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Quotes For Life:

"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
--Samuel Johnson


"The only cure for grief is action."
--George Henry Lewes


"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
--Xenophon


"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
--William Congreve


"He who angers you conquers you."
--Elizabeth Kenny


"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
--Chinese Proverb


"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson


"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
--Elbert Hubbard


"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
--Margaret Mead


"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;
because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.
I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;
for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
--Milton Berle

"The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers."
--Kahlil Gibran


Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."
--Kahlil Gibran

"A will finds a way."
--Orison Swett Marden

"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
--Oscar Wilde

"Beauty is not caused. It is."
--Emily Dickinson

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view."
--Horace

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
--Hellen Keller

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."
--Charles Reade

"Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart."
--Johann Von Schiller

"The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave."
--James A. Lafond-Lewis

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once."
--William Shakespeare

"He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others."
--René G. Torres

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
--William James

"Great causes and little men go ill together."
--Jawaharlal Nehru

"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same."
--Thomas Paine

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause."
--Theodore Roosevelt

"No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction."
--John W. Scoville

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly ;for one."
--Wilhelm Stekel

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."
--Arnold Bennett

"I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within."
--Preston Bradley

"Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep."
--William Cullen Bryant

"When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change."
--Viscount Falkland Lucius Cary

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Everything flows; nothing remains."
--Heraclitus

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."
--Charles F. Kettering

"Never swap horses crossing a stream."
--American Proverb

To change and to change for the better are two different things."
--German Proverb

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
--Leo Tolstoi

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."
--Harold Wilson

"We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it."
--Mark Twain

"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."
--Thomas Carlyle

"I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly,--if it be wrong leave it undone."
--Bernard Gilpin

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."
--Elbert Hubbard

"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."
--Laurence J. Peter

"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."
--Marcel Proust

"We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow."
--Jonathan Westover

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb."
--Josh Billings

"He that is down need fear no fall."
--John Bunyan

No one is listening until you make a mistake."
--Anonymous

"Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
--Josh Billings

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
--John Powell

"The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings."
--Henri Frederic Amiel

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
--Anonymous

"Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel."
--Anonymous

"Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique."
--Anonymous

"Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it."
--Marcus Aurelius

"Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone."
--Ashleigh Brilliant

"The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over."
--Ernest Hemingway

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
--William James

"May you live all the days of your life."
--Jonathan Swift (Polite Conversation)

"A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it."
--John Keats

"Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art, to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more; it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."
--William Shakespeare

One man in his time plays many parts."
--William Shakespeare

"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
--Mark Twain

"The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations."
--Oscar Wilde

"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
--Medgar Evers

"Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born."
--Gary Mark Gilmore

"All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."
--Mark Twain

"Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."
--Walter Scott

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
--Martin Luther King Jr

"He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead."
--Anonymous

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little."
--William Rounseville Alger

"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."
--George Santayana

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything."
--Anonymous

"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."
--Edmund Burke

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment."
--Carl Sandburg

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