posted August 04, 2007 10:38 PM
Here are pieces of an excellent collection of quotes I found while trying to search for a quote I saw on a little calendar on a wall today that I wanted to share...
something about the difference between happiness and unhappiness is the ability to enjoy and be grateful for the little things
I found these instead... http://www.webmediaexplorer.com/?action=quotes
the page has SO many more excellent quotes... I started off trying to only post a few but I gave up toward the halfway point and started choosing many. The first half has some excellent quotes on what people did not believe in at first... Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar.
But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.
Nikola Tesla.
Speak in anger and you will hold the best speech you ever regretted.
Winston Churchill.
The most useful lesson life has given me is that the fools often are right.
Winston Churchill.
The ones who got most out of life is not those who have lived a whole century, but those who have lived every minute.
Colette.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Confucius (Kung Fu Tzu).
Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.
Confucius (Kung Fu Tzu).
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
E.E. Cummings.
Never tear down a fence until you know why it was raised.
Robert Frost.
Those who wander astray, new paths find, of which others later will benefit to know.
Gustav Fröding.
An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
Mahatma Gandhi.
Knowledge is not enough, it must be used; will is not enough, we also must act.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
With knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
It is not the monuments that teaches us history. It is the ruins.
Carl Hammarén.
Good timber does not grow under comfortable circumstances, the stronger the wind, the stronger the tree.
J. Willard Marriott.
Great men's success should always be measured against the means they used to reach it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
If you do not want anyone to know about it - don't do it.
Chinese adage.
It is better to ask and appear ignorant than to remain ignorant.
Chinese adage.
If you want to be happy for a day - drink a bottle of wine. If you want to be happy for a month - find your self a woman. If you want to be happy for all your life - make your self a garden.
Chinese adage.
Love your neighbour, but put up a fence.
Russian adage.
Not even the angels stand higher than the man who took the wrong way and then returned.
The Talmud.
An opinion is not necessarily correct because someone is willing to die for it.
Oscar Wilde.
One does not have peace longer than one's neighbour wants.
Gustav Vasa.
The one who first resorts to violence shows that he has no more arguments.
Chinese adage.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Noel Coward.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert Einstein.
Be good and you will be lonely.
Mark Twain.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Theresa.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Sir Winston Churchill.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith.
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
Richard Whately.
Talk doesn't cook rice.
Chinese proverb.
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden.
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur.
Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.
Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back').
The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler.
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion.
Javan.
Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.
Jesse Jackson.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Kierkegaard.
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Charles Mingus.
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