Quotes

Courage is saying, ""Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else."" -- Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for. -- Barbara Mikkelson, snopes.com, May 15, 2001

...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. -- Voltaire

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. -- Benjamin Franklin

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. -- G. E. Lessing

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped. -- Alice Childress

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. -- Anna Pavlova

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, 'The Dilbert Principle'

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. -- Baltasar Gracian

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you. -- Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead. -- Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts. -- Georges Rouault

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. -- Denise Levertov

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -- John Updike

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion. -- The Talmud

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. -- Epictetus

I am open to receive with every breath I breathe. -- Michael Sun

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. -- Christopher Reeve

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me. -- Althea Gibson

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one. -- Mark Twain

Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal. -- David Assael, Northern Exposure, Spring Break, 1991

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. -- Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. -- George Washington, letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder. -- Jay Leno, O Magazine, February 2003

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power. -- Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. -- Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. -- Mikhail Bakunin

The way to final freedom is within thy self. -- The Book of the Golden Precepts

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. -- Donald Trump, "Trump: Art of the Deal"

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -- Plato

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. -- Eric Berne

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. -- Earl Warren

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. -- Christine Bovee

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work. -- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. -- Maya Angelou

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living. -- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lost and Found, 1992

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. -- Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B.C.