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"Age doesn't always bring wisdom, sometimes age comes alone."--Unknown

"Be careful what rut you choose. You may be in it the rest of your life."--Unknown

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."--Jim Rohn

"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."--Mignon McLaughlin

"To me good health is more than just exercise and diet. It's really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself."--Angela Lansbury

"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present."--Albert Camus

"The love you take / Is equal to the love you make."--John Lennon & Paul McCartney

"Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time."--Isabelle Adfani

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."--Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"He who knows others is wise; / He knows himself is enlightened."--Lao-Tzu

"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing."--William Feather

"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third!"--Marge Piercy

"Happiness is a function of accepting what is."--Werner Erhard

"Never explain -- your friends do not need it and you enemies won't believe you anyway."--Elbert Hubbard

"It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to- day basis."--Margaret Bonano

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."--Thomas Szasz

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since after all you cannot make yourself as you wish."--Unknown

"People cannot change the truth, but the truth can change people."--Unknown

"A man can fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else."--Unknown

"Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have."--Leigh Steinberg

"Joy is not in things, it is in us."--Benjamin Franklin

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to- day basis."--Margaret Bonnano

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."--Charles Caleb Colton

"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends."--Czech proverb

"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."--Sacha Guitry

"Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep."--Dr. Samuel Johnson

"Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness."--Jean Vanier

"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got."--Art Buchwald

"Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad."--Christina Rosetti

"When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."--Katherine Mansfield

"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."--Colette

"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."--Irving Berlin

"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."--Stan Smith

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."--William James

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one."--Elbert Hubbard

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."--John F. Kennedy

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."--Ivy Baker Priest

"Nothing is easier than to keep a secret: there needs no more than to shut one's mouth."--Unknown

"Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have of our words, the more successful our adjustment will be."--Bergan Evans

"Envy is an insult to oneself."--Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures."--Bernard M. Baruch

"If anyone wants to make himself invisible, there is no surer way than to become poor."--Unknown

"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another."--Condorcet

"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking."--Alfred Korzybski

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."--Goethe

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."--Cardinal Newman

"Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness."--Alfred de Musset

"He is lifeless that is faultless."--English proverb

"Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it."--Unknown

"It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it."--Seneca

"The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do."--Donald Riggs

"If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more."--Brian Koslow

"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."--Leonardo da Vinci

"To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him... two."--Norman Douglas

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."--John Wooden

"A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work."--John Lubbock

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."--Albert Camus

"If your heart gets broken by the one you truly love, don't let go of the love for the person, but let go of the person!"--Unknown

"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."--Herbert Gasser

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."--Dwight D. Eisenhower

"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."--Martha Graham

"What poison is to food, self-pity is to life."--Oliver C. Wilson

"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich."--Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self- centeredness. It fogs our vision."--Unknown

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us."--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."--Nicholas Murray Butler

"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble."--Moliere

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."--James A. Garfield

"People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them."--Brian Koslow

"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."--Anatole France

"Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."--Unknown

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."--Rabbinic saying

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."--James F. Byrnes

"If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin."--Katharine B. Hathaway

"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes."--Hugh Prather

"If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so."--Eric Bentley

"Wise men don't need advise. Fools don't take it."--Benjamin Franklin

"People living deeply have no fear of death."--Anais Nin

"Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues."--Cullen Hightower

"He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow."--Unknown

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like to be taught."--Winston Churchill

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."--John Ruskin

"Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories."--Felix Cohen

"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them."--Michel de Montaigne

"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."--Lyndon B. Johnson

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."--Charles Dickens

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument."--William G. McAdoo

"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away."--Sir Arthur Helps

"An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to."--Laurence J. Peter

"A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through."--Laurence J. Peter

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."--Robert Frost

"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."--Dale Carnegie

"The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."--Thomas Edison

"The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working."--Ernest Newman

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