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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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"Same old slippers, same old rice, same old glimpse of paradise."
"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."
"A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement."
"Class is... the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."
"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all: This, too, shall pass."
"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim."
"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - support rather than illumination."
"Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead."
"Begin difficult things while they are easy, do great things when they are small. The difficult things of the world must once have been easy. The great things must once have been small... A thousand mile journey begins with one step."
"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have."
"I must follow them, I am their leader."
"I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor."
"All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true."
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
"The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results."
"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life."
"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
"He who limps still walks."
"Stupidity is the mother of crime. But the fathers are frequently geniuses."
"What is Chaos? It is the Order destroyed during Creation."
"When everything has to be right, something isn't."
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
"Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not. Sex is not crime. Describing sex is."
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next."
"It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music."
"When a great culture dies in a vacuum with nothing to take its place, chaos is almost sure to ensue. Today, there is a sense of a vacuum in that aspect of the present we call future, drawing us towards something we simply cannot conceive. The vacuum will be filled. If humor and intelligence and compassion are to have a hand in filling it, there is little time to waste. There is little time for the painstaking work of creating a new politics, a new education, a new culture that starts with what is best in the old -- leaving off dominance and greed and narrow individualism but not respect for the personal nor appetite for exploration; following joy but not fearing pain."
"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well."
"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
"Laughter is by definition healthy."
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."
"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."
"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."
"He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front."
"You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough."
"When the reviews are bad I tell my staff they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank."
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
"Hypothetically, time might be smooth or rough, prickly or silky, hard or soft. But in this world, the texture of time appears to be sticky... individual people become stuck in some point of their lives and do not get free."
"Most people have learned how to live in the moment... each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own... It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity."
"A friend is one who has the same enemies you have."
"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe."
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."
"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men."
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
"You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
"Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse."
"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."
"The little things are most worthwhile - quiet word, a look, a smile."
"I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being."
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
"You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose."
"Slow and steady wins the race."
"I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things."
"I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex."
"Television: The literature of the illiterate, the culture of the lowbrow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses."
"If you can't accept losing, you can't win."
"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."
"Winning isn't everything. It is the only thing."
"A generation which ingores history has no past -- and no future."
"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."
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."
"I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for - first, a little and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better."
"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard think makes it impossible."
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction"
"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself."
"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."
"Who love not women, wine, and song remains a fool his whole life long."
"One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes."
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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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