What is superfluous is hostile to what is essential - Nietzsche
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. -Horace, poet
and satirist (65-8 BCE)
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. -- Francis Bacon
"Roeien met de riemen die we hebben": Rowing with the oars we have. (Dutch proverb).
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives
anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power
until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused,
dedicated, disciplined. -Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties
today of its strength.
~ Corrie Ten Boom ~
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Just remember--when you think all is lost, the future remains. -Bob
Goddard
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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we
never give enough is love. -Henry Miller, American writer (1891-1980)
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Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear
bright until you hear them speak? -Steven Wright
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Berthold
Auerbach, German Writer (1812-1882)
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"I call 'poet' any human being who sets out on this path,
in quest of what I call the second innocence, the one that
comes after knowing, the one that no longer knows, the one
that knows how not to know."
~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~:: -Helene Cixous
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the
others.
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When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.
~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~:: -Ethiopian proverb
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so
long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened
for us. -Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to
do. " - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
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"I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long
and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading
and reproaching you." Aristotle's Apology
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"Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth"
~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~:: Emerson, 1864.
"L'erreur n'est pas le
contraire de la vérité, elle est l'oubli de la vérité contraire"
~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~:: Pascal
On difficult ground, press on.
On encircled ground, devise strategies.
On death ground, fight.
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---Sun Tsao
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they
should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~:: Thoreau
"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble
remembering how to fly."
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not;
a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~:: Francis Bacon
"Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen
to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young
and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work."
~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~ Margaret Mead
"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
What
a man thinks of himself ... determines, or rather indicates, his fate."
~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~ Thoreau
"We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
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Teilhard de Chardin
"We can do no great things - only things with great love."
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Mother Theresa(1910-1997)
"To believe in synchronicity is to believe in the ability of the universe,
on rare occasions, to spontaneously generate goodness, beauty, and joy."
~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~ Nathaniel Borenstein
"Consider the postage stamp: It secures success by sticking to one
thing until it gets there."
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"Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and
that has made all the difference."
~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~ Robert Frost
~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~~::~~..~ Mark Michaels
"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls"
~~~~.\./\.~./\.~.~~~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~~~.~./\.~./\./.~~~~ Mother
Theresa (1910-1997)
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eleanor Roosevelt
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." Sarah Berhardt
(1844-1923)
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