Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
He who would travel happily must travel light
Antoine De SaintExupery
I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going?
Anonymous
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
It's rude to count people as you pass them. Out loud.
To be good is not enough when you dream of being great.
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
Pains lasts for a moment, but pride lasts forever.
Dead Last Finish is greater than Did Not Finish, which trumps Did Not Start.
Running is like mouthwash; if you can feel a burn, its working.
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
Joseph Addison
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged, must end in disappointment. If it be asked, what is the improper expectation which it is dangerous to indulge, experience will quickly answer, that it is such expectation as is dictated not by reason, but by desire; expectation raised, not by the common occurrences of life, but by the wants of the expectant; an expectation that requires the common course of things to be changed, and the general rules of action to be broken.
Samuel Johnson, J. Boswell The L
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
Mitch Albom
He listens well who takes notes.
Dante Alighieri
A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.
Woody Allen
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!,Underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit - Life!
Emily Dickinson
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Mich
Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. But what would you? You have not told me all concerning yourself; and how then shall I choose better than you?Gildor says this in response to Frodo saying Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of th
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee
The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.
Kenneth Tynan
Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.
Deng MingDao
They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Sir Winston Churchill
Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
Tony Dorsett
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust
Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one.
Harry S Truman
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure
Socrates
Time is too slow for those who waittoo swift for those who feartoo long for those who grieve,too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity.Hours fly, flowers die, new days, new ways pass by, Love stays.
Henry Van Dyke, Katrina's Sun Di
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flowerBut only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing Gold can stay.
Robert Frost
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
Taisen Deshimaru
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept!So is it in the music of men's lives.And here have I the daintiness of earTo cheque time broke in a disorder'd string;But for the concord of my state and timeHad not an ear to hear my true time broke.I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;For now hath time made me his numbering clock:My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jarTheir watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,Whereto my finger, like a dial's point,Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears.http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/richardII/19/
William Shakespeare, King Richar
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson
My mother, who hates thunderstorms,Holds up each summer day and shakesIt out suspiciously, lest swarmsOf grape-dark clouds are lurking there....
Philip Larkin
Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
Soren Kierkegaard
It was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a thunderstorm coming on. What a thick black cloud that is! she said.And how fast it comes! Why I do believe it's got wings!
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looki
Since I was man,Such sheets of fire, such bursts of torrid thunderSuch groans of roaring wind and rain, I neverRemember to have heard.
William Shakespeare, King Lear,
But the lightning which explodes and fashions planets, maker of planets and suns, is in him. On one side elemental order, sandstone and granite, rock-ledges, peat-bog, forest, sea and shore; and on the other part, thought, the spirit which composes and decomposes nature,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle! Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either rods or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
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