The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.

Rupert Brooke

Good clothes open all doors.

Thomas Fuller

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we

Sharon Salzberg, The Power of In

Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Thomas Jefferson

Cuando uno se enamora las cuadrillasdel tiempo hacen escala en el olvidola desdicha se llena de milagrosel miedo se convierte en osadíay la muerte no sale de su cuevaenamorarse es un presagio gratisuna ventana abierta al árbol nuevouna proeza de los sentimientosuna bonanza casi insoportabley un ejercicio contra el infortuniopor el contrario desenamorarsees ver el cuerpo como es y nocomo la otra mirada lo inventabaes regresar más pobre al viejo enigmay dar con la tristeza en el espejo

Mario Benedetti Enamorarse y no

Love is the wild card of existence.

Rita Mae Brown

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek Proverb

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

John F. Kennedy

The destiny of man is in his own soul

Herodotus

Hear much, speak little

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