Quotes

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path. -- Scandinavian Proverb

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. -- Clarence E. Hodges

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. -- Christina Baldwin

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. -- John Atkinson

Life is consciousness. -- Emmet Fox

You can pray for someone even if you don’t think God exists. -- Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage. -- Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian Proverb

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. -- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. -- Theodore Parker

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. -- Arthur Brisbane

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. -- Carolyn Heilbrun

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. -- Epictetus

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? -- Robert Browning

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. -- Erica Jong

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. -- John Lancaster Spalding

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. -- Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, 1969

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -- Bill Cosby

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it. -- Marquis de Vauvenargues

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. -- Lord Macaulay, review of Lucy Aikin, 'Life and Writings of Addison,' 1943

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you. -- Lisa Alther

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. -- John L. Motley

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. -- Kahlil Gibran

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. -- Dr. David M. Burns

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. -- Harriet Lerner

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect. -- William Shakespeare, 'The Tempest'

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings. -- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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. -- Cyrus H. Curtis

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. -- Plutarch

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. -- Barbra Streisand

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. -- May Sarton

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. -- John Ruskin

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have. -- Edward Clarke

Life is too complicated not to be orderly. -- Martha Stewart, quoted in Harper's Bazaar

Management is nothing more than motivating other people. -- Lee Iacocca

[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket. -- Marge Piercy

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. -- Ayn Rand

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. -- Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952