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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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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
"We live on an insignificant plant of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
"Life is a song -- sing it.
"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it."
"Nothing good ever ends."
"Excellence costs a great deal."
"Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists."
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us."
"Trouble shared is trouble halved."
"Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed."
"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats."
"The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition."
"One should count each day a separate life."
"The things that are hardest to bear are sweetest to remember."
"Be who you are and say what you feel cause people who mind don't matter, and people who matter don't mind."
"You have brains in your head,
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
"Words may be false and full of art; sighs are the natural language of the heart."
"Love sought is good, but given unsought, better."
"No profit grows where there is no pleasure ta'en."
"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
"Who steals my purse steals trash: 'tis something, nothin, 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands. But he who filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed."
"Do not unto others as you would they should do unto you; their taste may not be the same."
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
"A ship in harbor is safe - but that's not what ships are for."
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living."
"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."
"Trouble is a 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."
"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope."
"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten."
"Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited."
"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach."
"When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, I am convinced that he is an unalterable fool."
"Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur."
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."
"Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away."
"Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance is lighting a fire underneath his own home."
"Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest."
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
"The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready made opinions into his head."
"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."
"You live and learn. Or, you don't live long."
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
"I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived."
"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
"You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place."
"People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under."
"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself."
"To do two things at once is to do neither."
"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
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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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