Famous Quotes

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Robert Collier:
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Ellen Parr:
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Oscar Wilde:
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
Woody Allen:
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Benjamin Franklin:
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Neil Finn, track #12 on his album "Try Whistling This":
Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Author Unknown:
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003:
If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.
Saskya Pandita:
Not to be cheered by praise,
Not to be grieved by blame,
But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers
Are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Confucius Analects:
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.
Seneca:
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface:
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
St. Catherine of Sienna:
If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze.
Christopher Morley:
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
 
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