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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am,
then I can change.
- Carl Rogers, Psychologist
The tragedy of life is not that we die but is what dies inside a
man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go
on creating oneself endlessly.
- Henri Bergson
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never
really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch --
what make you go beyond the norm.
- Cicely Tyson
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
- Arnold H. Glasow
All men die, but some never live.
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
- Martha Grimes, Writer
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish
we didn't.
- Erica Jong, Author
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!
You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.
- Merry Browne
The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying.
-- Paul C. Roud
Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become
better. But don't be disappointed when they are not;
it helps them to keep trying.
- Merry Browne
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
- Jim Ryun
Some people so treasure the truth that they use it with great economy.
- H. Ray Goldnor
Love doesn't make the world go around. Love is what makes the
ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll
find you've done it.
- Pam Shaw
It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.
-- Casey Robinson
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the
optimist has a better time on the trip.
- Daniel L. Reardon
Optimism is an intellectual choice. - Diana Schneider
An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears
the same may be true.
- Doug Larson
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know
the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself
and another to the multitude without finally getting
bewildered as to which may be the true.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A bad attitude is like a flat tire: You can't go anywhere unless you
change it.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in
what direction we are moving.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Success is to be measured not so much by the positions a man reaches
in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to
succeed.
-- Booker T. Washington
You are not really successful until someone claims he sat beside you
in school.
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest
tragedy a man may have.
-- Arthur E. Morgan
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
-- Geena Davis
Only God is in a position to look down on anyone.
-- Sarah Brown
You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. - Rep. Dick Amey
If you cannot forsake the hate for your enemy, you sow the seed of
hatred among yourself.
- President Clinton for Rabin's eulogy
To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.
-- Stanislaus I
No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.
-- Althea Gibson
A bore is a fellow talker who can change the subject to his topic
of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
- Laurence J. Peter
People don't grow old. When they stop growing, they become old.
We live by encouragement and die without it -- slowly, sadly, and
angrily.
- Celeste Holm, Actor
Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would
like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- Gen. George Patton
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the
impossible.
A measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained
from your success.
- Cullen Hightower
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first
or last time. then your time on earth will be filled with
glory.
- Kendall Hailey
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. to the problems
of your life, you are the only solution.
- Jo coudert
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one
which has opened for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Presence is more than just being there.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the
woman who is wearing it.
- Yves Saint Laurent
What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.
- Kitty O'Neill Collins
He who is able to love himself is able to love others also; he who
has learned to overcome self-contempt has overcome his
contempt for others.
- Paul Tillich, Theologian/Philosopher
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature ...
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
The greatest good is what we do for one anothr.
- Mother Teresa
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon
him, and to let him know you trust him.
- Booker T. Washington
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit
their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and
needs of others.
- Sidonie Gruenberg, Psychotherapist
A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.
- David B. Coblitz
You're never a loser until you quit trying.
- Mike Ditka
There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering
-- and even more difficult.
- Harry and Joan Mier
The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works,
is self-discipline.
- Walter Kiechel III
Pride is tasteless, colorless and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest
thing to swallow.
- August B. Black
Sound travels slowly. Sometimes the things you say when your kids
are teen-agers don't reach them till they're in their 40s.
What we do not understand we do not possess.
- Goethe
No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.
- Jim Fiebig
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from
our children.
- Native American Proverb
Overheard at the bank: "why is it that a fool and his money never
appear when you need a loan?"
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