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"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship." 
— Mao Zedong
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." 
— Winston Churchill
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." 
— Isocrates
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life." 
— Lord Byron
"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth." 
— Herman Melville
"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." 
— Samuel Butler
"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." 
— Benjamin Disraeli
"More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength." 
— Dalai Lama
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working." 
— Pablo Picasso
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." 
— Thomas Carlyle
"There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love." 
— Charles Péguy
"Silence is the true friend that never betrays." 
— Confucius
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." 
— Coco Chanel
"By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future." 
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine." 
— Thomas Jefferson
"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable." 
— Woody Allen
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." 
— Desmond Tutu
"By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy." 
— Jane Roberts
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." 
— John Muir
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." 
— Leo Tolstoy
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity." 
— Louis Pasteur
"The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremist pleasure in life." 
— Mark Twain
"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." 
— Baltasar Gracián
"Life is a learning experience, only if you learn." 
— Yogi Berra
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." 
— Carl Jung
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it." 
— Leonardo da Vinci
"Do not turn back when you are just at the goal." 
— Publilius Syrus
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." 
— Samuel Johnson
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." 
— Edith Wharton
"Peace begins with a smile." 
— Mother Teresa
"There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them." 
— Tom Krause
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them." 
— Hugh Miller
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." 
— Michel de Montaigne
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." 
— Theodore Roosevelt
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." 
— Bruce Lee
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." 
— Plato
"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart." 
— Washington Irving
"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." 
— Thomas Jefferson
"Ethics change with technology." 
— Larry Niven
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." 
— Aristotle
"Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." 
— Helen Keller
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." 
— Marcel Proust
"Go to your bosom: Knock there and ask your heart what it doth know." 
— William Shakespeare
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." 
— Isocrates
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy." 
— Woody Allen
"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away." 
— John Steinbeck
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." 
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Not all those who wander are lost." 
— J. R. R. Tolkien
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one." 
— John Wooden
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." 
— Marie Curie
"Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer." 
— Robert Graves
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm." 
— Rowan Williams
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." 
— Euripides
"The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage." 
— Confucius
"Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not." 
— Dhammapada
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" 
— George Eliot
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms." 
— Muriel Rukeyser
"Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose." 
— Simone Weil
"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means." 
— Albert Einstein
"If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace." 
— Dalai Lama
"Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring." 
— Clay Shirky
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports." 
— Richard Burton
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness." 
— Richard Bach
"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." 
— Corita Kent
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." 
— Napoleon
"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice." 
— Oprah Winfrey
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight." 
— Helen Keller
"Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born." 
— Man Ray
"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights." 
— Giotto
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" 
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Light tomorrow with today!" 
— Elizabeth Browning
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." 
— Oscar Wilde
"Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation." 
— Charlotte Brontë
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." 
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." 
— James Oppenheim
"The more you care, the stronger you can be." 
— Jim Rohn
"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." 
— Winston Churchill
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." 
— Marilyn vos Savant
"Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." 
— Paavo Nurmi
"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live." 
— Bertrand Russell
"Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites." 
— Richard Garriott
"The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart." 
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." 
— Woody Allen
"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort." 
— Dalai Lama
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." 
— Albert Camus
"Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster." 
— Avery Brooks
"This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature." 
— Don DeLillo
"Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community." 
— Steven Van Zandt
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." 
— Helen Keller
"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone." 
— Lucretius
"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out." 
— Walter Benjamin
"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love." 
— Mahatma Gandhi
"Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently." 
— William Arthur Ward
"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." 
— Thomas Edison
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy." 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Life is just a chance to grow a soul." 
— A. Powell Davies
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." 
— John Powell
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." 
— Lou Holtz
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." 
— Sam Keen
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him." 
— Max Planck
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." 
— Confucius
"Leave no stone unturned." 
— Euripides
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." 
— Len Wein
"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom." 
— Will Durant
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." 
— Stewart Brand
"To succeed, we must first believe that we can." 
— Michael Korda
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." 
— Mahatma Gandhi
"To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." 
— Confucius
"Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." 
— Arthur Conan Doyle
"Don't ruin the present with the ruined past." 
— Ellen Gilchrist
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." 
— Joseph Campbell
"He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today." 
— Tryon Edwards
"To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith." 
— W. H. Auden
"From error to error one discovers the entire truth." 
— Sigmund Freud
"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it." 
— A. Powell Davies
"Do all things with love." 
— Og Mandino
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it." 
— René Descartes
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." 
— William Blake
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept responsibility for changing them." 
— Denis Waitley
"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." 
— Nikola Tesla
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." 
— Seneca the Younger
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." 
— Mencius
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." 
— John Locke
"My friends are my estate." 
— Emily Dickinson
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." 
— Judy Garland
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." 
— Robert Louis Stevenson
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." 
— Woodrow Wilson
"Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!" 
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply!" 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one." 
— John Lennon
"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." 
— Plato
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." 
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." 
— Walt Whitman
"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity." 
— Albert Schweitzer
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." 
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us." 
— Daisaku Ikeda
"I believe that every person is born with talent." 
— Maya Angelou
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." 
— Brian Tracy
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." 
— George Washington
"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him." 
— Albert Schweitzer
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." 
— Voltaire
"True friends stab you in the front." 
— Oscar Wilde
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." 
— Booker T. Washington
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." 
— Epictetus
"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." 
— Napoleon Hill
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." 
— Oscar Wilde
"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre." 
— Uta Hagen
"If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time." 
— Edith Wharton
"I took a speed-reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." 
— Woody Allen
"One fails forward toward success." 
— Charles F. Kettering
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." 
— Leonardo da Vinci
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." 
— Seneca the Younger
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." 
— Galileo Galilei
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." 
— George Sand
"A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work." 
— John Lubbock
"Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." 
— William Butler Yeats
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." 
— Benjamin Disraeli
"We must become the change we want to see." 
— Mahatma Gandhi
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." 
— Peter Drucker
"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away." 
— Sophocles
"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." 
— Swami Vivekananda
"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live." 
— John Dewey
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." 
— Louisa May Alcott
"The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer..." 
— Moncure D. Conway
"The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be." 
— William James
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship." 
— Lord Byron
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has." 
— Epictetus
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." 
— Napoleon Hill
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work." 
— Rita Mae Brown
"Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance." 
— Thomas Carlyle
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know." 
— Alexis Carrel
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." 
— Doug Larson
"It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button." 
— John Brunner
"Action is eloquence." 
— William Shakespeare
"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship." 
— Marilyn Monroe
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." 
— Carl Jung
"All is flux; nothing stays still." 
— Heraclitus
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present." 
— Joan Rivers
"Wisdom often times consists of knowing what to do next." 
— Herbert Hoover
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." 
— John Lennon
"Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments." 
— Ezra Stiles
"Remember that failure is an event, not a person." 
— Zig Ziglar
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book." 
— Northrop Frye
"Sincerity is the way of Heaven. The attainment of sincerity is the way of men." 
— Confucius
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." 
— Epictetus
"Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world." 
— Jane Addams
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give." 
— Maya Angelou
"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth." 
— Peter Abelard
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." 
— Albert Einstein
"All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!" 
— Bob Newhart
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." 
— Horace
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." 
— J. Willard Marriott
"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it." 
— Richard Whately
"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action." 
— Walter Inglis Anderson
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." 
— Aristotle
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." 
— Margaret Mead
"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!" 
— Doug Larson
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." 
— Immanuel Kant
"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed." 
— Václav Havel
"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." 
— Wilson Mizner
"I will prepare and someday my chance will come." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"Never mistake activity for achievement." 
— John Wooden
"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." 
— Laozi
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." 
— Rumi
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." 
— Arthur Ashe
"The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days." 
— Laozi
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both." 
— Fawn M. Brodie
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it." 
— Woody Allen
"Joy is the best makeup." 
— Anne Lamott
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." 
— Confucius
"It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens." 
— Pema Chödrön
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." 
— Tony Robbins
"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune." 
— Horace
"If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others." 
— Anne Lindbergh
"Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment." 
— Morihei Ueshiba
"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose." 
— John F. Kennedy
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." 
— Peter Drucker
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." 
— Robert Louis Stevenson
"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." 
— William James
"Commitment is an act, not a word." 
— Jean-Paul Sartre
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble." 
— Blaise Pascal
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." 
— Laozi
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." 
— Zig Ziglar
"Friendship is essentially a partnership." 
— Aristotle
"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement." 
— Brian Tracy
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." 
— Janis Joplin
"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams." 
— Oprah Winfrey
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." 
— Aristotle
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." 
— Bruce Lee
"A prudent question is one half of wisdom." 
— Francis Bacon
"Go put your creed into the deed. Nor speak with double tongue." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." 
— Dalai Lama
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." 
— George Washington
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." 
— Woody Allen
"The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." 
— Charles Darwin
"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." 
— George Bernard Shaw
"Myths which are believed in tend to become true." 
— George Orwell
"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing." 
— Napoleon Hill
"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions." 
— Sophocles
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life." 
— Aristotle
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken." 
— Laurence J. Peter
"Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated." 
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." 
— Anatole France
"Conditions fall apart. Persist with diligence." 
— The Buddha
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." 
— Denis Waitley
"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom." 
— Aristotle
"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." 
— Margaret Cousins
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." 
— Ovid
"The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life." 
— Daisaku Ikeda
"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." 
— Rumi
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." 
— Robert F. Kennedy
"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." 
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer." 
— Colette
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." 
— Etty Hillesum
"An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts." 
— John Junor
"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgement." 
— Ralph Marston
"Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged." 
— Ben Fountain
"Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light." 
— Dorothy Thompson
"A goal is a dream with a deadline." 
— Napoleon Hill
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." 
— Dalai Lama
"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true." 
— Walt Disney
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." 
— Dalai Lama
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"Everyone in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her." 
— Maria Montessori
"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life." 
— Hermann Hesse
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." 
— Albert Einstein
"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks." 
— Jerome
"The only real valuable thing is intuition." 
— Albert Einstein
"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." 
— Andy Warhol
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." 
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Freedom is the right to live as we wish." 
— Epictetus
"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions." 
— John F. Kennedy
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live." 
— Mortimer J. Adler
"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." 
— John Wooden
"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences." 
— Plato
"Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." 
— Jim Rohn
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human." 
— George Santayana
"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education." 
— Thomas Carlyle
"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom." 
— Aeschylus
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." 
— Albert Einstein
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." 
— Marie Curie
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." 
— Og Mandino
"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly." 
— Plutarch
"We know what we are but know not what we may be." 
— William Shakespeare
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in." 
— Katherine Mansfield
"As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer." 
— James Gleick
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but reveal to them their own." 
— Benjamin Disraeli
"Our passion is our strength." 
— Billie Armstrong
"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." 
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty." 
— Laozi
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots." 
— George Santayana
"Just as much as we see in others, we have in ourselves." 
— William Hazlitt
"No day in which you learn something is a complete loss." 
— David Eddings
"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god." 
— Napoleon
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." 
— Søren Kierkegaard
"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." 
— Theodore H. White
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." 
— Ovid
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." 
— Thomas Edison
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind." 
— Albert Schweitzer
"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." 
— Michael Jordan
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." 
— William Shakespeare
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started." 
— Henry Ward Beecher
"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable." 
— Joseph Wood Krutch
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself." 
— Norman Vincent Peale
"Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust and loneliness." 
— Dalai Lama
"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it." 
— Aristotle
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." 
— Confucius
"To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it." 
— Confucius
"By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm." 
— Dalai Lama
"The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him." 
— William Ellery Channing
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks." 
— John Muir
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." 
— Margaret Fuller
"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." 
— Richard Bach
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." 
— Anton Chekhov
"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree." 
— Elbert Hubbard
"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it." 
— J. M. Barrie
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." 
— Maya Angelou
"As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life." 
— Joseph Prince
"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." 
— Thomas J. Watson
"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." 
— Richard Bach
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." 
— Blaise Pascal
"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition." 
— Honoré de Balzac
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." 
— Robert Southey
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." 
— Alexander Chalmers
"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." 
— Loretta Young
"I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." 
— Oprah Winfrey
"I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals." 
— The Buddha
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." 
— Anatole France
"What is past is left behind. The future is yet unreached. Whatever quality is present, clearly see it right there." 
— The Buddha
"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself." 
— Henry James
"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress." 
— Elizabeth Montagu
"Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with." 
— Peter Elbow
"At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are, and you know what you want." 
— Laozi
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." 
— George S. Patton
"Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe." 
— Gordon Hinckley
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." 
— Og Mandino
"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise." 
— Horace
"Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation." 
— Paul Theroux
"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." 
— Richard Bach
"Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by." 
— John Bercow
"When in doubt, don't." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." 
— Elbert Hubbard
"Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves." 
— Mahatma Gandhi
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains." 
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise." 
— Anne Brontë
"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well." 
— John Marshall
"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded." 
— Mark Twain
"What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be." 
— Sai Baba
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." 
— Albert Einstein
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." 
— Carl Jung
"There is nothing permanent except change." 
— Heraclitus
"Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser." 
— Paulo Coelho
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." 
— William Shakespeare
"Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots." 
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts." 
— The Buddha
"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day." 
— Marian Wright Edelman
"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." 
— William Burroughs
"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart." 
— Phil Jackson
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." 
— Plato
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." 
— Thornton Wilder
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." 
— Dalai Lama
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." 
— Joe Paterno
"To fly, we have to have resistance." 
— Maya Lin
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." 
— Thomas Edison
"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace." 
— Michelle Obama
"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds." 
— Albert Einstein
"Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have." 
— Doris Mortman
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." 
— Anaïs Nin
"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him." 
— Augustine of Hippo
"A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve." 
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." 
— William Sloane Coffin
"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one." 
— Diogenes
"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend." 
— Euripides
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." 
— Peter Drucker
"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love." 
— David McCullough
"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." 
— Denis Waitley
"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak." 
— Epictetus
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." 
— Mother Teresa
"The path to success is to take massive, determined action." 
— Tony Robbins
"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way." 
— Aristotle
"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability." 
— Confucius
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." 
— Mahatma Gandhi
"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind." 
— Albert Einstein
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." 
— Eckhart Tolle
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." 
— Lucille Ball
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." 
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love." 
— Don Miguel Ruiz
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." 
— John F. Kennedy
"I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain." 
— Oprah Winfrey
"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own." 
— Jessamyn West
"You have to believe in yourself." 
— Sun Tzu
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living." 
— Voltaire
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." 
— Bernadette Devlin
"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness." 
— Jean Cocteau
"I think somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision." 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." 
— Cicero
"You really can change the world if you care enough." 
— Marian Wright Edelman
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." 
— William Arthur Ward
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will." 
— Joseph Stalin
"He who is contented is rich." 
— Laozi
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them." 
— Richard Bach
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear." 
— Sammy Davis Jr.
"Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted." 
— John Lennon
"The simplest things are often the truest." 
— Richard Bach
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." 
— Aeschylus
"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The price of greatness is responsibility." 
— Winston Churchill
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." 
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation." 
— Isaac D'Israeli
"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater." 
— Epictetus
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." 
— Plato
"Fortune favors the brave." 
— Virgil
"Never find fault with the absent." 
— Alexander Pope
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." 
— A. A. Milne
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." 
— Albert Einstein
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning." 
— Laozi
"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." 
— Shakti Gawain
"With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings." 
— Ezra Taft Benson
"Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace." 
— Christie Brinkley
"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." 
— Anton Chekhov
"Compassion and happiness are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength." 
— Dalai Lama
"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are." 
— Epictetus
"Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought." 
— Henri Bergson
"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action." 
— Jawaharlal Nehru
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." 
— John Adams
"Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man." 
— Sophocles
"Yeah, we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun." 
— John Lennon
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." 
— Hal Abelson
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself." 
— Betty Friedan