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  • #1
    Samuel Butler
    “Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
    Samuel Butler

  • #2
    Thomas A. Edison
    “We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #3
    Elbert Hubbard
    “It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    “I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

  • #6
    D.A. Carson
    “People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
    D.A. Carson

  • #8
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. ”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #9
    William  James
    “The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
    William James

  • #10
    George Bernard Shaw
    “As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ”
    George Bernard Shaw, Overruled

  • #11
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #12
    Anne Tyler
    “It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.”
    Anne Tyler

  • #14
    Meister Eckhart
    “One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.”
    Meister Eckhart
    tags: be, do

  • #15
    William Arthur Ward
    “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
    William Arthur Ward

  • #16
    Zig Ziglar
    “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well.”
    Zig Ziglar

  • #17
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • #18
    Anne Tyler
    “I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
    Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist

  • #19
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #20
    Norman Mailer
    “Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”
    Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself

  • #21
    François Fénelon
    “Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering.”
    François Fénelon
    tags: peace

  • #22
    Abraham Lincoln
    “We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #23
    Blaise Pascal
    “The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.”
    Blaise Pascal

  • #24
    William Wordsworth
    “The world is too much with us; late and soon,
    Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
    Little we see in Nature that is ours;
    We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
    This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
    The winds that will be howling at all hours,
    And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
    For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
    It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather be
    A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
    So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
    Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
    Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
    Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.”
    William Wordsworth, The Major Works

  • #25
    Henry David Thoreau
    “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #26
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #27
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    “The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.”
    Thomas Henry Huxley

  • #28
    Sam Levenson
    “Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”
    Sam Levenson

  • #29
    Dale Carnegie
    “Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”
    Dale Carnegie

  • #30
    Thomas  Arnold
    “The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy.”
    Thomas Arnold

  • #31
    Oscar Hammerstein II
    “There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.”
    Oscar Hammerstein II

  • #32
    “People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.”
    B. R. Myers



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