to be a man's last romance.
--Unknown
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
--Unknown
When one door of happinesses closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which opened for us.
--Helen Keller
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
--Unknown
When your were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice. --Unknown
You can't depend on your judgement when you imagination is out of focus.
--Unknown
The reputation of a thousand years may be determinded by the conduct of one hour.
--Chinese Proverb
The greatest gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduced yourself to, had life not done it for you.
--Unknown
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
--Unknown
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
--Unknown
To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
--Unknown
A possitive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
--Unknown
No matter how long you nurse a grudge, it won't get better.
--Unknown
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain---and most do.
--Unknown
Words of haste....do friendships waste.
--Unknown
If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.
--Unknown
Forgiveness is a funny thing; it warms the heart and cools the sting. --Unknown
Seems to me marriage is alot like skydiving, yet so many people forget to pull the ripcord.
--Curt
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S
relativity.
--Albert Einstein
Dwelling on negative things is like writing a nasty letter to yourself, reading it and then becoming offended by it.
--Unknown
Each day provides its own gifts.
--Martial
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
--Blaise Pascal
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
--Sir Winston Churchill
The image of illusion is shattered by the hammer of
reality.
--Len Deighton
Before you start a search, it's a good thing to have some
idea of what you're looking for.
--Cyril Hare
How can you have scandal in an age which has abolished
responsibility?
--Reginald Hill
Misdirected enthusiasm is worse than apathy.
--Kenneth Hopkins
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
When a person tampers with the truth there is nearly always
some unexpected little detail to trip him up.
--D. M. Devine
There are always so many stupid little details to take
one's mind off a larger problem.
--Nicholas Freeling
Everything ends.
--Dick Francis
Never explain. A friend who needs explanation isn't worth
keeping.
--Erle Stanley Gardner
Once milk becomes sour, it cannot be made sweet again.
--Erle Stanley Gardner
I wouldn't want to live unless I could work for a living.
--Erle Stanley Gardner
You can't go out shooting without ammunition.
--Michael Gilbert
Eccentricity is one of the hallmarks of strong characters
and original minds.
--Andrew Garve
For everything there's a price. You pay in money or time or
sweat or blood, but you pay.
--K. C. Constantine
To reduce a romantic ideal to a working plan is a very
difficult thing.
-- Erskine Childers
To be cleaver enough to want all that money, one must be
stupid enough to want it.
--G. K. Chesterton
When in doubt don't do anything.
--Peter Cheyney
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation
and having one ally.
--G. K. Chesterton
People who steal try to make up for their lack of identity
with things that belong to others.
--Gerald A. Browne
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable
qualities at least one can be a nuisance.
--Margery Allingham
No stupid man ever suspected himself of being anything
but clever.
--Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Scholars are always putting two and two together and making
five.
--Ted Allbeury
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he
can't help himself.
--Henry Morgan
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
--Oliver Goldsmith
(personal note.. I think of the Evolution Theory..)
The only thing harder to get rid of than a winter cold is a
1973 Ford Pinto.
--Aileen Foster
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
--Malcolm Forbes
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create
difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
--Joseph de Maistre
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness--a harsh
nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength
and athletic proportion.
--William Cullen Bryant
n order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow
ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our
normal sensibility.
--Joseph Conrad
There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up
with the losers.
--Robert Orben
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is
trying to please everybody.
--Bill Cosby
Security is a kind of death.
--Tennessee Williams
The one who loves the least controls the relationship.
--Dr. Robert Anthony
A relationship is what happens when two people are waiting
for something better to come along.
--Anonymous
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
--Aldous Huxley
Psychoanalysis makes quite simple people feel they're
complex.
--S. N. Behrman
Nostalgia is just another form of depression.
--Al Giordino
If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the
solution may become your next problem.
--Dr. Robert Anthony
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
--Rita Mae Brown
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
--Kenny Rogers
I have a new philosophy. I am only going to dread one day
at a time.
--Charles Schultz
Concentrated effort along a single line of endeavor is
boring, but it makes people rich.
--Lee Winkler
A reminder for everyone spending money like there's no
tomorrow. There is a tomorrow.
--Ad for Chase Manhattan Bank
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs
repairing.
--Billy Rose
One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help.
--Dennis Wholey
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
--Michael Evans
If you are lonely while you're alone, you are in bad
company.
--Jean-Paul Sartre
Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
--John Lennon
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up
with the rain.
--Dolly Parton
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
--Indira Gandhi
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming,
frightful, sweet, bitter, and that it is everything.
--Anatole France
As long as you're going to think anyway, think big.
--Donald Trump
You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.
--B. C. Forbes
Friendships that have stood the test
Of time and change are surely the best
Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray
Friendship never knows decay.
--Unknown
He drew a circle that shut me out--
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win;
We drew a circle that took him in!
--Edwin Markham
Mohandas Gandi's "Seven Blunders of the World"
1. Wealth Without Work
2. Pleasure Without Conscience
3. Knowledge Without Character
4. Commerce Without Morality
5. Science Without Humanity
6. Worship Without Sacrifice
7. Politics Without Principle
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