Second Chance Quotation Gallery

*Soren Kierkegaard*	People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
*Doug Larson*	Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Bertrand Russell	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.
Brian Tracy	No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Alfred Adler	Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Edward R. Murrow	Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--- just recognize them.
Carl Bard	Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
*W. J. Slim*	When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.
*Omar Bradley*	We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
*Lillian Smith*	Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side - to take us around the unknown curve.
*Rene Coty*	It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
*Ralph Waldo Emerson*	Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
James Lowell	Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
*W. Edwards Deming*	*It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then* do your best.**
*Rudyard Kipling*	Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
*Julie Cameron*	Leap, and the net will appear.
*Lawrence J. Peter*	Don't believe in miracles----depend on them.
*Albert Einstein*	When the solution is simple, God is answering.
*Peter Marshall*	Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Frank Tyger	Swallow your pride occasionally. It's not fattening.
*Barbara Kingsolver*	Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
*Thich Nhat Hanh*	There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
*H. G. Wells*	The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
*Charles A. Dana*	Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
*Leonardo Da Vinci*	Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence, he is just using his memory.
*Mohandas Gandhi*	Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
*Howard Thurman*	Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
*Chaim Weizmann*	Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
*Grace Hopper*	If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
*Sir Arthur Helps*	Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
*Gladys Tabor*	Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
*Paulo Coelho*	Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.
*Bern Williams*	We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
*Grace Murray Hopper*	The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."
*F. Scott Fitzgerald*	Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
*Stephen Paul*	Remove the rock from your shoe rather than learn to limp comfortably.
*Thornton Wilder*	My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Brendan Francis	Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
*Leonard Cohen*	There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
*African proverb*	The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it.
Pat Riley	Don't let other people tell you what you want.
Philipa Walker	Take time every day to do something silly.
"Albus Dumbledore"	It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.
Paul Overton	When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one of two things will happen: we will have something solid to stand on, or we will be taught how to fly.
Albert Einstein	A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Lena Horne	It's not the load that breaks you down, it's how you carry it.
Lou Holtz	Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Walter Lippmann	When we all think alike no one is thinking very much.
Peter F. Drucker	The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Benjamin Franklin	A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.
Arthur C. Clarke	A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Eric Hoffer	Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Voltaire	Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
The Qur'an	He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
Mark Twain	Habit is habit and not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Sydney J. Harris	Life, in the main, is not either-or but both.
Bertrand Russell	One should always keep an open mind, but not so open that one's brains fall out.
William James	There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
Mike Krzyzewski	The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
Robert Frost	Freedom lies in being bold.
Mahatma Gandhi	Fear has its use, but cowardice has none.
Lou Brock	Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Marie Curie	Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
*Cyrus Curtis*	There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Agnes DeMille	No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
*Daniel L. Reardon*	In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
*Kobi Yamada*	Sometimes you have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.
Arthur Conan Doyle	One thing I have learned in my wandering life, my friends, is never to call anything a misfortune till you have seen the end of it. Is not every hour a fresh point of view?
H. H. Williams	Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
Tom Peters	You can't think your way out of a box. You've got to act.
Thornton Wilder	Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
Winston Churchill	However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally take a look at the results.
Maya Angelou	Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you kid. Let's go!"
Thomas Szasz	The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
R. I. Fitzhenry	Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
*Lawana Blackwell*	Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
*Martin Luther King, Jr.*	Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.
*Dorothy Day*	No one has the right to feel hopeless, there's too much work to do.
*Midrash*	Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning.
*Ernest Hemingway*	As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
*Herbert Butterfield*	But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
*Peter Maurin*	We need to make the kind of society where it is easier for people to be good.
*Annie Dillard*	A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order-----willed, faked and so brought into being.
*Helen Keller*	Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
*C.S. Lewis*	Relying on God has got to begin all over again each day as if nothing had yet been done.
*Doug Larson*	For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours of the day supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
*Fred Rogers*	There’s so much more to everyone you will ever meet than will ever meet your eye.
*George Carlin*	To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it.
*Walt Whitman*	Re-examine all you have been told...Dismiss what insults your Soul.
*Zora Neale Hurston*	There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.
*Edwin Starr*	War! HUUNNH!!! What is it good for? Absolutely NUTHIN' !!!
*David Letterman*	Love: You can't start it like a car, you can't stop it with a gun.
*Ralph Waldo Emerson*	Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
*Adlai Stevenson*	We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
*Albert Schweitzer*	In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
*John Dewey*	To me faith means not worrying.
*Rabindranath Tagore*	A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
*Frederic Chopin*	Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
*Martin Luther King, Jr.*	Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
*Oliver Cromwell*	(E)very man who wages war believes God is on his side. I'll warrant God must often wonder who is on His.
*Joan Baez*	Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
*Dave Barry*	A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
*Juvenal*	No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.
*Gary Mark Gilmore*	One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
R. Turnbull	Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.
Alice Miller	Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head on.
Bob Ojeda	We've been working on the basics because, basically, we've been having trouble with the basics.
*Cato*	I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
*Herman Hupfeld*	You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.
*Aldous Huxley*	Experience teaches only the teachable.
*William James*	If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system
*Barbara Kingsolver*	The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
*Martin Luther King, Jr.*	We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
*Robert Frost*	Thinking isn't ageeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
*Frank Zappa*	In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
*Francis Bacon*	They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
*Rumi*	Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
James Hamilton	Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow.
Sherry Hochman	Every day is a gift----even if it sucks.
e. e. cummings	It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
Alfred North Whitehead	Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.
A.W. Hare	Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Rudyard Kipling	What you do when you don’t have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.
Meister Eckhart	If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is "Thank you", it will be enough.
Mahatma Gandhi	Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you are----are in harmony.
Henry David Thoreau	Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
Lawrence Block	One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
George Herbert	The best mirror is an old friend.
Malachy McCourt	Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach	We are so vain we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
James A. Froude	You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
H.L. Mencken	Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
Samuel Johnson	Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Arthur C. Clarke	It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
J.K. Rowling	There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
Friedrich Nietzsche	He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
Anthony Walton	America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta	I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mary Pettibbone Poole	To repeat what others have said requires education; to challenge it requires brains.
Andrew Kopkind	To be revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win.
St. Augustine	O Lord, help me be pure! But not yet.
Isadora Duncan	Don't let them tame you!
Josh Billings	As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg	One's first step in wisdom is to question everything --- and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
*G.K. Chesterton*	Love means loving the unlovable --- or it is no virtue at all.
*Maimonides*	Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
Maya Angelou	Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Albert Camus	You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Anne Lamott	You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
*Robert Redford*	Health food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
*Golda Meir*	One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
*Sir Barnett Cocks*	A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
*Jorge Luis Borges*	I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
*Lillian Hellman*	I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
St. John Ervine	Every man should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.
Mary Wollstonecraft	No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
Pearl S. Buck	Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Josh Jenkins	To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
*Bill Vaughn*	If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
*Richard Nelson*	There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.
Dennis Wholey	Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
*Nelson Algren*	Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
*Robert Louis Stevenson*	Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Koffi Anan	No just cause can be advanced by terrorism.
Mary Wilson Little	There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Mark Twain	I am an old man. Throughout my life I have worried about many things. Most of which never happened.
Titus Maccius Plautus	No man is wise enough by himself.
Reese Witherspoon	Getting older, I think you just have to accept that we're all just big goobers. I think that's what brings peace in life; realizing sooner rather than later that we're all just big goobs!
Henry Van Dyke	Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."
Meryl Streep	Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work....
Alan Watts	Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
William Hazlitt	There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
Hosea Ballou	Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
Heywood Broun	If anyone corrects your pronunciation of a word in a public place, you have every right to punch him in the nose.
Don Herrold	The brighter you are the more you have to learn.
Fannie Flagg	If you can't get anywhere in this world, you might as well have fun while you aren't getting there.
James Harvey Robinson	Most of of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
Martin Luther	Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Edith Sitwell	Follow your inclinations, with due regard for the policeman around the corner.
Mark Twain	It isn't so astonishing the number of things I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
Theodore Levitt	Nothing is more wasteful than doing with great efficiency that which should not be done.
Henri Stendahl	One can acquire everything in solitude---except character.
A.A. Milne	One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Henri Bergson	Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought.
Vincent Van Gogh	Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Francois Fenelon	The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.
George Bernard Shaw	Pardon him...he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
A.C. Jolly	Why can't life's problems hit us when we're seventeen and know everything?
D.H. Lawrence	This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
John Ray	Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
Robert Montgomery	My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it, but don't ever quite believe it.
Philip Crosby	Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
Duke Ellington	I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Cicero	Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Don Marquis	Bores bore each other, too, but it never seems to teach them anything.
Pete Seeger	Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't.
*Friederich Nietzsche*	"I have done that," says my memory. "I cannot have done that" says my pride. At last—memory yields.
Ghose Aurobindo	To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Ernest Benn	Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
Robert Frost	I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Malcolm X	Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Count Maurice Maeterlinck	A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Thurston N. Davis	Ah, the insight of hindsight.
Barbara Sher	Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. It is the invented ones that are like mazes.
Ann Landers	Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Alice MacKenzie Swaim	Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go. It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.
Validivar	To mean something to somebody is one of the greatest satisfactions in life.
Martha Stewart	When life hands you a lemon, make lemon mint risotto.
Robert M. Pirsig	To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Mike Tyson	Everybody's got a plan---until he gets hit.
St. Teresa of Avila	From silly devotions and sad-faced saints, O Lord, deliver me.
Elizabeth Taylor	The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
The Tick	Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh oooh oooh, the sky is the limit!
*Fyodor Dostoevsky*	You know, I'm surprised that some people can go through life without even wondering about these things.
*Jules Renard*	There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
John Ruskin	The simplest and most necessary truths are always the last believed.
Damon and Affleck	Bad times wake us up to the good times we weren't paying attention to.
William Mathews	It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
Mary Ellen Kelly	Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
Vaclav Havel	Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Thomas Fuller	'Tis harder to unlearn than to learn.
Ann Lamott	You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
Henry Ward Beecher	In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
Mahlon Hoagland	As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.
Jane Austen	Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Gail Godwin	Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
E.Y. Harburg	Lives based on having are less free than lives based on doing or being.
Gertrude Stein	Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
G. C. Lichtenberg	A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
F. H. Bradley	The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Martina Navartilova	What is the difference between involvement and commitment? Think of bacon and eggs. The chicken was involved, the pig was committed
James Frank Dobie	Conform and be dull.
Joan Didion	Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.
George Savile	Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
*Margaret Bonnano*	It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.
*George Sewell*	Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Sophocles	It is a painful thing To look at your own trouble and know That you yourself and no one else has made it.
Ann Landers	A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.
*Kabir*	Do not praise yourself Nor slander others; There are still many days to go, And anything could happen.
*Ayn Rand*	There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
*Terry Pratchett*	Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
*Luke 12:48*	From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
*Anatole France*	Chance is the pseudonym God uses when he doesn't want to sign his name.
*Robert Orben*	Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much, or work too much. We are all on the road to the grave -- but there's no reason to be in the passing lane.
*James Russell Lowell*	Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
*Samantha Dunn*	God touches us with a feather to get our attention. Then, if we don't listen, he starts throwing bricks.
*Polynesian saying*	Are you standing on a Whale, fishing for minnows?
Pearl S. Buck	I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
John Lilly	Our only security is our ability to change.
Benjamin Franklin	A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes	A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Roger Zelazny	To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago."
Mark Twain	It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you do know that isn't so.
Pierre Corneille	The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Thomas Merton	The logic of worldly success depends on a fallacy --- the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men.
Bo Derek	Jump before you get thrown.
George Bernard Shaw	My life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is a privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment; and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Robert Frost	The best way out is always through.
Peggy Noonan	Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It is unrealistic and kind of cowardly, because it means you don't have to try.
Augustine of Hippo	Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Tom Hanks	You learn more by getting your butt kicked than by getting it kissed.
Sydney Harris	We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice----that is, until we have stopped saying, "It got lost," and say, "I lost it."
Edward Everett Hale	Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three --- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
George Eliot	It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Bette Midler	It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes a chance. It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live
Al Rogers	In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
*Thomas Fuller*	Two things a man should never be angry about: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
*Thomas Carlyle*	A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
*Earl Gray Stevens*	Confidence, like art, never comes from knowing all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
Cheng Man Ch'ing	Tension is holding on to something that is not there.
*Lyall Watson*	If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
Lord Chesterfield	Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Margaret Thatcher	You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
C. S. Lewis	No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet.
Patrick Henry	I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Dudley Field Malone	I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Aristotle	No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Emily Dickinson	Narcotics cannot still the Tooth that nibbles at the soul.
Saul Bellow	A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Maurice Setter	Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Niels Bohr	Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
G. K. Chesterton	One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.
Russell Hoban	After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
Charles DuBois	The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.
Mario Andretti	If everything is under control then you are going too slow.
Thomas Merton	The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Salvador Dali	So little of what might happen actually does happen.
Anthony Burgess	What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
Joseph Joubert	Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear.
*Mignon McLaughlin*	The head never rules the heart, but it becomes its partner in crime.
Arnot Sheppard, Jr.	Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now?
Fran Lebowitz	Spilling your guts is exactly as charming as it sounds.
*Erma Bombeck*	*Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic* who waved off the dessert cart.**
Kurt Vonnegut	Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
James Thurber	I love the idea of there being two sexes --- Don't you?
Quentin Crisp	It’s no good running a pig farm badly for thirty years while saying, “Really I was meant to be a ballet dancer.” By that time, pigs will be your style.
Katherine Mansfield	Regret is an appalling waste of energy. You can't build on it. It's only good for wallowing in.
Phyllis McGinley	Pressed for rules and verities, All I recollect are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.
Marshall Clow	Warning: Objects in calendar are closer than they appear.
Otto Neurath	In life, 'changing' is like being in a ship on the sea: you must build a new boat with material from the old one you're travelling in; you can't go on shore to destroy the old one first and then build a new one---but you have to re-construct while sailing.
Sam Levinson	You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Helen Keller	Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen MacInness	Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
Oscar Levant	It's not what you are; it's what you don't become that hurts.
Carl Sandburg	A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
*Felix Adler*	The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti	I am perpetually awaiting a rebirth of wonder.
Margaret Mead	Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
African Proverb	To go back to tradition is the first step forward.
Colette	Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
William Hazlitt	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 might have been.
Matsuo Basho	Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Ray Bradbury	Life is "trying things out to see if they work".
Marie Osmond	If you're going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Boris Pasternak	Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
*Lord Mountbatten*	Never pass up a chance to go to the bathroom.
*Will Rogers*	If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?
Tagore	The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you that must raise your sails.
Eden Phillpotts	You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
Leo Tolstoy	The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
e.e. cummings	The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
Dylan Thomas	Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
*Frederick Langbridge*	Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.
Voltaire	Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
*Richard M. Gross*	Spirituality is to religion as justice is to law.
*Louis Armstrong*	I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
Elbert Hubbard	Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Colette	Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.
A.E. Housman	The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
Theodore Rubin	The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
*Srimad Bhagavatam*	Like the bee gathering honey from different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of different scriptures and will see the good in all religions.
*Rainer M. Rilke*	If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
John Sales	Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
H.R. Haldeman	Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.
*Walter Elliott*	Perservance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Will Rogers	If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
*George MacDonald*	To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
DiAnn Anderson	In order to handle any confrontation the most useful thing you can know is first rule of carpentry: Figure out which is the hammer and which is the nail and don't get them mixed up.
*Cornish Prayer*	From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!
*Robert A. Humphrey*	An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
Roger C. Anderson	Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and other days you're the statue.
Will Durant	The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Ronald Firbank	The world is so dreadfully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.
Ann Landers	People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Youngbloods	Come on people. Now. Smile on your brother. Everybody get together. Try to love one another. Right now.
Russell Banks	We forgive once we give up attachment to our wounds.
Marilyn Monroe	Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision?
Milan Kundera	'I think, therefore I am,' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
The Dhammapada	Those who fear what they should not fear, and who do not fear what they should fear....go the downward path.
"Niles Crane"	If my life gets any worse I'm phoning Hell to ask about their exchange program.
Horace	Nothing is beautiful from every point of view.
*Ellie Katz*	The world is your playground. Why aren't you playing?
Isaac Bashevis Singer	You must believe in free will; there is no choice.
Garfield	When life is getting you down, sometimes it helps to seek out one of those cheery people who never stop smiling...and kick their butt clear into next week.
Winston Churchill	I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Michelangelo	Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
*Henry David Thoreau*	The cost of a thing...is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
*H. L. Mencken*	Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.
*Ralph Marston*	Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
H.W. Arnold	The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
Rudyard Kipling	Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.
Jacob A. Riis	Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
*Erasmus*	Every definition is dangerous.
Nikos Kazantzakis	The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darknesses.
Peter de Jaeger	Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it.
Jim Bannerman	It's always the rug you've been sweeping things under that gets pulled out from under you.
0liver Wendell Holmes	People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?'
Eugenio Maria de Hostos	Under every skin there lurks some barbarism.
Ashleigh Brilliant	To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
John le Carre	A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
Lewis Carroll	Begin at the beginning and go on to the end. Then stop.
H.G. Wells	Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
*William Arthur Ward*	The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails.
*Rob Gerard*	Did you ever wonder what side of the mirror you're on?
*Flannery O'Connor*	The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
*Andre Maurois*	The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know".
*Dietrich Bonhoeffer*	If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
*Lilly Langtry*	Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
*Christian Bovee*	It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
Marilyn Manson	Don't pick the scabs or you'll never heal.
Michele Bender	Family doesn’t have to be your relatives. Family means that your life is part of someone else’s, like sections of hair that need each other to form a braid.
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Death tugs at my ears and says: Live, for I am coming.
Erica Jong	The soul is awakened through service.
John Lithgow	Time sneaks up on us like a windshield sneaks up on a bug.
H. L. Mencken	For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.
Blaise Pascal	The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
Jewel Kilcher	What we call human nature is actually human habit.
Pablo Picasso	Ah good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Alfred North Whitehead	Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Unknown	If you're going to be stupid, you'd better be tough.
Ludwig Borne	Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Anatole France	If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Sheldon B. Kopp	The unlived life is not worth examining.
Buddhist Proverb	Do not push the river, it will flow by itself.
Katherine Graham	To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?
Eudora Welty	A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
Hippocrates	To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
Ethel Barrymore	You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Martial	Be content to seem what you really are.
Richard Feynman	The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool.
Krazy Kat	I'm one heppy ket.
Robert M. Pirsig	The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.
W. H. Auden	Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
Bertrand Russell	One should respect public opinion insofar as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Max Born	The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Stephen Butler Leacock	Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
Confucius	The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Sun Tzu	Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Gloria Steinem	Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Hermann Hesse	I wanted to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why is that so difficult?
James Russell Lowell	The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
*Aristotle*	What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
*Nathaniel Hawthorne*	The trees reflected in the river----they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near them. So are we.
*Muhammad*	Kindness is the mark of faith; and whoever has not kindness has not faith.
*George Elliot*	Our deeds determine us...as much as we determine our deeds.
*Werner Heisenberg*	There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
*Alfred Adler*	Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
George Santayana	Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
Maureen Dowd	Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.
Jim Bouton	You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
W. Edwards Denning	It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
Hebrews 13:2	Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by doing so some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
Margaret Sanger	No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
Emmeline Pankhurst	Trust in God: She will provide.
Rosalind Russell	Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.
Virginia Satir	Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
Agnes Repplier	Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
Dorothy Parker	Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
Will Rogers	If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.
Andy Rooney	No matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
Benjamin Spock	Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
John Mellencamp	I know there's a balance. I see it every time I swing past.
*G. K. Chesterton*	Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
*Bhagavad Gita*	The mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding. As difficult to subdue as the wind.
Anais Nin	Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
James Lane Allen	The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
Cynthia Heimel	When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Basil King	Be bold----and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Edward Johnston	The glory of the past is an illusion. So is the glory of the present.
Fyodor Dostevsky	The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
*Henry Miller*	Ideas have to be wedded to action; if there is no sex, no vitality, in them, there is no action. Ideas cannot exist alone in the vacuum of the mind. Ideas are related to living. . .
*Wilson Mizner*	I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
*William Sloan Coffin*	A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
Katherine Anne Porter	Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it.
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