Wise words from others.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ~Virginia Woolf
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ~David Carradine
A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. ~Walter Kaufmann
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. ~Mark Twain
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown
If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~Eric Bentley
Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ~Don Quixote
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ~Edward Albee
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~James Thurber
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. ~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, 1872
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H
Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ~Margaret Mead
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~Miles Franklin
I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~From the movie Annie
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. ~Soren Kierkegaard
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ~Samuel Johnson
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ~Seneca
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. ~Author Unknown
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute. ~Rebecca West
I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy. ~Anonymous, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. ~Marlo Thomas
I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me. ~Jane Rule
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ~Joan Didion
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. ~Max Nordau
The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition. ~Jeannette Rankin
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588
Being out of control is one of the worst feelings in the world, sometimes even worse than pain. It is its own kind of pain. ~Danzae Pace
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.' ~Stephen Covey
He that is not jealous is not in love. ~St. Augustine
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ~Paul Eldridge
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad"
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. ~Charles Richards
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. ~Wayne Dyer
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ~James Dean
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. ~Stephen Vincent Benét
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. ~John Burroughs
You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. ~Ruth E. Renkl
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!
Life's a short summer, man a flower;
He dies - alas! how soon he dies!
~Samuel Johnson
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. ~Kurt Goldstein
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. -Lao Tsu
I do not see myself as an example to anybody for anything. I think that is arrogance at its best. That is obnoxious; that is so offensive.
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.-Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -Homer
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.-Louis K. Anspacher
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.-Nanette Newman
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.-Ogden Nash
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.-Alan Cohen
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.-Anne Frank
All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward.-Ellen Glasgow
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.-C.S. Lewis
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