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Rebecca West	I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
*Frances Cardinal Spellman*	When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.
W. Somerset Maugham	Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Victor Hugo	What a grand thing to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
*Pierre Marivaux*	In this world, you must be a bit too kind in order to be kind enough.
*Lewis Mumford*	One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
*Henry David Thoreau*	Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Josh Billings	There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
*James Matthew Barrie*	You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
Margaret Fairless Barber	To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
*Randolph Bourne*	Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.
*Harvey Fierstein*	Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
*Sydney J. Harris*	Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Clementine Paddleford	Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
Paul Erlich	The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.
Marcel Proust	The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
*Tagore*	Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
*Plato*	Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
*Ashleigh Brilliant*	Been through hell? What did you bring back for me?
*Thomas A. Edison*	I have not failed. I have merely found 10,000 ways that won't work.
*Paul Boese*	Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
*Latin Proverb*	Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
Bill Maher	Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
Immanuel Kant	Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.
Ernest Hemingway	The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.
Voltaire	Doubt is a not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
*Angela Monet*	Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
*Oscar Wilde*	There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
*Stephen Sondheim*	This is ridiculous. What am I doing here? I'm in the wrong story.
*Maya Angelou*	One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
*James Mackintosh*	It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
*James Matthew Barrie*	The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
*Alfred Korzbyski*	The map is not the territory.
*Jan Glidewell*	You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest, that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
"Cinderella "	Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come shining through. No matter how your heart is grieving , If you keep believing , The dream that you wish will come true.
*Bob Dylan*	But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
*John Wooden*	Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
*Jean Toomer*	We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
*Abraham Maslow*	If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
*A. A. Milne*	Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it’s not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
*The Talmud*	The sun will set without my assistance.
*Joni Mitchell*	We are stardust. We are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.
*John Keats*	Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
John Kenneth Galbraith	Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Lewis Carroll	One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
Emily Dickinson	The Soul should always stand ajar.
Arnold Bennett	Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Maggie Scarf	Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderful responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Natalie Goldberg	Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
*Marcus Aurelius*	I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Frank Capra	A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Joseph Campbell	The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it doesn't, you've got an adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.
Josh Billings	The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross	People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Frank Zappa	It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in either fire or ice. There are two other possibilities. One is paperwork, the other is nostalgia.
Anais Nin	There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Albert Camus	Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
*Anatole France*	An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
James Allen	You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Norman Cousins	Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.
Arnold Glasow	An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Sydney Harris	There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put a marker up on the site.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10	Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up.
J.M. Barrie	We are all failures- at least, the best of us are.
David Russell	The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
*Jules W. Lederer*	Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
*Plutarch*	The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
*C. Northcote Parkinson*	Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
*Ray Kroc*	As long as you're green, you're growing; as soon as you're ripe you start to rot.
*Robert Green Ingersoll*	Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
*Robert A. Heinlein*	To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy---and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
*Unknown*	Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.
*Anthony J. D'Angelo*	Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
*Vance Harvner*	The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
Ana�s Nin	We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.
Kin Hubbard	Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Erich Fromm	The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own.
Rwandan proverb	You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
*Saadi*	Whoever acquires knowledge and does not practice it resembles him who ploughs his land and leaves it unsown.
Margaret Maron	Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?"
Eric Hoffer	There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Miguel de Cervantes	The road is always better than the Inn.
John Cage	Everyone is in the best seat.
Pablo Picasso	God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the ant. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
*Unknown*	Don't live in what you can't stand up in.
Marcus A. Antonius	The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Konrad Lorenz	I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.
*Alan Alda*	Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
*Elbert Hubbard*	We are punished by our sins, not for them.
*Blaise Pascal*	There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
*Radiohead*	There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men--true nobility is being superior to your former self.
*Thich Nhat Hanh*	Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth.
*Emo Phillips*	Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
*Luke 16:10*	Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.
*Joshua Liebman*	Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
*Martin Luther King, Jr.*	Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.
*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe*	Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
*Tennessee Williams*	All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Maori Proverb	Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Stephen King	Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And a good thing never really dies.
Erica Jong	Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Mohandas Gandhi	A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Turkish proverb	No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
Dandemus	Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
David D. Burns, MD	That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods---we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
Jacob Bronowski	We have to understand the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye...The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Dag Hammarskj�ld	We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Rufus M. Jones	Serenity comes not alone by removing the outward causes and occasions of fear, but by the discovery of inward reservoirs to draw upon.
James Baldwin	Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
*John Cheever*	When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.
Carter G. Woodson	The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.
Daniel J. Boorstin	The great obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Aldous Huxley	Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
*Unknown*	It is possible for your mind to be so open that your brain falls out.
*Thomas Aquinas*	Beware the man of one book.
*Galileo*	I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
*Latin Proverb*	*"Experto crede." (Trust one who has experience.)*
*Edith Wharton*	There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
*Theodore Roosevelt*	Nine-tenths of wisdom consists of being wise in time.
*Mark Twain*	You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
*Tori Amos*	She's been everyone else's girl; maybe one day she'll be her own.
Carl Jung	There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Corrine Lajeunesse	Worry is an abuse of God’s gift of imagination.
Kurt Lewin	If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey	Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Buckminster Fuller	There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
*Soren Kierkegaard*	Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
*Unknown*	Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.
*Carl Sandburg*	Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
*Buddha*	To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.
*Virginia Woolf*	Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
_{St. Francis de Sales}	Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
*Scandinavian Proverb*	Faith is like a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.
*Osten Ard*	He who believes he knows the ending of things before they begin is either a very wise person or an idiot. Regardless, he is unhappy for he hast drove a knife into the heart of wonder.
*H. Jackson Browne*	People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
*John Carr*	My Mind is the ceiling. My Soul is the floor. There are walls all about and I can't find a door.
Eugene S. Wilson	Only the curious will learn, only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The Quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Edward Noyes Westcott	A reasonable amount o’ fleas is good fer a dog—keeps him from broodin’ over bein’ a dog, mebbe.
Nathaniel Hawthorne	No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
*Seneca*	We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
*Earl Nightingale*	A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
*Anne B. Sekel*	You cannot find yourself, only create yourself.
*Unknown*	When we walk to the end of all the light we have, and take a step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one of two things will happen: that we will land on something solid, or we will learn how to fly.
*John Vance Cheney*	We look out from the shadows on through future years For the soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears
*Lao Tzu*	A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
*John Wayne*	Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands and hopes we've learnt something from yesterday.
*Duke Ellington*	It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.
Isaiah 40:31	But those who hope in the lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings as eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Pearl Buck	You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Ernst R. Hauschka	Even stumbling blocks can be used for re-construction.
La Rochefoucald	Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy are those who already have it.
John Ruskin	The highest reward for a person's toil is not what he gets by it, but what he becomes by it.
*Chinese Proverb*	If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
"Larry Finkelstein"	There's no epidural during a spiritual rebirth.
Jan van de Snepscheut	In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
Ernest Hemingway	Never mistake motion for action.
Frank Crane	You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Chinese proverb	To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Unknown	Just because I have pain doesn't mean I have to be one.
*Jean-Paul Sartre*	Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Seneca	He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
Thomas a Kempis	Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Margo Kaufman	I once complained to my father that I didn’t seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad’s advice? “Margo, don’t be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.”
*William Jennings Bryan*	Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Alfred North Whitehead	The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
*Oliver Wendell Holmes*	The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in which direction we are moving.
Charles Schultz	Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
Hasidic saying	Everyone must have two pockets, so that he can reach into the one or the other, according to his needs. In his right pocket are to be the words: "For my sake was the world created," and in his left: "I am dust and ashes."
*Bill and Ted*	Be excellent to each other.
T.S. Elliot	Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
Sholem Asch	Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Carlos Castaneda	A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.
American proverb	It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
Omar Idn Al-Halif	Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, and the neglected opportunity.
Samuel Butler	Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
*Phillips Brooks*	Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
Anne Lamott	Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
*Oscar Wilde*	We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
*Friedrich Nietzsche*	And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
*Henri Bergson*	The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
*Eden Phillpotts*	The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe*	Nothing is worth more than this day.
Paul Tillich	Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
*Louis Adamic*	Living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Francis Bacon	Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
*Matthew 6:24*	Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
Dr. Seuss	If you never have, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.
Jean Kerr	Hope is the feeling you have that feeling you have isn't permanent.
Mick Jagger	It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
*Karl von Bonstetten*	To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
*Stephen Covey*	Live out of your imagination, not your history.
*Hope MacDonald*	You live through the darkness from what you learned in the light.
*Yiddish Proverb*	Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
*Fred Brooks*	Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Richard Steele	I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can close our eyes.
*Thomas A. Edison*	Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
*I Corinthians 13:4-8*	Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
*Gil Atkinson*	If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance.
*Caroline Yawn*	Everyone sings the song of life off key every once in awhile.
*William Walton*	To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
*John Welwood*	The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart.
Harriet Beecher Stowe	It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Carl Sagan	The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
*Tim McMahon*	Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing-taking.
Eda LeShan	When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
Samuel Johnson	Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Hannah Whitall Smith	The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
Carl Jung	Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
David Fasold	Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
*La Rouchefoucauld*	No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
Ranier Maria Rilke	Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.
*Bickel & Jantz*	If what you believe doesn't effect how you live, then it isn't very important.
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