Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself
as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420
You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and
you're not smiling on a regular basis,
try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same
step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis
Galantière
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The
Fall, 1956
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul,
and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau
If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns. ~Author Unknown
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work,
however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this
is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out
pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?
~Coleman Cox
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of
your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in
order to do it. ~Author Unknown
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you
have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it
falsehood. ~William James
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others
say about him. ~Leo Aikman
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
~Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is
of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human
being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change
the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by
Reinhold Neibuhr
Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening
effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament,"
Idylls of the King
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale,
"The Philosopher"
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things
he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters. ~Samuel Butler
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin,
The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't
notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying
to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of
itself. ~Elbert Hubbard
On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would
one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation." ~Confucian Analects
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are
better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee
Williams (Thomas Lanier)
Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White
Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way
is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we
are for what we could become. ~Charles DuBois
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~John Lennon
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. ~Mignon McLaughlin,
The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson
to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it
anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may
both be wrong. ~Dandemis
Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln
It's better to fight for something than against something. ~Author Unknown
The day will happen whether or not you get up. ~John Ciardi
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then
man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~George R. Kirkpatrick
Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of
others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin,
The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. ~Mignon
McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong
enough to let go. ~Author Unknown
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author
Unknown
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest
that was left out by mistake. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ~Janis Joplin
The biggest problem in the world
Could have been solved when it was small.
~Witter
Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's
Notebook, 1960
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become.
But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard
Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water,
and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee
While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha
Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard
the Second, 1595
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln
It's a dangerous business... going out of your door.... You step into the Road, and if
you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. ~J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company,"
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
Dont get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.
~Kathryn Carpenter
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings
of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man
is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw
Lec
The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish
Proverb
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head.
You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That
way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~Tad Williams
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
~Baltasar Gracian
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more;
hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
Aspire to a lower level of harm. ~Anonymous
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool
yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~Bill Veeck
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger
When you lose, don't lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John
C. Collins
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on
by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and
much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and
four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down. ~W.
Migner
When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
~Albert Schweitzer
Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing
supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young
Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown
The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread
it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what
to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person
to fool. ~Richard Feynman
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm
S. Forbes
I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes
nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson
