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Quotes
Robert Browning
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? William Shakespeare I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old. Winston Churchill My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Mark Twain Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. :hamactor: |
“Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends.”
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Music is an extension of my soul.
~Dick Dale |
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski |
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name |
“If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart” - Italian Proverb |
“Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect." - Swami Vivekananda |
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. -Henry Fielding, author (1707-1754)
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“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” - Albert Camus |
Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear. - Glenn Clark
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
-HDT |
"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! "
Maya Angelou |
Words of wisdom found on Facebook...
Hope is not pretending that troubles do not exist. It is the trust that troubles will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome.
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The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.
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"Fat gives things flavor."
~Julia Child |
"Do small things with great love." -Mother Theresa
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
~Eleanor Roosevelt |
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
~Dorothy Parker |
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.” - Washington Irving |
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." - Buddha |
"I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love." - Robert Tizon |
We can make a difference
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of
this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. Dale Carnegie |
We are like people on a moving sidewalk which is
going the wrong way. If we stand still, our goal recedes. If we walk at an easy pace we barely keep from slipping back. Only through extra effort can we win real gains. Harry K. Wolfe |
The way of the sage is to act but not to compete. Lao-Tzu |
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after -- lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.
- Louise Erdrich |
" Always borrow money from a pessimist, they never expect to be paid back "
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
true story
masturbating while the coffee brews is the new power nap
....I overheard this at work. :blink: |
"A lie has speed, but truth has endurance." ~Edgar J. Mohn
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all." ~Leo Rosten |
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." ~Edward Everett Hale |
"This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." ~George Bernard Shaw |
Flirtation: attention without intention. ~Max O'Rell |
One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since youíve become harmless.
~ Liz Smith |
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." ~ Galileo Galilei
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Success comes in cans, not can'ts.
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"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." - Earl Wilson
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"If you have a golf-ball-sized consciousness, when you read a book you'll have a golf-ball-sized understanding, when you look out- a golf-ball-sized awareness, when you wake up - a golf-ball-sized wakefullness, and you'll have a golf-ball-sized inner happiness. *But when you expand it, more understanding, more awareness, more sense of self, self-awareness, bliss, wakefulness."
"Businesses run on fear. If I ran my set on fear, I wouldn't get even 1% of what I get. No one would go the extra mile. But it's like a macho thing to run your business on fear, and people are in fear all day long. When you fear a place, pretty soon you start to hate the place, and you hate to go to work, and that hate turns to anger and then you're angry at your work." - David Lynch |
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” ~Audre Lorde
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