Quotes

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. -- Michel de Montaigne

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it. -- Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. -- Theodore Roosevelt, 'The Strenuous Life,' 1900

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. -- Aung San Suu Kyi

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. -- Charlie Chaplin, O Magazine, October 2002

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy. -- Izaak Walton

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. -- Seneca

Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few. -- Barbara Mikkelson, snopes.com, September 8, 2003

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. -- Blaise Pascal

O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come! -- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599-1600

Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates. -- Stella Terrill Mann

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it. -- Pierre Charron

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. -- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others. -- Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. -- R. H. Grant

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. -- John Lilly

Worries go down better with soup than without. -- Jewish Proverb

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. -- Aaron Burr

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. -- Bible, New Testament, I Thessalonians

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? -- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going. -- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, but I'd rather have a gun. --Josh Billings

While people may not be a great deal wiser after my sermon, but they are always a great deal older. --W R Inge

The person who agrees with everything you say either isn't listening to you or plans to sell you something. --Bud Holiday

If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something. --Fran Lebowitz

If I put on five more pounds, I'll be eligible for statehood. --Audrey Buslik

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. --Josephine Tey

Some parents have a hard time deciding on a name for the new baby, but others have rich relatives. --Don McElroy

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. --Steven Wright

Love your enemies, it will drive them nuts. --Eleanor Doan

Death is a wonderful way of cutting down on your expenses. --Woody Allen

The French don't care what they do as long as they pronounce it properly. --George Bernard Shaw

Any child who is anxious to mow the lawn is too young to do so. --Bob Phillips

Spring is when life's alive in everything. -- Christina Rossetti

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. -- Anwar el-Sadat

The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being. -- Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family. . . in another city." - George Burns

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." --Mark Twain

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. -- John Dewey