Some More Good Inspirational / Insightful Quotes I've collected some more quotations -- enjoy! "He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind." - Samuel Johnson "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." - Paul Valery "That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everyone blind." - Martin Luther King Jr. "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow "Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life." - Aristophanes "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." - Booker T. Washington "Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who'll never find it out." - Frank A. Clark "Great is the person who has not lost their childlike heart." - Mencius "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw "Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box." - Italian saying "Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence 'Two times two is four.'" - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." - William James "Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson "Treat people as if they were what they could be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is only those who never do anything who never make mistakes." - A. Favre "Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects." - Will Rogers "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." - Eugene Ionesco "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein "I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution." - Wernher von Braun "Every motion of a single leaf moves every leaf of every tree on every continent. There is a pattern. That's what you must look for and look to. Nothing goes right but as part of the pattern. Only in it is freedom." - Ursula K. le Guin "Young. Old. Just words." - George Burns "There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago." - J. Robert Oppenheimer "How many people are killed in accidents because of not wanting to let go of their umbrellas!" - Paul Valery "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." - Charles Mingus "If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead." - Gelett Burgess "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin "Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." - Anonymous "Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike." - Madame de Stael "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome." - Samuel Johnson "To get nowhere, follow the crowd." - Anonymous "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa "Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty." - John Finley "On the human chessboard, all moves are possible." - Miriam Schiff "A person has two legs and one sense of humor, and if you're faced with the choice, it's better to lose a leg." - Charles Lindner "Even the highest towers begin from the ground." - Chinese saying "If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting." - Zen saying "They say they climb mountains because they are there. I wonder if it would astound them to know that the very same reason is why the rest of us go around them." - S. Omar Barker "If all but myself were blind, I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture." - Benjamin Franklin "The time to win a fight is before it starts." - Frederick W. Lewis "He only profits from praise who values criticism." - Heinrich Heine "If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan "I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them." - Eleonora Duse "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far." - Jean Cocteau "People want peace so badly that governments ought to get out of their way and let them have it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower "Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to illuminate and burn." - L. Schefer "To a large degree 'reality' is whatever the people who are around at the time agree to." - Milton H. Miller "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone else doing it." - Elbert Hubbard "Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." - Mark Twain "Time is the most valuable thing one can spend." - Theophrastus "Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying." - Christian Furchtegott Gellert "A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure." - Anonymous "The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served by others as little as possible, and to serve others as much as possible." - Leo Tolstoy "The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them." - Camillo di Cavour "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." - Wilhelm Stekel "Please all, and you will please none." - Aesop "I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth "The person who pursues revenge should dig two graves." - Old proverb "To live is to be slowly born." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The mere sense of living is joy enough." - Emily Dickinson "You're never too old to become younger." - Mae West "Making music is another way of making children." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Without those of you who are our gentler side, civilization has no meaning." - Catherine Asaro "Heroism comes in many forms. Courage, valor, and integrity don't have to announce themselves with flash or trumpets." - Catherine Asaro "To teach is to learn twice." - Joseph Joubert "Nothing endures but change." - Heraclitus "You can never have a greater or a lesser dominion than that over yourself." - Leonardo da Vinci "Circumstances are the rules of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise." - Samuel Lover "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." - Lin Yutang "We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca "There never was a good war or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin "Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself." - Frank Crane "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Mahatma Gandhi "Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure." - Bertrand Russell "I am erecting a barrier of simplicity between myself and the world." - Andre Gide "You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca "Less is more -- more or less." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde "Every survival kit should include a sense of humor." - Anonymous "Silence is a true friend who never betrays." - Confucius "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." - Arthur Schopenhauer "The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same." - Heraclitus "Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "No pleasure lasts if it's unseasoned by variety." - Publilius Syrus "In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering." - William James "It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." - Samuel Johnson "Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." - Washington Irving "Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought." - Francois Gautier "One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed." - Anonymous "Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley "The classroom -- not the trench -- is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore." - Lyndon Baines Johnson "Men take more pains to mask than mend." - Benjamin Franklin "If man finds himself with bread in both hands, he should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul." - Muhammad
Yeah, i was debating between adding to that last one or making a new thread as i've been doing every time i post a bunch more quotes. I couldn't decide so i decided to flip a quarter, heads post a new one, tails add to the other one. It was heads. LOL Next time i think i'll just add to this thread though.
"What the hell is it with Lykan and quote threads?" --Me Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Favorite quotes: "The marble image came alive, Began to moan and plead She drank my burning kisses up With ravenous thirst and greed. She drank the breath from out my breast, She fed lust without pause; She pressed me tight, and tore and rent My body with her claws." --Heinrich Heine "Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women." — Genghis Khan "What is good? -- All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man." --Friedrich Nietzsche. The Anti-Christ, aph. 2 (1895) "DEMON PIZZA IS EVIL!" --FoxMulder "I like sweet little soft bunnies for girls, kind of dumb, giggly. Maybe a little drunk. Girls who smell good and do what I say." — Lisa Carver "They sing the angel's hymns with lips still stained with earth" --Inscription on a painting by Louis Welden Hawkins "The witch-burning sucked. I don't think anybody's gonna argue that. And they generally caught people who were completely innocent and just baffled by the whole affair. But what always struck me was the incredible pettiness of the charges. "I sold my soul to Satan and had sex with the devil in the form of a black goat, and I got the power to spoil the milk!" I mean, crimony, you think that if you're gonna give head to the Devil, you could at least get something useful. Ooo, making cows sick with the evil eye. Sure, that was worth all those Sabbats. Sheesh. If I'm selling my soul to Satan, I at least want France, or Italy, or the Pope or something worthwhile." --Ursula Vernon "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:" --Revalations 17:3-4, Holy Bible, KJV "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy." --Revalations 13:1, Holy Bible, KJV "I believe only in what I do not see." --Gustave Moreau "I'm kidding Internet Girl, please like me!" --Scott Delbango, of www.somethingawful.com "And there shall be no more red roses, but only white, for she has squeezed the blood of all living things into her cup." --Aleistair Crowley
Whilst on a walking holiday in remote regions, I chance upon a secluded valley, away from the popular walking routes. Some distance along the valley I come across a scene so breathtakingly beautiful that I drop to my knees in wonder. There is something about the serried ranks of deciduous and coniferous trees standing tall on the opposite bank of the river that sets my heart ablaze. The colours of the foliage are poetic, whilst the arrangement of species seems divinely inspired. Clouds swoop and whirl above the topmost branches, and the river sparkles through an uncertain reflection below. Suddenly, the sky darkens, and along the river advances a flotilla of huge birds with menacing eyes. The size of the birds staggers me; one is as tall as a bus, and the others not much smaller. Their plumage is a shimmering blue, but their eyes are full of hate and looming disaster. With a horrible sinking feeling, I realise that the birds have noticed me. One of them clambers up the nearside bank, and waddles towards me. I take to my heels, and scramble along the path. Gaining speed, I run at full tilt. Then I see people in front of me, running towards me. First one passes, then another, then another. They are wide-eyed with terror, and keep taking quick, fearful looks behind them. There must, I realise, be something unutterably horrible in front of me, but my fear of the big birds compels me to carry on. More people run past me, all with the same frightened expression. They are running towards the birds, away from something unknown. I am running from the birds, towards something unknown. Not for the first time in my life, I curse my bad luck.
...There's some really good ones in this batch! Enjoy! "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie "Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance." - Arthur Schopenhauer "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Norman MacEwan "Do not owe anything to anybody." - Catherine the Great "Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins." - Native American saying "There is no education like adversity." - Benjamin Disraeli "We find comfort among those who agree with us -- and growth among those who don't." - Frank A. Clark "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." - Walter Elliott "The wise man looks into space, and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too big; for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions." - Lao Tzu "Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin." - Oscar Wilde "If you only keep adding little by little, it will soon become a big heap." - Hesiod "Education should teach us to play the wise fool rather than turn us into the solemn ass." - Kenneth E. Eble "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs." - Charlotte Bronte "Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy." - Oscar Wilde "There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit." - J. Bronowski "Some pursue happiness -- others create it." - Anonymous "Keep your face toward the sun and you will not be bothered by shadows." - Dadi Janki "Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi "The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn." - Gloria Steinem "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self." - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne "This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." - William Lyon Phelps "The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine." - Sir James Jeans "Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." - Anonymous "Youth is not a time of life -- it is a state of mind." - Anonymous "The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance." - Benjamin Franklin "I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud." - Helen Keller "For me the greatest beauty always lay in the greatest clarity." - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing "To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings -- it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle." - Artur Rubinstein "What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?" - George Eliot "Never does a person describe his own character more clearly than by his way of describing that of others." - Jean Paul (Friedrich Richter) "If all that Americans want is security, then they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed, and a roof over their heads." - Dwight D. Eisenhower "All is flux, nothing stands still." - Heraclitus "Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace." - 14th Dalai Lama "Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca "It is bad manners to say 'You are welcome to your own opinion'; but it is the perfection of good fellowship to really mean it." - George Bernard Shaw "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." - Chinese proverb "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the right to do the same." - Voltaire "The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." - Norman Vincent Peale "You are what you are when nobody is looking." - Abigail Van Buren & Ann Landers "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." - Robert Walpole "Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition." - Artur Rubinstein "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, and who had ever been alive." - James Baldwin "The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people." - Walter Winchell "Poor is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca "He who deliberately goes against the fashion is himself its slave." - Logan Pearsall Smith "Opinion says hot and cold, but the reality is atoms and empty space." - Democritus "Anyone can be polite to a king, but it takes a civilized person to be polite to a beggar." - Anonymous "The greatest tragedy is indifference." - Red Cross slogan "True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself." - Earl of Chesterfield "Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci "As long as national sovereignty exists, our only hope is to raise everybody's standard of ethics." - Wernher von Braun "Nationalism is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein "The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel." - George Bernard Shaw "There is more to life than increasing its speed." - Mahatma Gandhi "Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer." - Anonymous "He who laughs -- lasts." - Wilfred Peterson "A good conscience is a continual feast." - Robert Burton "A man should never be ashamed to admit he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." - Alexander Pope "It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important." - Thomas Huxley "To think and to observe humanely means to think and observe apolitically." - Thomas Mann "Mishaps are like knives that either serve or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle." - James Russell Lowell "The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr Explanation given by a pupil for not joining in discussion: "I think I'll learn more by listening. Anything I would say I already know." - quoted by The Christian Science Monitor "The surest cure for vanity is loneliness." - Thomas Wolfe "Laughter has no foreign accent." - Paul B. Lowney "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make of it." - Marcus Aurelius "Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." - George Bernard Shaw "More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity." - Francois Gautier "Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us." - W. N. Rieger "No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream." - R. Buckminster Fuller "There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well." - Joyce Brothers "Those who plow the sea do not carry the winds in their hands." - Publilius Syrus "Some speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak." - Anonymous "The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." - Benjamin Disraeli "Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized." - O. A. Battista "Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself." - St. Francis of Sales "The most important words we'll ever utter are those words we say to ourselves, about ourselves, when we're by ourselves." - Al Walker "In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are the guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves." - Boris Pasternak "The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh "I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." - George Burns "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell "As a rule, I always look for what others ignore." - Marshall McLuhan "It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out. It's the grain of sand in your shoe." - Anonymous "It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish." - S. I. Hayakawa "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent." - Abraham Lincoln "Everything leads us to believe that there exists a certain point of the intelligence at which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived as opposites." - Andre Breton "The simplest things give me ideas." - Joan Miro "'Reality' is nothing more than a collective hunch." - Lily Tomlin "It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." - Abigail Van Buren "We are all happy if we only knew it." - Feodor Dostoevsky "A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently." - Quoted by Benjamin Franklin "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with what lies within us." - Anonymous "The sun is new each day." - Heraclitus "The only person who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. All the rest go on with their old measurements." - George Bernard Shaw "Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Ertz "If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." - Robert Southey "The final mystery is oneself." - Oscar Wilde "I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment." - R. Buckminster Fuller
"We live in a world of many illusions, and much of human belief and behavior is ritualized nonsense." - Wes "Scoop" Nisker "A great many people think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices." - William James "The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow." - Sir William Osler "Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own." - G.C. Lichtenberg "A great-souled hero must transcend the slavish thinking of those around them." - Friedrich Nietzsche "I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, somebody else would lead you out." - Eugene V. Deba "No man is free who is not master of himself." - Epictetus "Poor is the man whose pleasures depend upon the permission of another." - Madonna "Be good enough to remember that your morals are only your habits; and do not call other people immoral because they have other habits." - George Bernard Shaw "If your happiness depends on what someone else says or does, I guess you do have a problem." - Richard Bach "Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame." - Thomas a Kempis "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Antonius "We create our fortune, for so the universe was wrought. Thought is another name for fate; choose then your destiny and wait, for love brings love, and hate brings hate." - Henry Van Dyke "The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius "The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." - Florence Shinn "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." - Frank Outlaw "A belief is not merely an idea that the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind." - Robert Bolton "The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly." - Shakti Gawain "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." - Proverbs 23:7 "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become." - Buddha
"Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion." - Leo Buscaglia "If I had my life to live over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I'd be sillier than I have been on this trip. I would climb more mountains, swim more rivers and watch more sunsets. I would have more actual troubles and less imaginary ones. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else, just moments, one after another... I would pick more daisies." - Nadine Stair (at age 89) "There was a wise man in the Easata whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow." - Alfred Mercier "Life is too important to be taken too seriously." - Oscar Wilde "Maybe you are here on earth to learn that life is what you make it, and it's to be enjoyed." - Dick Sutphen "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." - Buddha "The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller "If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound." - Helen Keller
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I don't get it? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Good one, I agree; don't take anything for granted.
My perspective on it: Things can seem clearer to us in retrospect. We look back today on the foolish things we did in our past, wondering how we could have ever done such a thing. He was praying to be able to see his actions today with the wisdom of tomorrow, in order that he may go about things more wisely than he would otherwise.
I like this one the best, but I haven't read them all. This poem at Xev's first post is a fine example of...yar...poetry, and for some reason I can't paste the whole thing...
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha "Forever is but a trail of 'Nows.' The best a person can do is live every one fully in its turn." - Unknown "Depend upon it, sir -- when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." - Samuel Johnson "Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead." - Unknown "It's only possible to live happily ever after on a moment-to-moment basis." - Margaret Bonnano "Every moment is a golden one for the person who has the vision to recognize it as such." - Henry Miller "On Arturo Toscanini's eightieth birthday, someone asked his son, Walter, what his father ranked as his most important achievement. The son replied, 'For him there can be no such thing. Whatever he happens to be doing at the moment is the biggest thing in his life -- whether it is conducting a symphony or peeling an orange.'" - Ardis Whitman "You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles." - Robert Frost "All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath -- so what does that make today worth?!" - Og Mandino
"The world is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world." - H. M. Tomlinson "Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one's mind." - Mark Twain "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." - Lewis L. Dunnington "If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly." - Paramahansa Yogananda "We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens." - Johann Wolfgang von Geothe "We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures." - Unknown "Every life has its dark as well as its cheerful hours. Happiness comes from choosing which to remember." - Unknown "To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius "Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be your day." - Unknown "When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value." - Thomas Edison "Celebrate your existence!" - William Blake "Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again." - Unknown "It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness." - Charles H. Spurgeon "There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so." - German proverb "There is a 'magic switch' inside all of us which can transform the worst to the best (or the best to the worst). It should be everyone's ultimate goal to discover and master this mechanism." - Anonymous "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." - Marcus Aurelius "Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts." - Frank Crane "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven." - John Milton "Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars." - Frederick Langbridge
