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Gloria Gaither


We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

Hesiod


The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze


A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Victor Hugo


What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love

Hellen Keller


Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Spencer W. Kimball


The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

Desiderius Erasmus


War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Thomas a Kempis


Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Annie Dillard, "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998


How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Mahatma Gandhi


Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.

Marcel Archard


The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Samuel Paterson


Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

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Maya Angelou


Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Edwin Markham


The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Napolean Bonaparte


A leader is a dealer in hope.

Edwin Markham


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.

Francis Crawford


To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Bob Wells


For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Publilius Syrus


Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

Robertson Davies


Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Geoffrey Neighor


I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum what's the sound of one hand clapping My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else.

R. A. Butler


Politics is largely a matter of heart.

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Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

E. M. Cioran


Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Victor Hugo


Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

James Branch Cabell


There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Trey and Matt Stone Parker


I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Charles Rosin


There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

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