He who restrains his anger overcomes his greatest enemy. - Latin proverb

Time and thinking tame the strongest grief. - English proverb

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. - Francis de Sales

Grief drives men to serious reflection, sharpens the understanding and softens the heart. - John Adams

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. - Charles William Stubbs

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. - William Ellery Channing

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. - Aeschylus

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. - Jane Austen

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. - Carl Jung

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. - James Russell Lowell

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.  - Peter Singer

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. - Blaise Pascal

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. - Goethe

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. - Eric Hoffer

There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life.  - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.  - Theodore Rubin

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. - Henry David Thoreau

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. - Henry Ward Beecher

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. - Henry Ward Beecher

It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. - Sir Thomas Browne

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. - Dale Carnegie

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Ultimate failure does not come in the loss of a great goal, but in the loss of will to strive for another. - Jeffrey David Lang

The only unforgivable sin: being unforgiving. - Malcolm Forbes

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. - Alan Paton

Let your mistakes be a comma, and not a period. - Author Unknown

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.  - Gweneth Paltrow

Worry lives a long way from rational thought. (in 'Self') - Mary Roach

Solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom. - Colette

I complained i had no shoes till i saw a man that had no feet.  - Author Unknown

What is difficult to endure is sweet to recall.  - Continental Proverb

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and over again, but expecting a different result. - Albert Einstein

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. (1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA) - John Quincy Adams

Heaven knows we need never be afraid of our tears, for they are the rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. (from 'Great Expectations') - Charles Dickens

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. - Thomas Paine

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. - Theodore N. Vail

The individual who know the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities. - Norman Vincent Peale

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. - Phyllis Bottome

You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities. - William J.H. Boetcker

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. - Epictetus

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what? - Sydney J. Harris

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Ronald E. Osborn

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne. - Ovid

If the way which, as I have shown, lead hither seems very difficult, it can nevertheless be found. I must indeed be difficult, since it is so seldom discovered; for if salvation lay ready to hand and could be discovered. without great labor, how could it be possible that it should be neglected almost by everybody? But all noble things are as difficult as they are rare. - - Baruch Spinoza

It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged. - Edward W. Ziegler

Take heart again; put your dismal fears away. One day, who knows? Even these hardships will be grand things to look back on. - Virgil

Unless a man is kicked around a little, you can't really depend on him to amount to anything. - William Feather

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. - Jameson Frank

The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. - Charles de Gaulle

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it break. {The Tragedy of Macbeth, IV, iii) - Shakespeare

People treat us the way we teach them to treat us. - Wayne Dyer

No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome. - Roy Lessin

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three -- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. - Edward Everett Hale

Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them. - Basil King

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.  - Ann Landers

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Langston Hughes

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.  - Woodrow Wilson

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. - Mark Victor Hansen

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens. - Carl Jung

Commit yourself to a dream . . . Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle-he defeated the fear of trying. - Robert H. Schuller

The very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of a dream. - Shakespeare

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. - Brian Tracy

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. - Sir James M. Barrie

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.  - Eleanor Roosevelt

There will be times in life when impossibility is felt, but then there are dreams - and dreams allow us possibility. - Jeffrey David Lang

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy! - Thomas Lovell Beddoes

If your dream is big enough, the facts don't count.  - Don Ward

You don't have to invent the airplane or create an empire to pursue a big dream of your own. Audacity is an equal opportunity trait. - James Champy and Nitin Nohria

Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.  - Deborah Norville

Among all human constructions the only ones that avoid the dissolving hands of time are castles in the air. - Frederico de Roberto

The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry and his environment and to become what he dreams of being. - Tully C. Knoles

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Johann Friedrich von Schiller

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher; and philosophy begins in wonder. - Plato

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not? - George Bernard Shaw

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare. - H.F. Hedge

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. - Walt Disney

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral. - Walt Disney

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.  - Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. - Martin Luther King

The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. - H.W. Arnold

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.  - Arthur James Balfour

Enthusiasm moves the world. - Arthur James Balfour

Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm. - Ralph Archbold

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.  - Bruce Barton

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. - Edward B. Butler

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.  - Thomas Carlyle

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. ~ ~  - Tryon Edwards

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.  - Henry Chester

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty. - James A. Froude

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. ~ - Conrad Hilton

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius. ~ ~ - Tuckerman

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. - Henry Ward Beecher

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.  - Gloria Gaither

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.  - Henry David Thoreau

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.  - Benjamin Disraeli

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. - David Starr Jordan

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. - Frank Lloyd Wright

He who stops being better stops being good. - Oliver Cromwell

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. - Epictetus

There is no excellency without difficulty. - Ovid

Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge. - Sir Philip Sidney

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. - William Thackeray

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. - Alexis De Tocqueville

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates

It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work. (from The Alchemist)  - Paul Coelho

It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. - Henri Frederic Amiel

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. - Helen Keller

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism. - T.S. Eliot

Hold yourself for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.  - Henry Ward Beecher

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. (written by Eliot appearing in a book of poems by Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus, Black Sun Press, Paris: 1931)  - T.S. Eliot

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. (16th century philosopher) - Benedict Spinoza

A strategy that cannot be evaluated in terms of whether of not it is being achieved is simply not a viable or even useful strategy. - C. H. Roush and B. C. Ball

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got. - Mark Twain

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! - Lydia M. Child

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Charles Wadsworth

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. - English Proverb

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. - William Penn

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. - Mario Cuomo

It is a wise father who knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. - Van Wyck Brooks

There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the "tough breaks" which are certain to come to most of us from time to time. - Walt Disney

Good family life is never an accident but always an achievement by those who share it. - James H.S. Bossard

Peace, like charity, begins at home. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. - Robert Frost

If you know his father and grandfather you may trust his son. - Moroccan proverb

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A child tells in the street what its father and mother say at home. - The Talmud

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents. - Henry Ward Beecher

Nobody's family can hang out the sign, "Nothing the matter here." - Chinese proverb

Science has established two facts meaningful for human welfare: first, the foundation of the structure of human personality is laid down in early childhood; and second, the chief engineer in charge of this construction is the family. - Meyer Francis Nimkoff

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. - Hal Borland

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of others. - Pope John Paul II

The family is the nucleus of civilization. - Ariel and Will Durant

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. - Alice Walker

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world-so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal. - Victoria, Queen of England

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. - Anne Sexton

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. - Sigmund Freud

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. - Bill Cosby

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers. - Maya Angelou

Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

Heredity: An omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then, one of them puts his head out and embarasses us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.  - Dr. Benjamin Spock

Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. - Anne Geddes

Much may be learned about any society by studying the behavior and accepted ideas of its children, for children - and sometimes adults - are shadows of their parents, and what they believe and what they do are often what their parents believe in their hearts and would do if society would put up with it. - Robertson Davies (from 'What's Bred in the Bone')

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. - Albert Einstein

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. - Confucius

Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young/Who loved thee so fondly as he/He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue/And joined in thy innocent glee. - Margaret Courtney

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. - George Moore

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. - Chinese proverb

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - David O. McKay

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do. - Walt Disney

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? - Lee Iacocca

Never eat more than you can lift. - Miss Piggy

To get the best results, you must talk to your vegetables. - Charles, Prince of Wales

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires too much attention.  - Christopher Morley

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.  - John Gunther

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.  - Philip W. Haberman, Jr.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.  - John Kenneth Galbraith

A good meal ought to begin with hunger. - French proverb

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.  - Cyril Connolly

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.  - Leonardo Da Vinci

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die. (from A Farewell to Tobacco) - Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough. - Mason Cooley

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. - Fran Lebowitz

Hunger is not debatable. - Harry Hopkins

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.  - H.S. Leigh

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. - Plutarch

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. - George Washington (1st inaugural address)

We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe! (letter to John Adams, August 1, 1816) - Thomas Jefferson

I have never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as a cause for withdrawing from a friendship. - Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together. - Woodrow Wilson

Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Nigerian proverb

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie

There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the "tough breaks" which are certain to come to most of us from time to time. - Walt Disney

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. - Woodrow Wilson

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All is well with him who is beloved by his neighbors. - George Herbert

Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first general rule for friendship is to be a friend, to be open, natural, interested; the second rule is to take time for friendship. Friendship, after all, is what life is finally about. Everything material and professional exists in the end for persons. - Nels F.S. Ferre

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing; I owe them to my relations with other people. - Robert Graves

Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships. - Jeffry A. Timmons

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. - Russell Lynes

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlessness, that is the friend who cares. - Henri Nouwen

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The path of life has many crossroads, and at each one it's difficult to say goodbye and go our own separate ways, choosing the direction that is right for each of us. But the memory of being together will always remain, and there is always the chance that our paths will cross again.  - Yee, Donna

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. - Albert Camus

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. - The Bible, John 15:12,13

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend. - Albert Camus

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. - Henry Brooks Adams

A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. - La Rochefoucauld

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.  - George Jean Nathan

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends. - Henry Ward Beecher

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. - George MacDonald

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington

A friend is known when needed. - Arabian proverb

Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him. - Scottish proverb

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. - Samuel Butler

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together. - Winston Churchill

The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for one another's little lapses. - David Storey

Be cautious in lending money to friends, you might lose both. - H. Jackson Browne, Jr.

A friend is a second self. - Cicero

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. - Francois Mauriac

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. - Thomas Jefferson

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other. To meet, to love, to share. It is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parentheses in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other, and this moment will have been worthwhile.  - Deepak Chopra, M.D.

I didn't really have the time To knock upon her door; To sit and listen whilst she Told me tales I'd heard before. I didn't think I had the time To step out of my way, But I'm so glad I MADE the time To cheer her lonely day. - Francis Gray

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. - Charles Caleb Colton

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.  - Lee Iacocca

The delight we inspire in others, has this enchanting peculiarity. That, unlike any other reflection, returns to us more radiant than ever. (from Les Miserables) - Victor Hugo

Our character is a reflection of the friends we keep. - Charles B. Goranson

A friend is a person before whom I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. - Thomas Edison

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds. - Aristotle

I keep my friends as misers do their treasures, because, of all things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. - Pietro Aretino

You will make more friends in a week by getting yourself interested in other people than you can in a year by trying to get other people interested in you. - Arnold Bennett

We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance. - Frank Swinnerton

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him. - Charles Dudley Warner

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. - Mencius

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?" - Simone Weil

Flowers are my music. {quoted by Arthur Stanley, 'Life of Dr. Arnold'} - Dr. Thomas Arnold

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden. - Rose Fyleman

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. - The Bible, Matthew 6:28,29

I want death to find me planting my cabbages. - Montaigne

God almighty first planted a garden. {from 'Of Gardens'} - Francis Bacon

The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas. - Emily Dickinson

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. {from 'Life Thoughts'} - Henry Ward Beecher

But though I am an old man, I am but a young gardener. {letter to Charles Willson Peale, Aug. 20, 1811} - Thomas Jefferson

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature. - Gerard de Nerval

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. - John Ruskin

The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth. {from 'God's Garden'} - Dorothy Frances Gurney

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. - Ronald Reagan

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that, while the people should patriotically support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people. - Grover Cleveland

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. - Gerald Ford

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. - 10th Amendment, U.S. Constitution

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. - James Madison

Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread. - Thomas Jefferson

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority. - Harlan F. Stone

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to him who does his work well, followed by a relaxing and refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day. - Lin Yutang

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. - Thomas Jefferson

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. - Plato

Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness. - Joseph Fort Newton

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. - Ayn Rand

The state of life is most happy when superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting. - Plutarch

No person is either so happy or so unhappy as he imagines. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Before desiring something passionately one should inquire into the happiness of the man who possesses it. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. - Leo Rosten

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy, I mean that if you are happy you will be good. - Bertrand Russell

I may have thought the road to a world of free and happy human beings shorter than it is proving to be, but I was not wrong in thinking that it is worth while to live with a view to bringing it nearer. - Bertrand Russell

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. - Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. - Bertrand Russell

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism. - George Santayana

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. - Walter R. Rutherford

The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed. - George Santayana

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? - Charles M. Schulz

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so. - Arthur Schopenhauer

No man is happy but by comparison. - Thomas Shadwell

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw

When a man is happy, every effort to express his happiness mars its completeness. - Alexander Smith

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing gold, happiness can be learned. - Boris Sokoloff

To describe happiness is to diminish it. - Stendhal

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. - Frank Tyger

Happiness comes and goes and is short on staying power. - Frank Tyger

Many people have known happiness, but didn't know it when they had it. - Frank Tyger

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange. - Henry Van Dyke

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton

Happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty. - The Bible, Job 5:17

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. - Karl Reiland

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie

Happiness consists in activity - it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool. - John Mason Good

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. - Proverb 3:13

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. - La Rochefoucauld

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of arts. - Henry David Thoreau

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. - James M Barrie

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness. - James M. Barrie

The happiness of you life depends on the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notion unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. - Marcus Aurelius Antonnus

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. - Josh Billings

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. - John S. Bonnell, D.D.

Happiness is a resultant of the relative strengths of a positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. - Norman Bradburn

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has not taste. - Emily Bronte

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. - Hobart Brow

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey. - John Mason Brown

The only true happiness cones from squandering ourselves for a purpose. - John Mason Brown

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There comes forever something between us and what we deem our happiness. - Lord Byron

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor- poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living. - Herbert N. Casson

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier. - Cicero

We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours. - Adam Clarke

I have lived to know that the great secret of happiness is this: never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of too many irons in the fire, conveys an abominable lie. You cannot have too many - poker, tongs and all - keep them all going. - Adam Clarke

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so. - Anthony A. Cooper-Lord Shaftesbury

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. - William Cowper

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own. - John Dryden

The high prize of life, the crowning glory of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness - whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords or canals, or statues, or songs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is only one way to happiness, and that is cease worrying about the things which are beyond the power of our will. - Epictetus

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product. - Henry Ford

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy, than in endeavoring to be so ourselves. - Oliver Goldsmith

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. - John Gunther

Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens. - Robert Half

I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self. - Arthur Helps

He that talks much of his happiness summons grief. - George Herbert

It's pretty hard to find what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. - Kin Hubbard

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. - Elbert Hubbard

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. - Elbert Hubbard

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. - Victor Hugo

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so. - David Hume

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being so except that they are so. - William Ralph Inge

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. - William Ralph Inge

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. - Robert G. Ingersoll

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless. - Anatoly Karpov

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The days that make us happy make us wise. - John Masefield

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. - Orison S. Marden

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all. - Ogden Nash

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. - Austin O'Malley

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates. - Ovid

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. - William Lyon Phelps

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.  - Bertrand Russell

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.  - Sophocles

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.  - Thich Nhat Hanh

Follow your bliss.  - Joseph Campbell

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. - Ayn Rand

No man is happy unless he believes he is. - Publilius Syrus

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.  - Allan K. Chalmers

Happiness is living by inner purpose. - David Augsburger

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. - Albert Camus

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. - Goethe

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. - Goethe

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.  - Marguerite Gardiner Blessington

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. - Dale Carnegie

If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours. - Jacquilinemae Rudd

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.  - Og Mandino

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. - Mary Kay Ash

Happiness is something to do, something to love, something to hope for.  - Chinese proverb

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. - Cicero

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.  - George Santayana

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself. - R.J. Baughan

Nowhere does a man retire with more quiet or freedom than into his own soul. - Marcus Aurelius

A joy that is shared is a joy made double. - English Proverb

You won't be happy with more until you're happy with what you've got.  - Viki King

If it's nothing more than a smile - give that away and keep on giving it. - Beth Brown

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. (b. 1916, American Writer-Author)  - Robert Newton Anthony

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others. - A. Nielsen

I must accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. - John B. Sheerin

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline. - William L Shirer

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: If you pursue happiness you'll never find it. - C.P. Snow

Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth. - Frank Tyger

Doubly rich is the man still boyish enough to play, laugh and sing as he carries and emanates sunshine along a friendly road. - Charles R. Wiers

Giving of yourself, learning to be tolerant, giving recognition and approval to others, remaining flexible enough to mature and learn - yields happiness, harmony, contentment and productivity. These are the qualities of a rich life, the bounteous harvest of getting along with people. - Jack C Yewell

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison

If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, thought it is more likely that it will make you happy. - George Matthew Adams

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness. - Gelett Burgess

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. - Lydia M. Child

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: He that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. - Charles Caleb Colton

Making an issue of little things is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness. One's personal pride is felt to be vitally injured by surrender, but there is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully. It shows small confidence in one's own nature to fear that compromise lessens self-control. To consider constantly the comfort and happiness of another is not a sign of weakness but of strength. - Charles Conrad

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. - Tyron Edwards

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have - Richard L. Evans

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Happiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember. - Oscar Levant

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. - Thomas Jefferson

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. - Lord Byron

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Buddha

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. - Burton Hills

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. - Samuel Goldwyn

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.' - Carl Jung

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. - Benjamin Franklin

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man. - Sinclair Lewis

Bacchus (Greek god of wine) hath drowned more men than Neptune. - Thomas Fuller

Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind. - Mary Baker Eddy

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. - Heave

Ulcers aren't the result of what you eat. You get ulcers from what's eating you. - Anonymous

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. - Arabian Proverb

Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness. - Harry F. Banks

Fitness: If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a good body. - Cher

Never hurry; take plenty of exercise; always be cheerful, and take all the sleep you need, and you may expect to be well. - James Freeman Clarke

Minor surgery is surgery someone else is having. - Joseph Cook

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. - Thomas Dekker

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations. - Will Durant

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To lose one's health renders science null, art inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless. - Herophilus

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united. - Alexander Von Humboldt

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly. - Samuel Johnson

If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel. - Will Kommen

To insure good health: Eatl Lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. - William Louden

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. - Seneca

The sound body is the product of the sound mind. - George Bernard Shaw

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

One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient. - Francis W. Peabody, MD

The most common criticism made at present by older practitioners is that young graduates have been taught a great deal about the mechanism of disease, but very little about the practice of medicine - or, to put it more bluntly, they are too "scientific" and do not know how to take care of patients. - Francis W. Peabody, MD

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung

I have three personal ideals. One to do the day's work well and not bother about tomorrow. It has been urged that this is not a satisfactory ideal. It is; and there is not one which the student can carry with him into practice with greater effect. To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself. - Sir William Osler

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. - Sir William Osler

It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice. - Sir William Osler

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. - Ernest Hemingway

All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or outside my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal. - The Hippocratic Oath

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. - Henry David Thoreau

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. - Richard Baker

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul. - Rona Barrett

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body. - Francis Bowen

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! - Thomas Carlyle

As we free our breath (through diaphragmatic breathing) we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions. - Gay Hendricks

The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of god health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body. - Harry J. Johnson

To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. - William Londen

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. - Arthur Murphy

He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not. - Italian Proverb

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. - Anthony Robbins

If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet. - Schola Salern

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. - Sir Philip Sidney

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. - Herbert Spencer

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. - Brian Tracy

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs. - Joan Welsh

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind. - Hal A. Lingerman

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses....Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert. Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first. {a recollection of Osler's advice: Belkin BM, Neelon FA. The art of observation: William Osler and the method of Zadig. Ann Int Med 1992;116:863-6.} - Sir William Osler

I observe the physician with the same diligence as he the disease. - John Donne

All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die. (Strauss MB. Commentary. Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. 1969;67(Part 2):80) - Galen

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one. - Ann Landers

Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills. - William Osler

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them. - Hippocrates

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest. - Ashleigh Brilliant

Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a man has of encouragement and sympathy and understanding. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself. - Nietzsche

Use new drugs quickly, while they still work. - attributed to Trousseau

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. - Goethe

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. - Thomas Jefferson

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. - John L. Mcclenahan

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. {on his 100th Birthday} - Eubie Blake

A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer. - Honore de Balzac

No matter how important new discoveries and methods, they cannot be considered to have reached fulfillment until generally applied to the sick. (1939, Harvard Medical School) - William B. Castle

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being. - Moses Maimonides (The Physician's Oath)

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. (1914-1995, Virologist, Discovered The First Vaccine Against Poliomyelitis) - Dr. Jonas Salk

There is no disease that you either have or don't have - except perhaps sudden death and rabies. All other diseases you either have a little or a lot of. - Geoffrey Rose (epidemiologist)

I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece, but of the world. - Socrates

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. - T.S. Eliot

Remember, remember always that all of us… are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. - Benjamin Disraeli

I don't know anything about music. In my line, you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson

In a large sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. - Abraham Lincoln

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided upon by men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states. - John Adams

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, "The country is safe. Jefferson still lives." And the last words of the other was, "John Adams will see that things go forward." - Harry S. Truman

Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne. - Charles W. Eliot, Harvard President - 1877

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes. - Elbert Hubbard

Give me a museum and I'll fill it. - Pablo Picasso

Assassins!" - Arturo Toscanini to his orchestra

I would have made a good Pope. - Richard M. Nixon

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton

I am become death, shatterer of worlds. - Robert J. Oppenheimer(citing from the Bhagavadgita

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic. - Nikita Khrushchev

Peace is more precious than a piece of land. - Anwar al-Sadat

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud

Change is one thing, progress another. "Change" is scientific, "progress" is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. - Bertrand Russell

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. - Abraham Lincoln

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare. - Hubert H. Humphrey

Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country. - Cicero

Writing music is my one and only passion and joy. - Mozart

Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts. - Abraham Lincoln

Retreat, Hell! We're just advancing in another direction. - General O.P. Smith

Inventors and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning - and very often at the end - of their careers. - Dostoevsky

The Wright Brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. - Charles F. Kettering

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! - Admiral David G. Farragut

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hand the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. - John F. Kennedy

You can't say civilization won't advance ... for in every war they kill you a new way. - Will Rogers

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate. - Chief Justice Warren E. Burger

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

I think it would be a good idea. - Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of West

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digi

640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates, in 1981

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate. - Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. - Robert F. Kennedy

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.  - Margaret Mead

It is very difficult and expensive to undo after you are married the things that your mother and father did to you while you were putting your first six birthdays behind you. - Bureau of Social Hygiene study, 1928.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, Dayton, Tennessee,

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. - William O. Douglas, opinion, United States v. Ball

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.  - Robert Ingersoll

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.  - Thomas Jefferson

In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind. - Ayn Rand

The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom. - Ayn Rand

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. - Albert Einstein, statement, England, September 15,

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.  - Patrick Henry

That's one small step for a man, one great leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong, first words spoken on the moon

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. - Abraham Lincoln

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy

I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit. - John F. Kennedy

In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up. - Martin Niemoeller

The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. - Mikhail Bakunin

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach. - Seneca

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo de Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.  - Graham Greene

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. - Denis Diderot

The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.  - Bertrand Russell

No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.  - Ronald Reagan

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism. {1946} - Ayn Rand

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me! - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. - Ferdinand E. Marcos

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. - George S. Patton

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. - Bishop Desmond Tutu

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder. {World War II field marshal}  - William Joseph Slim

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. - Josef Stalin

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny. - Message to Congress, 1845 - James Knox Polk

For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution. - Message to Congress, 1849 - Zachary Taylor

In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions... - Inaugural Address, 1853 - Franklin Pierce

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. - Message to Congress, 1860 - James Buchanan

No higher or more assuring proof could exist of the strength and permanence of popular government than the fact that though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain... - Inaugural Address, 1881 - Chester Alan Arthur

The art of creation is older than the art of killing. - Andrei Voznesensky

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. - Henry David Thoreau

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. - Paul Whiteman

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war. - William Shakespeare {Julius Caesar, III:2}

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.  - Albert Einstein

The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything. - Mother Teresa

It is well indeed for our land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. - Builders of the State - Theodore Roosevelt

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system... - Rugged Individualism, 1928 - Herbert Clark Hoover

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. - Four Freedoms Address, 1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. - Inaugural Address, 1961 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored. - Inaugural Address, 1965 - Lyndon Baines Johnson

The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings;" with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny. - Inaugural Address, 1969 - Richard Milhous Nixon

Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream. - Inaugural address, 1977 - James Earl Carter, Jr.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. - Inaugural Address, 1989 - George Herbert Walker Bush

At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union. - Inaugural Address, 1997 - William Jefferson Clinton

We who lie here now pass on to you the torch of freedom. - World War II cemetery in Magraten, Netherlands

I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. {1863 Presidential Proclamation} - Abraham Lincoln

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder -- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever. - Maya Angelou

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it. {in H Eves, An introduction to the history of mathematics, Philadelphia 1983} - said about the chemist Lavoisier

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. - George McGovern

Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered) - Julius Caesar

The great strength of a country lies in the true sense of loyalty it can arouse in the hearts of its people.  - Louis C. Gerstein

Charles Schulz leaves a wife, two sons, three daughters, and a little round-headed boy with an extraordinary pet dog. {Obituary for Charles Schulz} - Charles Schulz

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours. {Letter to William Strahan, July 5, 1775} - Benjamin Franklin

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. {At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776} - Benjamin Franklin

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.  - John Wayne

To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns. - Frances M. Beal

Freedom is a system based on courage. - Charles Peguy

Make love, not war. (1960's) - Hippy slogan

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood. - General George S. Patton

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. - General Omar Bradley

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. - Jimmy Hoffa

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. - Ronald Reagan

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work. - Winston Churchill

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended. - Nelson Mandela

I do not live in the past, but the past lives in me. (Concentration camp survivor) - Eli Weisel

Let's give the historians something to write about.  - Propertius

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. - Diderot

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.  - Lawrence Durrell

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!  - Anne Frank

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nations's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. (Inauguration Speech, January 20, 2001) - George W. Bush

With high hopes for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. (1865 second inaugural address - regarding the progress of the Civil War) - Abraham Lincoln

The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. (September 20, 2001)  - President George W. Bush

Everyone is aware of the difficult and menacing situation in which human society - shrunk into one community with a common fate - finds itself, but only a few act accordingly. Most people go on living their everyday life: half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragicomedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world. (from his speech to the 2nd annual dinner of the Foreign Press Association to the General Assembly and Security Council of the United Nations, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, New York; November 11, 1947) - Albert Einstein

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, the amphitheatres, for wild beasts to fight in. - Voltaire

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. - John F. Kennedy

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. - John F. Kennedy

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings. - Ernest Hemingway

The American continents... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. - Monroe Doctrine, 1823 - James Monroe

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. - Karl Marx

The history of a people is found in its songs. - George Jellinek

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the point is to change it. - Karl Marx

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am part of all that I have met. (from Homer's 'Odyssey') - Ulysses

Without a struggle, there can be no progress. - Frederick Douglass

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. - Martin Luther King

God grant you the light in Christmas, which is faith, the warmth of Christmas, which is love; the radiance of Christmas, which is purity. - Wilda English

Christmas is the family time, the good time of the year. - Samuel Johnson

Keeping Christmas is good, but sharing it is better. - Arnold Glasow

I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present and the Future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. - Charles Dickens

Three Kings came riding from far away: Melchior and Gaspar and Balthazar. Three Wise Men out of the East were they, And they travelled by night and they slept by day; For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In every thing give thanks. - The Bible, 1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJV

Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more. - Phillips Brooks

Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming From tender stem hath sprung... It came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter, when half spent was the night. Isaiah 'twas foretold it, the Rose I have in mind; with Mary we behold it, the Virgin Mother kind. To show God's love aright, she bore to us a Saviour, when half spent was the night. - Michael Praetorius (attributed to)

Love Came Down at Christmas: Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love divine; Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign. Love shall be our token, Love be yours, and love be mine, Love to God and all men, Love for plea and gift and sign. - Christina Rossetti (1830-94)

Let this Christmas season be a renewing of the mind and a cleansing of our lives by God's pure presence. Let His joy come to our weary world through us. - Gerald Kennedy

I am wishing for you this day a happy Christmas. I wish you all laughter; and pure joy, a merry heart and a clear conscience, and love. - Bishop Remington

Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness. - Charles R. Swindoll

When you get to be a certain age, you come to realize that the real Santa Claus is not the guy who comes down the chimney on Christmas Eve. The real spirit of Santa becomes what you can give rather than what you get. The magic comes from you when Santa lives in your heart. - Patty Hansen

I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go. - Isaiah 48:17

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. - Revelation 21:6

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. - Arabian Proverb

The sunrise has never failed us yet. - Celia Baxter

How tight can life be without the space of hope? - Arabian Proverb

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a singe hope. - Epictetus

Great hopes make great men. - Thomas Fuller

He that wants hope is the poorest man alive. - Thomas Fuller

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing -- but we all do, and call it Hope. - Edgar Watson Howe

Whatever enlarges hope will also exhalt courage. - Samuel Johnson

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby. - Martin Luther

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. - Orison S. Marden

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could be. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. - William Lyon Phelps

Toil, feel, think hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. - John Sterling

The mighty hopes that make us men. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Hope can always cope. - P.K. Thomajan

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. - Thornton Wilder

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest

Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Benjamin Franklin

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hope is a risk that must be run. - George Bernanos

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. - Jacques Cousteau

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying. - Cervantes

I accept the universe! - Margaret Fuller

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.  - Goethe

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race. - Dio Lewis

You will have courage because you will have hope. You will take your time, and rest in safety. - The Bible, Job 11:18 TLB

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for. - Peter Marshall

The miserable have no other medicine; but only hope. (Claudio, in Measure for Measure Act 3, Scene 1)  - William Shakespeare

There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own...for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!  - Linda Staten

Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision. Buttoday well-lived Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. - Francis Gray

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. - Robert Burns

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. - Thomas Jefferson

Hope never abandons you; you abandon it. - George Weinberg

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. - Samuel Johnson

There is always hope for an individual who stops to do some serious thinking about life. - Katherine Logan

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that. - William Hazlitt

Do not anxiously hope for what is not yet to come; do not vainly regret what is already past. - Chinese proverb

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. - Jeremiah 29:11

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

A man's errors are his portals of discovery. - James Joyce

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without words, and never stops - at all. - Emily Dickinson

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. - Mario Fernandez

St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied. - Louis Fischer

Man must sit in chair with mouth open for very long time before roast duck fly in - Chinese Proverb

People who can't see without glasses should wear them. - Malcolm Forbes

"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet. "Rabbit's clever." "And he has a Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has a Brain." There was a long silence. "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."  - A. A. Milne

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. - Walt Disney

He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. - Katherine Cebrian

The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got. - Mark Twain

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Charles Wadsworth

Remember when a peacock struts his stuff, he shows his backside to half the world. - Herve Wiener

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it. - Gertrude Stein

No man is greater than his respect for sleep. - Ogden Nash

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. - George Bernard Shaw

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. - Robert Benchley

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. - Jackie Mason

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. - Bob Hope

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. - Mark Twain

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet