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

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
- Italian Proverb

Time is a physician which heals every grief.
- Diphilus

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

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
- Albert Einstein

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
- Jean de la Bruyere

Fate laughs at probabilities.
- E.G. Bulwer-Lytton

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.
- Mark Twain

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein

...love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
- Han Suyin [Elizabeth Comber]

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
- Dorothy Thompson

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

When everyone leaves you it’s loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it’s solitude.
- Alfred Polgar

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Terasa

Remember we're all in this alone
- Lily Tomlin

Lonliness accepted becomes a gift leading one from a life dominated by tears to the discovery of one's true self and finally to the heart of longing and the love of God.
- Unknown

The spaces between your fingers were created so that another's could fill them in.
- Unknown

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.
- Lou Holtz

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss

I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.
- Unknown

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let us down, probably will. You'll have your heart broken and you'll break others' hearts. You'll fight with your best friend or maybe even fall in love with them, and you'll cry because time is flying by. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, forgive freely, and love like you've never been hurt. Life comes with no guarantees, no time outs, no second chances. you just have to live life to the fullest, tell someone what they mean to you and tell someone off, speak out, dance in the pouring rain, hold someone's hand, comfort a friend, fall asleep watching the sun come up, stay up late, be a flirt, and smile until your face hurts. Don't be afraid to take chances or fall in love and most of all, live in the moment because every second you spend angry or upset is a second of happiness you can never get back. 
- Unknown

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
- Unknown

You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
- Unknown

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the eyes of a child you will see...the world as it should be.
- Unknown

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
- Dr. Wayne Dyer

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
- Albert Einstein

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughan

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
- Ellen Goodman

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
- Erica Jong

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
- Oscar Wilde

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
- Laurence J. Peter  (The Peter's Principle)

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

I dreamt that my hair was kempt.
Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.
- Ogden Nash  (1902-1971; American poet and humorist)

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
(Segal's Law)

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
- Ronald Reagan  (1911 - 2004)

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan  (1882 - 1958)

Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.
- Irving Berlin

I am happy and content because I think I am.
- Alain-Rene Lesage

Don’t read what they write about you, just measure it in inches.
- Andy Warhol

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disapointed!
- Unknown

Time is a physician which heals every grief.
- Diphilus

He who wherever he goes is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor shrinking from the other — take it that such a one has attained Perfection.
- Bhagavad-Gita.

Life is not fair, get used to it.
- Bill Gates

Maybe this world is another planet's hell. 
- Aldous Huxley

I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details.
- Albert Einstein

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
- Charles M. Schulz

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The journey is the reward.
- Chinese Proverb

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Winston Churchill

Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
- Herbert Bayard Swope

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain

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

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain

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

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
- Oscar Wilde

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
- George Burns 

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
- John Naisbitt

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
- Henry David Thoreau

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. 
- Henry David Thoreau

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
- Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
- Henry David Thoreau

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
- Henry David Thoreau

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
- Henry David Thoreau

My friend is one... who takes me for what I am.
- Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
- Henry David Thoreau

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
- Henry David Thoreau

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
- Albert Einstein 

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
- Albert Einstein 

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein 

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
- Albert Einstein

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- Albert Einstein

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (The Serenity Prayer)

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
-John Lennon

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
- Leszczynski Stanislaus

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.
- Indian proverb

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
- Vicki Baum

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Anonymous

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
- Oprah Winfrey

Today we have higher buildings and wider highways, but shorter temperments and narrower points of view.
- Anonymous

We spend more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses, but smaller families. We have more compromises, but less time. We have more knowledge, but less judgement. We have more medicines, but less health.
- Anonymous

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.
- Luke

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
- Julius Charles Hare 

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
- Gloria Vanderbilt

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein

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

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- Anonymous

Never tell your problems to anyone; most don't care, some can't do anything about it, and the rest are happy you have it.
- Anonymous

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- George Orwell

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
- C S Lewis

We are all mortal until the first kiss. And the second glass of wine.
- Eduardo Galeano

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
- Leo Tolstoy

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood
That he must count on no one but himself;
That he is alone, abandoned on earth
In the midst of his infinite responsibilities,
Without help,
With no other aim that the one he sets himself,
With no other desiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth
- Jean-Paul Sartre

He dwells in us, not in the nether world,
Not in the starry heavens.
The spirit living within us fashions all this.
- Agrippa von Nettesheim

“The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.”
- Immanuel Kan

The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists -- in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.
Henri Frederic Amiel

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
George Berkeley

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
-Maya Angelou

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
- Eric Berne

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- Sir Francis Bacon

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
- Gordon William Allport

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
- Sir Walter Besant

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
- Charles Schulz

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. 
- Jim Carrey 

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
- Blaise Pascal

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
- Julius Charles Hare

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
- George Carlin

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.
- (William) Harvey Cox

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
- Robert (Lee) Frost

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
- Anonymous

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
- Romain Gary

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind.
- Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.
- Anonymous 

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
- Anonymous

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.
- Beverly Sills

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
- William Arthur Ward

Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
- Thomas Carlyle

I don’t know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.
- Anonymous

 

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