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Below are many quotes that I find inspirational, philosophical, and/or humorous. There are some that I only partially believe in, but I have them posted as I feel they couldbe useful to others. If you have a quote that you think is inspirational, philosophical, humorousor any combination of those... send it to me via e-mail,and I will post it up as long as I approve of it. If your quote is posted, I will give you credit and provide a link to your page.
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"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure and stop to smell the flowers."
"I am only one. But I am one. I can’t do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
"The Japanese... have numbers that mean good luck, wealth, bankruptcy, and death. This fact complicates the Japanese telephone system."
"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them."
"When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky."
"Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis."
"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
"We will either find a way, or make one."
"To realize a dream, you must have a dream to realize."
"Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are."
"The real danger is not that machines will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like machines."
"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying, 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'"
"All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."
"Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow."
"A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence, to change."
"Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized."
"You are all you will ever have for certain."
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."
"A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means."
"We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it."
"Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music.'
"A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future."
"Never try to outstubborn a cat."
"The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it - once you can honestly say, "I don't know," then it becomes possible to get at the truth."
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian."
"If you always do what interests you, then at least one person is pleased."
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get -- only with what you are expecting to give -- which is everything."
"It is hard to fight with anger; for what it wants it buys at the price of soul."
"The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears."
"Living well is the best revenge."
"Love and a cough cannot be hid."
"Don't ever slam a door; you might want to go back."
"If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would pick more daisies. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones."
"It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant."
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
"Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it."
"I just got junk mail from this organization that wants me to save the forest. I sent them back a letter saying stop sending me the junk mail and save the forest yourself."
"This woman sneezed like 300 times. She said, 'There must be something in the air.' I said, 'Yeah, your germs.'"
"If you will it, it is no dream."
"If you are drowning and all you can think about is the fact that you can't swim, you are certainly going to die."
"Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world."
"A general inclination of all mankind is a perpetual and restless desire of power that ceases only in death."
"Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us."
"However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us."
"Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many."
"To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life."
"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
"The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post."
"Life is a great bundle of little things."
"Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one they where they sprang up."
"One of my old formulas is to be an enthusiast in the front part of your heart and ironical in the back."
"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."
"Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books."
"If it's a good idea... go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
"The most damaging phrase in the language is ‘We’ve always done it this way.’"
"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
"Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow."
"Concern should drive us into action and not into depression."
"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night."
"Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth."
"Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible."
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
"The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success."
"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
"Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear."
"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
"Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet."
"The bee isn't really that busy; it just can't buzz any slower."
"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
"One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures."
"Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop."
"The lecture method of instruction is based on the idea that the instructors' notebook can be transferred to the notebook of the student without passing through the brain of the student -- or the teacher."
"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."
"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
"The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so."
"Money no longer talks. It just goes without saying."
"Life is like an onion: You peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it."
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead."
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving -- by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done."
"I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford."
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
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If you have any quotes you would like to see on this page please e-mail me and I'll post them up. Thanks.
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