Life in General

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.  Rainer Maria Rilke
 
The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.  Helen Keller
 
Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.  Vernon Saunders' Law
 
You have not lived a perfect day, unless you've done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.  Ruth Smeltzer
 
Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks -- I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.  Irving Berlin
 
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.  Corita Kent
 
This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
I think and think for months and years, ninety-ninety times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.  Albert Einstein
 
Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.  Sanskrit Poem
 
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.  Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
 
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead.  Louisa May Alcott
 
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.  Benjamin Franklin
 
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.  Douglas Everett, American Hockey Player
 
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of  bad training.  Anna Freud
 
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.  Carl Sandburg
 
It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.  Longfellow
 
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.  Albert Einstein
 
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.  Claude M. Bristol, Author
 
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.  Eric Hoffer, Author and Philosopher
 
Your true passion should feel like breathing; it's that natural.  Oprah Winfrey
 
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of. George Chapman
 
He that can only boast of a distinguished lineage, boast of that which does not belong to himself; but he that lives worthily of it is always held in the highest honor. Junius
 
It would be more honorable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. Horace Mann
 
Birth is nothing where virtue is not. Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)
 
Consider whether we ought not to be more in the habit of seeking honor from our descendants than from our ancestors; thinking it better to be nobly remembered than nobly born; and striving so to live, that our sons, and our sons’ sons, for ages to come, might still lead their children reverently to the doors out of which we had been carried to the grave, saying, Look, this was his house, this was his chamber. John Ruskin
 
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.  William Wordsworth, Poet
 
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.  Richard Bach, Writer
 
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.  Oprah Winfrey
 
It is a very funny thing about life - if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.  W. Somerset Maugham, Author
 
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.  Henry Miller
 
Courage is being scared to death -- but saddling up anyway.  John Wayne
 
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.  Mother Teresa
 
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover.  Mark Twain
 
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said
the Cat. "I don't much care where." said Alice. "Then it
doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.   Pearl S. Buck
 
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.  Sun Tzu
 
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.  Paul Valery
 
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.  Sam Ewing
 
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.  Samuel Butler, British writer
 
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.  Dale Turner
 
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own "acres of diamonds." Earl Nightingale
 
Do you know the difference between education and experience?  Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.  Pete Seeger
 
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.  Samuel Butler
 
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.  Erma Bombeck
 
When you are through changing, you are through.  Bruce Barton
 
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.  Anais Nin
 
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.  Karl Wallenda
 
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.  George S. Patton
 
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.  Marianne Williamson, Author
 
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.  Maxwell Maltz, Author
 
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.  Herm Albright
 
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.  Robert Orben
 
When you row another person across the river, you get there yourself.  Fortune Cookie
 
People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.  Michael Josephson, Radio Commentator
 
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.  Robert Cringely
 
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.  Confucius
 
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.  Augustine of Hippo
 
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.  Edward De Bono, British Writer
 
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.  Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister
 
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.  Frank Capra
 
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.  Jack Penn
 
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed.  Earl Nightingale
 
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading - it vexes me to choose another guide.  Emily Bronte
 
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.  Sir Winston Churchill
 
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.  Albert Schweitzer
 
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.  Confucius
 
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein
 
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.  Helen Keller
 
There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.  Gordon Livingston, M.D.
 
When you give someone a book, you don't give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.  Christopher Morley, Novelist, Journalist and Poet
 
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.  Alan Alda
 
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
 
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.  Michael J. Fox, Actor
 
If I have seen more than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.  Sir Isaac Newton
 
When words become unclear, I shall focus on photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.  Ansel Adams
 
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.  Confucius
 
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!  John Muir
 
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.  David Carradine
 
Things should be made as simple as possible - no simpler.  Albert Einstein
 
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.  Gandhi
 
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.  Jeffrey Archer
 
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.  Charles Kingsley
 
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.  Danny Kaye
 
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.  Anthony J. D'Angelo
 
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.  Abraham Lincoln
 
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'  Isaac Asimov
 
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.  Mother Teresa
 
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.  Thomas Paine
 
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.  Winston Churchill
 
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.  Paul Boese
 
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.  Oprah Winfrey
 
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.  Socrates
 
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.  Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss Theologian
 
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.  Benjamin Franklin
 
One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.  Ida Scott Taylor, Author

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