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If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Anonymous

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. - Vernon Howard

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. - Samuel Johnson

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. - Lydia M. Child

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. - Susan Sontag

I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself. - Kathryn L. Nelson

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills. - Minna Thomas Antrim

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?  —  L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us. - Charles de Gaulle

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. - Og Mandino

The best way to get approval is not to need it. - Hugh Macleod

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.  - Steve Jobs

My life wasn’t really going anywhere. I was part of the whole goth/death-metal subculture, but it wasn’t making me happy, it was all a bit gloomy. — Richmond, The I.T. Crowd

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. - John le Carre

                                       Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. - Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. - Elbert Hubbard

She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation. - Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. - Madeleine L'Engle

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. - H. L. Mencken

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. - Ovid

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. - Abraham Lincoln

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. - Michael Crichton

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. - Scott Westerfeld

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned. - Gautama Buddha

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. - George Bernard Shaw

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. - Japanese Proverb

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." (uncertain, possibly Thomas La Mance)

There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly know who he is. - Brian Buckner

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside. - Albert Schweitzer

Truth has beauty, power and necessity. - Sylvia Ashton-Warner

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. - Sir Winston Churchill

Humankind cannot stand very much reality. - T. S. Eliot

If an artist has no desire at all to please people, he loses his audience. If he has nothing but desire to please people, he loses himself. - Eolake

The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. - Eddie Cantor

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. - Lois McMaster Bujold

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? - Dr. Robert Schuller

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. - Socrates

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. - Jay Leno

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. - Hermann Hesse

Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Howard Thurman

You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions. — Idries Shah

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. - Robert Benchley

Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help. - Scott Westerfeld

Underpromise; overdeliver. - Tom Peters

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. - Stephen Jay Gould

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. - Og Mandino

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.            -- Sir Winston Churchill

This is my first trip on the mail rowte... I sorter like it. O' course it gets rather tejus. Part of the time I sits and thinks, and the rest I jest sits.  -- Mrs. Skinner, Anne of the Island by LM Montgomery
[Note that the last part of this quote has been wrongly attributed to other people.]

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. - Joseph Campbell

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. - Lord Chesterfield

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. - General Douglas MacArthur

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings. - Max Ernst

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. - G. K. Chesterton

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. - Han Suyin

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Bernard M. Baruch

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. - Earl Warren

You never can see into someone else's marriage. - Sean Stewart

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. - Mark Twain

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. - Eric Hoffer

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. - Hugh Elliott

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be. - Oprah Winfrey

You try to give away what you want yourself. - Lois McMaster Bujold

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. - Michel de Montaigne

Drive thy business or it will drive thee. - Benjamin Franklin

Health is not valued till sickness comes. - Dr. Thomas Fuller

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. - Peter Ustinov

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian Proverb

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - H. L. Mencken

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. - Benjamin Disraeli

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? - Margot Fonteyn

When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. - George Bernard Shaw

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. -- Nelson Mandela

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. - Oscar Wilde

I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness. - Evelyn Rodriguez

Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal. - Marya Mannes

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. - Henry David Thoreau

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. - James Baldwin

Nihilism is best done by professionals. - Iggy Pop

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. - Woody Allen

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. - Nicholas Chamfort

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. - Samuel Johnson

Great people make others feel great. Small people make others feel small. -- Rick Warren

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one. - Laurence J. Peter

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. - Sir Frederick G. Banting

Reality continues to ruin my life. - Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

In the fight between you and the world, back the world. - Frank Zappa

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. - Norman Vincent Peale

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. - Salma Hayek

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. - Rita Mae Brown

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. - Doris Mortman

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. - Amelia Burr

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. - Vic Gold

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. - Judith Martin

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. - Dick Cavett

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal. - Cory Doctorow

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. - Hazrat Inayat Khan

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. - Quintilian

It's harder to be kind than clever.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. - Marie de Sevigne

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. - Frances Willard

"I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life." - Harpo Marx

"The problem with success is that by the time you're old enough to sleep late, you tend to wake up early."

"The executive who works twelve hours every day will be successful, and be fondly remembered by his wife's second husband."

"If you're skating on thin ice, skate fast."

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. - Russell Green

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. - Edward Abbey

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. - H. G. Wells

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel. - T. S. Eliot

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. - Salma Hayek

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