Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Woody Allen
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre
God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.
AV
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Blaise Pascal
Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
Henry Ward Beecher
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
This is the highest wisdom that I own: freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Leadership is an action, not a position.
Donald McGannon
The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.
Charles M. Schwab
To fight fear, act. To increase fear -- wait, put off postpone.
Dr. David Schwartz
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
Plato
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
Elbert Hubbard
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley
The more I learn about human nature, the more I like my dog.
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Oscar Wilde
A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard
And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off.
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letter
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