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"Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." 
— Douglas Adams
"The human spirit must prevail over technology." 
— Albert Einstein
"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." 
— Confucius
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible." 
— Maya Angelou
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." 
— Morris West
"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you." 
— John Wooden
"I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done." 
— Lucille Ball
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us." 
— Mencius
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." 
— Confucius
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." 
— Euripides
"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it." 
— Ayn Rand
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all." 
— Edward de Bono
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." 
— Yogi Berra
"Friendship is Love without his wings!" 
— Lord Byron
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." 
— William Shakespeare
"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness." 
— Dalai Lama
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing." 
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"You win the victory when you yield to friends." 
— Sophocles
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." 
— A. A. Milne
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." 
— G. K. Chesterton
"Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do." 
— Amelia Earhart
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." 
— Woody Allen
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." 
— Helen Keller
"Technology has to be invented or adopted." 
— Jared Diamond
"The best way out is always through." 
— Robert Frost
"America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others." 
— Parker Palmer
"I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you." 
— Maya Angelou
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." 
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round." 
— Ben Hogan
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." 
— Albert Einstein
"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it." 
— Toni Morrison
"One today is worth two tomorrows." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant." 
— Tony Robbins
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." 
— George Bernard Shaw
"It always seems impossible until it's done." 
— Nelson Mandela
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." 
— Oscar Wilde
"The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah." 
— Afrika Bambaataa
"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means." 
— Charles Kingsley
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." 
— Jim Elliot
"All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted." 
— Teresa of Ávila
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." 
— Aldous Huxley
"A man is not old as long as he is seeking something." 
— Edmond Rostand
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel." 
— Elizabeth Arden
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." 
— John F. Kennedy
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." 
— Aldous Huxley
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." 
— Leo Buscaglia
"I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential." 
— Dalai Lama
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." 
— Cicero
"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success." 
— Havelock Ellis
"If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." 
— Thomas Edison
"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness." 
— Dag Hammarskjöld
"Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for." 
— Mariella Frostrup
"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." 
— Margaret Chase Smith
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." 
— Bernard Shaw
"Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself." 
— Oprah Winfrey
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." 
— Laozi
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." 
— John C. Maxwell
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." 
— Nelson Mandela
"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." 
— Herodotus
"The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom." 
— William Hurt
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." 
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." 
— William Saroyan
"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably." 
— William C. Menninger
"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination." 
— Napoleon Hill
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." 
— William Arthur Ward
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." 
— Robert Frost
"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction." 
— Eckhart Tolle
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." 
— Martha Washington
"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." 
— Vince Lombardi
"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others." 
— Plato
"In the sky there are no tracks. Outside there is no recluse. There are no conditioned things that are eternal. There is no instability in the Buddhas." 
— The Buddha
"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others." 
— Tony Robbins
"It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn." 
— Hannah More
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious." 
— Thomas Aquinas
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless." 
— Pema Chödrön
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." 
— Albert Einstein
"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." 
— Benjamin Spock
"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being." 
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"May our hearts garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers." 
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." 
— Ivy Baker Priest
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." 
— Bernice Reagon
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." 
— Milton Berle
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance." 
— Akhenaten
"Love doesn't make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile." 
— Elizabeth Browning
"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose." 
— Richard Bach
"We are all something, but none of us are everything." 
— Blaise Pascal
"Whatever happens, take responsibility." 
— Tony Robbins
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." 
— Francis Bacon
"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B." 
— James A. Yorke
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." 
— Pablo Picasso
"Change in all things is sweet." 
— Aristotle
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." 
— Mother Teresa
"You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present." 
— Eckhart Tolle
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does." 
— Jane Austen
"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it." 
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Life is a progress, and not a station." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." 
— Walt Disney
"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible." 
— Hannah Arendt
"Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." 
— Seneca the Younger
"The years teach much which the days never know." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." 
— Henry Ford
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." 
— Thomas Edison
"He who knows himself is enlightened." 
— Laozi
"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement." 
— Alfred Adler
"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say." 
— Calvin Coolidge
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." 
— Thomas Paine
"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best." 
— Jerome
"Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith." 
— Gordon Hinckley
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." 
— Leonardo da Vinci
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." 
— Jean-Paul Sartre
"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy." 
— Arthur Ashe
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars." 
— Henry van Dyke Jr.
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." 
— Socrates
"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." 
— Tom Lehrer
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." 
— John Updike
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"Love and friendship exclude each other." 
— Jean de La Bruyère
"To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else." 
— Dalai Lama
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." 
— George S. Patton
"Do not scorn what you have received, nor envy the gains of others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind." 
— The Buddha
"As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be." 
— Saul Alinsky
"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." 
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." 
— Frank Herbert
"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." 
— Arthur Rubinstein
"Either you run the day or the day runs you." 
— Jim Rohn
"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing." 
— Margaret Thatcher
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." 
— Bruce Lee
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of." 
— Blaise Pascal
"Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself." 
— Henry Reed
"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique." 
— Walt Disney
"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, in every rill a sweet instruction flows." 
— Edward Young
"No garden is without its weeds." 
— Thomas Fuller
"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." 
— William Blake
"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." 
— Bruce Lee
"Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others" 
— The Buddha
"Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Well begun is half done." 
— Aristotle
"We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us." 
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure." 
— The Buddha
"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty." 
— Doris Day
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing." 
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." 
— Charlotte Brontë
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." 
— Laozi
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back." 
— Seneca the Younger
"No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today." 
— Brendan Behan
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." 
— William Shakespeare
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." 
— Oscar Wilde
"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." 
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues." 
— Abigail Adams
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." 
— Jane Wyman
"The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger." 
— Michelle Obama
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." 
— Mother Teresa
"Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes." 
— Christopher Reeve
"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has." 
— Josh Billings
"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun." 
— Chuck Swindoll
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." 
— Thomas Jefferson
"You always succeed in producing a result." 
— Tony Robbins
"To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." 
— Søren Kierkegaard
"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." 
— George Orwell
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto." 
— W. Clement Stone
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" 
— George Eliot
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." 
— Thomas Jefferson
"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." 
— Richard Bach
"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure." 
— Douglas Adams
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." 
— Laozi
"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." 
— Oprah Winfrey
"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law." 
— Thomas Hobbes
"Love has no age, no limit; and no death." 
— John Galsworthy
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." 
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment." 
— Elbert Hubbard
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you." 
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Everything you can imagine is real." 
— Pablo Picasso
"We lost because we told ourselves we lost." 
— Leo Tolstoy
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." 
— Leonardo da Vinci
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." 
— Norman Schwarzkopf
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." 
— Voltaire
"I allow my intuition to lead my path." 
— Manuel Puig
"I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time." 
— Victoria Osteen
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity." 
— Publilius Syrus
"No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise." 
— Barack Obama
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible." 
— Elizabeth Browning
"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich." 
— Muhammad Ali
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." 
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence." 
— Laozi
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." 
— Naguib Mahfouz
"Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life." 
— Seneca the Younger
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." 
— Dale Carnegie
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." 
— Henry Ward Beecher
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." 
— Theodore Roosevelt
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." 
— Thomas Jefferson
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." 
— Robert Frost
"Get busy living or get busy dying." 
— Stephen King
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed." 
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." 
— Carol Burnett
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned." 
— Seneca the Younger
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." 
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"Arriving at one point is the starting point to another." 
— John Dewey
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." 
— Augustine of Hippo
"Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom." 
— The Buddha
"The winner ain't the one with the fastest car it's the one who refuses to lose." 
— Dale Earnhardt
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns." 
— Bruce Lee
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." 
— Thomas Jefferson
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." 
— Laozi
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." 
— Frederick Douglass
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." 
— Arthur Conan Doyle
"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly." 
— Richard Bach
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." 
— Billy Wilder
"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now." 
— Napoleon Hill
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." 
— William Shakespeare
"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them." 
— Epictetus
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." 
— Jane Austen
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." 
— John Dewey
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." 
— Seneca the Younger
"If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything." 
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." 
— Samuel Johnson
"Only do what your heart tells you." 
— Princess Diana
"The great myth of our times is that technology is communication." 
— Libby Larsen
"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by." 
— Lucille Ball
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!" 
— Walter Scott
"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life." 
— James F. Byrnes
"It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains." 
— Danilo Dolci
"It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." 
— Robert Southey
"We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice." 
— Sogyal Rinpoche
"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." 
— Christopher Reeve
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." 
— David Rockefeller
"All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts." 
— William Shakespeare
"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works." 
— Douglas Adams
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." 
— Anaïs Nin
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." 
— Amelia Earhart
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." 
— Henry Ford
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." 
— Dalai Lama
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." 
— John Lennon
"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records." 
— William Arthur Ward
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." 
— Bruce Lee
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." 
— John Locke
"Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little." 
— Cheng Yen
"You'll see it when you believe it." 
— Wayne Dyer
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." 
— John Locke
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." 
— John F. Kennedy
"Follow your instincts. That is where true wisdom manifests itself." 
— Oprah Winfrey
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try." 
— Alexander the Great
"Skill to do comes of doing." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." 
— Laurie Anderson
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." 
— Aristotle
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder." 
— Thomas Haynes Bayly
"I'll prepare and someday my chance will come." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." 
— Lucille Ball
"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving." 
— John Dewey
"Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck." 
— Og Mandino
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet." 
— Joseph Joubert
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." 
— Thomas Paine
"You cannot have what you do not want." 
— John Acosta
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." 
— Thomas Edison
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." 
— Jim Rohn
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public." 
— Douglas Coupland
"Nature takes away any faculty that is not used." 
— William Inge
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned." 
— Charles W. Chesnutt
"Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter." 
— Charles Lindbergh
"Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world." 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle." 
— Anaïs Nin
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." 
— Epictetus
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." 
— Benjamin Disraeli
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else." 
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." 
— Richard Bach
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." 
— Mahatma Gandhi
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words." 
— Cicero
"The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it." 
— Hugh Jackman
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." 
— Albert Einstein
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." 
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." 
— Nelson Mandela
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." 
— Nelson Mandela
"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." 
— Mother Teresa
"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice." 
— Richard Bach
"Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous." 
— Confucius
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"You give before you get." 
— Napoleon Hill
"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others." 
— Wayne Dyer
"If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness." 
— Vusi Mahlasela
"You should ignore that person’s impure behavior by way of speech and body, and focus on the fact that they get an openness and clarity of heart from time to time. That’s how to get rid of resentment for that person." 
— The Buddha
"Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." 
— Carl Jung
"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations." 
— Leo Buscaglia
"Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration." 
— Niccolò Machiavelli
"Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, but they also undermine our health." 
— Dalai Lama
"No man was ever wise by chance." 
— Seneca the Younger
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." 
— Thomas Carlyle
"Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." 
— George S. Patton
"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose." 
— Eknath Easwaran
"Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time." 
— Thomas Carlyle
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart." 
— Jane Austen
"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship." 
— Norman Douglas
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." 
— Oscar Wilde
"A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself." 
— May Sarton
"You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless." 
— Caroline Myss
"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else." 
— John Keats
"Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage." 
— Farhan Akhtar
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." 
— Joyce Brothers
"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge." 
— François de La Rochefoucauld
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." 
— Lily Tomlin
"They can do all because they think they can." 
— Virgil
"This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy." 
— Cory Doctorow
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." 
— John Lennon
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool." 
— Francis Bacon
"Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family." 
— Salman Rushdie
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." 
— Maya Angelou
"In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both." 
— Mariella Frostrup
"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you." 
— Eckhart Tolle
"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly." 
— Epictetus
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." 
— Alexander Pope
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act." 
— G. K. Chesterton
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." 
— John C. Maxwell
"Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom." 
— Sam Walton
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." 
— William Shakespeare
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." 
— Elbert Hubbard
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it." 
— Reinhold Niebuhr
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." 
— Dalai Lama
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." 
— Brian O'Driscoll
"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?" 
— Joe Namath
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course." 
— Michelangelo
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." 
— Ellen Glasgow
"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them." 
— Steve Jobs
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." 
— Marcel Proust
"Love demands infinitely less than friendship." 
— George Jean Nathan
"To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly." 
— Voltaire
"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick." 
— Bruce Lee
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." 
— Baltasar Gracián
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do." 
— Molière
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." 
— Thomas Jefferson
"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people." 
— Carl Jung
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom." 
— Anatole France
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." 
— Epictetus
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." 
— Winston Churchill
"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf." 
— Albert Schweitzer
"The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I, too, do not envision a doctrine of self the clinging to which there would not arise sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair." 
— The Buddha
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." 
— Vince Lombardi
"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow." 
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one." 
— Oscar Wilde
"I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture." 
— Susan Orlean
"I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." 
— Laozi
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." 
— Jane Addams
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." 
— Epictetus
"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience." 
— Robert Fulghum
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going." 
— Epictetus
"What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people." 
— Daisaku Ikeda
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." 
— Leonardo da Vinci
"A short saying often contains much wisdom." 
— Sophocles
"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom." 
— Plato
"I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side." 
— Yolanda Hadid
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." 
— Nelson Mandela
"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being." 
— Confucius
"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art." 
— John Lasseter
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." 
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." 
— Augustine of Hippo
"God always takes the simplest way." 
— Albert Einstein
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." 
— Albert Einstein
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." 
— Laozi
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope." 
— Alexandre Dumas
"If you seek truth, you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible." 
— Epictetus
"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." 
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." 
— Confucius
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best." 
— Margaret Thatcher
"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world." 
— Blaise Pascal
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." 
— Dr. Seuss
"A friend is what the heart needs all the time." 
— Henry van Dyke Jr.
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom." 
— Charles Spurgeon
"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." 
— Theodore Roosevelt
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." 
— Satchel Paige
"There never was a good knife made of bad steel." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind." 
— Bruce Lee
"Once you label me you negate me." 
— Søren Kierkegaard
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." 
— Audrey Hepburn
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." 
— Thomas Edison
"Don’t sacrifice your own welfare for that of another, no matter how great. Realizing your own true welfare, be intent on just that." 
— The Buddha
"Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." 
— Richard Bach
"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart." 
— Charles Dickens
"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'" 
— Bill Bradley
"If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable." 
— Seneca the Younger
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." 
— Aristotle
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." 
— Pablo Picasso
"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?" 
— Confucius
"Learning never exhausts the mind." 
— Leonardo da Vinci
"To be great is to be misunderstood." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Character develops itself in the stream of life." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." 
— Demosthenes
"A goal without a plan is just a wish." 
— Larry Elder
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." 
— Immanuel Kant
"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." 
— Jonathan Swift
"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream." 
— Harry Kemp
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A friend to all is a friend to none." 
— Aristotle
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." 
— Henri Poincaré
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." 
— Anaïs Nin
"Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception." 
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night." 
— William Blake
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." 
— Jim Rohn
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." 
— Mother Teresa
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." 
— Epictetus
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat." 
— Napoleon
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude." 
— Zig Ziglar
"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy." 
— Laozi
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." 
— Barack Obama
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." 
— John Ruskin
"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt." 
— Honoré de Balzac
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" 
— Abraham Lincoln
"Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." 
— Bernard Shaw
"A man is great by deeds, not by birth." 
— Chanakya
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." 
— Aesop
"The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can." 
— Isocrates
"The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"A rolling stone gathers no moss." 
— Publilius Syrus
"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own." 
— Laozi
"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." 
— Pema Chödrön
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers." 
— Plato
"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." 
— Buckminster Fuller
"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom." 
— Plato
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." 
— Anatole France
"Wisdom is found only in truth." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest." 
— Paul Cézanne