"Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now."  Steven Wright

"Bad weather always looks worse through a window."  Author Unknown

"'Rules' are just the starting point of the learning process." Dorenda Watson

"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of
wind."  Annie Dillard

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
J. Krishnamurti, author, speaker, and philosopher (1895-1986)

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster
than society gathers wisdom." Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)

"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." Oscar
Levant

";...as long as you're breathing, there's more right with you than wrong with
you..."  Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos -
the trees, the clouds, everything."  Thich Nhat Hanh

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn
until brought to a focus." Alexander Graham Bell

"You can't win unless you know how to lose." Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"When conditions are sufficient, the thing manifests, and when they are not
sufficient, the thing remains hidden." Buddha

"If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you." Andre Previn

"A friend who lies for you may also lie against you." Unknown

"Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like
actually getting in the water." Barbara Sher

"A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one."  Heraclitus of Ephesus

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be
hopelessly in love with spring." George Santayana

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it under
his feet." James Oppenheim

"It is not how old you are, but how you are old." Jules Renard, writer

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James

"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." Cato the Elder

"You can't unscramble eggs." John Pierpont Morgan

"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart
trouble." Bob Hope

"Art is what you can get away with."  Marshall McLuhan

"Everyone must row with the oars he has."  English proverb

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes
me dream." Vincent van Gogh

"To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over
imperfections."  Dogen Zenji

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where
nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul." John Muir

"Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad,
and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella."  Pepper
Giardino

"To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue." proverb

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain." Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow

"The burned hand teaches best." J. R. R. Tolkien

"He who will not economize will have to agonize." Confucius

"Corporation: n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without
individual responsibility." Ambrose Bierce, author and editor (1842-1914)

"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling
advice." Norman R. Augustine, industrialist (1935- )

"Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life." Jessi Lane Adams

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much
to stand up to our friends." J.K. Rowling, author (b. 1965)

"Don't worry about knowing people; just make yourself worth knowing." Unknown

"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech that you will ever
regret." Ambrose Bierce

"Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up.  What
was is not and never again will be; what is is change."  Edwin Teale

"Perceiving energy directly as it flows in the universe is a unit of cognition
that shamans live by." Carlos Castenada

"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without
leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through
it." George Washington Carver

"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the
experience." Elbert Hubbard

"Don't miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow looking for that pot of
gold." unknown

"Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one
duty is to furnish it well." Peter Ustinov, actor, writer and director
(1921-2004)

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before
they were done." Louis D. Brandeis

"After your death you will be what you were before your birth." Arthur
Schopenhauer

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Socrates

"My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it."
Chuang-tzu

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings
and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and
play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same
reasons." Douglas Adam

"Success builds confidence, failure builds character." Unknown

"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on,
I go to the library and read a good book."  Groucho Marx

"The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning
something else" Randy Pausch

"The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier
to give up than the bad ones.~W. Somerset Maugham

"It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is
humbling -- and indeed healthy -- to ask why you have been given so much."
Condoleeza Rice

"We may all have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"Children act in the village as they have learned at home." Swedish proverb

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." Voltaire

"It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or
not possible, to avoid making those that are required." Ivan Goncharov, novelist
(1812-1891)

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that
will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the
repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and
spring after winter." Rachel Carson

"They see how energy flows, and follow its flow… If the flow is obstructed, they
move away to do something entirely different." Carlos Castaneda

"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (1809-1894)

"You must learn first to observe the rules faithfully; afterwards, modify them
according to your intelligence and capacity. The end of all method is to seem to
have no method."  Lu Ch'ai (Wang Kai) 17th century Master of Chinese brush
painting

"You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults." Unknown

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An
investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."  Benjamin Franklin

"Count what is countable, measure what is measurable. What is not measurable,
make measurable."  Galileo

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them
and be influenced by them for good or ill." Buddha

"One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an
inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat,
if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an
inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a
lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One
needs to learn the difference." Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh: Some Observations from
Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door (2001), p. 146

"Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it." Henry Thomas Buckle,
historian (1821-1862)

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.  Inaction is not only the
result, but the cause, of fear.  Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.  But any action is
better than no action at all."  Norman Vincent Peale

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone, Only through our love and
friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
Orson Welles

"Whoe'er excels in what we prize / Appears a hero in our eyes." Jonathan Swift,
satirist (1667-1745)

"The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself."
Marie Bashkirtseff

"Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is
the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost.
And it is that potential, shimmery as a star on a clear night that helps us
survive." Veronica Chambers

"It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving." Thomas Keller

"All happiness depends upon a leisurely breakfast."  John Gunther

"The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly
dissolving into new formations--each gift of nature possessing its own radiant
energy, bound together by cosmic harmony."  Ruth Bernhard

"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth." Bonnie Friedman,
author (b. 1958)

"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold."
Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Art consists of limitation.   The most beautiful part of every picture is the
frame." G. K. Chesterton

"In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back."   Charlie Brown

"Art is a pigment of the imagination." Darcy Gerdes

"Men hate those to whom they have to lie." Victor Hugo

"If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now." Fred
Allen

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain;
to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do." Nan
Fairbrother

"May your life be like a wildflower growing freely in the beauty and joy of each
day."  Indian Proverb

"Research tells us that fourteen out of ten individuals like chocolate."  Sandra
Boynton

"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of
their own." Doug Larson

"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For
me they are the role model for being alive."  Gilda Radner

"All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are,
and that which they think they are."  Alphonse Karr

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone
or weary of life." Rachel Carson

"It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs." 
W.S. Gilbert

"He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had
refused it."  Dante Alighieri, poet (1265-1321)

"The easiest person to fool is yourself." Richard Feynman

"Time is what makes you realize that not everything happens at once."
Buckminster Fuller

"A good listener helps us overhear ourselves."
Yahia Lababidi, author (b. 1973)

"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors,
woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and
never directly  inherited." Margaret Mead

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love,
and to let it come in."  Morrie Schwartz

"Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it.
That simple." Keith Jarrett

"When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty
small package." John Ruskin

"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses."
Hanna Rion

"Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating."
Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards  and leads us from this
world to another." Plato

"A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work."  John Lubbock

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with
him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of
himself too." Samuel Butler

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    "Joy is the feeling of grinning inside."  Melba Colgrove    ***  *** ***

    "If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." Bruce
Barton   *** *** ***

    "The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." Vince Lombardi  
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    "The things we fear most in organizations--fluctuations, disturbances,
imbalances--are the primary sources of creativity." Margaret J. Wheatley   ***
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    "See the job. Do the job. Stay out of misery." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."
Nelson Mandela

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins
to make
sense." Harold Kushner

"Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep,
for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others." Alain de
Botton

"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and
courage to be the secret of liberty." Abraham Lincoln

"Dogs lead a nice life.   You never see a dog with a wristwatch."
George Carlin

"For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true.
You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds,
but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort;
fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants,
but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace.
The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot
be had for money." Arne Garborg, writer (1851-1924)

"The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less
time you have to spend doing what you have been talking about."
Norman Augustine

"Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are
here."
Patty Mitchell, founder and director of Passionworks Studio in Ohio

"Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels,
or any other way you can manage it." Mark Twain

"One of the greatest things in the world is to train ourselves to see beauty in
the commonplace." Charles Hawthorne

"Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism." Bob
LaFollette, congressman, senator, governor (1855-1925)

"Bliss is the same in subject and in king."  Alexander Pope

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
Rabindranath Tagore

"If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution
inevitable."
John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)

"While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about." Angela Schwindt

"Anger controlled is a power that can move the world." Mahatma Gandhi

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works,
if from the head almost nothing."  Marc Chagall

"Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls,
the one who holds on?" James Richardson, poet, professor (b. 1950)

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
Thomas Carlyle, writer (1795-1881)

"Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of
differences,

not simply in the enjoyment of similarities." James Fredericks

"Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out."
E. Joseph Cossman

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity
of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures
of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
Sir Cecil Beaton, portrait photographer

"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error.
It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent,
intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black
and white clash." Louis Aragon

"You can only be as good as you dare to be bad." John Barrymore

"Baseball is similar to an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics."
anonymous

"Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid
on it." Albert Richard Smith, author and entertainer (1816-1860)

"Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt." Jose Ortega y Gasset

"What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?"
Pablo Neruda

"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard
and give you an opportunity to commit more."  Mark Twain

"It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving." Henrietta Mears

"What worries you, masters you."  Haddon W. Robinson

"The greater the tension, the greater the potential." Carl Jung

"Give each day the chance to become the best one in your life."
Mark Twain

"The human mind can appreciate the One 
only by seeing it first
in the Many." Joseph Wood Krutch

"No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden
is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear."
George Macdonald

"Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables."  Spanish Proverb

"A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner
waiting for the bus marked Perfection."  Donald Kennedy

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
Charles Evans Hughes

"Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes."  Carl Sandburg