Words to live by


"Every exit is an entry somewhere." -Tom Stoppard

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears." -Glenn Clark

"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important." -Ruth Ross

"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." -Thaddeus Golas

"True power is knowing you can, and choosing not to." -Anonymous

"The honest eagle flies high, but the sneaky weasel doesn't get sucked up into airplane engines." -Anonymous

"Fall seven times, get up eight." -Japanese Proverb

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead." -Anonymous

"If you want rainbows, you'll have to put with the rain." -Dolly Parton

"He who asks questions may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks questions remains a fool for life." -Tom J. Connelly

"Bite off more than you can chew, and then chew like hell." -Peter Brock

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you put a small value upon yourself, rest assured the world will not raise your price." -Anonymous

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you're thinking about yesterday all the time." -Charles F. Kettering

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses." -Alphonse Karr

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -Les Brown

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce." -Anonymous

"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die today." -James Dean

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to turn." -Anonymous

"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never escape it alive, anyway." -Elbert Hubbard

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." -Anonymous

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein

"All men are created equal, but some men are more equal than others." -Anonymous

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people are going to be disappointed that they aren't it." -Bernard Bailey

"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breate more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." -Swedish Proverb

"C'est la vie. French, That's life." -Anonymous

"Carpe diem. Latin, Seize the day." -Horace

"A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it." -Anonymous

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." -Mark Twain

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note." -Doug Floyd

"The expert at anything was once a beginner." -Hayes

"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." -Arabic parable

"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." -English Proverb

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up." -Jesse Jackson

"If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" -Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venic

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." -Josh Billings

"Attack life; it's going to kill you anyway." -Steven Coallier

"All colours will agree in the dark." -Francis Bacon, 'Of Unity in Religion'



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