Quotes

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. -- Baruch Spinoza

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. -- Raymond Lindquist

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -- Sir Winston Churchill

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.' -- William Ralph Inge

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. -- Patricia Neal

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors. -- Jewish Proverb

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. -- Gore Vidal

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. -- William Blake

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. -- George Burns

Hitch your wagon to a star. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances. -- La Fontaine

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. -- Benjamin Franklin

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. -- Joseph P. Thompson

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination. -- Roy M. Goodman

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. -- Carl Jung

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -- Albert Einstein

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. -- Jenny Carroll, Sanctuary, 2002

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. -- Vernon Sanders Law

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. -- David Lloyd George

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher acheivement. -- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. -- Nora Ephron

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. -- Socrates

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. -- Harriet Martineau

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence. -- Robert Frost

Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Duke Ellington

Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts. -- Mary O'Hara

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have. -- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. -- George Washington

Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas. -- Marchioness Townsend

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience. -- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions. -- Ellen Glasglow

Eighty percent of success is showing up. -- Woody Allen

Every artist was first an amateur. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876