"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order
that they should see twice as much as they say."
-- Charles Caleb Colton
"Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the
opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of
yesterday."
-- Brian Tracy
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are
immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
-- Arabian Proverb
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been
discovered."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to
say and then don't say it."
-- Sam Levenson
"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you.
And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath
followed by another."
-- Oprah Winfrey
"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the
heat."
-- Nelson Mandela
"Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it
is the representative of a whole eternity."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged
children for signs of improvement."
-- Florida Scott-Maxwell
"The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbour as
ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate
others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others
when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive
ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready
to sacrifice ourselves."
-- Eric Hoffer
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the
little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind
look or heartfelt compliment."
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
-- Mark Twain
"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear
three kinds --- all they have had, all they have now, and all
they expect to have."
-- Edward Everett Hale
"If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really
very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime."
-- Anthony Robbins
"If all of our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence
everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be
contented to take their own and depart."
-- Socrates
"What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me."
-- Helen Keller
"It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one
yourself."
-- Dolly Parton
The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only
treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only
wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which
you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.
-- J. A. Langford
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