1. Sir Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
2. Charles Dickens
". . . I only ask to be
free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not
deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies."
3. -- Arthur C Clarke
Any
sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
4. Albert Einstein
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part
limited in time and space.
5. William
Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty
6. Charles Dickens
I had considered how the
things that never happen, are often as
much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
7. Ogden
Nash - Song of the Open Road, 1945
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed,
unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a
tree at all.
8. Charles Dickens
" . . . Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will
do, but
ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!"
9. "I gave my life
to become what I am right now...
was it worth it?
..Richard Bach
10. --Patrick Overton
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.11. -- Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle
Mediocrity
knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes
genius.
12. Isaac Asimov
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to
become ignorant
again, and to run the
old, old risk of failing to learn."]
13. Rose
Franken
"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly."
14. The Gospel of Matthew, 24: 43, 44
"But Know one thing, that
if the householder had known in what watch the thief
was coming, he would have kept awake and not allowed his house to be
broken into. On this account you too prove yourselves ready,
because at an
hour you do not think to be it, the Son of man is coming."
15. Masks serve several purposes. Two of which are to conceal the wearer’s true face and to give the illusion the wearer is someone other than himself. Ask yourself, how often do I wear a mask
16. The day was
made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring
at the sky till
its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep . . .
- The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens
17. The Revelation
to John 22:17
And the spirit and the bride keep on saying: Come!, and let anyone
hearing say come,
and let anyone thirsting come, let anyone that wishes take life's water
free.
18. Always you have
been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say
to you that when you work
you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream assigned to you when that
dream was born, and in keeping yourself with
labour you are in truth loving life. Kahlil Gibran
(The Prophet)
19. "An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind." Kahlil Gibran
20. Nirvana
or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only
through persistent exercise of real
love.
M. Scott Peck
21. Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it
does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
22. " . . . There lives at least one being who can never
change--one being
who would be content to devote his whole existence to your
happiness--who lives but in your eyes--who breathes but in your
smiles--who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for
you." Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers
23. You heard that revenge was sweet, but I've found forgiveness
to be sweeter
Susan Riggs
24. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon
loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
25. "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be
yourself." (James
Douglas Morrison, lead singer of
The Doors)
26. An
election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a
sincere
interest in prolonging
the lives of the poultry.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880) English novelist
27. Enlightenment
(30) There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one
with a heart. Lao Tzu
28. "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." Hannah
Arendt
29. Action can only be understood and represented by
the spirit. Goethe
30. In dreams begin Responsibilities." U2
31. there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did
not do too much, and overreach themselves Dickens
32. "This world is
but a canvas to our imagination." (Henry David Thoreau)
33. " I heartily accept the motto,"that government is best which
governs least", and I should like to
see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically."
34. For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by
the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in
a
year, I could meet all the expenses of living. H D Thoreau
35. "I love America more than any other country in this world,
and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her
perpetually." -James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
36. We live in a
world where what you earn depends on what you can learn, where
the average 18-year-old will change jobs eight times in a
lifetime, and where none of us can promise any of you that what
you do for a living is absolutely safe from now on. Bill Clinton, 1992
2nd presidential debate
37. It is in our idleness, in our dreams that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.-Virginia Woolf
38. Under a
government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man
is also a prison. Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
39. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure
nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income
twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result
misery.
Charles Dickens
40. The
littany of fear from Dune. I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my
fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when my fear
is gone I will turn and face fears path, and only I will remain. Frank
Herbert
41. "You might, from
your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer. Nevertheless, you shall not
get
the better of me. I am an Englishwoman." Charles Dickens A
tale of two cities
42. Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be
done and why. Then do it.
43.
44. " . . . tell Wind and Fire
where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me."
Charles Dickens, A tale of two cities
45. "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
46. To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
47. The past is but the beginning of a beginning.--H. G. Wells
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