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Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
-- Doug Larson |
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There is no such thing as an average person, but on the same token there are distinctive similarities between people: air breathing, food eating, ten fingered people. I guess I am one of them, somewhat average, however I am not the one to be discounted. Nor am I the one to be celebrated for that matter. Who knows what they are worth or are capable of, I suppose it's a good thing that we don't.
-- Dr Generico |
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
-- Dr. Theodore Dreissel (Dr. Suess) |
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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
-- Duc de La Rochefoucauld |
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Enjoy... all the days of this meaningless life... -- all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
-- Ecclesiastes 9:9-10 |
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
-- Edith Wharton |
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There are only two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-- Edith Wharton |
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One thing if for certain - we can't fight life.
-- Edwin Chan |
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You gain strength, courage & confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt |
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Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings.
-- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross |
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross |
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Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
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What do I want to take home from my summer holiday? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analysing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.
-- Ellen Goodman |
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Things are changing
But nothing changes
And still there are changes
-- Enigma3 |
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Most of the energy we spend is like a footprint on moving sands.
Try to live your lost illusions. They are the spice of life.
-- Enigma3 |
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