5000 General Quotations

AUTHOR	QUOTATION
Abbey, Edward	May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Abbey, Edward	Walking takes longer than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
Abbott, Lyman	A broad interest in books usually means a broad interest in life.
Abbott, Shirley	Everybody must learn this lesson somewhere—that it costs something to be what you are.
Abby	All we have to do to be successful is follow the advice we give others.
Ackerman, Diane	A course on creativity in the arts and sciences, my class attracted academic misfits of an enchanting sort. Typically, a student might confess: “I’m in nuclear physics, but my real passion is for medieval Irish song.”
Ackerman, Diane	I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life.
Adair, George	Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
Adams, Ansel	Life is your art.
Adams, Ansel	There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Adams, George M.	It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
Adams, John	We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.
Adams, Lane	Out of ego needs, we put our best foot forward for the people we care the least about, and our worst foot forward for the people who mean the most to us.
Adams, Matthew	Success is a fragile finish…Excellence is lifestyle.
Adams, Scott	Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Adams, Scott	Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This make you look smart.
Adams, Thomas	He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.
Addison, Joseph	Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend; abroad, an introduction; in solitude, a solace; and in society, an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
Aditi	I wonder how much of what weighs me down is not mine to carry.
Adler, Alfred	It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
Adler, Alfred	We must interpret a bad temper as the sign of an inferiority complex.
Aesop	It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
African proverb	If you want to walk fast, walk alone; if you want to walk far, walk with others.
African proverb	Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Alain	Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have.
Albom, Mitch	All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
Albom, Mitch	Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.
Alcorn, Randy	Nothing makes a journey more difficult than a heavy backpack filled with nice but unnecessary things. Pilgrims travel light.
Alcott, Bronson	Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
Alcott, Louisa	I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Alcott, Louisa	I don’t think secrets agree with me; I feel rumpled up in my mind since you told me that.
Alda, Alan	Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe—you can’t take a taxi.
Aleman, Mateo	He who buys what he doesn’t need sells what he does need.
Alexander, William	Alone in my new garden, kneeling over a bed filled with rich, dark brown topsoil…I scooped up a handful of soil and took in its earthy, almost aphrodisiac smell. Ahh. I love the smell of earth. No perfume ever invented by man has matched the smell of
Ali, Muhammad	Enjoy life. It’s later than you think.
Ali, Muhammad	The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Allen, Hugh	Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.
Allen, Woody	Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Allen, Woody	Nothing worth knowing can be understood by the mind.
Amato, Joseph A.	Ardent walker Richard Wagner, was one of many composers who found walking a means to relaxation and creation.
Amato, Joseph A.	English romantic poet William Wordsworth sealed his devotion to the country by walking incalculable miles in the Lake District of England and in Europe.
Amato, Joseph A.	Race walking…that all-important rule, which distinguishes walking and running, that one foot must always be in contact with the ground.
Amato, Joseph A.	Scientist Pierre Curie was another intense walker. His wife and fellow scientist, Marie Curie, wrote in her autobiography that he “loved the countryside passionately, and no doubt his silent walks were necessary to his genius; their equal rhythm encouraged his scientist’s meditation.”
Amato, Joseph A.	Walking constitutes a continuous and changing dialogue between foot and earth, humanity and the world.
Amato, Joseph A.	Walking establishes intimate contact with place. It attaches us to a landscape—its trees, rocks, hills, and riverbanks.
Amiel, Henri	The great artist is the simplifier.
Amiel, Henri F.	Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Amis, Martin	Laughter always forgives.
Ammons, A. R.	With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.
Ancient expression	The road is smooth. Why do you throw rocks before you?
Andersen, Hans Christian	Where words fail, music speaks.
Anderson, George	The pattern and fabric of each of our lives is not so random as we may have thought, and kindness done in one lifetime can have far-reaching results.
Anderson, Laurie	As an artist, I’d choose the thing that’s beautiful more than the one that’s true.
Anderson, T. Alexander	Besides the skill of getting things done, there is the skill of leaving things undone. Sometimes the tasks we put off never need doing. Notice and eliminate the non-essentials.
Anderson, T. Alexander	Debt commits our time to earn money to pay for our financial past. We need to be careful not to become slaves to the lifestyle we create. The more we simplify our material life the more time we will have to live.
Anderson, T. Alexander	Doing nothing can be the most significant time we spend. Our best thoughts come out of doing nothing. For the next five minutes, put down this book and do nothing except allow your thoughts to wander.
Anderson, T. Alexander	Instant gratification is rarely as satisfying as delayed gratification.
Anderson, T. Alexander	Most of us have obligations in our life we dread. We do not have to accept every invitation. One of the greatest time-saving devices is a simple, “No, thank you.” For many of us it is hard to say no. When we do say no, we often feel we need to offer an excuse. Saying “No thank you” is enough. It is not necessary to make up excuses.
Anderson, T. Alexander	Some of us need “don’t do” lists. Make a list of things you no longer want to do and you will discover more time to do what you like.
Anderson, T. Alexander	Wisdom comes from paying attention.
Andretti, Mario	If everything is under control, you are going too slow.
Andringa, Robert C.	Borrow only for things that will increase in value.
Angelou, Maya	If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
Angelou, Maya	This a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.
Anglund, Joan Walsh	Spring does not ask an audience, but shapes each blossom perfectly, indifferent to applause.
Aniston, Jennifer	I always say, “Don’t make plans, make options.”
Anouilh, Jean	The object of art is to give life a shape.
Apatow, Judd	I said to my mom once—she was having financial problems, and she needed to buy a car, and a little money came in and she got a Mercedes. And I said, “Mom, why didn’t you buy a Camry so that you had money to spend on things like food?” And she said, “Because I’m not an animal.”
Arab proverb	A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Arab proverb	Dawn does not come twice to awaken a man.
Arabian proverb	The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.
Arabic proverb	Ask the experienced rather than the learned.
Archer, George	One thing about golf is you don’t know why you play bad and why you play good.
Arias, Oscar	The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.
Aristotle	All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
Aristotle	I count him braver who overcomes his desires, than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle	Moral virtues come from habit. The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
Aristotle	Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle	The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle	To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Aristotle	Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.
Aristotle	We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.
Armstrong, Louis	If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.
Armstrong, Louis	Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.
Arnold, Matthew	Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Atwood, Margaret	In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Auden, W. H.	A culture is no better than its woods.
Auden, W. H.	A real book is not one that we read but on that reads us.
Auerbach, Berthold	Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Augsburger, David	Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.
Augustine	It is solved by walking.
Augustine	The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Aurelius, Marcus	Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.
Aurelius, Marcus	The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Aurelius, Marcus	The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Aurelius, Marcus	The happiness of your life depends upon the character of your thoughts.
Aurelius, Marcus	The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
Aurelius, Marcus	Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Austen, Jane	We all have a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Australian Aboriginal saying	The more you know, the less you need.
Babcock, Havilah	Every country boy is entitled to a creek.
Bach, Johann Sebastian	I have always kept one end in view, namely to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honor of God.
Bach, Johann Sebastian	The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Bach, Richard	If your happiness [or heath] depends on what somebody else says [or does], I guess you do have a problem.
Bachelard, Gaston	Childhood lasts all through life.
Bachelard, Gaston	Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world, and thus a world event.
Bachelard, Gaston	The great function of poetry is to give us back the situations of our dreams.
Bachom, Sandi	Alcohol is patient; it will wait forever for us to return to it.
Bachom, Sandi	Deciding to get sober is the most important decision you will ever make.
Bachom, Sandi	I always know the right thing to say—after the right time to say it has passed.
Bachom, Sandi	If we look closely, we will see we are given even amounts of blessings and sorrows.
Bachom, Sandi	My drug of choice was more.
Bachom, Sandi	Temper gets you into a problem, and pride keeps you there.
Bachom, Sandi	The quickest way to end an argument is to say, “I’m sorry you feel that way. You may be right.”
Bachom, Sandi	There’s only one thing worse to an alcoholic than bad fortune, and that’s good fortune.
Bachom, Sandi	You can start your day over at any time.
Bacon, Francis	Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom
Bacon, Francis	Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Bacon, Francis	The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
Bacon, Francis	The sun has more admirers rising than setting.
Bacon, Francis	The worst solitude is to want friends.
Bacon, Francis	There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Bagnull, Marlene	While we may never go more than a few hundred miles from our home, our written words can go around the world and make a difference for eternity.
Bahamian proverb	Ev’ry day fishin’ day, but no ev’ry day catch fish.
Baholyodhin On	Go into the garden and listen to the silences between the sounds: this is the real music of nature.
Bailey, Philip James	Dew-drops are Earth’s liquid jewelry, wrought of the air.
Bailey, Philip James	The worst men often give the best advice.
Baker, Vernon	Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace.
Bakko, Skylar	Anger is usually a cover for deeper, more difficult emotions…like fear, or powerlessness or loss of control.
Baldwin, James	I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once the hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Ball, R. R.	I don’t need the books, just what’s in them.
Ball, R. R.	There is always a way to understand each other better so as to enhance, or sometimes to preserve, your friendship. Either you are right and the other is wrong, or you are wrong and the other is right. Or you both are wrong, or you both are right. And it is usually a combination of all four. Just really listen to each other.
Balzac, Honore de	Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Bankman-Fried, Sam	We needed to give what we had to others until the cost to ourselves outweighed the benefits to them.
Banksy	Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a sharp knife to it.
Barclay, William	A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
Bard, Carl	Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Barkow, Al	The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to match the whoosh and soar, the almost magical flight of a beautifully hit drive or 5-iron.
Barnett, Courtney	When it’s really fun to play it over and over then you know it’s pretty well finished. Maybe not completely, but it’s pretty well there.
Barrie, James	When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.
Barron, Philip	Pride is sometimes a better bill collector than dunning letters. A local physician discovered one Christmas that some of his patients hadn’t paid their bills for as long as 14 months. In the holiday spirit, he wrote to each, cancelling the bill and expressing his regret that they had had such a poor year. All but one paid, virtually by return mail.
Barrow, John	Mozart wrote musical pieces with a score that could be inverted or played back to front and still form a pleasing musical piece.
Barry, Dave	Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on Earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.
Barwick, Jo Ann	Houses that express comfort and wellbeing can go a long way toward making us feel at home in the world.
Basho, Matsuo	Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Bastianich, Joe	A little madness keeps the big madness away.
Bastianich, Lidia	Never make decisions on your best day, and never make your decisions on your worst day. Make all your decisions on medium days.
Batiste, Jon	You know what’s deep is that God gave us 12 notes. It’s the same 12 notes Duke Ellington had, Bach had, Nina Simone…I’m just thankful to God for those 12 notes.
Bean, Leon	No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.
Becker, May Lamberton	We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
Beecham, Thomas	Brass bands are all very well in their place—outdoors and several miles away.
Beecham, Thomas	There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn’t give a damn what goes on in between.
Beecher, Henry Ward	Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Beecher, Henry Ward	True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
Beecher, Henry Ward	We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.
Beethoven, Ludwig van	A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Beethoven, Ludwig van	Beethoven once said of Rossini that he had in him the making of a great musician if only he had some difficulties to struggle with and some failures. Beethoven understood from his own experience that struggle produces greatness.
Beethoven, Ludwig van	Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets.
Beethoven, Ludwig van	Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
Beethoven, Ludwig van	Music is freedom above all.
Beethoven, Ludwig van	Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Beethoven, Ludwig Van	Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Belfort, Jordan	Apathy is its own form of cruelty, and children can spot it a mile away.
Bell, Alexander Graham	Fire your ambition and courage by studying the priceless advice in the proverbs and wise sayings. They’re the shortest road to wisdom you’ll ever find.
Bell, Bernard	A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain failure.
Belloc, Hilaire	Is there no Latin work for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have left the vulgar stuff alone.
Bellow, Saul	Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
Bellow, Saul	Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.
Bellow, Saul	You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Benchley, Robert Charles	It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Bender, Texas Bix	After weeks of beans and taters, even a change to taters and beans is good.
Bender, Texas Bix	Never ask a man the size of his spread.
Bender, Texas Bix	The biggest liar you’ll ever have to deal with probably watches you shave his face in the mirror every morning.
Bender, Texas Bix	The only way to drive cattle fast is slowly.
Bennis, James	Don’t just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.
Bennis, Warren	The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
Benson, Arthur Christopher	People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
Benson, Dan	It’s not a successful climb unless you enjoy the journey.
Benson, Edward	How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
Berg, Dave	Comedy resonates with us in a powerful, often enigmatic, way. A funny story can ease the tension in our lives like nothing else. It can help us tolerate someone with whom we disagree on just about everything. A good joke can even cause us to reconsider how we think about someone or something.
Berg, Deanna	Trust comes from keeping a series of commitments.
Bergson, Henri	The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Bernard of Clairvaux	Love me, love my dog.
Bernard of Clairvaux	You will find something far greater in the woods than you will in books. Stones and trees will teach you what you can never learn from masters.
Bernhard, Ruth	If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won’t see anything.
Bernstein, Leonard	To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
Berra, Yogi	90% of short putts don’t go in.
Berra, Yogi	When asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I replied: “Four. I don’t think I can eat eight.”
Berry, Chuck	I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
Berry, Wendell	We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Bettger, Charles	If you really want to make the sale, make your pitch, provide the sales contract, give the decision-maker the pen, and then sit back and shut up!
Beyer, Rick	Buddy Bolden couldn’t read music, so for him improvisation was everything. His style apparently involved “ragging” on the melodies, playing two or three notes for every one in the original tune.
Biehl, Bobb	A wise person considers the effects of a decision on all involved, not just himself.
Bierce, Ambrose	Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Bierig, Sandra	To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.
Billings, Josh	Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Billings, Josh	I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Billings, Josh	Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.
Billings, Josh	The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time when you feel you must say something or bust.
Bissonnette, Zac	The power of checklists to induce collecting—give a person who is genetically hardwired for collecting a checklist and he’ll attempt to buy everything on it. “My downfall was the checklists,” one collector said, “once you have a checklist, you don’t look at what you have. You look at what you don’t have.”
Bissonnette, Zac	The WORST mistakes in business are made in good times, not in bad times.
Black Elk	Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.
Blaine, Nell	In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.
Blake, William	To see a world in a grain of sandAnd a heaven in a wild flower,Hold infinity in the palm of your handAnd eternity in an hour.
Blake, William	You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Bloch, Ernest	Debussy is like a painter who looks at his canvas to see what more he can take out; Strauss is like a painter who has covered very inch and then takes the paint he has left and throws it at the canvas.
Block, Arthur	If your project does not work, look for the part you didn’t think was important.
Bloom Amy	Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Blumenfeld, Esther	What you eat today walks and talks tomorrow.
Bo-Reum, Hwang	Sometimes a single sentence is more powerful than a whole book.
Boerhaave, Hermann	The seal of truth is simplicity.
Boggs, Tamara	When we jump in too soon to fix our children’s struggles—or the problems of those whom we love—we are often simply revealing our own fears.
Bohr, Niels	An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Bohr, Niels	Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Bohr, Niels	No, no, you are not thinking, you are just being logical.
Bohr, Niels	Of course I don’t believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not. (When asked why he had a horseshoe on his wall.)
Bohr, Niels	The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Bolt, Tommy	Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.
Bonnano, Margaret	It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.
Boonshaft, Hope	You can’t expect one friend to fulfill all your needs. You have to find different people and pick who you talk to about what.
Booth, Florence	A child must not only have something to do, something to make; there must be someone to admire the finished work.
Booz, Allen & Hamilton	What a young man does and who he works with in his first job has more effect on his future than anything else one can easily analyze.
Borges, Jorge Luis	It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his nocturnes answered: “All of my life.”
Borland, Hal	All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.
Borman, Frank	A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.
Borman, Frank	Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
Boros, Julius	Retire to what? I’m a golfer and a fisherman. I’ve got no place to retire to.
Borrow, George	Two great talkers will not travel far together.
Borysenko, Joan Z.	Thank God for what doesn’t need healing.
Boschini, Victor J.	Never make a credit decision on a beach.
Botham, Noel	More than 50 percent of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Botham, Noel	More than 90 percent of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.
Botton, Alain de	If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun.
Botton, Alain de	Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
Botton, Alain de	The art of parenting: how constantly to break a lot of bad news—without destroying all confidence and hope.
Boubat, Edouard	The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.
Bourne, Randolph	Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious things.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker	Chamber music—a conversation between friends.
Bowles, Paul	Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really…How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
Boynton, Sandra	Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals like chocolate.
Brabazon, Tara	Google is white bread for the mind.
Braham, Barbara	The quality of your life is measured by the little things.
Bramah, Ernest	A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
Bratzlav, Nahman	Nature is saturated with melody; heaven and earth are full of song.
Brault, Robert	It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.
Braun, Wernher von	Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
Braunstein, Richard	The hard thing about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
Breslin, Jimmy	When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that stared you drinking in the first place.
Breton, André	Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Breus, Michael	Don’t take sleeping, drinking (hydration), and breathing for granted. Yes, your body has regulatory systems in place, but life causes all kinds of glitches.
Breus, Michael	Strong Sleep Suggestion: One more time, I want to be clear about this: If you do only one thing for your overall sleep quality than anything else, wake up (based on your chronotype) each day at the same time!
Breus, Michael	Water Wisdom: You can burn more calories by drinking water before a meal in a process called water-induced thermogenesis. A German study found that drinking 16 ounces of room-temperature water increased energy expenditure (how much fuel the body uses) by 30 percent. The faster-burn effect lasted only about forty minutes, so you’re not going to drop a lot of weight via water-induced thermogenesis. But every little boost of energy expenditure helps.
Breus, Michael	You can’t reach whole-body balance without sleeping, drinking, and breathing optimally.
Brewer, Gay	One bad shot does not make a losing score.
Brewster, Gaines	In labors of love, every day is payday.
Bricklin, Mark	As you go through life, you will discover that more and more of the subjects you studied in college are useless, with the exception of abnormal psychology.
Bridges, John	A gentleman does not attempt to change the opinions of his dinner companions. A seated dinner is not a debate tournament.
Bridges, John	A gentleman feels no necessity to wear socks after Memorial Day—at least in casual situations. If he is southern, he may not even wear them to church.
Bridges, John	A gentleman has never been seated beside a boring person at dinner. Neither has he ever been seated beside a person who has been bored.
Bridges, John	A gentleman never assumes anybody knows anybody else. He always makes introductions. He is ready to give his own name.
Bridges, John	A gentleman never feels that he must say pleasant things about unpleasant people. Even when describing pleasant people, he does not stretch the truth. Goodness, when accurately described can stand on its own.
Bridges, John	A gentleman never makes himself the center of attention. His goal is to make life easier, not just for himself but for his friends, his acquaintances, and the world at large. Because he is a gentleman, he does not see this as a burden. Instead, it is a challenge he faces eagerly every day.
Bridges, John	A gentleman never says, “Please let me know if there is anything I can do,” leaving it up to the grieving person to ask for help. Instead he offers to supply a meal for the family, to run an errand, or to watch the house while the family is away.
Bridges, John	A gentleman never wears a button-down collar with a bow tie.
Bridges, John	A gentleman never wears the same pair of blue jeans two days in a row.
Bridges, John	A gentleman presents a tip as unostentatiously as possible, perhaps slipping it into the hostess’s palm in the midst of a parting handshake.
Bridges, John	A gentleman savors a cigar in the same way that he savors a good glass of whiskey—only on occasion and never to excess.
Bridges, John	A gentleman stands up when he is introduced.
Bridges, John	A gentleman’s pants are always cuffed except for his blue jeans and his formal trousers.
Bridges, John	After a toast has been made, a gentleman clinks his glass against any other glass that is extended toward his own.
Bridges, John	An RSVP requires that he reply whether or not he plans to attend the event in question.
Bridges, John	At a cocktail party or at a seated dinner, if a gentleman discovers that he has putt something unpleasant, or unpalatable, in his mouth, he gets rid of it in the most efficient way possible. In most cases, he simply uses his fingers or his fork. He works quickly and does not even attempt to digest his actions behind a napkin.
Bridges, John	At a party a gentleman never spends all his time talking to one person. He is always excited to meet as many people as possible, and he assumes that a great many people will enjoy meeting him too.
Bridges, John	At the dinner table, a gentleman helps the woman to the right of him as she sits or rises from her chair.
Bridges, John	Even in our increasingly casual society, a gentleman respects the time-honored traditions surrounding social introductions. A younger person is always introduced to an older person. For example, when Larry Lyons, who is in his twenties, is introduced to Mr. Allgood, who is in his fifties, a gentleness says, “Mr. Allgood, I’d like you to meet Larry Lyons.” Even if a younger woman is being introduced to an older man, a gentleman makes sure to say the older person’s name first. When a gentleman introduces a man and a woman who are of essentially the same age, he introduces the man to the woman. Thus, if his friends Sally Baldwin and Larry Lyons do not know each other, a gentleman introduces them by saying, “Sally, this is my friend, Larry Lyons.” Then a gentleman turns to Larry and says, “Larry, this is Sally Baldwin.” In all cases, a gentleman feels free to add some detail to stimulate conversation. He might, for example, say, “Mr. Allgood, Larry is one of my good friends from law school.” Or, “Sally, you may have heard me talk about Larry. We went to the Mozart concert last week.” A gentleman makes every effort to pronounce names clearly. If it is convenient, he repeats the names at some not-too-distant point in the conversation. Even if he is uncertain of the protocol of the moment, however, a gentleman always does his best to make an introduction. Even if he makes a small mistake, he has not committed the more serious mistake of being rude.
Bridges, John	If a gentleman can afford it, he has someone else clean his house for him.
Bridges, John	If a guest arrives with an unexpected dish, a gentleman serves it. He need not, however, open a bottle of unexpected wine, especially if it is not appropriate for the food being served.
Bridges, John	If a toast is being made, a gentleman, even if he is a teetotaler, always raises his glass. He never toasts with an empty glass. Even a glass of water, raised in the right spirit, expresses a wish for good luck.
Bridges, John	To establish a friendly relationship with the hotel concierge, a gentleman asked the concierge for some necessary service, one that is important enough to justify a substantial tip.
Bridges, John	When a gentleman has finished eating, he places his knife and his fork, crisscrossed, on his plate. He never places a piece of dirty flatware back on the table.
Bridges, John	When a gentleman inconveniences another person by asking him or her to shift so that he can move through a crowed room, he says, “Excuse me.” He does not say, “I’m sorry,” since there is no reason for him to apologize. In fact, a gentleman never says, “I’m sorry,” unless he has given offense.
Bridges, John	When a gentleman is in the company of a woman—whether she is his mother, his wife, his lover, his boss, or his friend—and they are walking through a crowed room, he walks slightly behind her.
Bridges, John	When a gentleman makes his way down a row in a crowed theater, he faces the people who are already in their seats. A gentlemen never forces others to stare at his backside.
Bridges, John	When a gentleman takes a gift to a party, unless it is a baby or wedding shower, he does not assume that it will be opened in his presence.
Bridges, John	When a gentleman wears a cummerbund, he makes sure the pleats are turned up. (In that way, they can actually be used as tiny, secret pockets, perhaps for the safekeeping of theater tickets.)
Bridges, John	When faced with a plate of long pasta-such as spaghetti, linguine, or fettuccine—a gentleman resists every temptation to chop it up with his knife and fork. Instead, he twirls a manageable mouthful around the tines of his fork and, with the help of his spoon, transfers it to his mouth.
Bridges, John	When he is introduced to an older person or to a dignitary, a gentleman does not extend his hand first. Instead, he waits until a handshake is offered. A gentleman never extends his hand to a woman first. It is always her prerogative to decide if she wishes to shake hands. If a lady does not extend her hand, a gentleman simply nods his head.
Briggs, Le Baron	In time you may perhaps find that most of the work of the world is done by people who aren’t feeling well.
Brilliant, Ashleigh	I don’t have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
Brilliant, Ashleigh	My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.
Brinkley, David	A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
Britten, Edward Benjamin	The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
Bro, Marguerite	Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won’t.
Bronowski, Jacob	Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us—Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
Bronte, Emily	A person who has not done one-half his day’s work by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Bronte, Emily	I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading—It vexes me to choose another guide.
Brooks, David	Think hard about who you marry. It’s the most important decision you will ever make. Devote yourself to your kids. Nothing else is guaranteed to make you happy.
Brooks, Mel	As long as the world is turning, we’re going to be dizzy.
Brooks, Phillips	To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
Brothers, Joyce	Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Brothers, Joyce	The best proof of love is trust.
Brothers, Joyce	Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Brothers, Joyce	When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Broude, Franklyn	You don’t always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don’t ask for.
Brower, Charles	Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.
Brown, Brene	It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced, and photoshopped world very dangerous.
Brown, Brene	Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
Brown, Dana	There’s a rhythm to good writing, the way words and punctuation work together, the way sentences are structured. Those words you see on the page, as you’re reading them, you’re saying them in your head. When the right words hit the right notes, when there’s just enough but not too muchpunctuation, occasionally slowing things down, it creates a beat, or a rhythm, in your head. Good writing has a beat. Great writing sounds like jazz.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Act with courtesy and fairness regardless of how others treat you. Don’t let them determine your response.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it’s leaning against the right building.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Borrow a box of puppies for an afternoon and take them to visit the residents of a retirement home. Stand back and watch the smiles.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Buy a box of children’s valentines and hide them around the house for your sweetheart to find throughout the year.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Don’t be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Even when you’re angry, treat each other with respect.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Every so often, go where you can hear a wooden screen door slam shut.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Everybody deserves a birthday cake. Never celebrate a birthday without one.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Give handout materials after your presentation, never before.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that a time comes when you would give all you possess to have your grown children young again, if only for one day. -Age 60
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that after you’ve been your own boss, it’s tough to go back to working for someone else. -Age 58
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that beyond a certain comfortable style of living, the more material things you have, the less freedom you have. -Age 62
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that deciding who you marry is the most important decision you’ll ever make. -Age 95
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that eating chocolate won’t solve your problems, but it doesn’t hurt anything either. -Age 28
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that even small children have a right to privacy. -Age 33
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that I will always be seeking my parents’ approval. -Age 39
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that if you like yourself and who you are, then you’ll probably like almost everyone you meet regardless of who they are. -Age 31
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that in every face-to-face encounter, regardless of how brief, we leave something behind. -Age 45
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that it makes me sad when I’m the last one chosen for a team. -Age 9
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. -Age 62
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that my mother is always happy to see me. -Age 44
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that nothing gives you freedom like a few bucks in the bank. -Age 48
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that nothing is more precious than a baby’s laugh. -Age 29
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that sometimes I don’t like to play ball with Daddy because he gets mad when I drop the ball. -Age 10
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that the faults I have now are exactly the ones my parents tried to correct when I was a child. -Age 40
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that the secret of success in business is surprisingly simple: give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. -Age 73
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that there is nothing more peaceful than a sleeping child. -Age 30
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that there’s nothing you can’t teach yourself by reading. -Age 78
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that when Mommy and Daddy shout at each other, it scares me. -Age 5
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that when you read bedtime stories, kids really do notice if you use the same voice for the handsome prince that you used for the evil ogre the night before. -Age 29
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that you can do something in an instant that will give you a heartache for life. -Age 27
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a man by the happiness of his wife and the respect given him by his children. -Age 51
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that you can tell how good a parent you were by observing your children with their children. -Age 82
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one. -Age 39
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	I’ve learned to keep looking ahead. There are still so many good books to read, sunsets to see, friends to visit, and old dogs to take walks with. -Age 86
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Introduce yourself to neighbors as soon as you move into a new neighborhood.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Introduce yourself to someone you would like to meet by smiling and saying, “My name is Adam Brown. I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting you.”
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Learn to save on even the most modest salary. If you do, you’re almost assured of financial success.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Make your anniversary an all-day event.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Middle age is when you have two choices and you choose the one that gets you home earlier.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Never miss a chance to dance with your wife.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Never open a restaurant.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Never take the last piece of fried chicken.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Never threaten if you don’t intend to back it up.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	One of the best things about getting older is that all those things you wanted and couldn’t afford when you were younger, you no longer want.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Remove your sunglasses when you talk to someone.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Start every day with the most important thing you have to do. Save the less important tasks for later.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Think twice before accepting a job that requires you to work in an office with no windows.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	Truth is serious business. When criticizing others, remember that a little goes a long way.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	When concluding a business deal and the other person suggests working out the details later, say, “I understand, but I would like to settle the entire matter right now.” Don’t move from the table until you do.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	When reconvening after a conference break, choose a chair in a different part of the room.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	When you are a dinner guest, take a second helping if it’s offered, but never a third.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	When you find someting you really want, don’t let a few dollars keep you from getting it.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.	When you’re uncertain of what you should pay someone, ask, “What do you think is fair?” You’ll almost always get a reasonable answer.
Brown, Jr., H. Jackson	Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.
Brown, Jr., Tom	The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.
Brown, Ruth	Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Brown, Whitney A.	I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Browne, Robert	Backpacking forces one, by necessity, to walk the balance line, the edge of the sword, between disciplined deprivation and hedonistic gratification: a tiring, sweat-soaking day ends with a plunge into a cool stream; an arduous, lung-bursting climb is followed by a magnificent panoramic sweeping view; and there is the continuous contrast between life on the trail and civilized pleasures–a warm meal, a hot shower, clean dry clothes. It is by walking this line between sacrifice and satisfaction that one finds fulfillment.
Browne, Thomas	We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett	Earth is crammed with heaven.
Browning, Robert	A minute’s success pays for the failure of years.
Browning, Robert	All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.
Browning, Robert	Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Browning, Robert	When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.
Broyard, Anatole	A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.
Brussat, Mary Ann	Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.
Bruyere, Jean de la	Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
Bruyere, Jean de la	No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honors are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Bruyere, Jean de la	The greatest misfortune—to be incapable of solitude.
Bryant, Bear	Our game plan is first year, .500 season. Second year, a conference championship. Third year, undefeated. Fourth, a national championship. And by the firth year, we’ll be on probation, of course.
Bryant, Mary	Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Bryant, William Cullen	Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.
Bryson, Bill	The average American walks 1.4 miles a week.
Buck, Pearl S.	One has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
Buck, Pearl S.	Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it.
Buckely, Jr., William F.	I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
Buckley, Christopher	Perhaps, after all, the most beautiful words in the language are I’m sorry.
Buckley, Christopher	Well, any English major can quote all sorts of people and talk a good game.
Buckley, Gail Lumet	Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.
Buckley, Jr., William F.	Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
Buddha	All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Buddha	One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.
Buddha	Plant one tree every five years.
Buddha	When you walk just walk—when you eat just eat.
Buddha	You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.
Buechner, Frederick	If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
Buffett, Warren	If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you’re going to turn out in life.
Buffett, Warren	Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.
Buffett, Warren	Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Buffett, Warren	The best investment you can make is in yourself.
Buffett, Warren	There is a fool in every market. If you don’t know who it is, it is probably you.
Buffett, Warren	There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Buffett, Warren	Unless you can watch your stock holdings decline by 50 percent without becoming panic-stricken, you should not be in the stock market.
Buffett, Warren	You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
Buffett, Warren	You only have to do a very few things right in life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward	There is no folly equal to that of throwing away friendship in a world where friendship is so rare.
Bumper sticker	The only common denominator in all your screwed-up relationships is you.
Bumper sticker	Use an accordion, go to jail! That’s the law!
Bureau of Social Hygiene study, 1928	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.
Burgess, Gelett	Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
Burke, Edmund	Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Burke, Edmund	Good order is the foundation of all good things.
Burke, Sr., Jack	Let the ball get in the way of the swing instead of making the ball the object.
Burke, Sr., Jack	What you might learn in six months of practice—your pro can tell you in five minutes.
Burke, Sr., Jack	When in trouble, play the shot you know you can play—not the shot you hope you can play.
Burnett, Carol	Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Frances H.	Be patient. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
Burnett, Leo	To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.
Burns, Carl	A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse…and dreams of home.
Burns, David D.	You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.
Burns, David M.	Aim for success, not perfection.
Burns, George	I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
Burroughs, Augusten	The cliche When you have your health, you have everything is very true. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.
Burroughs, John	I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
Burroughs, John	To find new things, take the path you took yesterday.
Burroughs, John	To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring—these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
Burroughs, John	You cannot find what the poets find in the woods until you take the poet’s heart to the woods.
Burroughs, William S.	Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Burrow, Barbara	A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.
Buscaglia, Leo	A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world.
Bush, George W.	To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
Butcher, Georgette	To love is to love the person. It is not to love the good or the perfect things to be found in that person.
Butler, Edward	Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another for thirty days, but it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.
Butler, Samuel	A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Butler, Samuel	A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Butler, Samuel	The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel	To do great work, a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
Butterworth, Eric	More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.
Buxton, Charles	You have not fulfilled every duty, unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
Byrd, Richard E.	A man’s moments of serenity are few, but a few will sustain him a lifetime.
Byrne, David	Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have noting in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
Cable, John H.	If you want to live twice as long, eat half as much, sleep twice as much, drink water three times as much, and laugh four times at much.
Cage, John	Everything you do is music and everywhere is the best seat.
Cage, John	I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing.
Cahill, Tim	A journey is measured in friends rather than miles.
Calderone, Mary	Our children are not going to be just “our children”—they are going to be other people’s husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
Callaway, Phil	Don’t major on minor issues.
Callenbach, Ernest	Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these places to exist.
Cameron, Julia	The English poets were great walkers. They were also mystics, and the intersection of the two paths is no coincidence. Many poets are both mystics and walkers. Poetry is divided into feet, and we speak of feet as comprising poetic meter. Meter is the gait of a poem. The gait of a poem is also the “gate” we use to enter spiritual realms.
Campbell, David	Discipline is remembering what you want.
Campbell, Joseph	The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Campolo, Tony	I believe that divorced persons still have responsibilities and obligations to their former spouses. I am amazed when I see how little concern there often is among divorced people for their former mates. It is beyond my understanding how persons who were once intimate can become so disconnected that they have no regard for each other’s well-being. I believe that when we are married, we are married until death do us part. Even after a marriage is legally ended, Christians are not divorced from looking after their former spouses. Thus, care for former marital partners is viewed as a responsibility to be carried out regardless of what the other person does. For Christians, a marital breakup does not mean a divorce from loving concern and service. Such obligations are wrapped up with the marital vows and that even divorce does not end them.
Camus, Albert	Autumn is a second spring when every leaf’s a flower.
Camus, Albert	In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was within me an invincible summer.
Camus, Albert	Live to the point of tears.
Camus, Albert	Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Camus, Albert	To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Candler, Warren A.	Self-indulgence is the law of death; self-denial is the law of life.
Caplan, Ralph	A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything.
Capote, Truman	Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Capp, Al	Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
Carell, Steve	Everyone deserves a second-second chance.
Carey, Mariah	Well, that’s enough of me talking about me. What do you think about me?
Carlin, George	In the United States, anybody can be president. That’s the problem.
Carlyle, Thomas	It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
Carlyle, Thomas	Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Carnegie, Andrew	As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Carnegie, Andrew	The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Carnegie, Dale	Do things for others and you’ll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew on a Missouri cornfield in July.
Carnegie, Dale	One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming about some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Carnegie, Dale	Remember that man’s name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in the English language.
Carolan, Ernest	There’s something haunting about getting up at dawn and walking a golf course, checking pin placements. It’s easy to lose track of reality.
Carradine, David	If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
Carre, John le	A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
Carrey, Jim	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.
Carroll, James	There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
Carroll, Lewis	I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields that it kisses them so gently.
Carroll, Lewis	It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Carroll, Lewis	Today isn’t any other day, you know.
Carson, Johnny	Being in the right place at the right time won’t make you a success—unless you’re ready. The important question is: “Are you ready?”
Carson, Rachel	A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
Carson, Rachel	Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
Carter, Graydon	I once asked Mr. Halsey, of Anderson & Sheppard, if he could cut a jacket in a way that would make me look a bit thinner. He turned a withering eye on me and said, “We’re only tailors, sir.”
Carter, Jimmy	A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.
Carter, Mrs. Roy F.	Our five-year-old Jeanie took to rising at 5:30 each morning and puttering around just long enough to wake the rest of us before climbing back into bed. Her reason was always the same- she had to see if there was a surprise. Finally we told her firmly that she must stop and that there wouldn’t be any surprises until Christmas, which was months away. “I wasn’t talking about living-room surprises,” she said through her tears. “I was talking about like yesterday morning it was raining, and this morning real summer’s here, and tomorrow morning I’ll probably find some pink in the rosebuds.” Jeanie still gets up each morning at 5:30.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri	In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri	The world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
Carver, George Washington	Good ideas came quickly or not at all, for the best ones were the simplest.
Carver, Raymond	I dressed and went for a walk—determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
Carville, James	All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.
Casals, Pablo	The art of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Casals, Pablo	The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
Casals, Pablo	The man who works and is not bored is never old.
Casey, Mary Lou	What people really need is a good listening to.
Cassidy, Michael	The greatest thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother.
Cassidy, Sheila	We only deliberately waste time with those we love—it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more constructive.
Cather, Willa	There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.
Celtic saying	Anyone without a soul friend is like a body without a head.
Cepeda, Raquel	Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.
Cerami, Charles A.	Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
Cerf, Bennett	In the proverbs, a drop of ink makes thousands think.
Cerf, Bennett	The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
Cerf, Vint	The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
Cervantes	Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Cervantes	The road is always better than the inn.
Cervantes	Valor lies just half-way between rashness and cowardice.
Cervantes, Miguel de	A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel de	Every one is the son of his own works.
Cezanne, Paul	Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
Chagall, Marc	Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers–and never succeeding.
Chagall, Marc	Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
Chambers, Oswald	A friend is one who makes me do my best.
Chanel, Coco	I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Chanel, Coco	Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
Chapin, Henry D.	A certain simplicity of living is usually necessary to happiness.
Chapman, Gary	Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.
Charles, Ray	Music to me is like breathing. I don’t get tired of breathing, I don’t get tired of music.
Chase, Alexander	All generalizations are false, including this one.
Chazal	All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Chenier, M. J. De	Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.
Chertkov, Vladimir	It is as wrong for one person to rule many as it is for many to rule one.
Chesson, John	An intellectual is someone who can listen to the “William Tell Overture” without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Chesterton, G. K	The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
Chesterton, G. K	The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Chesterton, G. K	You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
Chesterton, G. K.	Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.
Chesterton, G. K.	How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Chesterton, G. K.	I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Chesterton, G. K.	It is always the secure who are humble.
Chesterton, G. K.	Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers, but creative artists very seldom.
Chesterton, G. K.	Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Chesterton, G. K.	The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
Chesterton, G. K.	The simplification of anything is always sensational.
Chesterton, G. K.	The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Chesterton, G. K.	The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
Chesterton, G. K.	There are two ways of getting what we want—by working harder and harder or by simply wanting less.
Chesterton, G. K.	There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Chesterton, G. K.	Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith	Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.
Chicago pub	Warm Beer, Bad Food
Chief Joseph	It takes few words to tell the truth.
Child, Lydia M.	Nature is beautiful, always beautiful! Every little flake of snow is a perfect crystal, and they fall together as gracefully as if fairies of the air caught water-drops and made them into artificial flowers to garland the wings of the wind!
Chinese parable	An old man who, after years of wandering for thousands of miles all over his vast country, eventually finds he can go further in his mind while pacing around his back garden.
Chinese proverb	Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
Chinese proverb	Don’t open a shop unless you like to smile.
Chinese proverb	I dreamed a thousand new paths…I woke and walked my old one.
Chinese proverb	If you always give, you will always have.
Chinese proverb	Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.
Chinese proverb	Lock your door and keep your neighbor honest.
Chinese proverb	Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without speaking.
Chinese proverb	One dog barks at something; the rest bark at him.
Chinese proverb	One step at a time is good walking.
Chinese proverb	Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese proverb	Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Chinese proverb	The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
Chinese proverb	There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth.
Chinese proverb	Those who know when they have enough are rich.
Chinese proverb	Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are going.
Chinese proverb	When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, and others build windmills.
Chinese proverb	When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese proverb	When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.
Chinese saying	It is the things you don’t do, the empty times, which give meaning to your life.
Chinese wisdom	Be strict to yourself, and forgive others, and then you will have no enemies.
Chodron, Pema	Everything we need, we already have.
Chouinard, Yvon	I could give example after example of how doing the right thing ended up making us more money.
Chouinard, Yvon	The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. It’s easy to make it complex.
Christie, Agatha	One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.
Christy, Howard Chandler	Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there’s no room left for worry thoughts.
Churchill, Jennie Jerome	Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
Churchill, Winston	A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.
Churchill, Winston	All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Churchill, Winston	Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a very small hole, with weapons singularly ill designed for the purpose.
Churchill, Winston	I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Churchill, Winston	It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two nothing can be done, so it’s no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.
Churchill, Winston	Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.
Churchill, Winston	One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Churchill, Winston	Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Churchill, Winston	The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Churchill, Winston	To every person there comes that special moment when he is tapped on the shoulder to do a very special thing unique to him. What tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared for the work that would be his finest hour.
Churchill, Winston	To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Churchill, Winston	Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him about to the public.
Ciandi, John	There’s nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
Cicero	If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Clairvaux, St. Bernard of	What we love we shall grow to resemble.
Clancy, Tom	The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Clapiers, Luc de	Great men, like nature, use simple language.
Clark, Frank A.	If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
Clark, Frank A.	The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Clark, Frank A.	We find comfort among those who agree with us—growth among those who don’t.
Clark, Karen Kaiser	Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Clarke, Arthur C.	Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.
Clavin, Cliff	There’s a fine line between gardening and madness.
Clay, Henry	Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Clear, James	All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision.
Cleese, John	If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Clinton, Bill	The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.
Clinton, Tim	Important, relationship-defining moments generally don’t arrive on cue.
Coelho, Paulo	I learned something recently: Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
Coelho, Paulo	One day or day one. You decide.
Coelho, Paulo	Stop being who you were and become who you are.
Coelho, Paulo	When you say “yes” to others, make sure you’re not saying “no” to yourself.
Coeteau, Jean	The poet doesn’t invent. He listens.
Cohen, Leonard	If you don’t become the ocean you’ll be seasick every day.
Cohen, Leonard	There is a crack in everything; that is how the light gets in.
Cohen, Leonard	You live your life as if it’s real.
Cohen, Rich	Life is what you do but also what you miss.
Cole, Thomas	To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.
Coleman, Ornette	Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	The stars hang bright above, silent as they watched the sleeping earth.
Colette	Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
Colette	It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Colette	Look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you.
Colette	One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man’s step when he climbs the stairs.
Colette	There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Colette	What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
Colgrove, Melba	Rest is the guardian of health.
Collier, Robert	Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don’t merely dream—but create!
Collingwood, R. G.	The craftsman knows what he wants to make before he makes it…The making of a work of art…is a strange and risky business in which the maker never knows quite what he is making until he makes it.
Collins, Jim	Good is the enemy of great. That’s why so few things become great.
Collins, John Churton	Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favour.
Collins, John Churton	There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
Collins, Judy	How life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
Collins, Judy	Music can change the world because it can change people.
Collins, Michael	The average man speaks 25,000 words a day and the average woman 30,000. Unfortunately, when I come home each day I’ve spoken my 25,000—and my wife hasn’t started her 30,000.
Colman, Ronald	A man usually falls in love with a woman who asks the kinds of questions he is able to answer.
Colton, Charles C.	The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date.
Colton, Charles C.	Wealth…is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
Coman, Dale	One must never be in haste to end a day; there are too few of them in a lifetime.
Combarieu, Jules	Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Comer, Gary	Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself.
Cones, Nancy Ford	Lonely? Dull? Not as long as I can have our friends gather around our fireplace or about our stone table for a picnic under the maples in the summer.
Confucius	A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.
Confucius	Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let it be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.
Confucius	Behave toward every one as if receiving a great guest.
Confucius	Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius	He that requires much from himself and little from others will keep himself from being the object of resentment.
Confucius	Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them apart.
Confucius	Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Confucius	Seek not every quality in one individual.
Confucius	The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.
Confucius	To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius	To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius	What is not clear should be cleared up. What is not easy to do should be done with great persistence.
Confucius	When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
Confucius	When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius	Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Connolly, Cyril	The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.
Connolly, Cyril	We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Connor, Ralph	Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
Conny, Beth Mende	Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.
Conny, Beth Mende	Don’t avoid a good argument, just a bad one.
Conny, Beth Mende	Let old dreams fade into the night, so new ones can rise with the dawn.
Conried, Hans	I work to work. When it isn’t about the money, it’s funny how much seems to come your way.
Contant, Vic	How committed are you? There is a remarkable difference between a commitment of 99% and 100%.
Conwell, Russell	To make money honestly is to preach the gospel.
Conwell, Russell	You cannot trust a man with your money who cannot take care of his own.
Cooke, Alistair	A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.
Cooley, Charles	What you think of yourself is for the most part determined by what you think the most important person in your life thinks of you.
Coolidge, Calvin	If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Coolidge, Calvin	There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Coolinta, Pilar	The mind determines what’s possible. The heart surpasses it.
Cooper, Anderson	Learning what you don’t want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you do want to do.
Cooper, Ann McGee	Sometimes you must slow down to go faster.
Cordeiro, Wayne	If your heart doesn’t change, neither will the scenery!
Cordeiro, Wayne	There’s a simple rule in life that says that contentment equals reality minus expectations.
Cortese, Richard A.	Whatever you think it’s gonna take, double it. That applies to money, time, stress. It’s gonna be harder than you think and take longer than you think.
Cotton, Henry	Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off.
Coulter, Kristi	Because of my drinking, I was a grown woman operating at 40 percent power.
Coulter, Kristi	I realized that the vaguely tired feeling I’d had for years had actually been a constant low-grade hangover and that I never had to have one again.
Coulter, Kristi	I spent that week doing whatever non drinking thing made the most sense to me in the moment, even if it would have looked random to someone else: walking around the lake after dark, alphabetizing all my books, sorting my lipsticks by color.
Coulter, Kristi	One acquaintance was the classic too-long-at-the-party guy who could always be counted on to have one more drink.
Coulter, Kristi	Some people say your emotional development stops at whatever age your serious drinking started, and that’s where you pick back up when you quit—which would have made me a high school junior in a forty-something body.
Cousins Maine Lobster	The beauty of the lobster roll is that less is more; the lobster meat is the star and you need to let it do its thing. So, our job was to make sure we used just the right amount of butter and the right bun. Everything else should fall into place.
Cousins Maine Lobster	The way all Mainers eat it—on a paper plate, fresh from the pot, with a sprinkle of lemon and butter.
Cousins, Norman	Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Cousins, Norman	History is a vast early warning system.
Cousins, Norman	Laughter is inner jogging.
Cousins, Norman	Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Covey, S. R.	The way we see the problem is the problem.
Covey, Sean	Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us.
Cowley, Abraham	May I a small house and large garden have! And a few friends, and many books, both true, both wise, and both delightful too!
Cox Marcelene	Why is there such a difference between an event we can never forget and an event we shall always remember?
Cox, Marcelene	It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.
Cox, Marcelene	Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.
Cox, Marcelene	The first step in disciplining a child is to discipline oneself.
Cox, Marcelene	The illusions of childhood are necessary experiences: a child should not be denied a ballon because an adult knows that sooner or later it will burst.
Crane, Frank	You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time, and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
Crawford, Deborah	Remember that on average, every minute you are walking can extend your life by 1.5 to 2 minutes!
Crenshaw, Ben	Golf is the hardest game in the world. There’s no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the games jumps up and puts you into your place.
Crowell, Rodney	If you’re dedicated, if it’s something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you’ve simply got to go ahead and do it.
Crowfoot	What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.(Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890)
Crum, Thomas	What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
Csatari, Jeff	A sure way to avoid seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.
Csatari, Jeff	Budget for trouble.
Csatari, Jeff	Never wear loafers with a suit. Save them for khakis or jeans, and maybe a sports coat. A suit needs shoes with laces or buckles.
Cummings, E. E.	I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
Cummings, E. E.	It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Curie, Marie	Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Curry, Ann	Maybe the best thing you’ll ever do, you haven’t even thought of yet.
Curry, Mason	Beethoven would embark on a long, vigorous walk. (Many writers and artists and musicians walked.)
Curry, Mason	Soren Kierkegaard…the walks were where he had his best ideas.
Curtis, Wayne	“There is a turning point in walking,” Edward Weston said in 1908. “A person will walk a short distance without tiring. After about a mile of it the tired feeling is noticeable. After two miles the walker wants to rest. If he sticks it out until he has walked three miles the tired feeling begins to disappear. When he has walked five miles he is prepared to walk a dozen more.”
Curtis, Wayne	Edward Weston was at once extraordinary and very ordinary. He was extraordinary in that he could walk forty miles a day, day in and day out, for months at a time. Few could muster that sort of stamina. But he was ordinary in that he grew up at time when virtually all Americans walked long distances without thinking much about it.
Curtis, Wayne	Even in his fifties and sixties Edward Weston routinely walked ten or twelve miles each and every day, in part cause he was convinced something disagreeable would occur if he didn’t. (In this he echoed the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who was a year younger than Weston and took long walks after lunch every day.) “Somewhere at sometime he had discovered that a man needs a two-hour walk for his health,” Tchaikovsky’s brother recounted.
Curtis, Wayne	He was 70 years old. Edward Weston’s typical pace was 3.5 to 4 miles per hour. He’d started preparing for this long distance walk months earlier by walking twenty-five or third miles daily. He tried to walk New Your City to San Francisco in 100 days, less the Sundays he did not walk. (It took him about a week more.) A second time, going south through the US, he arrived in New York seventy-eight days after leaving Los Angeles—thirteen days ahead of the ninety he’d planned.
Custer, Dan	Every day is a fresh beginning.Every day is the world made new.
Czech proverb	A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it’s better to be thoroughly sure.
Dalai Lama	When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
Dali Lama	Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Dalles, John	The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.
Dana, John Cotton	Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Daniels, Charlie	I learned early on that I wanted to be an entertainer. Musicians come and go, but if you’re able to entertain along with the music, there will always be a place for you. If you can make someone smile, it adds a lot to the show. It would be many years before I qualified as a real entertainer, but I was working on it.
Daniels, Charlie	Suppertime was always a special time of the day for me. The sun would be going down, and smoke would be rising for the chimneys of the cookstoves. The family would sit down at the table, and you’d get a warm, the-hunter-is-home-from-the-hill kind of feeling, a feeling of security and togetherness, of really being a family.
Daniels, Charlie	Walk onstage with a positive attitude. Your troubles are your own and are not included in the ticket price.
Danish proverb	Blacksmiths’ children are not afraid of sparks.
Darling, Mary Albert	Others are more drawn to connect with us when we are a personal example of change rather than a pronouncer of how someone else should change.
Darrow, Clarence	Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
Darwin, Charles	My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts…If I had to live my life again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied could thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness.
Dass, Ram	The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
Dass, Ram	When you know how to listen, everyone is the guru.
Davidson, Sara	The ability to laugh at life is right at the top with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humor has much to do with pain, it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.
Davies, Robertson	A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen my morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Davies, Robertson	I do not trust any advice which is given in bad prose.
Davies, Robertson	The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealized past.
Davies, Russell	Nowadays, Robert Mitchum doesn’t so much act as point his suit at people.
Davies, W. H.	Now shall I walk or shall I ride? “Ride,” pleasure said; “walk,” joy replied.
Davis, Geena	If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
Davis, Mary	A walk in nature walks the soul back home.
Davis, Miles	Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
Davis, Miles	Do you ever feel like you want to play as if you don’t know how to play?
Davis, Miles	Do you ever get tired of playing music that sounds like music?
Davis, Miles	I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.
Davis, Miles	Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
Davis, Miles	The hardest thing about music is trying to sound like yourself.
Davy, Humphrey	Life is not made up of great sacrifices and duties but of little things in which smiles and kindness given habitually are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Dawkins, Richard	We are survival machines.
Day, Laura	Endings are beginnings—if we allow them to be.
De Niro, Robert	When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.
De Pree, Max	There are no gold medals for the 95-yard dash.
Deacon, Jay	It is not given us to live lives of undisrupted calm, boredom, and mediocrity. It is given us to be edge-dwellers.
Dean, Jimmy	You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
Debussy, Claude	Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Debussy, Claude	Music is the space between the notes.
Debussy, Claude	Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
Dee, Ruby	It takes a long time to be really married.
Degas, Edgar	Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Degas, Edgar	Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Degas, Edgar	Painting is easy for those that do not know how, but very difficult for those that do!
Delacroix	One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.
Delacroix, Eugene	One always begins by imitating.
Delany Sisters	Cut back on your possessions. The more you own, the more time you waste taking care of things.
Delany Sisters	Keep your own calendar. The most important thing in your life is your time, and nothing will make you feel as helpless as having other people run it for you.
Delany Sisters	Manage your own money, but be careful about it. Pay your own bills and balance your checkbook for as long as you can. When the time comes that someone has to take a hand in your finances, make sure you understand everything he does. If other people take charge of your money, it’s easy to lose control of your life.
Delany Sisters	Out of every dollar, give the first ten cents to the Lord, the second ten cents to the bank for hard times, and keep the rest—but you’d better spend it wisely.
Delany Sisters	Teach your children to save money from day one. Give your child an allowance so she can practice responsibility. A child who doesn’t learn thrift at home will have money trouble all her life.
DeLillo, Don	I think fiction rescues history from its confusions.
DeMarco, Tom	The truth will make you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Demophilus	Your only treasures are those which you carry in your heart.
Demosthenes	Nothing is so easy to deceive as one’s self.
Dennett, Daniel	The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them—especially not from yourself.
DePree, Max	The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
Descartes, Rene	In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Descartes, Rene	Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
Descartes, Rene	The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
DeStaebler, Stephen	Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.
Devoue, Bridgett	Imagine all the things we could be if we weren’t controlled by insecurity.
Dewey, John	To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
Diamond, Neil	I’ve forgiven myself for not being Beethoven.
Dickens, Charles	A very little key will open a very heavy door.
Dickens, Charles	Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
Dickens, Charles	Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Dickens, Charles	He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.
Dickens, Charles	If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
Dickens, Charles	It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Dickens, Charles	No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden to anyone else.
Dickens, Charles	Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
Dickens, Charles	The sum of the whole is this: Walk and be happy; Walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.
Dickens, Charles	Wine in moderation—not in excess, for the makes men ugly—has a thousand pleasant influences. It brightens the eye, improves the voice, imparts a new vivacity to one’s thoughts and conversation.
Dickey, Glenn	The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.
Dickinson, Emily	A letter always seemed to me like Immortality.
Dickinson, Emily	A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Dickinson, Emily	Forever cherished be the tree.
Dickinson, Emily	Forever is composed of nows.
Dickinson, Emily	I dwell in possibility.
Dickinson, Emily	If it makes my whole body so cold not fire can warm me, I know it is poetry.
Dickinson, Emily	My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!
Dickinson, Emily	Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
Dickinson, Emily	Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
Dickinson, Emily	To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
Dickinson, Emily	We turn not older in years, but every day.
Didion, Joan	I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be. Otherwise they turn up unannounced.
Dietrich, Marlene	It is the friends you can call up 4 A.M. that matter.
Dillard, Annie	How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Dillon, Paddy	While some might be daunted at the prospect of walking for weeks on end, staying somewhere different every night, while keeping themselves fed and watered, it is simply a matter of careful planning.
Dines, James	If you hear that everybody is buying a certain stock, ask who is selling.
Dinesen, Isak	When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Disney, Roy	It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Disraeli, Benjamin	The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Disraeli, Benjamin	The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Disraeli, Benjamin	The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Disraeli, Benjamin	Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
Dix, Dorothy	Do not borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us all.
Dix, Dorothy	I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
Dobson, James	If one examines the secret behind a championship football team, a magnificent orchestra, or a successful business, the principal ingredient is invariably discipline.
Dobson, James	It is important to know that you have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.
Dobson, James	Parental warmth after discipline is essential to demonstrate that it is the behavior, not the child himself, that the parent rejects.
Doddridge, Philip	Let us live while we live.
Dominguez, Joe	Once we’re above the survival level, the difference between prosperity and poverty lies simply in our degree of gratitude.
Domis, Mike	Love everybody. It’s easier than having to pick and choose.
Donne, John	Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
Donne, John	More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Donoghue, Emma	Scared is what you’re feeling; brave is what you’re doing.
Dooley, Mike	At this very moment, there are people only you can reach…and differences only you can make.
Doren, Mark Van	Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present; gives continuity and dignity to human life. This is the companion, this is the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor	The great thing for getting on in the world is always to keep the seasons.
Douglas, Kirk	My kids never had the advantage I had: I was born poor.
Douglas, Norman	To find a friend one must close one eye—to keep him, two.
Dove, Rita	Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Downey, Jr. Robert	Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That’s hard enough.
Downey, Jr. Robert	I say forget Method and just go right to the madness. I’m not really even an actor. I make faces for cash and chicken.
Dr. Seuss	You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
Dr. Seuss	You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Driscoll, Louise	Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
Drucker, Peter	My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
Drucker, Peter	Strong people always have strong weaknesses too.
Drucker, Peter	The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource in our society.
Drucker, Peter	The major events that determine the future have already happened, and irrevocably.
Drucker, Peter	The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
Dryden, John	We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Francois	To refuse praise reveals a desire to be praised twice over.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Francois	Usually we praise only to be praised.
Duchamp, Marcel	Art is a habit-forming drug.
Duke of Windsor	The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Duncan, John	Man always believes more readily that which he prefers.
Duncan, John	What he did not understand he refrained from attempting to explain.
Duncan, Sarah Jeannette	If you have something of importance to say, for God’s sake start at the end.
Durant, Will	Forget mistakes, forget failures, forget everything, except what you’re going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Durant, Will	No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
Durocher, Leo	“How you play the game” is for college ball. When you’re playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters. Show me a good loser in professional sports, and I’ll show you a player I’m looking to trade to Oakland.
Duse, Eleonora	I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
Duval, David	I would like to think of myself as an athlete first, but I don’t want to do a disservice to the real ones.
Dyke, Henry Van	Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Dyke, Henry Van	One truly affectionate soul in a family will exert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.
Eames, Charles	Take your pleasure seriously.
Earhart, Amelia	Some of us have great runways already built for us, so if you have one TAKE OFF. If you don’t, grab a shovel and build one.
Earhart, Amelia	You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.
Easwaran Eknath	Gourmets claim that the true enjoyment of fine cuisine requires that you stop just when you would like to have a little bit more. In this way, the connoisseur maintains his interest. Everywhere, knowing how to stop short of satiety helps you savor life and, more important, helps you be free.
Ebert, Roger	I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, “If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don’t, you won’t be able to understand your own explanation.” That is why 90% of academic film theory is bulls**t. Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Eckermann, Johann Von	We learn only from those we love.
Edelman, Marian Wright	Read. Not just what you have to read for class or work, but to learn from the wisdom and joys and mistakes of others. No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.
Edge Keynote	When you have done your best, await the result in peace.
Edison, Thomas	I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
Edwards, Harry	We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
Edwards, Jonathan	The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Ehrlich, Gertel	Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
Einstein, Albert	A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Einstein, Albert	Every reminiscence is colored by today’s being what it is, and therefore by a deceptive point of view.
Einstein, Albert	Failure is success in progress.
Einstein, Albert	I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Einstein, Albert	I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Einstein, Albert	I’d rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Einstein, Albert	If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music…I get most joy in life out of music.
Einstein, Albert	If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Einstein, Albert	If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Einstein, Albert	It’s not that I’m smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Einstein, Albert	Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Einstein, Albert	Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Einstein, Albert	Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Einstein, Albert	Only a life lived for others is worth living.
Einstein, Albert	Perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.
Einstein, Albert	Quantum mechanics is very impressive…but I am convinced that God does not play dice.
Einstein, Albert	The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Einstein, Albert	The ideals which have lighted my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. The ordinary objects of human endeavor—property, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.
Einstein, Albert	The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Einstein, Albert	The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.
Einstein, Albert	The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were when we created them.
Einstein, Albert	We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Einstein, Albert	Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.	Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.	Give me the strength to hit it easy.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.	I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.	In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.	It is better to have one person working with you than having three people working for you.
Eisenman, Tom	Choosing to become accountable to others takes real courage.
Elder, Eric	The best books read you.
Eldredge, John	There comes a time when we simply have to face the challenges in our lives and stop backing down.
Eliot, George	Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. That’s my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
Eliot, George	I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
Eliot, George	I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
Eliot, George	If we had a keen vision and felling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrels heart beat and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
Eliot, George	It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Eliot, George	It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
Eliot, George	One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Eliot, George	The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
Eliot, George	There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope.
Eliot, George	We can only have the highest happiness by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the world, as well as ourselves.
Eliot, George	What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories.
Eliot, George	What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Eliot, T. S.	And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Eliot, T. S.	Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Eliot, T. S.	I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
Eliot, T. S.	Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
Eliot, T. S.	In my beginning is my end.
Eliot, T. S.	Poetry is not the assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
Eliot, T. S.	The young feel tired at the end of an action; the old at the beginning.
Eliot, T. S.	To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing, that is enough for one man’s life.
Eliot, Thomas Stearns	Most editors are failed writers—but so are most writers.
Ellington, Duke	A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Ellington, Duke	I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Ellington, Duke	If it sounds good, it IS good.
Ellington, Duke	Simplicity is a most complex form. The more involved you become, the more important & beautiful you find simplicity is.
Elliot, Edwin	By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.
Elliot, T. S.	Great art can communicate before it is understood.
Elliot, T. S.	Humankind cannot bear too much reality.
Elliott, Walter	Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Ellis, Havelock	Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Ellis, Havelock	The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Ellis, Havelock	The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Ellis, Nancy Bush	Love everybody you love; you can never tell when they might not be there.
Ellison, Mark	It’s interesting how some relationships keep working and others are just for a particular time. Like, you meet, and you come together and share things, maybe for a few years, and then that’s kind of it. It’s really all right. It’s not like everything has to last forever.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	A great part of courage is having done the thing before.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	A sleeping child gives me the impression of a travelor in a vey far country.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Each moment of the year has its own beauty…a picture which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Earth laughs in flowers.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Every artist was first an amateur.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Find the journey’s end in every step.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Give me a book, health, and a summer day, and I will make the pomp of kings look ridiculous.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	God had infinite time to give us; but how did He give it? In one immense tract of a lazy millennium? No, but He cut it up into a neat succession of new mornings, and with each, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	If a man carefully examines his thoughts, he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	If there is something great in you, it will not appear on your first call. It will not appear and come to you easily, without any work and effort.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after one’s own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Music causes us to think eloquently.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Nature permits the best part of the picture; carves the best part of the statue; builds the best part of the house; and speaks the best part of the oration.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	One moment of a man’s life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of all fiction.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	People only see what they are prepared to see.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Scatter joy!
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired so long as we can see far enough.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	The ornaments of a house are the friends who visit it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	The secret of genius is to honor every truth by use.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	The wise man, the true friend, the finished character we seek everywhere and only find in fragments.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	The years have much to teach which the days never know.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	This time, like all times, is a very good time, if we but know what to do with it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	To fill the hour—that is happiness.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	To laugh often and love much, to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to give one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all—friends?
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	What a new face courage puts on everything!
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	What is originality? It is being one’s self, and reporting accurately what we see.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	What is the hardest thing to do in the world? To think.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Emmett, Rita	The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.
Emmett, Rita	Tip: Buy what you need for those trouble areas. Sometimes happiness is having an extra pair of scissors or an extra $1.49 roll of tape.
Emmons, Nathaniel	The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
Engelbart, Douglas	The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.
English proverb	A father is a treasure, a brother is a comfort, but a friend is both.
English proverb	A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
English proverb	Error is always in a hurry.
English proverb	He that plants a tree loves others besides himself.
English proverb	It is an equal failing to trust everybody, as to trust nobody.
English proverb	It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.
English proverb	Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.
English proverb	Many things are lost for want of asking.
English proverb	Memory is the treasure of the mind.
English proverb	The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
English proverb	The shortest answer is doing.
English proverb	Unlearning is more difficult than learning.
English saying	No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
English saying	The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.
Engstrom, Ted	It has often been said that the happiest people in retirement are those who touch life at the greatest number of points.
Engstrom, Ted	Time that is measured fights against time that is lived.
Epictetus	Do not write so that you can be understood, write so that you cannot be misunderstood.
Epictetus	If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Epictetus	If you wish to be a writer, write.
Epictetus	Strengthen yourself with contentment, for it is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus	The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epicurus	If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches, but take away from his desires.
Epicurus	Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.
Erasmus, Desiderius	Don’t give your advice before you are called upon.
Erasmus, Desiderius	Procrastination brings loss, delay, danger.
Erdrich, Louise	I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
Erickson, Milton	Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
Eschet	Only those who attempt the absurd…will achieve the impossible. I think…I think it’s in my basement…let me go upstairs and check.
Esquire Magazine	When driving a nail, keep your eye on the head—where the hammer strikes—not the tip.
Euripides	Among mortals second thoughts are the wisest.
Euripides	One’s best asset is a sympathetic spouse.
Euripides	The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides	The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life.
Ewald, Carl	Take spring when it comes, and rejoice. Take happiness when it comes, and rejoice. Take love when it comes, and rejoice.
Ewing, Sam	Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.
Exley, Richard	Somehow, year after year, Dad managed to take us on vacations he couldn’t afford to provide, in order to make memories that we couldn’t afford to be without.
Exupery, Antoine De Saint	A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowing born.
Fadiman, Clifton	For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Fain, Sammy	Let a smile be your umbrella.
Faldo, Nick	Golf is not about the quality of your good shots; it is about the quality of your bad shots.
Farnsworth, Ward	Inspirational quotes are little triumphs of rhetoric.
Farrel, Bill & Pam	For most men, success is a more vibrant and common need than security. It’s not that we don’t want to be secure; it is simply that we will sacrifice security in order to do what we are best at. The need to feel successful is the need we feel most often, and it determines the quality of everything in our lives.
Farrel, Bill & Pam	For most women, security is a more vibrant and common need than success. It isn’t that we don’t want to succeed; it is simply that we view success as a means for providing security.
Farrell, Joseph	If we only knew the real value of a day.
Faulkner, William	Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
Faulkner, William	I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
Faulkner, William	The past is never dead. It is not even past.
Feather, William	Beware of those who won’t be bothered with details.
Feather, William	Opportunities are seldom labeled.
Feather, William	Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
Feather, William	Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success.
Feather, William	We all find time to do what we really want to do.
Feiffer, Jules	Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid.
Feiffer, Jules	I grew up to have my father’s looks, my father’s speech patterns, my father’s posture, my father’s opinions, and my mother’s contempt for my father.
Feiffer, Jules	I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, that I was culturally deprived. Then they told me deprived was a bad image, that I was underprivileged. Then they told me that underprivileged was overused, that I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary.
Feingold, Jean	Romance remembered often better than experienced.
Feinstein, John	David Feherty almost never answers his phone, taking the Fred Couples approach that if you answer, you run the risk of there being someone on the other end.
Feldman, Irving	Being understood is better than being praised.
Feller, Bob	Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind you and start over again. That’s the way life is: there’s a new game every day.
Ferber, Edna	Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Fergosi, Steve	A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.
Fermor, Patrick Leigh	This was the moment I longed for every day. Settling at a heavy inn-table, thawing and tingling, with wine, bread, and cheese handy and my papers, books and diary all laid out, writing up the day’s doings.
Fern, Fanny	The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
Ferriss, Timothy	A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
Ferrucci, Pierro	Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. Carry out an action with complete attention and intensity as if it were your last.
Fey, Tina	It’s your work. You should care about it so much that people get annoyed with you.
Feynman, Richard	The first principal is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
Fidler, Alfred	Have the courage to be imperfect.
Field of Dreams	You know we just don’t recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they’re happening.
Field, Joanna	The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
Field, Sally	It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.
Fields, W. C.	It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
Fife, Shanon	The persons hardest to convince they’re at retirement age are children at bedtime.
Finnish proverb	If a man knew where he would fall, he would spread straw there first.
Fischer, Martin H.	A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
Fischer, Martin H.	Here’s good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.
Fischer, Martin H.	Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Fischer, Martin H.	The specialist is a man who fears other subjects.
Fisher, Anne	People may do their best thinking when they are not concentrating on work at all. The unconscious mind is a terrific solver of complex problems when the conscious mind is busy elsewhere or, perhaps better yet, not overtaxed at all.
Fisher, Carrie	I was street-smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Fisher, George	When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	This being in love is great—you get a lot of compliments and begin to think you are a great guy.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Fitzgerald, Zelda	Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold.
Flaubert, Gustave	Do not read as children do, to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do, to educate themselves. No, read to live.
Flemish proverb	What is said when drunk has been thought out beforehand.
Fletcher, Colin	Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.
Flying Hawk	Nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine, and good water.
Foer, Jonathan Safran	You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Foley, Elisabeth	The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Fontaine, Jean de La	Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Fontenelle	A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Fonteyn, Margot	Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
Fonteyn, Margot	The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Forbes, B. C.	History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Forbes, B. C.	If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
Forbes, B. C.	Opportunity knocks as often as a man has an ear trained to hear her, an eye trained to see her, a hand trained to grasp her, and a head trained to utilize her.
Forbes, B. C.	Strength comes from struggle; weakness from ease.
Forbes, Malcolm	Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Forbes, Malcolm	It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.
Forbes, Malcolm	Too many people overvalue what they’re not and undervalue what they are.
Ford, Harrison	We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Ford, Henry	A company that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. To succeed, try to see how much you can give for a dollar, instead of how little you can give for a dollar.
Ford, Henry	A man who stops advertising to save money is like a man who stops a clock to save time.
Ford, Henry	Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Ford, Henry	Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Ford, Henry	There are three things that grow more precious with age: old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
Ford, Henry	Whether you think you can or think you can’t—you are right.
Fordyce, George	One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
Forster, E. M.	We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Forster, E. M.	What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
Foster, Edward	How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
Foster, Jeff	Simply let go of the illusion that it could have been any different.
Foster, Jodie	Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.
Fox, Emmet	If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Fox, Jim	My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”
Fox, Michael J.	I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.
Frame, John Christopher	We all have a desire to have someone to love forever, and be forever loved by.
France, Anatole	It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
Francis of Assisi	He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands, his head and his heart is an artist.
Frank, Anne	I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Frank, Anne	Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Frankl, Viktor	Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Franklin, Benjamin	A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
Franklin, Benjamin	An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Franklin, Benjamin	At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.
Franklin, Benjamin	Dine with little, sup with less: Do better still: sleep supperless.
Franklin, Benjamin	Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Franklin, Benjamin	Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for time is the stuff life is made of.
Franklin, Benjamin	Drink water, put the money in your pocket and leave the Dry-bellyache in the punchbowl.
Franklin, Benjamin	Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Franklin, Benjamin	Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
Franklin, Benjamin	Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
Franklin, Benjamin	Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Franklin, Benjamin	Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in the great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Franklin, Benjamin	He doest not possess wealth, it possesses him.
Franklin, Benjamin	He that hath a trade, hath an estate.
Franklin, Benjamin	He that rises late must trot all day.
Franklin, Benjamin	If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.
Franklin, Benjamin	If you want something done, ask a busy person.
Franklin, Benjamin	In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Franklin, Benjamin	It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
Franklin, Benjamin	Make haste slowly.
Franklin, Benjamin	Many men die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.
Franklin, Benjamin	Men take more pains to mask than mend.
Franklin, Benjamin	Necessity never made a good bargain.
Franklin, Benjamin	Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Franklin, Benjamin	Not to oversee workmen, is to leave them your purse open.
Franklin, Benjamin	Now I’ve a sheep and a cow, everybody bids me good morrow.
Franklin, Benjamin	One today is worth two tomorrows.
Franklin, Benjamin	Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.
Franklin, Benjamin	Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Franklin, Benjamin	Sleep without supping, and you’ll rise without owing for it.
Franklin, Benjamin	Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears.
Franklin, Benjamin	The best of all medicines are resting and fasting.
Franklin, Benjamin	There are three things extremely hard, steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
Franklin, Benjamin	Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
Franklin, Benjamin	Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Franklin, Benjamin	Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Franklin, Benjamin	You may delay, but time will not.
Frazine, Richard	When Sir Edmund Hillary made the first conquest of Mt. Everest in 1953, his Sherpa bearers were almost all barefooted, even well above the snow line.
Freeman, Criswell	Sometimes, being wise is nothing more than slowing down long enough to think about things before you do them.
Freeman, Criswell	When the fish aren’t biting, a pleasant disposition is the most valuable tool in the tackle box.
French proverb	A day is lost if one has not laughed.
French proverb	Dress slowly when you are in a hurry.
French proverb	He has a very hard heart who does not love May.
French proverb	It is only the first bottle of wine that is expensive.
French proverb	People count up the faults of those who are keeping them waiting.
French proverb	Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
French proverb	The friends of my friend are my friends.
French radical	There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
Freud, Sigmund	Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Freud, Sigmund	Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me.
Freud, Sigmund	One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Freud, Sigmund	Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
Friedman, Martin	Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
Fripp, Patricia	It is not your customer’s job to remember you, it is your obligation and responsibility to make sure they don’t have the chance to forget you.
Fromm, Eric	Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort that life implies?
Frost, Robert	A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Frost, Robert	A poem…begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness…It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Frost, Robert	Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Frost, Robert	Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Frost, Robert	Freedom lies in being bold.
Frost, Robert	I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.[His epitaph]
Frost, Robert	In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Frost, Robert	It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has.
Frost, Robert	Life is tons of discipline.
Frost, Robert	Nature is always hinting at us.
Frost, Robert	No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Frost, Robert	People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: 25% like me for the right reasons; 25% like me for the wrong reasons; 25% hate me for the wrong reasons; 25% hate me for the right reasons. It’s the last 25% that worries me.
Frost, Robert	Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Frost, Robert	Pretty things that are well said—it’s nice to have them in your head.
Frost, Robert	Show me a farmer and I’ll show you a man who feels the sweat of God.
Frost, Robert	The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
Frost, Robert	To me the thing that art does for life is to clean it–to strip it to form.
Frost, Robert	Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Ftizgerald, Francis Scott Key	The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
Fulghum, Robert	Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.
Fuller, Margaret	A home is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
Fuller, R. Buckminster	Clarity is power.
Fuller, R. Buckminster	Dare to be naive.
Fuller, R. Buckminster	Do more with less.
Fuller, R. Buckminster	Don’t fight forces, use them.
Fuller, R. Buckminster	I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.
Fuller, R. Buckminster	The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life.
Fuller, Thomas	A stumble may prevent a fall.
Fuller, Thomas	Debt is the worst poverty.
Fuller, Thomas	The way to be safe is never to be secure.
Fuller, Thomas	We can live without our friends but not without our neighbours.
Fuller, Thomas	Weak things united become strong.
Fuller, Timothy	Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
Gabirol, Solomon Ibn	If you can’t have what you want, want what you can have.
Gabirol, Solomon Ibn	The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.
Gable, Clark	The most important thing a man can know is that, as he approaches his own door, someone on the other side is listening for the sound of his footsteps.
Gaelic saying	Quietness without loneliness.
Gaiman, Neil	Most of us find our own voices only after we’ve sounded like a lot of other people.
Gaiman, Nell	Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
Galbraith, John Kenneth	If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.
Galileo	The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Gandhi	I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Gandhi	My life is my message.
Gandhi	There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Gandhi, Indira	You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Gaon, Hai	Three possessions should you prize: a field, a friend, and a book.
Gardner, Ed	Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of bleeding, he sings.
Gardner, Herbert	Once you get people laughing, they’re listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Gardner, John	We are all faced with a series of great opportunities—brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Garfunkel, Art	Everything worth doing starts with being scared.
Garland, Judy	Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Garvey, Marcus	If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn	I’ll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has to say.
Gass, William H	The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
Gasser, Jose	There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
Gates, Bill	Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Gates, Bill	Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
Gates, Tom	It’s a lot easier to be angry as someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.
Gatty, Harold	The ability to observe, and the ability to see the little things that seem trivial at first, may become amazingly important and meaningful.
Gauguin, Paul	A painting is never finished—it simply stops in interesting places.
Gauguin, Paul	Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Gauguin, Paul	Between the failure and the masterpiece, the distance is one millimeter.
Gauguin, Paul	I shut my eyes in order to see.
Gauss, Karl	You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
Gehry, Frank	If you know where it’s going, it’s not worth doing.
Gellert, Christian F.	Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
Geneen, Harold	In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Geneen, Harold	The only unforgivable sin in business is to run out of cash.
General Electric	Excellence is not a spectator sport. Everyone’s involved.
George, Chief Dan	The beauty of the trees, the softness of air, the fragrance of the grass, speaks to me… and my heart soars.
German proverb	A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German proverb	An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German proverb	Choose thy love. Love thy choice.
German proverb	It usually rains where it’s already wet.
German proverb	Old love rusts not.
German proverb	One enemy is too many, and a hundred friends too few.
German proverb	The best is good enough.
German proverb	The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.
German proverb	The old forget, the young don’t know.
German proverb	To change and to improve are two different things.
Gerwig, Greta	I like things that look like mistakes.
Getty, J. Paul	Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.
Getty, J. Paul	If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.
Giardino, Pepper	Walking is good for solving problems—it’s like the feet are little psychiatrists.
Gibbs, Joe	In life, it’s always fourth and one, and there are people urging me to go for it.
Gibbs, Peter	It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
Gibran, Kahil	I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Gibran, Kahlil	Every man has a trust of tears which must be returned some day.
Gibran, Kahlil	Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Gibran, Kahlil	When love beckons you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.
Gibran, Kahlil	Work is love made visible.
Gibran, Khail	Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Gibson, William	The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.
Gide, Andre	Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Gide, Andre	Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Gide, Andre	Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Gide, Andre	Fish die belly-upward and rise to the surface; it is their way of falling.
Gide, Andre	I am erecting a barrier of simplicity between myself and the world.
Gide, Andre	It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Gide, Andre	It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
Gide, Andre	Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Gide, Andre	The most decisive actions of our life…are most often unconsidered actions.
Gide, Andre	The most important things to say are those after which I did not think necessary for me to say because they were too obvious.
Gide, Andre	To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
Gide, Andre	Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Gilbert, Dan	Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’ve ever been.
Gilbert, Elizabeth	A creative life is an amplified life.
Gillespie, Dizzy	It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
Ginn, Mike	We get it, poets: Things are like other things.
Ginsberg, Louis	God created the universe in order to hear music, and everything has a song of praise for God.
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader	Vladimir Nabokov taught me the importance of choosing the right word and presenting it in the right word order.
Gladwell, Malcolm	No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
Glasgow, Arnold	Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.
Glaspey, Terry	Books have played an important part in the lives of almost every great leader in history, and it is no surprise to find that they played such a significant role in the life of C. S. Lewis.
Glaspey, Terry	C. S. Lewis approached his reading as an adventure of discovery. He did not content himself with a cursory scanning of the pages, but instead carefully studied the books he read, marking significant passages and pausing to thoroughly understand their arguments. This was especially helpful with a more difficult book.
Glaspey, Terry	C. S. Lewis spent much time with his treasured friends. Several times a year he would organize walking tours of a few days duration where he and his companions could hike around the countryside, sharing laughs, stories, opinions, and good fellowship.
Glaspey, Terry	One of Lewis’s passionate convictions about books was that the very best books need to be read and reread throughout one’s life. It won’t do to make your way through a book such as Dante’s Divine Comedy and then check it off your list as an accomplishment on the way to being “well-read.” Lewis believed that we lose a great deal by only reading a book once. We must revisit the great books again and again throughout our lives, for they will alway have something new to teach us. As he wrote, “The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers ‘I’ve read it already’ to be a conclusive argument against reading a work…Those who read great works, on the other hand, will read the same work ten, twenty, or thirty times during the course of their life.”
Glaspey, Terry	One of the distinctive characteristics in the life of C. S. Lewis was the number of close friendships he had and the great value that he placed on them.
Glaspey, Terry	The reading of good books will make us wiser, broaden our horizons, challenge our thinking, give flight to our imaginations, and provide hours of enjoyment.
Glassman, Charles F.	The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry. Then watch your health and life improve.
Godwin, Gail	Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Godwin, Rick	One reason people resist change is because they focus on what they have to give up, instead of what they have to gain.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Architecture is frozen music.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Certain flaws are necessary…It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Every step is an end, and every step is a fresh beginning.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Everything is simpler than you think and more complex than you imagine.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von	He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	He is the happiest man who can trace an unbroken connection between the end of his life and the beginning.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	If we take people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat them as if they were what they ought to be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Time has weeded out of the great books all the unnecessary details and left us the gist, the essentials—the proverbs. They are the wisdom of the ages in the fewest words.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Goggin, Dan	Love plus laughter:happily ever after.
Gogh, Vincent van	Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Gogh, Vincent van	Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Gogh, Vincent van	I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
Gogh, Vincent Van	The best way to know God is to love many things.
Golas, Thaddeus	Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
Goldman, Emma	No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Goldman, Michael	When the Muse comes, She doesn’t tell you to write; She says get up for a minute, I’ve something to show you, stand here.
Goldsmith, Oliver	I love everything that’s old, old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Goldsmith, Oliver	People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Goldsmith, Oliver	Silence gives consent.
Goldsmith, Oliver	The first blow is half the battle.
Goldsworthy, Andy	The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
Goldwyn, Sam	Ninety per cent of the art of living consists in getting on with people that one cannot stand.
Good Housekeeping	Your possessions express your personality. Few things, including clothes, are more personal than your cherished ornaments. The pioneer women, who crossed a wild continent clutching their treasures to them, knew that a clock, a picture, a pair of candlesticks, meant home, even in the wilderness.
Goodier, Steve	Two lovers were talking and she said to him, “I don’t have a lot of money. I don’t have a brand new sports car and a yacht like Lisa Turner, but I love you with all my heart.” He said to her, “I love you, too. But tell me more about Lisa Turner.”
Goodman, Ellen	It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I’m going through.
Goodman, Paul	I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself, things like clean air, green grass, children with bright eyes, not being pushed around, useful work that suits one’s abilities, plain tasty food, etc.
Goodrich, Samuel G.	How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the treads that connect the parent with the child!
Gorbachev, Raisa	Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.
Gordimer, Nadine	Loneliness is the absence of accepting the joy of social responsibility.
Gordon, Ruth	Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Gordon, Ruth	The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
Gorelick, Melissa	Used to add. Now I subtract.
Gracian, Baltasar	A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Gracian, Baltasar	Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
Graffiti	Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.
Graham, Alfred	Truth is not for or against anything; truth simply is.
Graham, Billy	Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.
Graham, Katherine	A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Graham, Katherine	To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun?
Graham, Martha	No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.
Graham, Martha	The body says what words cannot.
Graham, Stephen	As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.
Grahame, Kenneth	Before he closed his eyes, he let them wander round his old room…familiar and friendly things…which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted on for the same simple welcome.
Grant, Cary	I think that being relaxed at all times, and I mean relaxed, not collapsed, can add to the happiness and duration of one’s life and looks. And relaxed people are fun to be around.
Grant, Cary	We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.
Grant, R. H.	When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
Graves, Robert	Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Grayson, David	Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs…of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.
Greek proverb	A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
Greek proverb	A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
Greek proverb	Beauty is truly beauty when its comrade is a modest mind.
Greek proverb	The good are always prone to tears.
Greeley, Andrew	We’re given second chances every day of our life.
Greeley, Horace	The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Green, Michael	Don’t be so arrogant as to suppose that the truth is no bigger than your understanding of it.
Green, Theodore	Most say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.
Greene, Graham	Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear witch is inherent in the human situation.
Greenland proverb	When you have gone so far that you can’t manage one more step, then you’ve gone just half the distance that you’re capable of.
Greenwalt, Crawford	Every moment spent planning saves three or four in execution.
Gregory The Great	If you love the good that you see in another, you make it your own.
Grieg, Edward	It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
Grier-Hansen, JoAnn	Hearts do break without a sound, in complete silence—with no one hearing or caring.
Griffiths, Charles H.	Training for combat is the single most important peacetime mission.
Grinnan, Edward	I’d read everything I could on the subject. I would sometimes hole up in the Yale medical library and scour books on alcoholism, mesmerized by post-mortem pictures of cirrhotic livers and wet brains, thinking, I suppose, that I could control the condition if I understood everything there was to understand about it, if I could somehow know more about it than it knew about me. The problem was, it knew everything about me.
Grinnan, Edward	That is the thing about a lie—you can’t tell one without knowing what the truth is.
Grizzard, Lewis	I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.
Grohl, Dave	I’m getting all wound up and nervous over playing at the White House and it is only going to last five minutes and it’s over. So I thought, just enjoy the moment!
Gros, Frédéric	Gandhi never stoped walking all through his life. He attributed his excellent health to the habit. He walked to the very end.
Gros, Frédéric	I walk to find myself, of course, or else to lose myself; because the beauty of landscapes is revealed to the walker with a crazy intensity; to partake of a certain slowness, to open myself up to the world, to other people and to myself.
Gros, Frédéric	If you walk for a long time, a very long time, the sky is no longer just above you but around you too. Everything has a sort of stubborn presence, which is simple in its spareness: leaves, bark, pebbles. Things reveal themselves to the walker in all their nakedness. They have a kind of pared-down beauty, and there is no need to invent new fables or project our dreams. We just have to name these things, and the poem becomes an echo of their presence.
Gros, Frédéric	In always opting to walk, we are paying tribute to the landscape.
Gros, Frédéric	Kant was concerned with only two things apart from reading and writing: the importance of his walk, and what he should eat.
Gros, Frédéric	Once on his feet, though, man does not stay where he is.
Gros, Frédéric	One shouldn’t put one’s trust in old people, or settle for their so-called experience which is nothing but the weighty mass of their repeated mistakes. One should trust only confidence itself: youth.
Gros, Frédéric	Ought one really to walk alone? Nietzsche, Thoreau and Rousseau are not alone in thinking so. Being in company forces one to jostle, hamper, walk at the wrong speed for others. When walking it’s essential to find your own basic rhythm, and maintain it. The right basic rhythm is the one that suits you, so well that you don’t tire and can keep it up for ten hours. But it is highly specific and exact. So that when you are forced to adjust to someone else’s pace, to walk faster or slower than usual, the body follows badly.
Gros, Frédéric	Rain or shine, Kant’s walk had to be taken. He went alone, for he wanted to breathe through his nose all the way, with his mouth closed, which he believed to be excellent for the body. The company of friends would have obliged him to open his mouth to speak.
Gros, Frédéric	Rousseau had once been able to say that while walking he was master of his imaginings. The last walks by contrast have the immense gentleness of just allowing yourself to exist.
Gros, Frédéric	Thoreau admired the wisdom of the Native Americans.
Gros, Frédéric	Walking is the best way to go more slowly than any other method that has ever been found. To walk, you need to start with two legs. The rest is optional. If you want to go faster, then don’t walk, do something else: drive, slide or fly. Don’t walk. And when you are walking, there is only one sort of performance that counts: the brilliance of the sky, the splendor of the landscape. Walking is not a sport.
Gros, Frédéric	Walking when heavy with fatigue is simply about covering the distance.
Gros, Frédéric	When walking, there is always something to do: walk. Or rather, no, there’s nothing more to do because one is just walking, and when one is going to a place or covering a route, one has only to keep moving. That is boringly obvious. The body’s monotonous duty liberates thought. While walking, one is not obliged to think, to think this or that or like this or that. During that continuous but automatic effort of the body, the mind is placed at one’s disposal. It is then that thoughts can arise, surface or take shape.
Gros, Frédéric	Wordsworth is an unavoidable personage in any history of walking, many experts considering him the authentic originator of the long expedition. He was the first—at a time (the late eighteenth century) when walking was the lot of the poor, vagabonds and highwaymen, not to mention traveling showmen and pedlars—to conceive of the walk as a poetic act, a communion with Nature, fulfillment of the body, contemplation of the landscape.
Gros, Frédéric	Wordsworth walked up and down, murmuring, and used rhythmic body movements to help find the right lines.
Gros, Frédéric	You must always start at dawn when you walk, to accompany the awaking day. To walk in the early morning is to understand the strength of natural beginnings.
Gudgel, David	Pain is a very real part of any relationship. It is inevitable when you share yourself with another person.
Guinness, Os	The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
Guiterman, Arthur	Until the donkey tried to clear The fence, he thought himself a deer.
Gunderson, Denny	If you are attracted to the creative arts, it is probably because God has placed that calling upon you. Pursue, cultivate, and incessantly practice your chosen form.
Gunther, John	All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
Ha-Levi, Judah	My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.
Hackle, Sparse Grey	He who is content to “not-catch” fish will have his time and attention free for the accumulation of a thousand experiences.
Hackman, Gene	The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
Hagen, Walter	Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots a round. When you do, just put them out of your mind.
Hagen, Walter	Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
Hagen, Walter	You don’t have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today’s game…harden your heart and make the best of it.
Hahn, Kurt	There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.
Haile, Rahawa	The Appalachian Trail was the longest conversation I’d ever had with my body, both where I fit in it and where it fits in the world.
Haines, Seth	The urges—they do blow over if you give them time.
Haines, Seth	Things were sorted, figured, and comfortable.
Hakuta, Ken	People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.
Hale, Mandy	It’s okay to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.
Half, Robert	Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Half, Robert	There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Hall, Craig and Kathryn	We didn’t even know how much we didn’t know.
Hall, Jim	Notes are an intelligent way of moving from one silence to another.
Halliday, Arthur	By eating what God directs us to eat, we rediscover the delights of good food and experience the joy of being the size God designed us to be.
Halliday, Arthur	The more we reveal of our true selves—vulnerable and transparent—the more appealing, attractive, and authentic we become.
Halpern, Justin	I was a bit thrown by my dad’s insistence that the only way to make a marriage work was to accept that it might not.
Hamann, J. G.	When I rest my feet, my mind also ceases to function.
Hamill, Pete	For years, I had interviewed politicians in bars. Now I suggested we go for a cup of coffee. Dinner parties were problems because I was always explaining myself. “No, I don’t drink, thank you.” “Not even wine?” “Nothing, thanks.” “But why?” “I have no talent for it,” I said.
Hamill, Pete	I began to feel that I was performing my life instead of living it.
Hamill, Pete	I began writing as never before, studying the craft with a professional’s forever unsatisfied standards.
Hamill, Pete	Now I had more time than I’d ever had as an adult. I had gained the time I once spent drinking and the time I needed for recovery.
Hamill, Pete	Somehow, I’d replaced the habit of drinking with the habit of non-drinking.
Hamill, Pete	The model was where you began, nothing more; the drawing was the result. The model was a collection of facts; the drawing was the truth.
Hamill, Pete	Writers were rememberers and I had already forgotten material for twenty novels. I urged myself to live in a state of complete consciousness, even when that meant pain or boredom.
Hamilton, J. Wallace	People are training for success when they should be training for failure. Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth, and disappointment more normal than arrival. Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with your problems. Are you going to fail forward or backward?
Hammerstein II, Oscar	Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Handel, George Frideric	I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wished to make them better.
Handey, Jack	Instead of having “answers” on a math test, they should just call them “impressions,” and if you got a different “impression,” so what, can’t we all be brothers?
Handey, Jack	Sometimes I think the world has gone completely mad. And then I think, “Aw, who cares?” And then I think, “Hey, what’s for supper?”
Handey, Jack	When you go for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.
Handler, Chelsea	It’s been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be.
Handy, J.	To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other.
Haney, Hank	People really have no idea how good professional athletes in any sport can be when they are in a groove without the pressure and irregularities of competition. I’ve been told that when former Boston Celtics great Larry Bird was shooting one ball after another in practice, he could make 300 free throws in a row and 95 out of 100 three-pointers.
Hanh, Thích Nhât	People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Hanh, Thích Nhât	Smile, breathe and go slowly.
Hanh, Thích Nhât	Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Hanh, Thích Nhât	There are two ways to wash dishes. The first is to wash the dishes in order to have clean dishes, and the second is to wash the dishes in order to wash the dishes.
Hạnh, Thích Nhất	Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.
Hanh, Thich Nhat	We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.
Hanson, Peter G.	We are not leaving time, especially on the weekend, for our brains and bodies to recuperate.
Hapeninim, Mivchar	Do not believe in your own wisdom until you can master your desires.
Haracourt, Edmond	We leave behind a bit of ourselves wherever we’ve been.
Hare, J. C.	Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Hare, J. C.	Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.
Hare, J. C.	We never know the true value of friends. While they live we are too sensitive of their faults: when we have lost them we only see their virtues.
Harpe, Jean-Francois De La	We always weaken everything we exaggerate.
Harrelson, Ken	In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has to go right over second base.
Harris, Sydney J.	A real friend is not so much someone you feel free to be serious with as someone you feel free to be silly with.
Harris, Sydney J.	Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Harris, Sydney J.	Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
Harris, Sydney J.	The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
Harris, Sydney J.	The best things you can give your children, next to good habits, are good memories.
Harris, Sydney J.	The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti	Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Harrison, George	If we’d known we were going to be the Beatles, we’d have tried harder.
Hart, Mickey	An instrument becomes an extension of the player’s own body.
Harvey, Paul	It is important to build an intellectual base for your goals. Formal education is fine. Self-education is vital.
Hasidim, Sefer	If you drop gold and books, pick up first the books and then the gold.
Hawking, Stephen	It’s the past that tells us who we are. Without it we lose our identity.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Sunlight is painting.
Hay, Louise L.	Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.
Haydn, Franz Joseph	It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
Hayes, Helen	Why endeavor to straighten the road of life? The faster we travel, the less there is to see.
Hazelden Meditations	We can get high on anger. That’s why it’s dangerous. We get a false sense of power from being angry. Our anger turns into resentments. Resentments turn into hate. Hate eats at our spiritual core. We can get rid of resentments and hate through prayer and helping others. That’s why we’re to pray for those who have wronged us, so our hearts don’t fill with hate. This way, we use our energy in a healthy way. And our serenity will grow as we see that anger no longer has so much power over our actions.
Hazlitt, Henry	Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours’ march to dinner—and then to thinking!
Hebbel, Friedrich	Remember: one lie does not cost you one truth but the truth.
Hebbell, Friedrich	He who wants to know people should study their excuses.
Hebrew proverb	Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Hecht, Ben	Treat pain and rage as visitors.
Hedberg, Mitch	I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and hook up with them later.
Hedges, Charlie	Significant living is more about the art of steering, than the tedious task of mastering. You prepare, you plan, you strategize, and then you go out and take it as it comes.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich	To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
Heijer, Alexander den	When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Hein, Piet	The road to Wisdom? Well, it’s plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
Heinlein, Robert	A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
Hellman, Lillian	Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Hellman, Lillian	People change and forget to tell each other.
Helm, Levon	If you pour some music on whatever’s wrong, it’ll sure help out.
Helps, Arthur	Was anything real ever gained without sacrifice of some kind?
Hemingway, Ernest	Courage is grace under pressure.
Hemingway, Ernest	The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
Hemingway, Ernest	Time is the least thing we have.
Hemingway, Ernest	What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Hemingway, Ernest	When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Hemingway, Ernest	When you get hurt, use it.
Hemingway, Mary	Worry a little bit every day, and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Hemphill, Barbara	Clutter is nothing more than postponed decisions.
Henderson, Annie	If the world puts you on a road you do not like, if you look ahead and do not want that destination which is being offered and you look behind and you do not want to return to your place of departure, step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.
Henderson, Nelson	The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Henderson, Robert	Most of the significant things done in the world were done by persons who were either too busy or too sick! There are few ideal and leisurely settings for the disciplines of growth.
Hendricks, Howard	Kids aren’t looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest and growing ones.
Hendrix, Jimi	Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Henri, Robert	All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.
Henry, Matthew	Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.
Henry, Philip	A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.
Henson, Taraji	Fear is a liar. Make a point of calling its bluff.
Hepburn, Audrey	People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
Hepburn, Katharine	I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Hepburn, Katharine	Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
Hepola, Sarah	Whatever creative growth alcohol and drugs might offer at first, it doesn’t last. You stop learning and noticing.
Hepola, Sarah	Writers build monuments to our former selves, our former lives, because we’re always hoping to return to the past and master it somehow, find the missing puzzle piece that helps everything make sense.
Heraclitus	No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
Heraclitus	Time is a game played beautifully by children.
Herbert, George	Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame when once it is within thee.
Herbert, George	Good and quickly seldom meet.
Herbert, George	One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Herbert, Mark	There is no such thing as a secret trumpet player.
Herlihy, James Leo	Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you’re doing it wrong.
Herold, Don	Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves getting it.
Herrick, Robert	No man at one time can be wise and love.
Herschel, Abraham Joshua	He who is swift to believe is swift to forget.
Herseth, Bud	When you make a mistake, be proud of it. Put your horn down and stare at the conductor. Unless his ear is great, he won’t know. If he does, fine!
Herzog, Werner	The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
Hesiod	It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
Hesiod	The procrastinating man is forever struggling with ruin.
Hesse, Hermann	He does not educate children but rejoices in their happiness.
Hesse, Hermann	If you hate a person, you hate something in them that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
Hesse, Hermann	Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value.
Hesse, Hermann	The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
Hi Zhi	You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
Hickman, Martha Whitmore	We found that our circle of friends shifted…We were surprised and disappointed that people we thought were good friends became distant, uneasy, and seemed unable to help us. Others who were casual acquaintances became suddenly close, sustainers of life for us. Grief changes the rules, and sometimes rearranges the combinations.
Hicks, Pea	Memory was my drug of choice.
Hiddleston, Tom	If you risk failure, then you also risk success.
Hilgenberg, Jay	The thing I like about football is that you don’t have to take a shower to go to work.[Chicago Bears center]
Hill, Lauryn	Just think love.
Hill, Napoleon	Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Hill, Napoleon	If we stay focused on our goals, eventually they will manifest themselves in such abundance and with such ease that we will wonder how they had avoided us for so many years.
Hill, Napoleon	The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Hill, Napoleon	Your big opportunity maybe right where you are now.
Hill, Rowland	We can do more good by being good than in any other way.
Hillary, Sir Edmond	I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.
Hillary, Sir Edmond	It’s not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves.
Hillary, Sir Edmond	Mount Everest, you have defeated me once and you might defeat me again. But I’m coming back again and again, and I’m going to win, because you can’t get any bigger, Mount Everest, and I can!
Hilton, James	Education, in the deepest sense, is continuous and lifelong and in essence unfinishable. What we think we already know is often less helpful than the desire to learn.
Hindu proverb	There is nothing noble in being superior to someone else. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Hippocrates	Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates	The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates	Walking is a man’s best medicine.
Hirshfield, Jane	How fragile we are, between the few good moments.
Hitchcock, Alfred	What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out.
Hitchcock, Raymond	A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.
Hoagland, Edward	In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
Hobbes, Thomas	Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Hochman, Sandra	I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all, it’s just about over.
Hodges, Leigh	Life begins each morning…Each morning is the open door to a new world—new vistas, new aims, new tryings.
Hodgson, Joel	Sometimes I go into my own little world. It’s okay, they know me there.
Hoffer, Eric	Compassion is probably the only antitoxin of the soul; where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Hoffer, Eric	Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what people fear most.
Hoffer, Eric	The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Hoffer, Eric	When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Hofmann, Hans	The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hogan, Ben	Everyday you miss playing or practicing—is one day longer it will take for you to be good.
Hogan, Ben	Golf is not a game of good shots, it’s a game of bad shots.
Hogan, Ben	I only hit three or four shots a round that flew exactly as I wanted them to.
Hogan, Ben	I see no reason why a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
Hogan, Ben	The lessons you learn on your own are the ones you retain.
Hogan, Ben	The most important shot in golf is the next one.
Hogan, Ben	There isn’t enough daylight in any one day to practice all the shots you need to.
Hogan, Ben	There’s nothing natural about the golf swing.
Holden, Robert	The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.
Holderlin, Friedrich	I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.
Hölderlin, Friedrich	All I need is a pair of shoes.
Holiday, Billie	Everyone’s got to be different. You can’t copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing.
Holiday, Billie	People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
Holiday, Billie	Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert	Home in one form or another, is the great object of life.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert	Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert	You and I cannot determine what other men shall think and say about us. We can only determine what they ought to think of us and say about us.
Holland, W. J.	Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!
Holmes, Carol	A happy life is made up of little things…a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell	A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell	A thought is often original though you have uttered it a thousand times.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell	A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell	Alas for those that never sing,But die with all their music in them.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell	He is a wise man who chooses a good grandfather.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell	If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I do not say embrace trouble; that’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for, you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell	Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell	The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell	What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell	Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, But not our hearts.
Holmes, Sherlock	It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Holt, Jim	It has been estimated that at the age of eight, subjectively you have already lived 2/3 of your life.
Holt, John	The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.
Holt, Tom	Quotations and aphorisms are generally just verbal Christmas presents; enticingly done up in pretty paper and ribbons, but once you get them open thy generally turn out to be just socks.
Holtz, Lou	Don’t tell your problems to people—80 percent don’t care; and the other 20 percent are glad you’ve got them.
Holtz, Lou	Just remember, happiness is having a poor memory about what happened yesterday.
Holtz, Lou	On this team we are all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Holtz, Lou	We’re going to get in two hours of good practice even if it takes six hours.
Holzman, Red	Practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice does.
Hoogtrerp, Daniel	Everybody has their ups and downs so I decided to have mine between good and great.
Hooks, Bell	People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
Hooks, Bell	The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it’s to imagine what is possible.
Hope, Bob	If I’m on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.
Hopkins, Tom	Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
Hopper, Edward	If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
Horace	A jest, a laughing word, often decides the highest matters better than sharpness and seriousness.
Horace	Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.
Horace	Well begun is half done.
Horne, Lena	It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.
Horner, Michele	Michele was adamant about the musical rule of thumb that parents should correct a child’s mistake: never, ever, until the child had made that error at least three times. Wisely, Michele saw that her role as teacher was to guide children into developing
Horowitz, Mitch	Consider what you do best, focus on a goal, then visualize and see what happens.
Horowitz, Mitch	I am able to feel my feelings and not think something is wrong if I am not happy every minute.
Horowitz, Mitch	On public speaking…fortunately her teacher gave her three crucial tips: write key points on note cards, practice before a mirror and visualize speaking before the group. See and hear yourself confidently delivering your talk.
Horowitz, Mitch	Perfect is good. Done is better.
Horowitz, Mitch	Waiting has more power than an ill-timed decision.
Horowitz, Vladimir	I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific color dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare. And never imitate. Play without asking advice.
Horowitz, Vladimir	Perfection itself is imperfection.
Horowitz, Vladimir	When a piece gets difficult, make faces.
Horton, Doug	The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
Hovey, Richard	I said in my heart, “I am sick of four walls and a ceiling. I have a need of the sky. I have business with the grass.”
Howard, Sidney	One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
Howard, Vernon	Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth is a supremely successful day.
Howard, Vernon	You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Howe, E. Graham	If suffering is accepted and lived through, not fought against and refused, then it is completed and becomes transmuted. It is absorbed, and having accomplished its work, it eases to exist as suffering, and becomes part of our growing self.
Howe, E. W.	A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Howe, E. W.	A thief believes everybody steals.
Howe, Edgar W.	A man who will look into his heart and honestly write what he sees there will find plenty of readers.
Howe, Edgar W.	Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.
Howell, James	Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.
Howells, William Dean	Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
Hoyles, Martin	Never have a path for walking on less than three feet wide.
Hsich, Tehy	Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.
Hsieh, Tony	I have heard that you are in the best negotiating position if you don’t care what the outcome is and you are not afraid to walk away.
Hsieh, Tony	They say that novelty is the biggest aphrodisiac.
Hubbard, Elbert	Be pleasant until 10 o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Hubbard, Elbert	Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.
Hubbard, Elbert	He who influences the thought of his time influences the thought of all the times that follow.
Hubbard, Elbert	No matter how long you live, die young.
Hubbard, Elbert	The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter and work.
Hubbard, Kin	Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Hudson, Charles	Don’t open an e-mail unless you’re prepared to deal with it might away. Instead of camping out at your inbox all day, only open it when you have time to respond, archive, delete, or turn e-mails into tasks. E-mails aren’t so overwhelming when they’re handled just once.
Huffington, Arianna	Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
Hugh of St. Victor	Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous.
Hughes, Jeannie	Maybe even bad fences can make good neighbors.
Hugo, Victor	A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
Hugo, Victor	An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Hugo, Victor	Courage, then, and patience! Courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And then when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Hugo, Victor	He who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all his occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, all things lie huddled together in one chaos, which admits of neither distribution nor review.
Hugo, Victor	Maternal love: a miraculous substance which God multiplies as he divides it.
Hugo, Victor	Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
Hugo, Victor	No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Hugo, Victor	There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Hugo, Victor	Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Hugo, Victor	Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies which invite me.
Huie, Jonathan Lockwood	Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life’s only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
Hume, Basil	The moment you begin to delight in beauty, your heart and mind are raised.
Humphrey, Robert	An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
Hunt, Leigh	Colors are the smiles of nature…they are her laughs, as in flowers.
Hunt, Leigh	It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well-nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs are tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone.
Hunt, Leigh	There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hears and imagination.
Hunt, Leigh	Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Hunter, Edith F.	The walks and talks we have with our two-year-olds in red boots have a great deal to do with the values they will cherish as adults.
Hunter, Joseph	My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper.
Hurst, Gerald	One of the mysteries of human conduct is why adult men and women are ready to sign documents they do not read, at the behest of salesmen they do not know, binding them to pay for articles they do not want, with money they do not have.
Hurston, Zora Neale	There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Hurts, Jalen	There is no arrival. Only the journey.
Hutchins, Robert	Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
Huttenlocker, Keith	Not infrequently, we choose our goals to prove our importance.
Huxley, Aldous	After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Huxley, Aldous	Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Huxley, Aldous	That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Huxley, Aldous Leonard	Most of one’s life, is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Huxley, Thomas	I am unaware of anything that has a right to be called an impossibility.
Huxley, Thomas	Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly.
Hwang, Amy	I have unfortunately linked my self-worth to something I‘m not very good at.
Hwang, Victor W.	When you go fishing, the best places to drop your line are at the transition points, where light meets dark, shallow meets deep, fast meets slow. The same is true for human life.
Iacocca, Lee	The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Ibsen, Henrik	A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Ibsen, Henrik	Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
Ibsen, Henrik	There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
Ikemoto, Howard	When my daughter was about 7, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at a college—that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forgot?”
Ilgunas, Ken	It didn’t matter how many years had passed; everyone’s insult to me still stung just as badly. Every embarrassment was just as devastating.
Ilgunas, Ken	To go on a walk is to think. We might as well call it “to go on a think” because there’s nothing to do but think.
Ilgunas, Ken	To travel alone, I’d learned, isn’t to rely on yourself. To travel alone is to force yourself to depend on others. It is to fall in love with mankind.
Indian proverb	Every time you wake up and ask yourself, “What good things am I going to do today?” Remember that, when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.
Ingersoll, Bonnie	I have enough to pay, play and give away.
Inmon, Raymond	If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
Inness, George	The true purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression a scene has made on him.
Innis, W. Joe	In art, as in literature, ugliness rendered with compassion is beauty.
Irish proverb	A man becomes the song he sings.
Irish proverb	Don’t see all you see, and don’t hear all you hear.
Irish proverb	Neither speak well nor ill of yourself.
Irish proverb	No man ever wore a scarf as warm as his children’s arms around his neck.
Irish proverb	You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Irish triad	Three best things to have a surplus of:Money after paying the rent,Seed after spring,And friends at home.
Irving, John	Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
Irving, John	I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.
Irving, John	If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
Irving, Washington	A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Irving, Washington	Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Irving, Washington	There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.
Irving, Washington	There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
Irving, Washington	There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
Irving, Washington	They who drink beer will think beer.
Isaac, Solomon Ben	Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.
It’s A Wonderful Life	Strange, isn’t it George, how each man’s life touches so many others, and when he isn’t around it leaves an awful hole.
Italian proverb	He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
Italian proverb	Love feeds only upon love.
Italian saying	Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
Iyer, Pico	Home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.
Jackson, Bruce	What I failed to recognize was the ease with which a life’s trajectory can be shaped by seemingly unimportant decisions; how hard it is to change direction once you are on a certain path.
Jackson, C. D.	Good ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
Jackson, Gwen	You can work at something for twenty years and come away with twenty years worth of valuable experience, or you can come away with one year’s experience twenty times.
Jackson, Mahalia	God gave me this talent, and the least I can do is give it back to Him.
Jackson, Phil	Your problems never cease. They just change.
Jackson, Samuel	Now that I know who you are, I know who I am.
Jamaican saying	Save money and money will save you.
Jamaican saying	The want of a thing is sometimes more than its worth.
James, Clive	Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
James, Elaine St.	I urge you to make your own list of the things you and your family really love to do. And then arrange your life so that each day you have time to do as many of the things you like to do as possible.
James, Elaine St.	If you’ve never had an opportunity to enjoy that quiet hour before dawn, I urge you to start doing so tomorrow. You’ll be amazed at the richness, peace, and simplicity it can add to your life.
James, Elaine St.	Teaching our kids how to handle their money is one of the most powerful gifts we can give them.
James, Elaine St.	The best hour of the day is the hour just before the time you are currently getting up.
James, Henry	I think I don’t regret a single excess of my responsive youth—I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
James, Henry	Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.
James, Henry	Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.
James, William	Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
James, William	Lives based on having are less free than lives based on doing or on being.
James, William	Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
James, William	We don’t laugh because we’re happy—we’re happy because we laugh.
James, William	Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
Jameson, A. D.	Interview a friend. Try to discover three things you never knew.
Jameson, A. D.	Our everyday routines can be so all-encompassing that we often forget to make room for anything else, including what we set out to do. Often, the important things get overlooked, overshadowed by the complexities of the day. The goal should be to clear some space, to provide a reminder of who you are and what matters to you. Our lives consist of the small things that fill the everyday. Be reminded of the many options you always have.
Jameson, A. D.	Refuse thoughts. Invite thoughts.
Jameson, A. D.	Sit quietly for five minutes listening to the sounds around you.
Jameson, A. D.	Turn a familiar thing upside down…or sideways.
Jameson, A. D.	Turn off your cell phone for an hour, an afternoon, a whole day.
Japanese proverb	At the first cup man drinks wine, at the second wine drinks wine, at the third wine drinks man.
Japanese proverb	Every day is a good day.
Japanese proverb	In love there is no distinction between high and low.
Japanese proverb	Love is beyond reflection.
Japanese proverb	There are two kinds of fools: the man who has never climbed Fuji, and he who climbs a second time.
Japanese proverb	To teach is to learn.
Japanese proverb	When you have completed 95 per cent of your journey, you are only halfway there.
Japanese saying	Let the past drift away with the water.
Jarrett, Keith	If everything is perfect, if the piano is in tune, if everyone is sitting quiet and expectant and all the audience are Keith Jarrett fans, then I don’t feel the need to play. It’s the worst possible situation.
Jarrett, Tanya	Hearts never look both ways first.
Jefferies, Richard	If you wish your children to think deep thoughts, to know the holiest emotions, take them to the woods and hills, and give them the freedom of the meadows; the hills purify those who walk upon them.
Jefferson, Thomas	All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets and is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and bad.
Jefferson, Thomas	I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Jefferson, Thomas	It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
Jefferson, Thomas	It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives, therefore, depends on employing well the short period of youth.
Jefferson, Thomas	Mankind would lose half its wisdom built up over the centuries if it lost its great sayings. They contain the best parts of the best books.
Jefferson, Thomas	Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.
Jefferson, Thomas	No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden…But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.
Jefferson, Thomas	Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Jellinek	The inner history of a people is contained in its songs.
Jenkins, Dan	The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has 14 clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holes to play, and all round him are sand, trees, grass, water, wind.
Jenkins, Florence Foster	People may say I can’t sing, but no one can ever say I didn’t sing.
Jeremiah, David	Being a successful parent requires that you speak two languages—yours and theirs.
Jeremiah, David	Integrity is keeping my commitment even if the circumstances when I made the commitment have changed.
Jerome	A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
Jerrold, Douglas	Humor is the harmony of the heart.
Jewett, Sarah Orne	The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
Jewish proverb	If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
Jewish proverb	In a restaurant, choose a table near a waiter.
Jewish proverb	Love thy neighbor, even when he plays the trombone.
Jewish proverb	What soap is to the body, tears are for the soul.
Jewish proverb	With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.
Jimenez, Juan Ramon	If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Jobs, Steve	It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something…Most people don’t take the time to do that.
Jobs, Steve	It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough. It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing.
Jobs, Steve	It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
Jobs, Steve	It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.
Jobs, Steve	My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Jobs, Steve	Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure— these things just fall away.
Joel, Billy	I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we’re all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
Johnson, Barbara	If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
Johnson, Barbara	Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Johnson, Darnell	Success can be defined in three simple words: And then some. The top people did what was expected of them, and then some. They were considerate and kind, and then some. They were good friends and helpful neighbors, and then some.
Johnson, Samuel	A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
Johnson, Samuel	A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
Johnson, Samuel	Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
Johnson, Samuel	Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.
Johnson, Samuel	Few things are impossible to diligence.
Johnson, Samuel	It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Johnson, Samuel	Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
Johnson, Samuel	Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young
Johnson, Samuel	Recollection and anticipation fill up most of our moments.
Johnson, Samuel	Reflect that life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences.
Johnson, Samuel	Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less.
Johnson, Sonia	How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.
Johnson, Spencer	What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
Johnson, Wendell	There cannot be a precise answer to a vague question.
Jones, Arthur	Success comes from good judgment. Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Jones, Bobby	Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
Jones, Bobby	Golf is most assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
Jones, Bobby	The secret of shooting low scores is the ability to turn three shots into two.
Jones, Bobby	When I think about three things during my swing I’m playing poorly; when I think about two things, I have a chance to shoot par; when I think of only one thing I could win the tournament.
Jones, Bobby	When reading greens, I have never been able to see more rolls and bumps in a minute then I could in five seconds.
Jones, Bobby	You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
Jones, Charles	Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as you are today except for two things: the books you read and the people you get close to.
Jones, E. Stanley	Every time you refuse to face up to life and its problems, you weaken your character.
Jones, E. Stanley	Never retire—change your work. The human personality is made for creation; and when it ceases to create it creaks, and cracks, and crashes. You may not create as strenuously as before, but create. Otherwise you will grow tired resting. Create, create, create!
Jones, Franklin	Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin	Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Jones, Franklin	Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Jo	I can tell you much more about what a man is really thinking by listening to him play than by hearing him talk. You can’t hide anything in that horn.
Jones, Jr., Robert Trent	Every hole should be a difficult par and a comfortable bogey.
Jones, Rickie Lee	You never know when you’re making a memory.
Jones, Roger	I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.
Jong, Erica	Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Jordan, David Starr	Wisdom is knowing what to do next, virtue is doing it.
Jordan, Eric	I was born some assembly required.
Jordan, Michael	I’m always daydreaming. You have to see yourself there first. Then reverse engineer your dream.
Jordan, Michael	I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Joseph, Akiba ben	The paper burns but the words fly free.
Josselyn, Daniel W.	Rest is not a matter of doing absolutely nothing. Rest is repair.
Joubert, Joseph	A small talent, if it keeps within its limits, and rightly fulfills its task, may reach the goal just as well as a greater one.
Joubert, Joseph	Choose in marriage only a woman who you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Joubert, Joseph	Never cut what you can untie.
Joubert, Joseph	The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading old books.
Judd, Wynonna	You deprive yourself of what you love until you crave it so badly that you binge on it.
Jung, Carl	A dream is a theatre in which the dreamer himself is the scene, the player, the prompter, the producer, the author, the public and the critic.
Jung, Carl	Everything that irritates us about others, can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Jung, Carl	I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.
Jung, Carl	It is becoming more and more obvious that it is not starvation, not microbes, not cancer, but man himself who is mankind’s greatest danger.
Jung, Carl	Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Jung, Carl	Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Jung, Carl	The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Jung, Carl	The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any relation both are transformed.
Jung, Carl	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.
Jung, Carl	We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
Jung, Carl	Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Junius	How much easier it is to be generous than just.
Juvenal	Through virtue lies the one and only road to a life of peace.
Kabat-Zinn, John	One thing that you find out when you have been practicing mindfulness for a while is that nothing is quite as simple as it appears. This is as true for walking as it is for anything else. For one thing, we carry our mind around with us when we walk, so we are usually absorbed in our own thoughts to one extent or another. We are hardly ever just walking, even when we are just going out for a walk. Walking meditation involves intentionally attending to the experience of walking itself. This brings your attention to the actual experience of walking as you are doing it, focusing on the sensations in your feet and legs, feeling your whole body moving. You can also integrate awareness of your breathing with the experience.
Kabat-Zinn, Jon	If I can relate to this moment with integrity, and then this moment with integrity, and then this moment with integrity, then the sum of that is going to be great over a lifetime.
Kabat-Zinn, Jon	Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
Kael, Pauline	Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Kafka, Franz	A good book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Kafka, Franz	It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you to be unmasked, it can do no other, it will writhe before you in ecstasy.
Kafka, Franz	There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
Kafka, Franz	Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Kahlo, Frida	They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
Kaine, Jack	It’s easier for people to see it your way if you first see it their way.
Kalwar, Santosh	If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.
Kanfer, Stefan	Sorrows cannot all be explained away…In a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
Kant, Immanuel	Give a man everything he desires and yet at this very moment he will feel that everything is not everything.
Kant, Immanuel	Rules for Happiness:something to do,someone to love,something to hope for.
Kant, Immanuel	Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Kant, Immanuel	We are not rich by what we possess but rather by what we can do without.
Kaplan, David	The material in this book has been complied over a long period of time. Many of the sources are unknown to the compilers. We wish to acknowledge the original authors whoever they may be.
Karr, Mary	Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.
Katie, Byron	When I walk into a room, I know that everyone in it loves me. I just don’t expect them to realize it yet.
Kaufman, Herbert	Spurts don’t count.
Kaufman, Sue	Our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.
Kay, Alan	The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Kaye, Danny	Life is a big canvas, throw all the paint on it you can.
Keane, Bill	Laughter is not all “ho, ho, ho” and “ha, ha, ha.” It’s also a quiet inner warmth that spreads good vibes throughout the mind and body.
Keats, John	A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Keats, John	Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
Keats, John	Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music outdoors, played by someone I don’t know.
Keats, John	Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced. Even a proverb is not a proverb until your life has illustrated it.
Kehler, James	I am happy in having learned to distinguish between ownership and possession. Books, pictures, and all the beauty of the world belong to those who love and understand them—not usually to those who possess them. All of those things that I am entitled to.
Keillor Garrison	Beauty isn’t worth thinking about; what’s important is your mind. You don’t want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
Keillor, Garrison	It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.
Keller, Helen	Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Keller, Helen	Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence.
Keller, Helen	Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.
Keller, Helen	Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Keller, Helen	Look the world straight in the eye.
Keller, Helen	Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.
Keller, Helen	The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Kellogg slogan	Excellence isn’t our goal. It’s where we begin.
Kelty, Mary Ann	Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talent and accomplishments.
Kemp, Bill	The future has driven the present moment from our awareness.
Kempis, Thomas	Habit is overcome by habit.
Kempis, Thomas	Let nothing good or bad upset the balance of your life.
Kempis, Thomas	That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.
Kempis, Thomas	When a man desires anything inordinately, he is at once unquiet in himself.
Kennedy, D. James	More people fail because of flaws in their character than for any other reason.
Kennedy, John F.	Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide. (Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in 1960, referring to allegations that his father was bankrolling his campaign, and reporting his father’s supposed instructions on the use of family funds.)
Kennedy, John F.	I don’t see what’s wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practice law. (President John F. Kennedy, responding to critics who thought Robert Kennedy was a bit young to accept his brother’s appointment of him as attorney general.)
Kennedy, John F.	The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Kennedy, Joseph P.	Only a fool holds out for the top dollar.
Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald	It has been said, “time heals all wounds.” I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
Kent, Corita	A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it. That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Kent, Corita	Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Kent, Corita	Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Keogh, Sean	An old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.
Keogh, Sean	Christmas memories gather and dance like snowflakes.
Keogh, Sean	I bought my kids a set of batteries this Christmas with a note saying, toys not included.
Kepler, Johannes	Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Kerouac, Jack	I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Kerr, Jean	I don’t want to see the uncut version of anything.
Kerr, Richard	The most creative job in the world involves fashion, decorating, recreation, education, transportation, psychology, romance, cuisine, literature, art, economics, government, pediatrics, geriatrics, entertainment, maintenance, purchasing, law, religion, energy, and management. Anyone who can handle all those has to be somebody special. She (or he) is. They’re a homemaker.
Kessler, Crysta	Downward mobility took me by surprise.
Kettering, Charles	A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Kettering, Charles	The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try something, and it works.
Kettering, Charles	The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Keynes, John Maynard	My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne.
Keys, Ken	Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
Kick, Russ	The right quotation can change your life. That compressed idea—expressed in just a few words, a sentence or two—can shift your thinking, trigger an epiphany, alter your way of seeing the world. The wisest, most experienced, and most thoughtful people in history have left us these little thought-bombs.
Kidd, Sue Monk	If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Kierkegaard, Soren	Every day I walk myself into s state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thing so burdensome that one cannot walk easy from it.
Kierkegaard, Soren	His love of walking, and his need for it even—he was in the habit of thinking, composing and holding forth on various subjects while he walked.
Kierkegaard, Soren	To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
Kierkegaard, Soren	To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily.Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Kierkegaard, Soren	What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being, whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music.
Kievit, Jeff	Dedicate one hour each and every day, and you’ll be OK. Two hours a day, and you’ll be pretty good. Three hours a day, and you’ll start to find your voice. Four hours a day, and you’ll be very good. Four plus (and you’ll be) the best of the best.
Killebrew, Harmon	My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply, “We’re raising boys.”
Kindleberger, Charles	The self-perpetuating feeding frenzy that develops when speculators start making money: “There is nothing so disturbing to one’s well-being and judgement as to see a friend get rich.”
King, Doug	Learn to pause…or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
King, Martin Luther	Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
King, Stephen	Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study.
King, Stephen	The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn’t real. I know that, and I also know that if I’m careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.
Kingma, Daphne Rose	Time is the one commodity above all that is our true possession. Time’s most important quality is that it passes, that we have only a finite amount. Therefore, be aware of its value and know that when you give your time, you’re giving of your life.
Kingsolver, Barbara	It’s surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Kingsolver, Barbara	Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Kingsolver, Barbara	Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Kipling, Rudyard	Do not care overly much for wealth or power or fame, or one day you will meet someone who cares for none of these things, and you will realize how poor you have become.
Kipling, Rudyard	Mother love is always the most beautiful of the joys.
Kipling, Rudyard	Teach us delight in simple things.
Kipling, Rudyard	Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Kirkpatrick, Jeane	Look, I don’t even agree with myself at times.
Kissinger, Henry	Accept everything about yourself—I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end—no apologies, no regrets.
Kissinger, Henry	There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you’re anxious to meet people who do.
Klass, Dennis	Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship.
Klee, Paul	A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
Klee, Paul	Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Klein, Stephanie	Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
Kleinknecht Encyclopedia	The junior Murray had become involved in a financial tangle. In a moment of weakness he had loaned a friend in another town a cash loan of $500 without the benefit of a written note, or even a receipt, indicating the amount loaned. In the meantime the young man had found need of his money. In desperation he consulted his father. After a moment of consideration, the father said, “Oh, that’s easy, son. Write him and say you need the $1,000. and he will immediately write back that he owes you only $500. Then you will have it in writing.”
Klemich, Stephen	Try to have good days and bad moments. Life is too short to have a bad day.
Kline, Richard	Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
Klopstoch, Friedrich	The tones of human voices are mightier than strings or brass to move the soul.
Knef, Hildegard	Success and failure are both greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
Knight, Bobby	The most important thing in life is not the will to win—but the will to prepare to win.
Koestler, Arthur	Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Koestler, Arthur	The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
Kohn, Harold E.	Marriage is an enlargement of life.
Koller, Jackie French	There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.
Kondo, Marie	The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don’t.
Konigsburg, E. L	Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
Kooning, Willem de	I have to change to stay the same.
Kossuth, Lajos	A person’s tongue is a tool which is sufficient to transmit the ideas created by the human mined. But in the domain of true and deep feelings, our tongue is weak.
Kotb, Hoda	Aphorism…the finest thoughts in the fewest words.
Kotb, Hoda	Good quotes are like B12 shots for the soul.
Koufax, Sandy	I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
Krishnamurti, Jiddu	If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Krishnamurti, Jiddu	The moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Krishnamurti, Jiddu	When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Krogerus, Mikael	Your desk is a reflection of your mind. Tidy up before you make decisions. Repair things that are broken.
Kron, Joan	Your house is your home only when you feel you have jurisdiction over the space.
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth	We have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
Kuchler, Bonnie Louise	We laugh until we cry, and we cry until we laugh. Either one heals us from the inside out.
Kuhn, Maggie	Speak your mind—even if your voice shakes.
Kushner, Harold	Sometimes I suspect that great art—music, painting, poetry—is only born out of great pain, the sort of pain that shatters your old self, your old world-view, and compels you to give birth to a new one.
Kwan, Michelle	I didn’t lose the gold. I won the silver.
L’Amour, Louis	There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
L’Engle, Madeleine	The work comes to the artist and says, “Here I am, serve me.” The artist must be obedient to the work.
La Fontaine, Jean de	Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois de	Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
Lachs, Mark	The bad news: Time flies. The good news: You’re the pilot.
Lactantius, Lucius C.	Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lady Astor	The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
Laing, R. D.	Where can you scream? It’s a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?
Lake, Lazarus	Most people think fair is what’s best for them. The purpose of a challenge is to find differences. If you don’t fail, how will you know how far you can go?
Lakein, Alan	Planning is bring the future into the present so you can do something about it now.
Lama, Dalai	If you want others to be happy,practice compassion.If you want to be happy,practice compassion.
Lama, Dalai	The purpose of life is to increase the warm heart.
Lama, Dalai	We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
Lamb, Charles	Borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Lamb, Charles	Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
Lamb, Karen	A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Lamott, Anne	Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life—it has given me me. I have the life I longed for. I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I would be.
Lamott, Anne	As I’ve said before, I have a PhD in morbid reflection, and in a strange way it centers me.
Lamott, Anne	Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.
Lamott, Anne	Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
Lamott, Anne	Even if only the people in your writing group read your memoirs or stories or novel, even if you only wrote your story so that one day your children will know what life was like when you were a child and you knew the name of every dog in town—still, to have written your version is an honorable thing to have done.
Lamott, Anne	How did they get old enough to die?
Lamott, Anne	How I hate to leave my house at all, and that I actively dread small talk with strangers, which normal people seem not to mind.
Lamott, Anne	I’d always loved being alone and still do.
Lamott, Anne	If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you’ll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you’ve already been in.
Lamott, Anne	In a dream a friend told me that I was needy, ridiculous, and unlovable, and that everyone thought this. She repeated: everyone. I told Neal my dream and he said that everyone worth their salt shares this fear.
Lamott, Anne	Isolation is different from solitude.
Lamott, Anne	My husband said something a few years ago that I often quote: Eighty percent of everything that is true and beautiful can be experienced on any ten-minute walk.
Lamott, Anne	No is a complete sentence.
Lamott, Anne	Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.
Lamott, Anne	Secret of life! Read a lot of books and don’t keep bad secrets.
Lamott, Anne	That we found each other in the swirl and chaos can still make me shake my head with gratitude and relief. He bought the showroom car of me and loves it even more for all its dents and worrisome sounds. What were the odds of the two of us finding each other so late in life, still young enough to do it all? Maybe it has worked in the long term because we stayed in the soda shop stage for so long early on, talking away in coffee-houses, hiking, watching TV.
Lamott, Anne	Think about it, about whether you might leave behind your critical voice, your greed and people-pleasing patterns. Or at least let them be weakened.
Lamott, Anne	To be great, art has to point somewhere.
Lamott, Anne	You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.
Lampedusa, Giuseppe di	If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
Land, Edwin	A mistake is an event that has not yet been fully turned to your advantage.
Land, Edwin	An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
Landers, Ann	Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
Landers, Ann	Maturity: Be able to stick with a job unit it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
Landers, Ann	One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends—if they seem okay, then you’re the one.
Landowska, Wanda	I never practice, I always play.
Lane, Rose Wilder	Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.
Langer, Susan	Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
Lao-Tse	He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise.
Lao-Tse	Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-tsze	All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao-Tzu	The greatest carver does the least cutting.
Lao-Tzu	To know that you do not know is the best.
Lao-Tzu	To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao-Tzu	When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lappe, Frances Moore	I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.
Lardner, Ring	A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-address envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Larsen, Stephen	Say yes to life, even though you know it may devour you.
Larson, Bruce	Quite often the absence of immediate success is the mark of a genuine call.
Larson, Doug	A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
Lasker, Emanuel	When you see a good move, look for a better one.
Lasorda, Tommy	About the only problem with success is that it doesn’t teach you how to deal with failure.
Latet, Carrie	Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.
Latet, Carrie	Walking—the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.
Latin proverb	Beware of the man of one book.
Latin proverb	He conquers who overcomes himself.
Latin proverb	It is natural for a wise man to change his opinion.
Latin proverb	Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Latin proverb	No gain is certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
Latin proverb	Self-praise is no recommendation.
Latin saying	Life is long if it is full.
Latin saying	Nature is the art of God.
Laurance, Peter	Originality is the fine art to remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Lavater, Johann Kasper	Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.
Lawrence, D. H.	I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade.
Lawrence, D. H.	There is no point in work unless it absorbs you like an absorbing game. If it doesn’t absorb you, if it’s never any fun, don’t do it.
Lawrenz, Mel	We need to take any small part of the world where we can make a difference, set aside any hesitation, and act.
Le Guin, Ursula K.	Words are events, they do things, change things.
Leach, Penelope	The baby is practicing loving for life. The more he can love, now, and feel himself loved back, the more generous with, and accepting of, all kinds of love he will be, right through his life.
Leach, Reggie	Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Leacock, Stephen	Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of each day and hour.
Leary, Timothy	If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
Leary, Timothy	You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Leavitt, Robert	People don’t ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
Lebowitz, Fran	My favorite animal is steak.
Lebowitz, Fran	Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy	He who limps is still walking.
Lederer, William	To understand the realities of the martial relationship it is essential first to recognize the unrealities.
Lee, Becca	If you seek peace, be still. If you seek wisdom, be silent. If you seek love, be yourself.
Lee, Bruce	A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim for.
Lee, Bruce	I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Lee, Bruce	It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
Lee, Bruce	The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Leestma, Harold F.	Joy is a necessity, not a luxury.
Lefevre, Edwin	Prices, like everything else, move along the line of least resistance. They will do whatever comes easiest.
Leff, Bruce	Everything in moderation, including moderation.
Legouve, Jean Baptiste	A brother is a friend given by nature.
LeGuin, Ursula K.	Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
Leifer, Carol	I’m not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
Lema, Tony	Practice does not make perfect—if it’s mistakes you’re practicing.
Lennon, John	I get by with a little help from my friends.
Lennon, John	I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.
Lennon, John	Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
Lennon, John	Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.
Lennon, John	When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
Leno, Jay	You can’t stay mad at someone that makes you laugh.
Lenus, Nikolaus	Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.
Leonard, Elmore	Leave out the parts of a book that people tend to skip.
Leslie, H. T.	The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as in playing a poor hand well.
Lessing, Gotthold	For me the greatest beauty always lay in the greatest clarity.
Lessing, Gotthold	The merit of a man is not in the knowledge he possess, but in the effort he made to achieve it.
LeTourneau, R. G.	Joe gave me some advice. “Pushin’ is a rest from shovelin’. Shovelin’ is a rest from pushin’. Then there’s the trip back with an empty barrow where you don’t do nothin’ at all. Kid, you got yourself a job that’s just one long rest.”
Letterman, David	Just make sure if you fail, you did what you wanted to do.
Leunig, Michael	Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.
Levin, Janna	All kids are scientists, and all kids are artists. They all read. How is it that we give up such big things?
Levine, Gail	It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.
Levine, Michael	To ensure time to think, reflect, and ponder, schedule meetings with yourself and honor them as you would an appointment with another.
Levine, Stephen	If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
Levitt, Theodore	People don’t want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter inch holes.
Levy, Sarah	A few months into sobriety, it hit me: the insanity of my drinking was my inability to accept that it wasn’t serving me. Once I fully accepted that I simply couldn’t drink safely, I felt an incredible amount of relief, I didn’t have to work harder to be “better” at drinking. I could just not drink.
Levy, Sarah	But as new bonds formed and old ones matured, it mattered less and less what was in my glass. Once day, I looked around and realized it had never mattered at all.
Levy, Sarah	People pleasing can actually be manipulative because it’s us trying to avoid conflict for ourselves.
Levy, Sarah	You’re entitled to your feelings. But sometimes, just because we feel something, doesn’t mean we need to share it with that person.
Lewis, C. S.	I’m a product of endless books.
Lewis, C. S.	My own eyes are not enough for me. I will see through those of others. Reality even seen through the eyes of many is not enough. I will see what others have invented. Literary experience heals the world, without undermining the privilege of individuality. In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Without this exposure to other views of the world through literature, one may be full of goodness and good sense but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should be suffocated. The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison.
Lewis, C. S.	The great thing is to be always reading but not to get bored—treat it not like work, more as a vice! Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.
Lewis, C. S.	Walking and talking are two great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them.
Lewis, C. S.	We read to know we’re not alone.
Lewis, C. S.	Writing is like a “lust,” or like “scratching when you itch.”
Lewis, C. S.	You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Lewis, Joe	Everything costs a lot of money when you haven’t any.
Lewis, Joe E.	You only live once—but if you work it right, once is enough.
Lewis, Ray	You have to be honest about who you are.
Lewis, Richard	I have problems flown in fresh daily wherever I am.
Liberty, Randall	All the stuff I’d tried to escape…was part of me…I began to understand how one experience affects another.
Lichtenberg, G. C.	The mark of a really great writer is that he gives expression to what the masses of mankind think or feel without knowing it. The mediocre writer simply writes what everyone would have said.
Lichtenberg, Georg	Human beings love company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Lichtenberg, Georg	I have clearly noticed that often I have one opinion when I lie down and another one when I stand up, especially when I have eaten little and when I am tired.
Lichtenberg, Georg	The worst thing you can possibly do is worry about what you could have done.
Lichtenberg, Georg	To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
Liebman, Wendy	My brother was adopted. Somebody left him on the back doorstep when he was a baby. We found him when he was 16. We didn’t use that door.
Lilly, Evangeline	Money is the longest route to happiness.
Lilo and Stitch	Family means no one gets left behind, or forgotten.
Lim, Angelita	I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.
Lincoln, Abraham	Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
Lincoln, Abraham	God is the silent partner in all great enterprises.
Lincoln, Abraham	I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Lincoln, Abraham	I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.
Lincoln, Abraham	I will get ready and then perhaps my chance will come.
Lincoln, Abraham	If I had eight hours to cut down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Lincoln, Abraham	In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
Lincoln, Abraham	Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
Lincoln, Abraham	Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Lincoln, Abraham	The problem with the Internet is that it can be difficult to confirm authenticity.
Lincoln, Abraham	You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Lindaman, Edward B.	One of life’s most fulfilling moments occurs in that split-second when the familiar is suddenly transformed into the dazzling aura of the profoundly new.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow	I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow	If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow	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.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow	One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy!
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow	One comes in the end to realize that there is no permanent pure relationship and there should not be.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow	Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow	The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There is even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow	The most exhausting thing in my life is being insincere.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow	We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place.
Lippmann, Walter	Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.
Lisieux, Therese de	Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
Lithgow, John	Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
Littauer, Florence	The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.
Littler, Gene	Golf is not a game of great shots. It’s a game of the most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.
Lloyd, Marie	A little of what you fancy does you good.
Locke, Bobby	You can tell a good putt by the sound it makes.
Loeb, Evelyn	If you take risks, your children will learn courage.
Loeb, Evelyn	If you’re bored, you’re boring.
Loeb, Evelyn	The world is more beautiful when you hold hands and walk together.
Loeb, Evelyn	Think before you speak; it is easier to forget what was never said.
Loewy, Raymond	Never leave well enough alone.
Logan, Bob	I hope to outlive my regrets.
Lombardi, Vince	If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win.
Lombardi, Vince	Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Lombardi, Vince	The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
Longfellow, Henry	Still achieving, still pursuing,Learn to labor and to wait.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	Do not delay; the golden moments fly!
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	For after all, the best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	I hear the trumpets of the morning blowing.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	Learn to labor and wait.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	Music is the universal language of mankind.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done.
Loos, Anita	Memory is more indelible than ink.
Lopez, Jennifer	Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that’s often the most important time to tell it.
Lopez, Tai	The tough truth about life is that some things just take time. Most people aren’t strong enough to deal with that.
Lorca, Federico	The poet is the professor of the five bodily senses.
Lord Grey of Fallondon	The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect.
Lord Nelson	I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour beforehand.
Loren, Sophia	When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Los Angeles Times Syndicate	People who wrestle with their consciences usually go for two falls out of three.
Loven, Samuel	Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Lowell, James Russell	Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed…if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
Lowell, James Russell	Mishaps are like knives that either serve or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Lowell, James Russell	Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Lowitz, Marilyn	One of New York’s leading cultural institutions was about to undertake a costly study to find out which of its many exhibits was the most popular with visitors. Just before the consulting contract was signed, a committee member suddenly suggested asking the janitor where he had to mop the most.
Lowney, Paul	Laughter has no foreign accent.
Lubbock, John	Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
Lubbock, John	Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
Lucado, Max	There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes, seize it, don’t miss it.
Lucas, Edward Verrall	Holidays are often overrated disturbances of routine, costly and uncomfortable; and they usually need another holiday to correct their ravages.
Luenza, Saint	Along with any broadening positive growth comes a broadening realization that we all stand on cracking ice.
Lunden, Joan	It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
Luner, Jamie	Hiking is the best workout! You can hike for three hours and not even realize you’re working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.
Luther, John	Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece—by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
Luther, Martin	Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Luther, Martin	The Devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.
Lynam, Doug	A fiduciary is legally required to act in your best interests.
Lynam, Doug	Capitalists buy investments, consumers buy stuff.
Lynam, Doug	Do you ever have “bookmark” moments in your life? Events so profound there will always be a before and an after for that event?
Lynam, Doug	Don’t try to “keep up with the Joneses.” The Joneses are broke and in debt.
Lynam, Doug	If you spend all your money on stuff, you’ll always be broke. Simple as that.
Lynam, Doug	Many create the image of wealth through the accumulation of stuff. Then you are never truly wealthy, just rich. To become a little bit wealthy, you’ll need to save and invest money wisely, not spend it trying to impress others. Remember the virtue of humility? It can help you spiritually and financially. Rich people can become poor people overnight. Wealthy people stay wealthy.
Lynam, Doug	The desperate don’t always look like they are struggling. In fact, some of the desperate people I know look fine from the outside. They work good jobs, drive respectable cars, and dress well, but they are underwater or are struggling in every financial area of their life. The desperate are just one mistake—one random and unforeseeable even—away from disaster.
Lynam, Doug	The only way people give you their money is if they trust you.
Lynam, Doug	We have only so much energy and mental fortitude for one day.
Lynam, Doug	We need to be a little bit wealthy—meaning, fiscally wise and financially strong—so we can help others and make the world a better place.
Lynd, Robert	If you look up a dictionary of quotations, you will find few reasons for a sensible man to desire to become wealthy.
Lynd, Robert	It is extraordinary to what an expense of time and money people will go in order to get something for nothing.
Lynd, Robert	The shy man usually finds that he has been shy without cause, and that, in practice, no one takes the slightest notice of him.
Lyons, Ernest	The fisherman loves to row out in the stillness of the mists of the morning when the lake is like polished black glass.
Lythcott-Haims, Julie	Our job as parents is to put ourselves out of a job.
MacArthur, Douglas	A man doesn’t grow old because he has lived a certain number of years; he grows old when he deserts his ideals.
MacArthur, Douglas	Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
MacArthur, Douglas	We are not retreating—we are advancing in another direction.
Macaulay, Rose	Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.
Macdonald, George	To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
Macdonald, George	To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power.
Machado, Antonio	There is no way of seeing things without first taking leave of them.
Machiavelli, Niccolo	It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.
MacInnes, Helen	Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.
Mackay, Harvey	A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Mackesy, Charlie	Asking for help isn’t giving up. It’s refusing to give up.
Mackintosh, James	It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.
MacLachlan, Patricia	You must have a garden. Wherever you are.
MacNaughton, John	Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
Macy, Joanna	The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.
Mad Magazine	Even the man who has everything is envious of the man who has two of everything.
Mad Magazine	It’s what you learn after you know it all that really counts.
Mad Magazine	Modesty is the art of drawing attention to whatever it is you’re being humble about.
Mad Magazine	Vision is what some people claim they have when they find that they’ve guessed correctly.
Madden, Joel	Music is supposed to be an escape. It’s supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
Maeda, John	Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
Maeser, Karl G.	The truly educated man will speak to the understanding of the most unlearned man of his audience.
Mahfouz, Naguib	You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Maisel, Jay	Quotes are just a way of saving time by stealing from other people.
Malchik, Antonia	Even when we are solitary, we do not walk alone.
Malchik, Antonia	He set out to rediscover that human tempo, the motion at three miles an hour that has defined the way we narrate and interpret landscapes for tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of years.
Malleson, Miles	Bertrand Russell was an astonishingly active walker. Every morning he would go for an hour’s walk by himself, composing and thinking out his work for that day. He would then come back and write for the rest of the morning, smoothly, easily and without a single correction.
Maloof, Joan	The forest is not only something to be understood, it is also something to be felt.
Malory, Lucy	False science and false religion express their dogmas in highly elevated language to make simple people think that they are mysterious, important, and attractive. But this mysterious language is not a sign of wisdom. The wiser a person is, the simpler the language he uses to express his thoughts.
Malraux, Andre	Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Maltz, Maxwell	Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Mamatas, Nick	A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Mamatas, Nick	It is the empty space which makes the room useful.
Man, Yip	We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph.
Mancroft, Lord	Cricket is a game that the British, not being a spiritual people, had to invent in order to have some concept of eternity.
Mandel, Evelyn	There are as many ways to love and grow as there are people.
Mandel, Morris	Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn’t do at all.
Mandino, Og	Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
Manet, Edouard	The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
Mankoff, Bob	Being funny is being awake to the absurdity of normalcy.
Mann, Horace	A house without books is like a room without windows.
Mann, Horace	Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
Mann, Horace	Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Mann, Thomas	A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth.
Mann, Thomas	A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
Mann, Thomas	A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Mann, Thomas	Beauty can pierce one like a pain.
Mann, Thomas	Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject—the actual enemy is the unknown.
Mann, Thomas	Silence isolates.
Mann, Thomas	Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
Mann, Thomas	Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Mansfield, Katherine	How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you—you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences—little rags and shreds of your very life.
Mansfield, Katherine	I want to so live that I work with my hands and my feelings and my brain. I want a garden, a small house, grass, animals, books, pictures, music. And out of this, the expression of this, I want to be writing.
Mansfield, Katherine	If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
Manti, Jose	Strength comes from waiting.
Mantle, Mickey	He who has the fastest cart never has a bad lie.
Manton, Thomas	Excess in meat and drink clouds the mind, chokes good affections, and provokes lust. Many a man digs his own grave with his teeth.
Mantzaris, Anna	The average ear of corn has 800 kernels.
Maraboli, Steve	I love that this morning’s sunrise does not define itself by last night’s sunset.
Marbury, Elisabeth	The richer your friends, the more they will cost you.
Marcus, Gary	There may be no better way to achieve lasting happiness—as opposed to mere fleeting pleasure—than pursuing a goal that helps us broaden our horizons.
Marcus, Stanley	The dollar bills the customer gets from the teller in four banks are the same. What is different are the tellers.
Marden, Orison Swett	The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment. It is not in luck, or chance, or the help of others. It is in yourself alone.
Mariano, Connie	Sometimes the best option is no option at all.
Marivaux, Pierre	In this world, you must be a bit too kind in order to be kind enough.
Markham, Beryl	You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Markoe, Merrill	One great thing I noticed about living by myself: All of my annoying habits seemed to have disappeared.
Marley, Bob	The truth is everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
Marley, Bob	You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia	Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
Marquis, Donald Robert	There is nothing we like so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person’s eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends.
Marriott, Michel	Life’s journey is circular, it appears. The years don’t carry us away from our fathers—they return us to them.
Marsalis, Wynton	Music comes to you at strange times but you have to be ready to catch it, because if you don’t she may be gone for good.
Marshall, Helen Lowell	You never know when someone may catch a dream from you.
Marshall, Peter	Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Marsolini, Maxine	Revisiting the past, even unpleasant memories and discoveries, is a privilege. When we look at it as a healthy thing we are able to appreciate what it has to offer. It brings defining insight to the present.
Marston, Ralph	Often, the best way to truly observe something is by temporarily forgetting what you already know about it. That helps you to see what is really there.
Martin, Demetri	I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?
Martin, Franny	If this were my last day on earth, is this what I would want to be doing?
Martin, Judith	If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.
Martin, June	When you grow old or ill, the most important things to you will be who and what you’ve loved.
Martin, Steve	As you age, you either become your worst self or your best self. I feel like I’ve become my better self.
Martin, Steve	Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.
Martinez, Antonio Garcia	Get the best legal guns you can pay for, and if you can’t pay for it, convince them to accept something other than money in exchange. Lawyers didn’t get into law because they’re good at business; bamboozle them however so long as they get cracking.
Martinez, Antonio Garcia	How did we finally get on the right track? The way Facebook sussed out anything: it mooched information from potential acquirees and business partners via meetings of dubious good faith, and then figured out how to hack the outside world to its advantage. It’s what every large company with incumbent leverage does, incidentally.
Martinez, Antonio Garcia	How you sell yourself is how you’ll be bought.
Martinez, Antonio Garcia	The fastest way you can indicate your level of startup naivety to a VC (or to anybody in tech), is either by claiming you’re in “stealth”—that is, with an idea so secretly valuable you can’t disclose it—or by forcing someone to sign a nondisclosure agreement before you even discuss it. You may as well tattoo LOSER on your forehead instead, to save everyone the trouble. To quote one Valley sage, if your idea is any good, it won’t get stolen, you’ll have to jam it down people’s throats instead.
Martinez, Antonio Garcia	To me, only the man who needed nothing was truly free.
Masai, J.	Feelings are everywhere—be gentle.
Masefield, John	The days that make us happy make us wise.
Maslow, Abraham	A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Mason, Jason	The best way to go on after a failure is to learn the lesson and forget the details.
Massie, Suzanne	When one’s own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people’s problems.
Matisse, Henri	Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.
Matisse, Henri	I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Matisse, Henri	It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everyone else.
Matisse, Henri	Precision is not reality.
Matisse, Henri	There are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them.
Matisse, Henri	There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Maugham, W. Somerset	Imagination grows by exercise and, contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Maugham, W. Somerset	It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Maugham, W. Somerset	Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
Maughm, W. Somerset	Excess on occasion is exhilarating; it keeps moderation from becoming a habit.
Mauriac, Francois	To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Maurois, Andre	A happy marriage is a long conversation that seems all too short.
Maurois, Andre	If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Maurois, Andre	In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Maurois, Andre	We are always glad when a great man reassures us of his humanity by possessing a few peculiarities.
Max-Tixier, Jean	Years of patience, discipline and effort are the price of access to a strict and personal vision. An artist is not born but made.
Maxwell, Florida Scott	No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Maxwell, John	Did you know than entrepreneurs almost never get their first business off the ground? Or their second? Or their third? According to Tulane University business professor Lisa Amos, the average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.
Maxwell, John	Discrepancies between values and practices create chaos in a person’s life.
Maxwell, John	If you want to reach your potential, you need to add a strong work ethic to your talent.
Maxwell, John	People who do not develop and practice good thinking often find themselves at the mercy of their circumstances.
Maxwell, John	We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to a process.
Maxwell, John	We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best, and express the best in others. Your affirmation will not only make you more attractive to them, but you will help play an important part in their personal development.
Maxwell, John	You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
May, Rollo	It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
May, Rollo	We receive love—from our children as well as others—not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.
Mayer, John	If you’re pretty, you’re pretty, but the only way to be beautiful is to be loving. Otherwise, it’s just “Congratulations about your face.”
Mayer, Joseph	You are genuinely happy if you don’t know why.
Mc Caffrey, Anne	Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
McCarthy, Andrew	All that thinking about what’s next is a trick to keep us from the present.
McCarthy, Andrew	All we’re doing is walking, mate.
McCarthy, Andrew	Camino de Santiago, five weeks and five hundred miles…average of 13 miles a day. Most days quite a bit more as one day of 12 miles was considered short.
McCarthy, Andrew	How much trouble comes from transferring our own crap onto our partner.
McCarthy, Andrew	I did the math and showed that I often spent less money while on the road than staying home.
McCarthy, Andrew	I sit with his remark.
McCarthy, Andrew	I’m glad he sees what I see. Or is he seeing things that way because we were feeling close and, in an act of unconscious generosity, has allowed it to take on meaning for him simply because it has meaning for me. I suppose that’s as good a definition of love as any.
McCarthy, Andrew	In the company of others, it’s sometimes easier to see those we love more clearly—as if through their eyes.
McCarthy, Andrew	In the life of a walker, pertinent information on any given locale becomes instantly obsolete the moment we pass.
McCarthy, Andrew	It’s age that brings an awareness of the luck of life, how the tiniest membrane can be the difference between a calamity causing ensuing hardship and the near miss that allows us to press on, clinging to delusions of invincibility, with the potentially catastrophic incident soon forgotten.
McCarthy, Andrew	Such pauses as this one, trivial and inconsequential in isolation, gain meaning in the aggregate and fill the journey with significance not always obvious in the moment.
McCarthy, Andrew	That I owe so much to someone I’ve never met is a testament to the power of books.
McCarthy, Andrew	The air is cool and moist. The sun will have its way with the day, but not yet.
McCarthy, Andrew	The dramas of the day are behind; tomorrow is not a worry yet.
McCarthy, Andrew	The path, continuing to fall and rise and fall, grows soft underfoot. The air is mild, an almost imperceptible breeze blows. Expansive views present themselves in the gaps of dense foliage. Cows lumber in fields, their bells clanging. It’s a fine day for walking.
McCarthy, Andrew	The unconscious mind is a funny thing—we are often not the one to decide what is meaningful to us.
McCarthy, Andrew	Walk your own Camino, dude.
McCarthy, Andrew	We all justify what we need to justify.
McCarthy, Andrew	We have been walking for several weeks now, and the routine of road life has become ingrained. Repetition has become a friend, something to be relied upon; it supports our efforts and pacifies thought. Anxiety has abated. The need to constantly press on has transformed into simple awareness of what needs to be done each day. There is more internal space.
McCarthy, Andrew	We pass a cemetery. Above the entrance is posted a sign—You are what I once was and will be what I am now.
McCarthy, Andrew	Your ability to let things go will serve you well.
McCarthy, Cormac	You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
McCarthy, Sam	People always say they left a relationship long after they should have.
McCarthy, Sam	You must be young and stupid before you can be old and wise.
McCartney, Paul	Somebody said to me, “But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.” That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, “Now, let’s write a swimming pool.”
McCarver, Tim	Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn’t score any runs.
McClure, Michael	We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.
McCord, David	A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.
McCullers, Carson	The hearts of small children are delicate organs.
McCullough, David	Insight comes, more often than not, from looking at what’s been on the table all along.
McDiarmid, Alisdair	Found great happiness in insignificant details.
McEnroe, John	Is golf really a sport, in all honesty? I thought in a sport you had to run at some point.
McEnroe, John	My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses.
McFee, William	The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
McGee, Carmen	Master of none; okay with that.
McGinnis, Mack	He who is impatient waits twice.
McGrath, Alister	The qualities we associate with good poetry—such as an appreciation of the sound of words, rich and suggestive analogies and images, vivid description, and lyrical sense—are found in Lewis’s prose.
McIntyre, Peter	Confidence comes from not always being right, but from not fearing being wrong.
McKay, David O.	Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
McKinney, Frank	The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son.
McKuen, Rod	Impatience can be a virtue, if you practice it on yourself.
McKuen, Rod	Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
McLaughlin, Mignon	Don’t be yourself—be someone a little nicer.
McLaughlin, Mignon	Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those changes that would make all the difference.
McLaughlin, Mignon	If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a lot of overlapping.
McLuhan, Marshall	Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
McLuhan, Marshall	There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
McMahon, Jim	Leaving.[Bears quarterback, on his best memory of Brigham Young University]
McMartin, Connie	The being together is more important that what you do, if you are with a friend.
McNamee, Gregory	Solvitur ambulando, St. Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around.
McNeil, James	An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
McNeil, Joanne	Tow truck drivers are my psychiatrists.
Mead, Margaret	Always remember, you are absolutely unique—just like everyone else.
Mead, Margaret	Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
Meberg, Marilyn	There is nothing more liberating than being fully known and still loved.
Meghann, Age 13	When your mother is mad and asks you, “Do I look stupid?” it’s best not to answer her.
Megiddo Message	A man’s real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do.
Meir, Golda	Our secret weapon is no alternative.
Mellencamp, John	They started laughing again. I said, “OK, now laugh at this.” I played them “Small Town,” and they went dead quiet. When you play what you’ve done for a family member and you get that kind of reaction, you know you have something.
Meltzer, Brad	We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
Melville, Herman	A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Melville, Herman	He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
Melville, Herman	Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Melville, Herman	When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
Mencius	The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
Mencken, H. L.	For every complex problem, there is a simple solution that is elegant, easy to understand, and wrong.
Mencken, H. L.	Men always hate most what they envy most.
Mencken, H. L.	Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Menninger, Karl	Attitudes are more important than facts.
Menninger, Karl	Love is the basic need of human nature, for without it life is disrupted emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically.
Menninger, Karl	The “lonely personality” suffers from a sense of inferiority, self-preoccupation, self-criticism, a feeling of being unappreciated, perfectionist tendencies, and an unwillingness to put himself to the test in overt situations.
Menuhim, Yehudi	Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of our very soul.
Menuhim, Yehudi	Music is given us with our existence. Above other arts it can be possessed without knowledge.
Mercier, Alfred	What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Meredith, George	There is nothing the body suffered that the soul may not profit by.
Merkel, Angela	The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.
Merrell, Susan Scarf	Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
Merton, Thomas	Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Merton, Thomas	Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.
Merton, Thomas	The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.
Merton, Thomas	We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
Metcalf, Shelby	Son, looks to me like you’re spending too much time on one subject. [Basketball coach at Texas A & M, recounting what he told a player who received four F’s and one D.]
Meyer, Bud	The moment may be temporary but the memory is forever.
Meyer, Paul	Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
Meyers, Kayla	Millions of gallons of ink have been spilt since humans started writing, and it is likely that you will at some point write something identical to what someone has written or said before without even realizing it.
Michaels, Jillian	When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the “I still have more to go” crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment!
Michelangelo	I live and love in God’s peculiar light.
Michelet, Jules	He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
Michener, James A.	Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Michener, James A.	If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
Michener, James A.	The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both.
Mill, John Stuart	I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Mill, John Stuart	One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who only have interest.
Millar, Margaret	Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent	I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent	It is not true that life is one damn thing after another…it’s the same damn thing over and over again.
Mille, Agnes de	Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Mille, Agnes de	No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Miller, Arthur	Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Miller, Dan	A recent Harvard Business School study asked, “What are the top characteristics of high achievers?” Of course, the list of answers included intelligence, education, and attitude. But at the very top of the list, one characteristic stood out: speed of implementation—having the ability to act quickly. Eighty percent of decisions should be made immediately.
Miller, Donald	A writer learns more from what he writes than the reader, and often applies the perspective after the book is written.
Miller, Donald	The latest statistic is that the average American watches 1,456 hours of television a year but only reads three books. So if it’s true that readers are leaders, and the more you read the further you advance, then there isn’t a lot of competition.
Miller, Donald	The only leaders I trust are the ones willing to admit they might be wrong. They’re always checking their blind spots.
Miller, Donald A.	Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.
Miller, Henry	Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Miller, Henry	Confusion is a word invented for an order not yet understood.
Miller, Henry	Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music—the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Miller, Henry	One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Miller, Henry	The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Miller, Henry	The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can’t separate them. They’re wedded.
Miller, J. Irwin	In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man’s position as much as you want—after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.
Miller, James E.	Whatever method you choose, find a way to allow your feelings to move from within yourself to outside yourself.
Miller, Johnny	Everyone has his own choking level, a level at which he fails to play his normal golf. As you get more experienced, your choking level rises.
Miller, Johnny	One of the common traits of great players is that everything has to be perfectly organized. I cannot stand looking at anything that isn’t orderly.
Miller, Johnny	Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
Miller, Johnny	Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still going to be pretty good.
Miller, Keith	Joy seems to be distilled from a strange mixture of challenge, risk and hope.
Miller, Ted	Entrepreneur’s credo: A dollar borrowed is a dollar earned, a dollar refinanced is a dollar saved, and a dollar paid back is gone forever!
Million Dollar Baby	The magic of risking everything for the dream that nobody sees but you.
Milne, A. A.	Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
Milner, Greg	Fishing isn’t always about fishing.
Milton, John	He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a king.
Milton, John	The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day.
Milton, John	Wisdom’s best nurse is contemplation.
Mingus, Charles	Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Minnesota governor	I asked him the most important question that I think you could ask—if he had ever seen “Caddyshack.” (on his meeting with the Dalai Lama)
Minsky, Marvin	If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
Miro, Joan	I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
Mistral, Gabriela	Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.
Mistral, Gabriela	Many things can wait—the child cannot. Right now his hip bones are being formed, his blood is being made, his senses are being developed. To him or her we cannot say tomorrow. His or her name is today.
Mitchell, Maria	Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned—not to see what is not.
Mitchell, Ollie	Music is the Universal Language, as well as an art, a craft, and, if you will, a science with math, pitch, and emotion involved. It has the effect of changing moods quicker than liquor or drugs.
Mitchell, Ollie	You should buy between two places that are growing.
Miyazawa, Kenji	We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Mizner, Wilson	If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Mizner, Wilson	The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Mizrahi, Isaac	I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.
Moliere	It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.
Moliere, Jean	All you have to do is pause to rest. Nature herself, when we let her, will take care of everything else. It’s our impatience that spoils things.
Mondrian, Piet	The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
Monet, Claude	And then, all of a sudden I had the revelation of the enchantments of my pond!
Monet, Claude	I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Monet, Claude	Nobody can count themselves an artist unless they can carry a picture in their head before they paint it.
Monod, Adolph	Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
Monroe, Anna	Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself.
Montage, Ashley	The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Montaigne, Michel de	Let us permit nature to have her way: she understands her business better than we do.
Montaigne, Michel de	Proverbs give us quality, not quantity. An hour of reading proverbs is usually worth weeks, even months or years, of ordinary reading. Here is wisdom, not knowledge.
Montaigne, Michel de	He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
Montaigne, Michel de	The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.
Montaigne, Michel de	The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.
Montaigne, Michel de	There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Montaigne, Michel de	We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Montapert, Alfred	We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.
Montapert, Alfred Armand	What is maturity? It is being able to carry money without spending it; being able to bear an injustice without retaliation; being able to do one’s duty even when one is not watched; being able to keep on the job until it’s finished; being able to accept criticism without letting it whip you.
Montaport, Alfred	Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Montesquieu	If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud	I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud	Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.
Moor, Robert	I begrudgingly learned to embrace the monastic silence of the eastern forests. Some days, after many miles, I would slip into a state of near-perfect mental clarity—serene, crystalline, thought-free. I was, as the Zen sages say, just walking.
Moor, Robert	Impromptu trails, which are surprisingly common, are called “desire lines.” They can be found in the parks of every major city on earth, slicing off the right angles that efficiency deplores.
Moor, Robert	My spiritual path, to the extent that I had one, was the trail itself. I regarded long-distance hiking as an earthy, stripped down, American form of walking mediation. The chief virtue of the trail’s confining structure is that it frees the mind up for more contemplative pursuits.
Moor, Robert	On a trail, to walk is to follow.
Moor, Robert	Over the course of my first couple of months, my pace gradually increased, from ten miles per day up to fifteen and then twenty. I continued to accelerate as I reached the relatively low-lying ridges of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. By the time I crossed over into Vermont, I was covering as many as thirty miles a day. In the process, my body was being re-tooled for the task of walking. My stride lengthened. Blisters hardened to calluses. All spare fat, and a fair bit of muscle, was converted into fuel. At any given moment, one or two components of the machine were usually begging for maintenance—a sore ankle, a chafed hip. But on the rare days when everything was running in harmony, hiking a good stretch of trail felt like gunning a supercar down an empty interstate: a perfect marriage of instrument and task.
Moor, Robert	Walking has always symbolized and enacted this untethered state. Thoreau memorably wrote that only if “you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again; if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man; then, you are ready for a walk.”
Moore, Beth	Instant intimacy is one of the leading warning signals of a seduction.
Moore, George	A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Moore, George	Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream be able to destroy reality?
Moore, Henry	I’m very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.
Moore, Lorrie	Life is a cornfield, but literature is that shot of whiskey that’s been distilled down.
Moore, Mary Tyler	You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
Moore, Thomas	The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don’t want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don’t have a soul.
Moore, Thomas	The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
Morales, Baltasar Gracián Y	Exaggeration is an offshoot of lying.
Moran, Victoria	Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself.
More, Hannah	A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
More, Hannah	How short is human life! The very breathWhich frames my words accelerates my death.
More, Thomas	That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.
Moreland, Raymond T.	Benjamin West tells how he actually became a successful and important painter. When he was young, his mother went out and left him in charge of his sister Sally. In the meantime, little Benjamin discovered bottles of colored ink and began to do Sally’s portrait. What a mess soon developed. Finally, when Ben’s mother came home and saw the tragic mess, she said nothing. She merely picked up the paper with the portrait and said, “Why it’s Sally!” and she kissed Ben. Ever since that day, West has said, “My mother’s kiss made me a painter.”
Morgan, Arthur	Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Morgan, Heather	Every time you eat or drink, you’re either feeding disease or fighting it.
Morgan, J. P.	I made a fortune getting out too soon.
Morgan, J. P.	There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy.
Morgenstern, Christian	Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Moriyana, Lisa	If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
Morley, Christopher	April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks go.
Morley, Christopher	When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.
Morley, Christopher	Wordsworth was one of the first to use his legs in the service of philosophy.
Morley, John	Every man of us has all the centuries in him.
Morley, John	Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.
Mornay, Phillipe de	A polite man is one who listens with interest to things he knows about when they are told to him by a person who knows nothing about them.
Moroccan proverb	Your truest friends are those who visit you in prison or in hospital.
Morris, Janet Terban	Climbing dream: Whether the climb is easy or difficult, it may represent the upward course you are embarking on. This may be an emotional, spiritual, or financial journey. Your attitude toward the clue may indicate your feelings toward the challenges ahead of you.
Morris, Janet Terban	Escape dream: Indicates a desire to drop old ways of seeing things, and to discover new directions and opportunities for your inner self.
Morris, Janet Terban	Falling dream: Causing stress and anxiety for the dreamer, falling may symbolize insecurity, loss of control, or feeling threatened. Falling may also indicate a need to let go and trust the flow of life.
Morris, Janet Terban	Getting lost dream: May symbolize searching for the solution to a troubling problem.
Morris, Janet Terban	Maze dream: If your life has become complex and difficult, and you feel overwhelmed and confused, the dream maze may hold clues to finding your way out of your predicament.
Morris, Janet Terban	Path dream: The context of the dream is the most important aspect. If your path is smooth and without obstacles, you may be happy with the direction you are traveling in life. If the path is rocky, with roadblocks, and difficult terrain, you may need to rethink recent key decisions.
Morris, Janet Terban	Unable to call for help dream: A feeling of being threatened, powerless, or trapped is usually a reflection of current experiences in your life. Calling out for help and remaining unheard is not only frustrating, but could be damaging to your spirit.
Morris, William	If you want one golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it. Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
Morrison, Toni	Their meeting was fortunate, because it let them use each other to grow on.
Mortman, Doris	Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
Moses, Grandma	If I didn’t start painting [at age 78], I would have raised chickens.
Moss, Robert	We need to take dreams more literally, and waking life more symbolically.
Motherwell, Robert	Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
Mott, John	I never knew a man to overcome a bad habit gradually.
Mozart	Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus	People make a mistake who think that my art has come easily to me. Nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not studied over and over.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus	Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus	When I am completely myself, entirely alone, or doing the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. When and how these come I know not, nor can I force them.
Muir, John	Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
Muir, John	Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you…while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
Muir, John	Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength.
Muir, John	I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out until sundown: for going out, I found, was really going in.
Muir, John	In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
Muir, John	Once in a while, spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
Muir, John	The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Muir, John	The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Muir, John	When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Muir, John	When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Muldaur, Maria	Before people went to shrinks, the blues was great therapy.
Muller, Wayne	What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.
Mumford, Lewis	Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Munch, Edvard	What is art? Art grows out of grief and joy, but mainly grief. It is born of people’s lives.
Munschauer, John	A satisfying life has a harmony. Not a harmony in the sense of ease or a lack of turmoil; a harmony in the sense of being right for your time.
Murakami, Haruki	Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Murakami, Haruki	If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Murdock, Mike	The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
Murphy, Marianne Espinosa	Often the best way to win is to forget to keep score.
Murray, Bill	If you have someone that you think is the one…take that person, and travel around the world…When you come back and you land at JFK, if you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.
Murray, Bill	It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
Murray, Bill	To people who want to be rich and famous, I’d say, “Get rich first and see if that doesn’t cover it.”
Murray, Elizabeth	Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
Murrow, Edward R.	We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
Mutchenson, Jackie	Life is full of surprises, open them slowly.
My So-Called Life	Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart.
Naeole, S. I.	You are my home. Wherever you are, that’s where I’m meant to be.
Nafisi, Azar	This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.
Naipaul, V. S.	One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas—and you have to work through it all.
Nance, W. A.	If you want to become the perfect guest, then try to make your host feel at home.
Nathan, George Jean	Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Navy Seals	The more you sweat in training, the less you will bleed in battle.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds	Everything can change in an instant. Everything. And then there is only before and after.
Nazantzakis, Nikos	What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
Necker, Suzanne	Fortune does not change men. It only unmasks them.
Needham, Richard	The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
Neel, Alice	One of the reasons I paint is to catch light as it goes by, right hot off the griddle.
Nelson, Willie	When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Neruda, Pablo	It’s well known that he who returns never left.
Neuharth, Al	Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching 40.
Neuman, John von	Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
Neumann, John von	In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
Nevelson, Louise	Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
Newborough, Lord	Gentle in manner, strong in performance.
Newcomb, Charles B.	Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, till nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can lie sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life ever really means.
Newman, Ernest	The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for an inspiration.
Newman, John H.	It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
Newman, Laurie	Sometimes success is disguised as loss.
Newton, Howard	People forget how fast you did a job—but they remember how well you did it.
Newton, Isaac	Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Newton, Joseph	A man is only half himself; his friends are the other half.
Newton, Joseph Fort	To be patient in little things, to be tolerant in large affairs, to be happy in the midst of petty cares and monotonies, that is wisdom.
Nichol, F. W.	When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word “succeed,” you find that it simply means to follow through.
Nicholaus, Bret	Ask yourself this question: What is my worst enemy in life? (Examples: distrust of others, lack of self-esteem, too much time away from my family…) Commit yourself to destroying this foe.
Nicholaus, Bret	Avoid snapping back the next time you’re in a conversation and someone states an opinion that differs radically from your own. Don’t give them the pleasure of engaging you in an argument. If you don’t answer back, the discussion will shift to another topic.
Nicholaus, Bret	Become a sponge soaking in even the smallest of life’s moments. Allow yourself to be overwhelmed by the simplest pleasures the world has to offer.
Nicholaus, Bret	Celebrate a “Slow Down Day.” Do everything at a decelerated pace: speak slower, drive slower, walk slower—even think slower.
Nicholaus, Bret	Choose a weekend to forget about grams of fat and calories. Eat anything and everything you crave. People need an occasional break from careful, controlled eating just as much as they need a break from their job.
Nicholaus, Bret	Devote yourself to overcoming one seemingly insurmountable obstacle in your life. Remember: People don’t fail, they quit.
Nicholaus, Bret	Discover and claim a secret place that’s all your own.
Nicholaus, Bret	Eat breakfast for dinner. No rule states that eggs, sausage, and pancakes can’t be enjoyed as much at 6 A.M. as at 6 P.M.
Nicholaus, Bret	For one full week, completely deny yourself one thing you typically crave every day: your favorite food, TV show, music…Don’t cheat!
Nicholaus, Bret	Go for a Sunday afternoon drive with no destination in mind. Just drive until something catches your eye.
Nicholaus, Bret	Join a club or organization that interests you and take an active role in it right from the start.
Nicholaus, Bret	Learn to let others “have the stage.” In your conversations, be extra careful not to one-up someone else’s stories or statements. If someone tells you about their wonderful five-day family trip to Florida, don’t immediately follow it with the story of your two-week cruise in the Caribbean.
Nicholaus, Bret	Spend one full day paying careful attention to all the objects around you that you typically take for granted. Find the beauty in details you usually overlook: the fine wood grain on a table, the fizzing in a carbonated beverage, a piece of popped corn, a honeybee on a clover…
Nicholaus, Bret	Try to find someone who’s a true fan of both Elvis Presley and Bach. There’s a lesson to be learned from this person.
Nicholaus, Bret	Turn off the TV, radio, answering machine, lights—anything and everything that might distract you. Sit in a favorite location and do absolutely nothing for thirty minutes.
Nicholaus, Bret	Write a one-sentence mission statement for your life and carry it around with you.
Nicholaus, Bret	Write down your three most negative traits on an index card. Periodically refer back to the list and do everything in your power to correct them.
Nicholson, Geoff	By some accounts, walking itself was a series of falls, a precarious balancing act that had the walker standing on one leg for most of the time, constantly pitching himself forward, transferring energy and weight in a reckless and dangerous manner, avoiding disaster only by constantly getting a foot down in the very nick of time.
Nicholson, Geoff	I like walking: I liked it a lot. And I didn’t just like it in the abstract, I like doing it, and all through my life I’d always done it a lot, usually in an unorganized but nevertheless enthusiastic way, on four continents, at home and abroad, in town and country, in conditions that could be favorable or adverse.
Nicholson, Geoff	Walking continues to be a great pleasure. It also continues to be a form of self-medication. It stops me from getting depressed. It keeps me more or less healthy, more or less sane. It helps me to write.
Nicholson, Geoff	Walking had certainly always been a pleasure, but it was more than that. For me walking has to do with exploration, a way of accommodating myself, of feeling at home. When I find myself in a new place I explore it on foot. It’s the way I get to know that place. Maybe it’s a way of marking territory, of beating the bounds. Setting foot in a street makes it yours in a way that driving down it near does.
Nicholson, Geoff	Walking is special but it’s not strange. It’s not a stunt. It’s worth doing for its own sake.
Nicholson, Reg	The parents were worried sick about their young son—eight years old and he hadn’t spoken a word. One morning he looked up at breakfast and said: “Could I have a little more sugar on my oatmeal?” The parents were astounded and cried out, “You spoke! You said something! Why have you waited all these years?” The boy shrugged his shoulders and replied, “Up till now everything’s been okay.”
Nicklaus, Jack	A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
Nicklaus, Jack	I have always felt that the mettle of a player is not how well he plays when he’s playing well, but how well he scores and plays when he’s playing poorly.
Nicklaus, Jack	More golfers lose golf tournaments than win them.
Nicklaus, Jack	Tee up the ball high—air offers less resistance than dirt.
Nicklaus, Jack	You don’t win golf tournaments by hitting miraculous shots that you are not capable of hitting. You lose golf tournaments that way.
Niebuhr, Reinhold	Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Nigerian proverb	Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
Nin, Anais	Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Nin, Anais	Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Nin, Anais	Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Nin, Anais	Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
Nin, Anais	We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Nin, Anais	We write to taste our life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.
Nin, Anais	You live out the confusions until they become clear.
Nizer, Louis	Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
Noble, Charles	You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.
Noe, John R.	A person doesn’t become old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
Nolde, Emil	The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
Norman, Greg	Happiness is a long walk with a putter in your hand.
Norman, Greg	When you’re playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That’s when you confuse yourself.
Norris, Kathleen	It’s a ratty little garden, not much at all, but I can call it mine.
Norris, Kathleen	Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Norton, Isabel	Those we hold most dear never truly leave us. They live on in the kindnesses they showed, the comfort they shared and the love they brought into our lives.
Norworth, Jack	I wrote more than three thousand songs, seven of them good.
Novalis	Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Nowlan, Alden	The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Nutt, Grady	The wise man gives proper appreciation in his life to his past. He learns to sift the sawdust of heritage in order to find the nuggets that make the current moment have any meaning.
O’Brien, Bernard	In our relationship with ourselves, we should accept the unchangeable and change the unacceptable.
O’Casey, Sean	That’s the Irish people all over—they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.
O’Connor, Flannery	I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.
O’Donoghue, Michael	You only live once, and, usually not even then.
O’Keeffe, Georgia	I decided to start anew—to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown—no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.
O’Keeffe, Georgia	When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
O’Keeffe, Georgia	Filling a space in a beautiful way. That’s what art means to me.
O’Keeffe, Georgia	I find that I have painted my life—things happening in my life—without knowing.
O’Keeffe, Georgia	I found I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn’t say in any other way—things that I had no words for.
O’Keeffe, Georgia	Rivers and roads lead people on.
O’Keeffe, Georgia	To create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.
O’Malley, Austin	Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
O’Mara, Shane	I love walking for all sorts of reasons—but near the top of the list is that I find it the best way to clear the clamor of the day from my head. Walking gives me the freedom to think things through; to have a quiet dialogue with myself about how to solve a problem. The problems may be mundane, but are nonetheless important to me. And I’m not alone. Since antiquity it has been recognized that a good walk is an excellent way to think problems through.
O’Mara, Shane	The good news is that it is never too late for anyone to start walking, even over long distances.
O’Mara, Shane	Walking is holistic: every aspect of it aids every aspect of one’s being. Walking provides us with a multi-sensory reading of the world in all its shapes, forms, sounds and feelings, for it uses the brain in multiple ways.
O’Mara, Shane	Walking, one of the most commonplace of wonders, that affects so much of what we do, directly and indirectly, can free our minds to reach their most creative states.
O’Mara, Shane	We overlook at our peril the gains to be made from walking, for our health, for our mood, for our clarity of mind.
O’Mara, Shane	Why does walkable green space matter so much for our well-being? What is it about nature that makes us feel better? Walking in the woods is something we humans have done since time immemorial. Some cultures venerate this experience: the Japanese, for example, have the glorious tradition of “forest bathing” (shinrin-yoku): the practice of absorptive, enveloping walking in deep forests for the soothing properties of being connected to, and fully immersed in, the sights, sounds and feel of nature.
O’Mara, Shane	William Rowan Hamilton, the great Irish mathematician, used to regularly walk two hours.
O’Rourke, P. J.	Being early is an unpardonable sin. If you are early, you’ll witness the last-minute confusion and panic that always attend making anything seem effortlessly gracious. Looking in on this scene is almost as rude as asking someone where he got his face-lift.
Oates, Wayne	Maintaining your integrity in a world of sham is no small accomplishment.
Ogilvy, David	The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
Old European Saying	If you can swallow a toad every morning before breakfast, you are ready to do today’s business.
Old Norwegian adage	There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.
Oliver, Mary	Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Olivier, Laurence	No matter how well you perform there’s always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it’s lousy.
Olivier, Lawrence	I am 17 going on 80; I will continue to learn until all ceases to function. At my age you do things when you think of them, because you don’t know when the great axe is going to fall.
Olney, Judith	Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed.
Olson, Sigurd	There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace.
Ondaatje, Michael	We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.
Ono, Yoko	A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality.
Ono, Yoko	Each time we don’t say what we want to say, we’re dying.
Oppenheim, James	The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance; the wise person grows it under his feet.
Oppenheimer, Joel	You won’t have as much fun, but the fun will really be fun.
Orben, Robert	Don’t smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We’re all on the road to the grave—but there’s no reason to be in the passing lane.
Orben, Robert	Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Ortberg, John	Waiting is, by its nature, something only the humble can do with grace.
Orwell, George	A man wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.
Osborn, Ronald E.	Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Osho	Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.
Osler, William	We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences.
Oxberg, David	Being listened to is so close to being loved that most people cannot tell the difference.
Ozenfant, Amedee	Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.
Ozick, Cynthia	We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude
Packard, David	Management by Walking Around
Paderewski, Ignacy	If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.
Paderewski, Ignacy	The only way to become master of any skill is first to become its slave. And that takes, practice, practice, practice.
Page, Russell	A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of hope and a song of praise.
Paine, Thomas	Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Paine, Thomas	It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Palmer, Arnold	Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
Palmer, Arnold	Golf if deceptively simple yet endlessly complicated.
Palmer, Arnold	I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
Palmer, Arnold	Match your strategy to your skills.
Palmer, Arnold	What other people may find in poetry, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Palmer, Arnold	Winning isn’t everything—Wanting to is!
Palmer, Arnold	Your worst putt will be as close as your best chip.
Palmer, Parker	Is the life I’m living the life that wants to live in me?
Palmer, Parker	What a long time it can take to become the person one has always been! How often in the process we mask ourselves in faces that are not our own.
Paluch, Jim	The instant you set a goal a light goes on in your future.
Pante, Robert	If you look good and dress well, you don’t need a purpose in life.
Pareso, Cesane	We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Parham, Philip	There was a rich industrialist who was disturbed to find a fisherman sitting lazily beside his boat. “Why aren’t you out there fishing?” he asked. “Because I’ve caught enough fish for today,” said the fisherman. “Why don’t you catch more fish than you need?” the rich man asked. “What would I do with them?” “You could earn more money,” came the impatient reply,” and buy a better boat so you could go deeper and catch more fish. You could purchase nylon nets, catch even more fish, and make more money. Soon you’d have a fleet of boats and be rich like me.” The fisherman asked, “Then what would I do?” “You could sit down and enjoy life,” said the industrialist. “What do you think I’m doing now?” the fisherman replied as he looked placidly out to sea.
Parker, Charlie	Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.
Parker, Charlie	First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, and then you forget all that stuff and just play.
Parker, Charlie	If you don’t live it, it wont’ come out of your horn.
Parker, Charlie	You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
Parker, Theodore	Disappointment is often the salt of life.
Parkhurst, Charles	All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
Parkinson, C. Northcote	Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. The thing to be done swells in importance and complexity in a direct ratio with the time to be spent.
Parrott III, Les	One of the most important traits of couples who fight fair is the focus they put on the problem, not the person.
Parsons, Bob	When you’re ready to quit, you’re closer than you think. There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: “The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.”
Parton, Dolly	I still close my eyes and go home—I can always draw from that.
Pascal, Blaise	All the good maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
Pascal, Blaise	I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
Pascal, Blaise	Imagination decides everything.
Pascal, Blaise	Little things console us because little things affect us.
Pascal, Blaise	Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.
Pascal, Blaise	Our nature lies in movement.
Pascal, Blaise	Rivers are roads that move.
Pascal, Blaise	The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no difference between men.
Pascal, Blaise	The state of man is inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
Pascal, Blaise	Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Pascal, Blaise	Wisdom sends us back to our childhood.
Pasricha, Neil	Want nothing + Do anything = Have everything.
Patchett, Ann	Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
Pater, Walter	It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character of art.
Paterson, Don	Yes, I know Marcus Aurelius or Vauvenargues or Chesterton has already said this, and far better; but let’s face it—you weren’t listening then, either.
Paterson, Katherine	To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
Patmore, Coventry	Grant me the power of saying things too simple and too sweet for words.
Patmore, Coventry	In love and divinity what is most worth saying cannot be said.
Patterson, James	In America we urge everyone over the age of eighteen to vote, but only 15 percent of voters read books. Only 15 percent of us perform the life-affirming, sanity-bolstering, empathy-forming act of spending time inside somebody else’s brain.
Patton, George	A good plan executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
Patton, George	All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
Patton, George	I learned very early in life not to take counsel from my fears.
Paul, Jean	To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
Paul, Les	The older I get the fewer notes I need.
Paul, Stephen C.	All it ever takes to step from the ordinary and into the magical is your undivided attention.
Paul, Stephen C.	Always be ready to take the next clear step you see.
Paul, Stephen C.	Approach your life as an artist creating.
Paul, Stephen C.	Cleanse and nourish your whole being by eating consciously.
Paul, Stephen C.	Excess in any form is a great distraction—but a lousy substitute for true joy.
Paul, Stephen C.	How you live your life is your true spiritual practice.
Paul, Stephen C.	If there’s something to do, do it. If not, relax and have fun.
Paul, Stephen C.	Life is a series of opportunities to act more consciously.
Paul, Stephen C.	Make the effort to be conscious of the motives behind your actions.
Paul, Stephen C.	Pay attention and you’ll find many perfect moments in any given day.
Paul, Stephen C.	Soften the judgments and sharp definitions that keep you separate from all that’s around you.
Paul, Stephen C.	Surround yourself with nature and let it breathe life into your soul.
Paul, Stephen C.	The future won’t match your illusions.
Paul, Stephen C.	The more you let go the more you accomplish.
Paul, Stephen C.	Today came much sooner than you ever dreamed.
Paul, Stephen C.	Touch the earth ever so gently through each of your senses.
Paul, Stephen C.	What are the steps that you need to take so your life will flow more simply and effortlessly?
Pauling, Linus	If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
Pauling, Linus	The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Pavese, Cesare	Lessons are not given, they are taken.
Pavese, Cesare	One must look for one thing only, to find many.
Paxson, Ruth	Purchase gives title, but only delivery gives possession.
Peale, Norman Vincent	Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Peale, Norman Vincent	Conditions are created by thoughts far more powerfully than conditions create thoughts.
Peale, Norman Vincent	Don’t duck the most difficult problems. That just insures that the hardest part will be left when you’re most tired. Get the big one done—it’s downhill from then on.
Peale, Norman Vincent	Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Peale, Norman Vincent	Henry Thoreau, the American philosopher, upon awakening in the morning would lie abed telling himself all the good news he could think of: that he had a healthy body, that his mind was alert, that his work was interesting, that the future looked bright, that a lot of people trusted him. Presently he arose to meet the day in a world filled for him with good things, good people, and good opportunities.
Peale, Norman Vincent	Stand up to your obstacles. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
Peale, Norman Vincent	The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead. The number of people whose careers have been ruined through lack of emotional control is astonishing.
Peale, Norman Vincent	The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Peale, Norman Vincent	Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself.
Peale, Norman Vincent	Visualization consists of vividly picturing, in your conscious mind, a desired goal or objective, and holding that image until it sinks into your unconscious mind, where it releases great, untapped energies.
Pearsall, Logan Smith	What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
Peck, M. Scott	Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems.
Peck, M. Scott	If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.
Peck, M. Scott	It is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning.
Peck, M. Scott	One extends one’s limits only by exceeding them.
Peck, M. Scott	To function successfully in our complex world it is necessary for us to possess the capacity not only to express our anger but also not to express it.
Peck, M. Scott	Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.
Peck, M. Scott	You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at at the same time.
Peers, John	You can’t lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Peguy, Jean	Suffering passes: having suffered never passes.
Penick, Harvey	In the golf swing a tiny change can make a huge difference. The natural inclination is to begin to overdo the tiny change that has brought success. So you exaggerate in an effort to improve even more, and soon you are lost and confused again.
Penland, Henry	The slot machine, my reverse ATM.
Penn, Arthur	Welcome to the felicitous accident.
Penn, William	O Lord, help us not to despise or oppose what we do not understand.
Perlman, Alfred	If you have done something the same way for a year, look at it critically; if you have done it for two years, modify it; if you have done it for five years, throw it away and start over.
Perlman, Itzhak	The violin is a replica of the soul.
Perlman, Toby	Music gives us permission to dream.
Perot, H. Ross	If you see a snake, just kill it—don’t appoint a committee on snakes.
Perot, H. Ross	Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Persian proverb	Square yourself for use. A stone that may fit in the wall is not left in the way.
Persian proverb	Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well wisest and best of all.
Persius	Cast off everything that is not yourself.
Pesola-McEachern, Kirstin	Author of so many unwritten books.
Peter, Irene	Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.
Peter, Lawrence J.	Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
Peters, Margaret	My lifetime listens to yours.
Peters, Susan	Children have a much better chance of growing up if their parents have done so first.
Peterson, Eugene H.	In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There’s too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.
Peterson, Virgilia	However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.
Peterson, Wilfred	Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.
Petit, Philippe	Talent—I don’t know what that is. It’s will. You dream a dream and then you build it.
Petty, Richard	When I first started racing, my father said, “Win the race as slow as you can.”
Petty, Tom	I don’t think I’ve learned anything that I didn’t already know. I just didn’t recognize it at first.
Phelps, Austin	Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Phillip, Age 13	Never dare your little brother to paint the family car.
Phillips, Bum	Two kinds of players who ain’t worth a damn; one that never does what he’s told and the other that does nothing except what he’s told.
Phillips, David	People talk about “finding” their lives. In reality, your life is not something you find—it’s something you create.
Picasso, Pablo	An artist must know how to convince others of the truth of his lies.
Picasso, Pablo	Art is a lie that reveals truth.
Picasso, Pablo	Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Picasso, Pablo	Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Picasso, Pablo	Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up.
Picasso, Pablo	Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand the singing of the birds? Why do they love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them, without trying to understand them? But painting—that they must understand.
Picasso, Pablo	Everything you can imagine is real.
Picasso, Pablo	God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
Picasso, Pablo	I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.
Picasso, Pablo	I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Picasso, Pablo	I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Picasso, Pablo	It takes a long time to become young.
Picasso, Pablo	Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Picasso, Pablo	My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier you’ll be a general; if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Picasso, Pablo	Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Picasso, Pablo	Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Picasso, Pablo	The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense.
Picasso, Pablo	The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.
Picasso, Pablo	The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
Picasso, Pablo	There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Picasso, Pablo	Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
Picasso, Pablo	We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Picasso, Pablo	When I was the age of these children I could draw like Raphael: it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.
Pickens, T. Boone	Be willing to make decisions…Don’t fall victim to what I call the “ready-aim-aim-aim-aim” syndrome.
Pickford, Mary	If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Pina	I’m not so interested in how people move, but in what moves them.
Pinero, Arthur W.	The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Pipher, Mary	The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It’s a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.
Pirsig, Robert M.	The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.
Pissarro, Camille	Paint the essential character of things.
Plato	At the touch of love every one becomes a poet.
Plato	Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
Plato	Courage is knowing what to fear.
Plato	I would teach the children physics, philosophy, and music; and of these, music is the most important, for in the arts lies the understanding of all humanities.
Plato	Ideas are more real than the physical world.
Plato	Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
Plato	Music training is more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul.
Plato	Refrain from covetousness, and thy estate shall prosper.
Plato	The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato	The punishment of wise men who refuse to take part in the affairs of government is to live under the government of unwise men.
Plato	To conquer self is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
Plato	We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato	Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
Plautus	A word to the wise is sufficient.
Plautus	No man is wise enough by himself.
Plautus	There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
Pliny, the Younger	Prosperity proves the fortunate, adversity the great.
Plotinus	The soul’s motion is not direct.
Plutarch	Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
Poe, Edgar Allen	All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Poe, Edgar Allen	Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be.
Poe, Edgar Allen	Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin	We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
Polish proverb	A guest sticks a nail in the wall even if he stays but one night.
Polish proverb	Words must be weighed, not counted.
Polish proverb	You have a lifetime to work, but children are young once.
Pollan, Michael	Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk.
Pollock, Jackson	Thoughts are pleasant companions if we choose them as well as we should choose other company.
Pollok, Robert	Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Pomerantz, Mark	I’m doing nothing, and I don’t start that until noon.
Poncela, Enrique Jardiel	When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
Poole, Mary Pettibone	You can keep your friends by not giving them away.
Pope, Alexander	A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong; which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Pope, Alexander	There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Poppins, Mary	I’ll stay till the wind changes.
Porchia, Antonio	Men and things rise, fall, move away, approach. Everything is a comedy of distances.
Porter, Katherine Anne	Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it.
Porter, Katherine Anne	She sat down and read the letter over again; but there were phrases that insisted on being read many times, they had a life of their own separate from the others.
Porter, Katherine Anne	The past is never where you think you left it.
Porter, Sylvia	Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.
Portuguese proverb	An old man in love is like a flower in winter.
Post, Emily	Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Post, Emily	Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Post, Laurens van der	Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
Postman, Andrew	At the age of 64, John Napier, Scottish mathematician and father of the decimal point, introduces his new invention, the logarithm.
Postman, Andrew	At the age of 65, Colonel Harland Sanders drives around the county looking to license his special “finger-lickin’ good” chicken recipe, and starts to build what will become the Kentucky Fried Chicken empire.
Postman, Andrew	At the age of 89, Frank Lloyd Wright completes work on the Guggenheim Museum.
Potzer, Greg	Control
Powell, Colin	Bad news isn’t like wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
Powell, Colin	Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Powell, James N.	A Taoist master was sitting naked in his mountain cabin, meditating. A group of Confucianists entered the door of his hut, having hiked up the mountain intending to lecture him on the rules of proper conduct. When they saw the sage sitting naked before them, they were shocked and asked, “What are you doing, sitting in your hut without any pants on?” The sage replied, “This entire universe is my hut. This little hut is my pants. What are you fellows doing inside my pants?”
Powell, John	A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
Powell, John	What you and I become in the end will be just more and more of what we are deciding and trying to be right now.
Powell, John	When you repress or suppress those things which you don’t want to live with, you don’t really solve the problem because you don’t bury the problem dead—you bury it alive. It remains alive and active inside of you.
Powers, Thomas	The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult, no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, “I understand that. What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it.”
Prather, Hugh	Once the mind releases itself into love, there are suddenly a thousand obvious ways to show it.
Pratt, Richard	Do one more thing at the end of the day and at the end of the year you’ll have done 365 more things.
Presley, Elvis	Love is what makes a crowd disappear when you’re with someone.
Pressfield, Steven	Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
Pressfield, Steven	The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
Previte, Mary Taylor	I find my reward in that look in a child’s eye which says, “Someone has listened to my story and found it important.”
Price, Nick	Solid contact with the ball is as important with your putter as it is with your five-iron.
Priene, Bias of	The wise man carries his possessions within him.
Priestley, J. B.	I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
Primavera, Mike	I want coffee so dark and rich, it’s directed by Tim Burton.
Pritchett, Price	Change always comes bearing gifts.
Prochnow, Herbert	A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
Proust, Marcel	All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Proust, Marcel	The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.
Proust, Marcel	There is no man, however wise, who has not as some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Proust, Marcel	Time which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Proust, Marcel	We are generally more convinced by the reasons we discover on our own than by those given to us by others.
Proust, Marcel	We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Putnam, Vi	The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
Putney, Mary Jo	What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.
Pynchon, Thomas	If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
Pythagoras	No man is free who cannot command himself.
Queen Elizabeth II	Grief is the price we pay for love.
Quesada, Joe	Still lost on road less traveled.
Quincey, De	No man ever will unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.
Quindlen, Anna	The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.
Quindlen, Anna	You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
Quoist, Michel	All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn’t know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself.
Quoist, Michel	Only love enables humanity to grow, because love engenders life and it is the only form of energy that lasts forever.
Rabaud, Henri	Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.
Racine, Jean Baptiste	Silent sorrow is only the more fatal.
Racine, Jean Baptiste	There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
Rainey, Ma	Let your soul do the singin’.
Rams, Dieter	Less but better.
Ramsey, Dave	Sadly, family problems and even financial problems are seldom the real problem, but often the symptom of a weak or nonexistent value system.
Ramsey, Dave	The good thing about principles is that they make life easy.
Ramsey, Dave	To make more money, you have to plan to make more money. Some people’s problem is income, not spending.
Ramsey, Dave	Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.
Ramsey, Ryan	My view as submarine captain was that the healthiest thing was to let arguments play out, to release the tension. Bearing grudges is strongly discouraged. We air our problems and move on.
Rando, Therese	There is no way around the pain that you naturally feel when someone you love dies. You can’t go over it, under it, or around it. Going through it is what will help you heal.
Randolph, John	Unless you have a ritual for getting your tackle box ready, no one will regard you as a serious fisherman.
Rankin, Jeannette	You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Rasey, Uan	Play it three times in a row, back to back to back. If you can do that, you’ll be able to play it anywhere, anytime. He also stated that you had to get the correct notes and pitch, but his main emphasis with students was ALWAYS beauty of sound. “Make it sing.”
Rauschenbusch, Walter	The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real living of life.
Rawlings, A. L.	To the philosopher, time is one of the fundamental quantities. To the average man, time has something to do with dinner.
Ray, Sondra	A partner will bring up all your patterns. Don’t avoid relationships: they are the best seminar in town. The truth is that your partner is your guru.
Raydell, John	Compliment three people every day.
Reader’s Digest	Forty percent of today’s population suffers from chronic nasal obstruction, and around half of us are habitual mouth breathers.
Reader’s Digest	How To Breathe Better…Everyone can benefit from this simple breathing technique: Breathe in for about five to six seconds, then exhale to the same count. Breathe through your nose if you can. That’s it. Simple, yet subtle.
Reader’s Digest	The nostrils and nose clean, slow, treat, and pressurize air so the lungs can extract more oxygen with each breath. This is yet another reason why nasal breathing is far more healthy and efficient than breathing through the mouth.
Reagan, Ronald	I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
Reagan, Ronald	Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the US was too strong.
Reagan, Ronald	One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
Reagan, Ronald	When life does get tough and the crisis is undeniably at hand—when we must, in an instant, look inward for strength of character to see us through—we will find nothing inside ourselves that we have not already put there.
Reagan, Ronald	You know, by the time you’ve reached my age, you’ve made plenty of mistakes if you’ve lived your life properly.
Rebeta-Burditt, Joyce	Alcoholism isn’t a spectator sport. Eventually the whole family gets to play.
Redmond, Tim	There are many things that will catch my eye, but there are only a few that catch my heart…it is those I consider to pursue.
Redmoon, Ambrose	Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one’s fear.
Reed, Shannon	But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart. And in reading, I was never lonely, the way I sometimes felt in real life. Reading did not lead me astray. The words were clear, and if I didn’t understand them, it wasn’t because I didn’t hear them correctly. No one cared if I reread (asked the book to repeat, that is) multiple times. And people mostly left me alone when my nose was buried in a book. Reading was always safe and always good company.
Reed, Shannon	Outside, summer creeps along in its muggy heaviness, or winter snows crisp and glisten, or the mournful fall winds howl, or spring has begun to stir the earth, the sunrise arriving ever earlier.
Reed, Shannon	Reading a book is quiet, clear, and organized. It’s not hard. It waits until I am ready, pauses when I need a break, and is still happy to repeat. Reading absolutely never says “Just forget it” when I need clarification. It doesn’t care how I pronounce the words in my head (or aloud, for that matter). It never makes me feel worse and rarely makes me feel lonely. Reading gives me the world.
Reed, Shannon	The act of reading makes me feel safe.
Reilly, Rick	Trump’s taste is Early Whatever Reminds You He’s Rich.
Reiner, Carl	A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Remen, Rachel Naomi	Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
Renan, Ernest	A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.
Renard, Jules	As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
Renard, Jules	The truly free man is he who knows how to decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
Renard, Jules	Walks: The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
Renfro, R. Steven	Earth was definitely my second choice.
Renoir, Auguste	One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one’s capacity.
Renoir, Jean	When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.
Restaurateur Billy Stolz	I once had a man call at the last minute on a weekend. He wanted a private dining room. I explained that it was high season and we had nothing. “Well, if the queen of England were coming, would you have a room for her to dine?” “Yes, of course,” I said. The caller replied, “Well, she’s not coming, so I’ll take her room.”
Reston, James	Golf is a plague, invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man’s sins.
Revis, Beth	I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked too. Meanwhile I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow-writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book.
Revlon, Charles	In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope.
Reynolds, Joshua	Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.
Rhimes, Shonda	Freedom lies across the field of the difficult conversation. And the more difficult the conversation, the greater the freedom.
Rice, Condoleezza	People will accept all kinds of decisions if they think their voices have been heard.
Rice, Grantland	Self confidence is the hallmark of a champion—any champion.
Richards, M. C.	A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other.
Richards, M. C.	Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
Richter, Jean Paul	A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Richter, Jean Paul	Memory is the only paradise from which no one can drive us.
Richter, Jean Paul	Music is the poetry of the air.
Rickenbacker, Eddie	If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality.
Rickey, Branch	Never play checkers with a man who carries his own board.
Rickles, Don	When it came to timing, Jack Benny was the master. He used silence the way Picasso used paint.
Rickles, Jean Paul	Joys are our wings.
Riener, Joe	There once was a man who cried every time it snowed. He went to a psychotherapist. Now when the snow falls, he weeps for his mother, who died in the winter.
Rigg, Austen	First ask yourself, “Is this my problem?” If it sin’t, leave it alone. If it is my problem, can I tackle it now? Do so. If your problem could be settled by an expert in some field, go quickly to him and take his advice.
Rilke, Rainer Maria	I am so glad you are here; it helps me to realize how beautiful my world is.
Rilke, Rainer Maria	Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rilke, Rainer Maria	There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.
Rilke, Rainer Maria	Think of the world you carry within you.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray	I often find myself going back to Darwin’s saying about the duration of a man’s friendship being one of the best measures of his worth.
Rivera, Mark	Miles Davis said that if you play one note right, everything else just makes sense. He was referring to tone, the quality of the sound: its pitch, its shape. What were those initial tones for me? When did music start making sense?
Rivers, Joan	Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly—hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
Robbins, Anothy	Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Robbins, Anthony	Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year—and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade.
Robbins, Tom	Are you aware that rushing towards a goal is a sublimated death wish? It’s no coincidence we call them “deadlines.”
Robbins, Tom	Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Robbins, Tony	If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.
Robbins, Tony	It’s a good idea not to major in minor things.
Robbins, Tony	It’s not knowing what to do; it’s doing what you know.
Roberts, Gregory David	Sometimes you have to surrender before you win.
Roberts, Robin	I remember something my mom said after my father died: “You have a choice. You can have sad sorrow or happy sorrow.” I’m going to follow her advice and choose the latter.
Roberts, Sarah Jakes	Do not compare your growth with anyone else. The only person you are competing with is who you were yesterday.
Robertson, Lisa	My father was the best dad a little girl could ask for. He was my biggest fan, he could correct me with a smile, and he loved me unconditionally.
Robertson, Lord	My favorite golf shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt—the rest can never be mastered.
Robinson, Elsie	Men need work for the good of their souls as well as for the good of their pocketbooks and all the pension schemes on earth won’t alter that fundamental human necessity.
Rochefoucauld, Francois La	Almost all our thoughts are more pardonable than the methods we resort to hide them.
Rochefoucauld, Francois La	Few people know how to be old.
Rochefoucauld, Francois La	It is far easier to be wise for others than to be so for oneself.
Rochefoucauld, Francois La	Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.
Rochefoucauld, Francois La	Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
Rochefoucauld, Francois La	Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
Rochefoucauld, Francois La	There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
Rochefoucauld, Francois La	Well-bred thinking means kindly and sensitive thoughts.
Rockefeller, John D.	Every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation, every possession a duty.
Rockefeller, John D.	I have made many millions, but they have brought me no happiness. I would barter them all for the days I sat on an office stool in Cleveland and counted myself rich on three dollars a week.
Rockne, Knute	I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players.
Roddenberry, Gene	They say that 90% of television is garbage. But 90% of EVERTHING is garbage.
Rogers, Carl	The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Rogers, Clement F.	It is easy to be tolerant when you do not care.
Rogers, Jim	My approach was to study as much as was necessary until I knew the subject, and then study some more just to be sure.
Rogers, Jim	You should wait until you find something you are so thoroughly sure of, based on your wealth of knowledge, and something that is so cheap, that buying it is as foolproof as going over to the corner and picking up the money.
Rohe, Miles van der	Less is more.God is in the details.
Rohn, Jim	Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, a failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Rohn, Jim	Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.
Rohn, Jim	If you make a sale, you make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
Rohn, Jim	Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
Rohn, Jim	The most important question to ask is, what am I becoming?
Rohn, Jim	There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.
Rohn, Jim	You become the average of the five people you associate with most.
Roker, Al	Moderation…You can eat a lot of things—just don’t eat a lot of those things. Just a little taste. I don’t need to eat the whole thing. So just less.
Roman law principle	Hear the other side.
Roman, Sanyana	It is only an illusion that you do not have what you want.
Roncalli, Angelo	Once you have renounced everything, really everything, then any bold enterprise becomes the simplest and most natural thing in all the world.
Rooney, Andy	Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
Rooney, Andy	If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
Rooney, Andy	One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.
Rooney, Andy	The last place people want to hang clothes is their clothes closet. Closets are mean, inconvenient, often dark, and always overcrowded. If a person’s closet isn’t overcrowded, you can bet that person needs a psychiatrist.
Rooney, Andy	The two biggest sellers in bookstores are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it.
Rooney, Mickey	You always pass failure on the way to success.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.	I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Roosevelt, Theodore	Comparison is the thief of joy.
Roosevelt, Theodore	In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Roosevelt, Theodore	Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Rorem, Ned	Sooner or later you’ve heard what all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
Rose, Phyllis	One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
Rosenblatt, Roger	Here’s an unusual fact: water is the earth’s only self-renewing resource. It heals itself.
Rosenblatt, Roger	There is no monster like silence. It grows faster than children, filling first a heart, then a house, then history.
Rosenstrach, Jenny	When someone says they drink “one to two” glasses of wine a night, you can pretty much assume it’s two.
Ross, Bob	We don’t make mistakes. We just have happy accidents.
Ross, Cindy	Long distance hiking is not a vacation, it’s too long for that. It’s not recreation, too much toil and pain involved. It is, we decide, a way of life, a very simplified Spartan way of living…life on the move…heavy packs, sweating brow; they make you appreciate warm sunshine, companionship, cool water. The best way to appreciate these things that are precious and important in life it is take them away.
Rossetti, Christina	Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.
Rostand, Jean	Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
Rotenberg, Lisa	I would pay retail for you.
Rothaus, Kelly Ann	Reach out and open the door that no one thought could be opened. Life is behind it.
Rothmans, Buster	Do not let the good things in life rob you of the best things.
Rothschild, William E.	How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
Rousseau	He who is slow in promising is always the most faithful in performing.
Rousseau, Jean	To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques	I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques	We pity in others only those evils that we have ourselves experienced.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques	You can stand firm in a fight against everything except kindness.
Roux, Joseph	The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.
Row, Shelley	Think Less Live More.
Rowling, J. K.	I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Rowling, J. K.	It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Roy, Arundhati	Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Roy, Arundhati	The only dream worth having…is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.
Rubin, Gretchen	Secret of adulthood: Every to-do list should include at least one item that can be crossed off within five minutes.
Rubin, Lillian	The depth of a friendship—how much it means to us…depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.
Rubin, Theodore Isaac	Sex, like all else between human beings, is never perfect.
Rubinstein, Arthur	I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.
Rubinstein, Arthur	I cannot tell you how much I love to play for people. Would you believe it— sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.
Rubinstein, Arthur	I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Rubinstein, Arthur	To be alive, to be able to see, to walk…it’s all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
Rukeyser, Muriel	The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
Rumi	Gratitude is the wine of the soul. Go on. Get drunk!
Rumi	I should be suspicious of what I want.
Rumi	If you’ve not been fed, be bread.
Rumi	Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Rumi	Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Rumi	Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Rumi	The cure for pain is in the pain.
Rumi	The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Rumi	Yesterday, I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Runbeck, Margaret Lee	Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Runbeck, Margaret Lee	Once you’ve loved a child, you will love all children. You give away your love to one, and you find that by giving you’ve made yourself an inexhaustible treasury.
Runbeck, Margaret Lee	Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Rush	Summer’s going fast, nights growing colder; children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer, make each sensation al little bit stronger.
Rushdie, Salman	Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Rusk, Dean	One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears- by listening to them.
Ruskin, John	All one’s life is music if we touch the notes right and in time.
Ruskin, John	Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
Ruskin, John	Every noble youth looks back, as to the chiefest joy which this world’s honor ever gave him, to the moment when first he saw his father’s eyes flash with pride, and his mother turn away her head, lest he should take her tears for tears of sorrow.
Ruskin, John	False shame is the devil’s favorite emotion; it is even worse than false pride. Pride can support evil, but false shame stops goodness.
Ruskin, John	He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
Ruskin, John	Knowledge is limitless, and the most scholarly and educated person is as far from true knowledge as an uneducated peasant.
Ruskin, John	Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
Ruskin, John	No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
Ruskin, John	Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
Ruskin, John	Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Ruskin, John	The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Ruskin, John	The way to true knowledge does not go through soft grass covered with flowers. To find it, a person must climb steep mountains.
Ruskin, John	We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
Ruskin, John	When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Russell, Bertrand	People don’t seem to realize that it takes time and effort and preparation to think.
Russell, Bertrand	When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.
Russian proverb	Don’t buy the house; buy the neighborhood.
Russian proverb	Dwell in the past and you’ll lose an eye. Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.
Russian proverb	If you tickle yourself, you can laugh when you like.
Russian proverb	It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
Russian proverb	The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living.
Russian proverb	The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.
Russian proverb	Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock.
Rutherford, Samuel	We haven’t the money, so we’ve got to think.
Rutledge, Archibald	One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Ryan, Vincent	The secret to life is to know when enough is enough.
Rzadkowolska, Karolina	How you wake up each morning defines how you live your day, and how you live your days defines how you live your life.
Rzadkowolska, Karolina	Life is exhilarating when you take off the blinders, you start to see it in high definition. People realize they can have a lot more fun when they don’t drink.
Rzadkowolska, Karolina	Sober sleep is one of the most luxurious delights.
Saadi, Moslih Eddin	The telling of a falsehood is like the cut of a sabre; for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
Sacharov, Al	The key is to trust your heart to move where your unique talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul.
Sachs, Andrew	Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
Sackville-West, Vita	Travel is the most private of pleasures.
Sacred ritual chant	We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Sagan, Carl	If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Sagan, Carl	Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Sagan, Carl	The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Sager, Carole Bayer	I learned that people want to be in love. They long to be in love, they pretend to be in love, they think they’re in love, and sometimes they are.
Sager, Carole Bayer	I’ve always believed that the best songs come through us, not from us. In cases where I couldn’t open my heart in real life, I opened it in song, sometimes giving others what I couldn’t give myself.
Sager, Carole Bayer	If you get eighty percent in a friend, or a husband, consider yourself lucky. If you want more, you’ll spend your life alone.
Sager, Carole Bayer	It has been said that parents are as happy as their least happy child.
Sager, Carole Bayer	People don’t change into someone else, but if they work really hard, they can become better versions of themselves.
Sahl, Mort	Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de	A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de	Only children know what they are looking for.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de	You know you’ve achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
Sales, Francis de	Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Sales, Francis de	I have sought everywhere for peace, but I have found it not, save in a little corner with a little book.
Sales, Francis De	Make yourself a seller when you are buying, and a buyer when you are selling, and then you will sell and buy justly.
Salinger, J. D.	One day, a long time from now, you’ll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll start to produce the work you’re capable of.
Salinger, J. D.	Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
Sam’s restaurant	Free Beer Here Yesterday & Tomorrow
Sandberg, Sheryl	Done is better than perfect.
Sandberg, Sheryl	If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
Sandburg, Carl	Discover creative solitude.
Sandburg, Carl	I don’t know where l’m going, but l’m on my way.
Sandburg, Carl	I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Sandburg, Carl	Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Sandburg, Carl	Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln…were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
Sandburg, Carl	Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
Sandburg, Carl	Take no advice, including this.
Sandburg, Carl	Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.
Sandoval, Arturo	Why walk when you can fly?
Sanny, Lorne	We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance.
Santayana, George	Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
Santayana, George	Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age.
Santayana, George	The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
Sarnoff, Dorothy	Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
Sarton, May	Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
Sarton, May	Solitude is the richness of self.
Sarton, May	They are committing murder who merely live.
Sartre, Jean-Paul	Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Satir, Virginia	Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible—the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Satir, Virginia	I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.
Satir, Virginia	There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly like me.
Satrapi, Marjane	Nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.
Savant, Marilyn Vos	If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything , you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
Savant, Marilyn Vos	To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Savoyard saying	I have so much to do that I am going to bed.
Sawyer, Diane	I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
Sawyer, Keith	I will lay a wager here than now that at some point in your future, what you learn will come into play in a way you could never have predicted.
Sawyer, Keith	The real secret to exceptional creativity is practice.
Schaap, Rosie	There’s always plenty of time, if you don’t hurry.
Schaef, Anne Wilson	I realize that a sense of humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
Schaef, Anne Wilson	Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
Schaller, Thomas W.	The world is filled with artists. Only some of them use paintbrushes.
Schaller, Thomas W.	Try not to paint whatever it was that inspired you—paint the inspiration itself.
Schary, Dore	Having enjoyed the friendship of many people in many places for many years…I have learned that, in the main, people are as we choose to find them; that reason can overcome prejudice; that knowledge can overcome ignorance; that love can overcome hate; that goodness can conquer evil.
Schell, Maria	Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by.
Scheller, Brooke	You can know a lot and still not know better.
Schelter, Kate	A wise-old grandparent somewhere once said: There are three things worth spending your money on, in no particular order: education, travel, real estate.
Schelter, Kate	Don’t buy anything on sale that you wouldn’t pay full price for. Period.
Schelter, Kate	Less is usually more than enough. I like to use the things I treasure deeply as often as possible
Schelter, Kate	Love what you use every day (and remove the rest!)
Schelter, Kate	My mother is a potter, and all of our mugs and bowls were handmade by her. I love having her with me at each meal, even though she is two thousand miles away.
Schiff, Jacqueline	The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Schiff, Miriam	On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.
Schiller, Fredrich von	Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Schiller, Johann von	We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.
Schmidt, Eric	When you want to spur innovation, the worst thing you can do is overfund it.
Schmidt, Walt	If you were handed a dictionary and asked to choose just two words from it that would protect and comfort you for the rest of your life, what better choice than “courage” and “love.”
Schnabel, Arthur	The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes—ah, that is where the art resides!
Schopenhauer, Arthur	It is in trifles, and when he is off his guard, that a man best shows his character.
Schopenhauer, Arthur	The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary.
Schopenhauer, Arthur	There is in us something wiser than our head.
Schopenhauer, Arthur	We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Schreiber, Shari	Everyone’s got emotional baggage; the question is, what are you doing to unpack that trunk and put it away, so your friends and relatives don’t have to keep tripping over it?
Schreyer, William	It seems there was a pretzel stand out front of an office building in New York. One day a man came out of the building, plunked down a quarter, and then went on his way without taking a pretzel. This happened every day for three weeks. Finally, the old lady running the stand spoke up: “Sir, excuse me, May I have a word with you?” The fellow said: “I know what you’re going to say. You’re going to ask me why I give you a quarter every day and don’t take a pretzel.” And the woman said, “Not at all. I just want to tell you the price is now 35 cents.”
Schubert, Franz	My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.
Schueman, Helen	I am never upset for the reason I think.
Schuller, Robert	A small decision now can change all your tomorrows.
Schuller, Robert	Nobody has a money problem—only an idea problem.
Schuller, Robert	The most difficult hardships are the ones with no end in sight.
Schuller, Robert	When you’ve exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t!
Schultz, Milo	When nothing seems to help I go and look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without so much as a crack showing in it. Yet a the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it—but all that had gone before.
Schultz, Susan Polis	This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do, and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life, and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Schumacher, E. F.	Any intelligent fool can make things bigger more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.
Schumacher, E. F.	Where is the rich society that says, Halt, we have enough?
Schumann, Robert	Music is to me the perfect expression of the soul.
Schwab, Charles	Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.
Schwab, Charles	We are all salesmen.
Schwartz, Morrie	Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back.
Schwartz, Ted	Never curse commuting time. Simply find a way to let it work for you.
Schweitzer, Albert	As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Schweitzer, Albert	There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Scott-Maxwell, Florida	Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its right channel.
Scott, Sir Walter	Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.
Scottish proverb	Be a friend to yourself, and others will.
Scottish proverb	Know yourself, and your neighbour will not mistake you.
Scovell, Nell	Don’t listen to respond, but do listen to understand.
Searns, Robert	In a world of constant change and flux where being in the moment seems increasingly harder to attain, there is also something about the notion of traveling along a pathway–under our own power–that reconnects us, and indeed binds together all humanity.
Sebök, Gyorgy	The music is not the notes. It is between the notes.
Seeger, Pete	Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
Seeger, Pete	The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
Seeger, Pete	We are born in simplicity but die of complications.
Seevers, Boyd	“A traveler nearing a great city asked an old man seated by the road, “What are the people like in this city?” “What were they like where you came from?” the man asked. “Horrible,” the traveler reported. “Mean, untrustworthy, detestable in all respects.” “Ah,” said the old man, “you will find them the same in the city ahead.” Scarcely had the first traveler gone on his way when another stopped to inquire about the people in the city before him. Again the old man asked about the people in the place the traveler has just left. “They were fine people: honest, industrious, and generous to a fault,” declared the second traveler. “I was sorry to leave.” The old man responded, “That’s exactly how you’ll find the people here.”
Segal’s Law	A man with a watch knows what time it is.A man with two watches can never be sure.
Seitz, Ron	It is blessed and peaceful this way, with the entire house silent and asleep and the wide clean pages of the notebook ready for the first words to loop and roll along the lines. And I am ready to try again my secret scribble for a few hours—hopefully till dawn lights the small window above my desk and puts its signature to this day.
Selden, John	Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
Selvaggi, Frank	Not many doors open in life and when they do, you have to walk through them.
Sendak, Maurice	There must be more to life than having everything.
Seneca	A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty.
Seneca	As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Seneca	He who is his own friend is a friend to all men.
Seneca	How can a soul which misunderstands itself have a sure idea of other creatures?
Seneca	It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca	Money has never yet made anyone rich.
Seneca	Our plans miscarry if they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca	There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Seneca	We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Seneca	We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
Seneca	When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Seneca	While we are waiting, life passes us by.
Seneca, Lucius	Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
Seneca, Lucius	Some torment themselves with the memory of what is past; others afflict themselves with the apprehensions of evils to come, and very ridiculously both; for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet. Once should count each day a separate life.
Seneca, Lucius	What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Senge, P. M.	The most valuable work you do may be done in as little as five seconds…A higher vantage point, a brilliant idea, a key change in habit, a break from pressure…or a pivotal decision can produce significant, lasting benefits.
Senghor, Shaka	I was growing dangerously intelligent.
Severinsen, Doc	I made 98% of my money under high C.
Sewell, Anna	I am never afraid of what I know.
Sexton, Anne	In a dream you are never eighty.
Sexton, Anne	It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Shaker song	Tis the gift to be simple…
Shakespeare, William	A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved.
Shakespeare, William	And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Shakespeare, William	Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
Shakespeare, William	I can tell thee where that saying was born.
Shakespeare, William	If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
Shakespeare, William	One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Shakespeare, William	Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
Shakespeare, William	The earth has music for those who listen.
Shakespeare, William	We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Shakespeare, William	What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Shanahan, John	Great ideas have a very short shelf life.
Sharma, Robin	Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.
Sharp, Timothy	(Small changes) x (regular application) = big change!
Sharp, Timothy	Create “What’s my life now?” activity pie chart. Then create a percentage-of-time chart with those activities. Then create a pie chart of the way you would like it to be.
Shaw, George Bernard	A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
Shaw, George Bernard	A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.”
Shaw, George Bernard	An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Shaw, George Bernard	Better keep yourself clean and bright, you are the window through which you must see the world.
Shaw, George Bernard	Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Shaw, George Bernard	Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
Shaw, George Bernard	I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Shaw, George Bernard	Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Shaw, George Bernard	Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Shaw, George Bernard	Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
Shaw, George Bernard	Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
Shaw, George Bernard	Nothing offends children more than to play down to them. All the great children’s books—the Pilgrim’s Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Gulliver’s Travels—were written for adults.
Shaw, George Bernard	The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Shaw, George Bernard	The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Shaw, George Bernard	The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
Shaw, George Bernard	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Shaw, George Bernard	The surest way to be miserable is to have the leisure to wonder whether or not you are happy.
Shaw, George Bernard	The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
Shaw, George Bernard	There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
Shaw, George Bernard	There is no such thing as great people! The greatest man or woman is 99 percent just like yourself.
Shaw, George Bernard	When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
Shaw, Luci	Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be holy, precious, part of a pattern.
Shedd, John	When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echos.
Shedd, John A.	Anybody can start something.
Sheehan, George A.	If you are doing something you would do for nothing then you are on your way to salvation. And if you could drop it in a minute and forget the outcome, you are even further along. And if while you are doing it you are transported into another existence, there is no need for you to worry about the future.
Sheehan, George A.	Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
Sheehy, Gail	To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
Sheen, Fulton J.	Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
Shelden, John	Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe	Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Sheppard, Jr., Arnot L.	Man is naturally an optimist; that’s why he feels sure that a 50-50 chance will win for him more often than it loses.
Sheppard, Jr., Arnot L.	Time does not really heal a broken heart; it only teaches a person how to live with it.
Sher, Barbara	The first step is to find out what you love—and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
Sher, Barbara	You have to pay close attention to what you love, and never listen to anyone who tells you to be practical too early in the game.
Sheridon, Richard	Won’t you come into the garden?I would like my roses to see you.
Sherman, Senaor John	I have come home to look after my fences.
Shields, Carol	There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
Shih, Hu	The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment.
Shinn, George	Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
Shipley, David	Nothing bad can happen if you haven’t hit the ‘send’ key.
Shriver, Maria	Each day, each of us is faced with the possibility of resetting our lives. Refocusing. Reimagining. Rebooting. Every day, we can decide to change our outlook, our words, our tone, and our attitude.
Sidney, Philip	They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Siebert, Muriel	Do your homework all of your life.
Siegel, Bernie	I was lucky to be brought up loved. Not that everything I did was liked, but I knew that I was loved—and knowing this gave me the ability and freedom to be who I wanted to be.
Sierra Leone saying	Proverbs are the daughters of experience.
Silicon Valley	Being too early is the same as being wrong.
Sills, Beverly	Art is the signature of civilizations.
Silverstein, Hannah	Saw the world; now where’s home?
Silverstein, Shel	Put something silly in the world that ain’t been there before.
Simmons, John	Addicts love shortcuts.
Simms, Phil	If we didn’t have a huddle, Jim would have so social life.[On lineman Jim Burt]
Simon, Herbert	A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Simon, Irwin	When I was interviewing for a job, they asked me, “Let’s pretend you’re a bird. If you were a bird and you had to go build nests for all your birds, would you build twig by twig, dropping one off at a time at all four nests, or would you build one complete nest at a time?” I said, “Why don’t you ask me as a human being if I know how to juggle a lot of jobs instead of asking me if I were a bird?” I didn’t work there.
Simonds, Marge	Never stumble over anything behind you.
Simonides	Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Simonides of Ceos	Poetry is vocal painting, just as painting is silent poetry.
Simpson, Homer	Donuts—is there anything they can’t do?
Sims, Molly	We all know those people who love to stir the pot. Be the one to close the lid.
Sinetar, Marsha	Do what you love…the money will follow.
Sirr, Billy	Anything’s possible with an extension cord.
Sister Maria	I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don’t feel so bad.[The Sound of Music]
Sitwell, Dame Edith	Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Skaist-Levy, Pamela	If you’re not making money, it’s not a real business; it’s a hobby. If it’s a business, you’re profitable.
Skaist-Levy, Pamela	On partnerships…you don’t need to have the same creative vision all the time, but you do need the same values and ethics. It’s like a marriage.
Skinner, B. F.	Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Skinner, B. F.	We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
Slovenian proverb	Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Smith, Adam	What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Smith, Alexander	A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Smith, Antonio	Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Smith, Ashley	Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Noice the bumblebee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Smith, Betty	Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Smith, Harold J.	More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.
Smith, J. E.	A smile takes but a moment, but its effects sometimes last forever.
Smith, Lillian	Faith and doubt both are needed—not as antagonists, but working side by side—to take us around the unknown curve.
Smith, Logan	The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Smith, Logan Pearsall	Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses as big as they can pay for.
Smith, Logan Pearsall	How can they say my life isn’t a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Smith, Patti	There’s no such thing as a mistake, just a creative approach. That’s how I get through life.
Smith, Raymond	Don’t just play the game, change the rules.
Smith, Sydney	A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
Smith, Sydney	As a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Smith, Sydney	No furniture so charming as books.
Smith, Will	If you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready.
Smothers, Tommy	When you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s hard to know when you’re finished.
Snead, Sam	Lay off for three weeks, and then quit for good.
Snead, Sam	You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I’d rather see a rattlesnake.
Snicket, Lemony	It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.
Snider, Duke	Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you’re swinging.
Snyder, Gary	Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.
Socrates	Beware of the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates	Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Socrates	He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.
Socrates	He who needs least is most like the gods.
Socrates	I educate, not by lessons, but by going about my business.
Socrates	One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.
Socrates	Socrates was once asked whether it is better for a man to marry or to remain single. “No matter which, he’ll repent of it,” the philosopher replied.
Socrates	Speak, that I may see thee.
Socrates	The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we appear to be.
Socrates	Why is it that men know what is good but do what is bad?
Soen	Ten years’ searching in the deep forest. Today great laughter at the edge of the lake.
Solnit, Rebecca	Jean-Jacques Rousseau portrays walking as both an exercise of simplicity and a means of contemplation.
Solnit, Rebecca	Walking, I realized long ago in another desert, is how the body measures itself against the earth. On this lake bed, each step brought us minutely closer to one of the ranges of mountains, blue in the late afternoon light, that circled our horizon like the bleachers rising above a field. Picture the lake bed as a pure geometric plane that our steps measured like the legs of a protractor swinging back and forth. The measurements recorded that the earth was large and we were not, the same good and terrifying news most walks in the desert provide.
Solnit, Rebecca	While others walked before and after him, and many other Romantic poets went on walking tours, Wordsworth made walking central to his life and art to a degree almost unparalleled before or since. He seems to have gone walking almost every day of his very long life, and walking was both how he encountered the world and how he composed his poetry. For Wordsworth walking was a mode not of traveling, but of being.
Solomonov, Michael	I’m uninterested in things that are incredibly complex. The simple things are more impressive to me…the pots of rice.
Solovyev, Vladimir	Women crave novelty, they dread a consistent world.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr	Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr	The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
Sontag, Susan	Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality.
Sophocles	It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles	To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.
Soul, Julia	If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Southey, Robert	Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Southey, Robert	No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
Spalding, John Lancaster	All that we possess is qualified by what we are.
Spanish proverb	How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.
Spanish proverb	How lovely it is to rest and then do nothing afterwards.
Spanish proverb	Life is short, but it’s wide.
Spence, Gerry	To freely bloom—that is my definition of success.
Spender, J. A.	Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.
Spender, Stephen	When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
Spiers, Elizabeth	There’s a certain joy in being really, really bad at something and doing it anyway.
Spock, Benjamin	Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Springsteen, Bruce	There are many complicated issues, but, hey, there are many people of good will. There are some ports in the storm.
Spurgeon, Charles	Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.
Spurgeon, Charles	Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
Spurgeon, Charles	There was a story of a duke who boarded a galley ship and went below to talk with the criminals manning the oars. He asked several of them what their offenses were. Almost every man claimed he was innocent, blaming someone else or accusing the judge of taking a bribe. At last he came to one poor fellow who said, “Sir, I deserve to be here. I stole some money; no one is to blame but myself. I am guilty.” The duke turned to the officer and said, “Here, take this wicked man away from these innocent men, lest he corrupt them.” And he ordered him set at liberty.
Spurgeon, Charles	Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as it is to spend it well.
St. James, Elaine	Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.
St. Johns, Adela Rogers	Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness. Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you’re lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
Staal, David	Noticing a child’s efforts will provide you with better, more abundant fodder than waiting for accomplishments.
Staal, David	Slow down to look and listen. Life happens fast.
Staal, David	When a parent makes it a point to understand what his or her child likely feels in a situation—rather than simply focusing on the situation itself—then that parent gains an excellent opportunity to speak life-changing words.
Stael, Madame de	Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.
Stael, Madame de	Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Stafford, William	Kids: They dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.
Stair, Nadine	If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.
Stanley, Andy	There in the midst of unjust treatment and seemingly underserved pain, the true character of a man or woman is revealed. Pretense is peeled away.
Stanley, Andy	Ultimately, friendships will determine the direction and quality of all of our lives.
Stark, Freya	The world has become too full of many things, an overfurnished room.
Stark, Freya Madeline	There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Staubach, Roger	Wehril’s become one of my best receivers.[After Roger Wehril, defensive back for the Rams, picked off three of his passes in one game.]
Steele, Liane	Be assured that you’ll always have time for the things you put first.
Steele, Richard	Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
Steele, Richard	Simplicity, of all things, is the hardest to be copied.
Steele, Richard	The way to cheerfulness is to keep our bodies in exercise and our minds at ease.
Stefiuk, Jonathan	Finding myself by process of elimination.
Steiger, Rod	If you can gain control over 60 percent of the time in your life, you are really successful.
Stein, Gertrude	It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Stein, Gertrude	We are always the same age inside.
Stein, H.	Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.
Stein, Joseph Allen	The possibilities are tremendous. The probabilities are terrible.
Stein, Leo	The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man because it is different from his own.
Steinbeck, John	And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
Steinbeck, John	It is the nature of man as he grows older to protest against change, particularly change for the better.
Steinbeck, John	We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
Steinem, Gloria	If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck but you think it’s a pig, it’s a pig.
Steinem, Gloria	The first problem is not to learn but to unlearn.
Steinem, Gloria	Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Steinem, Gloria	You’re always the person you were when you were born. You just keep finding new ways to express it.
Stekel, Wilhelm	Anxiety is fear of one’s self.
Stengel, Casey	Most ball games are lost, not won.
Stengel, Casey	The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
Stephen, Leslie	A dull autobiography has never been written.
Stephen, Leslie	The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.
Stephen, Leslie	Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.
Stevens, Cat	I always knew that looking back at my tears would make me laugh, but I never thought that looking back at my laughter would make me cry.
Stevens, Wallace	A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
Stevens, Wallace	I was the world in which I walked.
Stevens, Wallace	In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills, and a cloud.
Stevens, Wallace	Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake or park.
Stevenson, Gary	My plan to achieve this was relatively simple: sit at the front of every lecture and class, and make sure I understood everything that every professor and class teacher said.
Stevenson, Howard	Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.
Stevenson, Ralf	It doesn’t matter what road you take, hill you climb, or path you’re on, you will always end up in the same place, learning.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	A man finds he was been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Everyone lives by selling something.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	If you want a person’s faults, go the those who love him. They will not tell you but they know.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air, that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	It is the first part of intelligence to recognize our precarious estate in life, and the first part of courage to be not at all abashed before the fact.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace like the ticking of a clock during a thunderstorm.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	The best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	The best things in life are nearest. Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it or perish, and if that is so, why not now, and where you stand?
Stewart, Jon	Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age.
Stewart, Marjabelle Young	An obituary is not the same as a newspaper notice of death. Obituaries are newspaper reports on the death of a famous (or infamous) person. The family cannot request or buy them.
Stewart, Marjabelle Young	As a strict point of etiquette, you do not thank them for the food, but rather, for the pleasant evening.
Stewart, Marjabelle Young	between you and I People who are trying hard to sound literate often use this expression; the correct one is “between you and me.”
Stewart, Marjabelle Young	Cries of “brava” (for a female singer) and “bravo” (for a male singer) will be heard for particularly splendid performances.
Stewart, Marjabelle Young	either Either an “e” or an “i” pronunciation is fine.
Stewart, Marjabelle Young	Elderly people take precedence over younger people, which means that younger people are always introduced to older people: “Grandmother, may I present Bill Jones, a school friend of mine, Bill, this is my grandmother, Mrs. Harrington.”
Stewart, Marjabelle Young	Food is supposed to be passed counterclockwise, but far more important than this fine point of etiquette is that all the food be passed in the same direction simply because this makes good logistical sense.
Stewart, Marjabelle Young	If you are seated, do not touch your napkin or any food until after grace.
Stewart, Marjabelle Young	It should go without saying (but does not in these days of abundant paper napkins) that a napkin should never, under any circumstances be used as a substitute handkerchief. I can think of few things more inconsiderate to one’s hostess or waitress or waiter than to have to clear away a napkin that has doubled as a handkerchief.
Stewart, Marjabelle Young	Your flatware can be used to signal a waiter (assuming he or she knows his trade) regarding whether you have finished eating or not. When you are merely resting between bites, place your knife and fork (tines down or up) across one another. When you are finished, place them parallel to one side or the other on your plate.
Stilgoe, John R.	Go outside and walk a bit, long enough to take in and record new surroundings. Enjoy the best-kept secret around—the ordinary, everyday landscape that touches any explorer with magic.
Stiller, Jerry	Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.
Stills, Stephen	Fear is the lock, and laughter the key to your heart.
Stiritz, William	The prize goes to the person who sees the future the quickest.
Stoddard, Alexandra	Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream and to get in touch with yourself…To putter is to discover.
Stokowski, Leopold	A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music and you provide the silence.
Stokowski, Leopold	It is not necessary to understand music; it is only necessary that one enjoy it.
Stoloff, Laura	Favorite place in the world? I don’t know yet.
Stone, Irving	Art is a staple, like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man’s spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
Stone, W. Clement	To every disadvantage, there is a corresponding advantage.
Stoppard, Tom	Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order; you can nudge the world a little.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher	I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher	Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher	The past, the present and the future are really one—they are today.
Strauss, Richard	Never look at the trombones. You’ll only encourage them. (On conducting)
Stravinsky, Igor	I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Stravinsky, Igor	I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
Stravinsky, Igor	Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church’s greatest ornament.
Stravinsky, Igor	My music is best understood by children and animals.
Stravinsky, Igor	Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Strayed, Cheryl	Each day on the trail was the only possible preparation for the one that followed.
Strayed, Cheryl	It took me years to be the woman my mother raised.
Strayed, Cheryl	The trees were tall but I was taller.
Strayed, Cheryl	There is a sunrise and sunset each day and you can be there for it and choose to put yourself in the way of beauty. This has the power to fill you up again if you let it.
Streep, Meryl	Pretending is a very valuable life skill.
Streisand, Barbra	I discovered the “something” in “nothing.”
Stutzman, Paul	Each hiker at the table is simply asked, “How many?” The answer determines the size of breakfast served. A “Three” got you three of everything: eggs, bacon, sausage and pancakes. There was no limit on the number.
Stutzman, Paul	Hike your own hike.
Stutzman, Paul	How children interpret our words, our tone, our intent, will play a large role in shaping their own characters. Our words affect tour children’s destinies too.
Stutzman, Paul	I’d complete my hike in one season; he would complete his hike after fifty years. Satisfaction in reaching goals does not always lie in the speed with which we achieve them; sometimes the satisfaction rises from overcoming obstacles and gaining wisdom in our journeys. How often do we dream of a goal, finally reach it, and then wonder, Is that all there is? Don’t forget to live on your journey.
Stutzman, Paul	If you can’t carry it in your heart or on your back, you probably don’t need it.
Stutzman, Paul	Until and unless we live through and understand our pain, we will never be a good partner to anyone in the future.
Styron, William	A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
Suckling, John	‘Tis not the meat, but ’tis the appetite makes eating a delight.
Sulimirski, Eddie	Became more like myself every year.
Sullivan, Paul	A famous study on selecting jars of jam in a gourmet grocery store: When people were shown twenty-four jars of jam, they purchased one 3 percent of the time; when they were shown only six, they bought a jar 30 percent of the time. In both cases, the number of jams available to taste was the same, but the appearance of greater choice overwhelmed people into doing nothing.
Sullivan, Paul	To start miles ahead of everyone else may sound wonderful, but without any understanding of the work it took to get there does a disservice to children, young and old. Money that is just doled out can rob people of the excitement of “becoming.” Parents who make sure they don’t rob their children of that opportunity to become whatever they are going to be is one divider of people who are wealthy and rich.
Sullivan, Paul	You only need so much stuff, but you can never have enough stories.
Sumner, William Graham	I have never discarded beliefs deliberately. I left them in the drawer, and, after a while, when I opened it, there was nothing there at all.
Sunshine Magazine	A farmer hired a man to sort his potato crop. He told him to separate the potatoes into three piles, one for the small ones, one for the medium size and one for the large ones. After a couple of hours the man told the farmer he was quitting his job. He seemed flustered and his brow was wet from perspiration. “Is the work too hard for you?” the farmer asked. “No,” he answered, “but all the decisions are killing me.”
Sunshine Magazine	A man’s car stalled in the heavy traffic as the light turned green. All his efforts to start the engine failed, and a chorus of honking behind him made matters worse. He finally got out of his car and walked back to the first driver. “I’m very sorry,” he said, “but I can’t seem to get my car started. If you’ll go up there and give it a try, I’ll stay here and blow your horn for you.”
Sunshine Magazine	Patient: “Doctor, is there anything wrong with me? Don’t frighten me half to death by giving it a long scientific name. Just tell me in plain English.”Doctor: “Well, to be perfectly frank, you are just plain lazy.”Patient: “Thank you doctor. Now please give me the scientific name for it so I can tell the family.”
Sunshine Magazine	Weary of the constant disorder of her sons’ room, a mother laid down the law: For every item she had to pick up off the floor, they would have to pay her a nickel. At the end of a week, the boys owed her 65 cents. She received the money promptly—along with a 50-cent tip and a note that read, “Thanks, Mom, keep up the good work!”
Sussman, Aaron	Walking is the exercise that needs no gym. It is the prescription without medicine, the weight control without diet, the cosmetic that is sold in no drugstore. It is the tranquilizer without a pill, the therapy without a psychoanalyst, the fountain of youth that is no legend. A walk is the vacation that does not cost a cent.
Sutten, D.	Find the grain of truth in criticism—chew it and swallow it.
Sutter, John J.	These are the good old days we will be longing for a few years from now.
Suyin, Han	Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
Suzuki, Shunryu	In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.
Swan, Jane	How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
Swanberg, Dennis	If you dine alone, you miss the best part of the meal: the fellowship.
Swedish proverb	A good spectator also creates.
Swedish proverb	God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Swedish proverb	Luck never gives; it only lends.
Sweeney, Jon M.	As a writer and editor, I work in silence much of the time. But I also find that too much silence can turn a good thing into bad. It can be a breeding ground for false ideas about myself or others—that’s the anger. It can be a time when I don’t have others around me to balance my feelings and challenge my ideas—and that can bring on fear and small-scale depression.
Sweeney, Jon M.	Every honest writer will tell you that there is always some ego involved in publishing a book.
Sweeney, Jon M.	Thomas Merton had written so many books by the time he turned fifty that words began to feel noisy to him. The photography offered another way of speaking, seeing, and gesturing. For him, it was both a new way of “articulating the silence” of his life, and an “antidote to the noisiness of the world.”
Sweeney, Jon M.	Thomas Merton liked to walk in the predawn hours as the mist was rising, observing wrens, cardinals, woodpeckers, and the occasional mockingbird along the way.
Sweetgall, Robert	We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down.
Sweeting, George	“I lose my temper, but it’s all over in a minute,” said the student. “So is the hydrogen bomb,” I replied. “But think of the damage it produces!”
Swift, Jonathan	A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
Swift, Jonathan	Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
Swift, Jonathan	No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Swift, Jonathan	Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Swift, Jonathan	We are so fond of one another because our ailments are the same.
Swindoll, Charles	Allow your children the joys of childhood.
Swindoll, Charles	An orderly life is like an orderly closet; it looks good and it serves its intended purpose.
Swindoll, Charles	Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Swindoll, Charles	Never forget, isolation is a potent killer.
Swindoll, Charles	We are invariably drawn to come back home not because of where it is but because of what it represents.
Swisher, Kara	In the early 1990’s, tech seemed far too techie and niche. Home computers were not yet household products. Laptops, such as the Apple PowerBook and IBM ThinkPad, were used largely for business, and the modems used to dial up these services were agonizingly slow. And Wi-Fi did not exist.
Swisher, Kara	That day in the cramped computer lab in Durham, I realized that we were at yet another critical turn in history, when technology ushers in a new age. I was witnessing the dawn of the printing press, electricity, the light bulb, the telegraph, the radio, the telephone, or the television. It was obvious to me that this innovation was the next great content and communications delivery system. Most of all, I knew I had struck gold. I was fully on board for the Internet age, and however it evolved, I wanted to cover it.
Swisher, Kara	The technology was expanding dramatically just as it was intended to do. In mid-1993, there were only 130 web sites, with only 1.5 percent having commercial “.com” designations. A year later, there were close to 3,000. And, by the time I met Steve Case at AOL in 1994, there were ten times that—and then a hundred times again soon enough.
Syrus, Publilius	An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Syrus, Publilius	Good thoughts, even if they are forgotten, do not perish.
Syrus, Publilius	It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.
Szell, George	In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
Tagore, Rabindranath	I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
Tagore, Rabindranath	I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Taitz, Jennifer	Peace of mind isn’t life feeling easy—it’s knowing you can cope regardless of what shows up in your life.
Taleb, Nicholas	Learn to fail with pride—and do so fast and cleanly. Maximize trail and error—by mastering the error part.
Talley, Andre Leon	A fat man is always a fat man on the inside, no matter how skinny he becomes on the outside.
Talley, Andre Leon	After her divorce, she always seemed a displaced person, as if she could not be moored to an arc of security or safe haven. She was never attached to anything sentimental: furniture, framed photographs, books, record albums, old clothes, linens. With my grandmother to look after me, my mother was not tied down emotionally to anything.
Talley, Andre Leon	Having huge breakfasts: bacon with biscuits and butter, and grits with molasses. These would be followed by lunches and dinners with all my favorite comfort foods. Everything I ate as a child. Everything I associated with love and comfort and a safe, secure home.
Talmud	A carpenter who has no tools is not a carpenter.
Talmud	A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.
Talmud	Don’t threaten a child: Either punish him or forgive him.
Talmud	More people die from overeating than from undernourishment.
Talmudic saying	A rabbi whose congregation does not want to drive him out of town isn’t a rabbi.
Tao	I have three treasures. Guard them and keep them safe! The first is love; the second is moderation; the third is humility. From love, one gains courage; from moderation one gains ability; from humanity one achieves greatness.
Tao	To know you have enough is to be rich.
Taoist sage	Feet on the ground occupy very little space; it’s through all the space they don’t occupy that we can walk.
Tarkington, Booth	An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Tartakower, Savielly	Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-the-last mistake.
Taylor, Jeremy	He that is choice of his time will also be choice of his company and choice of his actions, lest he be throwing his time and himself away.
Teale, Edwin	Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
Teale, Edwin Way	It takes days of practice to learn the art of sauntering. Commonly we stride through the out-of-doors too swiftly to see more than the most obvious and prominent things.For observing nature, the best pace is a snail’s pace.
Teasdale, Sara	I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Teasdale, Sara	You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Tegan	Would you like you if you met you?
Teller, Edward	For every foolproof system, there is a bigger fool.
Tench, R. C.	That which the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.
Tennyson, Alfred Lord	He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Tennyson, Alfred Lord	Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.
Terence	I am human; nothing human is alien to me.
Teresa of Avila	When you have grown still on purpose while everything around you is asking for chaos, you will find the doors between every room of the interior castle thrown open, the path home to your true love unobstructed after all.
Terkel, Studs	I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you.
Terkel, Studs	I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.
Terry, Beth	Your life is defined by the choices you make minute by minute, day by day. We improve or sabotage ourselves one breath at a time.
Terry, Clark	Desire to excel. You’ve got to want to play better than everybody.
Terry, Clark	Keep on keepin’ on.
Terry, Clark	Many players don’t study themselves enough. They don’t know what their shortcomings are. Some of them can’t if they try because they don’t practice.
Terry, Clark	When I started out, learning a new song was almost like acquiring a new toy. That’s when I really started loving what I was doing.
Tetzlaff, Christian	Music is humans’ most advanced achievement. Trying to turn lead into gold is nothing compared to taking something mechanical like an instrument—a string and a bow—and using it to evoke a human soul.
Thackeray, William Makepeace	The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
Thackeray, William Makepeace	The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
Thai monk	We intercede on behalf of all mankind. Then we do laundry. (After being asked his mission in life)
Thaler, Linda	Treat everyone you meet as if they are the most important person in the world—because they are. If not to you, then to someone; and if not today, then perhaps tomorrow.
Thatcher, Margaret	You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Thayer, Nancy	It’s never too late—in fiction or in life—to revise.
The Best of Bits & Pieces	Everyone needs recognition for his accomplishments, but few people make the need known quite as clearly as the little boy who said to his father: “Let’s play darts. I’ll throw and you say ‘Wonderful!”
The Week	An international study found that highly intelligent people tend to be happier when they spend more time alone, working on their goals and interests, and less time socializing with other people.
Thiessen, Leonard	The ultimate in sophistication is simplicity.
Thomas, D. M.	Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.
Thomas, Dave	Opportunities don’t knock at all. They don’t have to, they’re already all around us. It’s up to us to see where they are and take advantage of them.
Thomas, Lewis	Most things get better by themselves. Most things, in fact, are better by morning.
Thomas, Saint	The road that stretches before the feet of a man is a challenge to his heart long before it tests the strength of his legs.
Thompson, Charles	If everyone says you are wrong, you’re one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you’re two steps ahead.
Thompson, Hunter S.	Platitudes are safe, because they’re easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
Thomson, Jimmy	Ben Hogan had three fairways—right, center, and left. The rest of us were lucky we had one. Hogan always hit a shot with the next shot in mind.
Thoreau, Henry David	A heroic walker of three to five hours every day.
Thoreau, Henry David	A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Thoreau, Henry David	A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
Thoreau, Henry David	A true account of the actual is the purest poetry.
Thoreau, Henry David	A wise man has doubts even in his best moments. Real truth is always accompanied by hesitations. If I could not hesitate, I could not believe.
Thoreau, Henry David	Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Thoreau, Henry David	All good abides with him who waiteth wisely.
Thoreau, Henry David	All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Thoreau, Henry David	All our Concord waters have two colors at least: one when viewed at a distance, and another, more proper, close at hand.
Thoreau, Henry David	An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Thoreau, Henry David	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.
Thoreau, Henry David	As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.
Thoreau, Henry David	As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Thoreau, Henry David	As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Thoreau, Henry David	Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
Thoreau, Henry David	Be true to your word, your work, and your friend.
Thoreau, Henry David	Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
Thoreau, Henry David	Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Thoreau, Henry David	Direct your eye right inward, and you’ll find a thousand regions in your mind yet undiscovered. Travel them and be expert in home-cosmography.
Thoreau, Henry David	Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.
Thoreau, Henry David	Everything beautiful impresses us as sufficient to itself.
Thoreau, Henry David	Friends cherish each other’s hopes. They are kind to each other’s dreams.
Thoreau, Henry David	Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Thoreau, Henry David	Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
Thoreau, Henry David	He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.
Thoreau, Henry David	He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
Thoreau, Henry David	Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Thoreau, Henry David	How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book?
Thoreau, Henry David	How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Thoreau, Henry David	I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite—only a sense of existence.
Thoreau, Henry David	I chose to be rich by making my wants few.
Thoreau, Henry David	I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Thoreau, Henry David	I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Thoreau, Henry David	I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Thoreau, Henry David	I have a great deal of company in my house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Thoreau, Henry David	I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks—who had the genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked for charity, under the pretense of going à la Sainte Terre,’ to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, “There goes a Sainte-Terrer,” a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.
Thoreau, Henry David	I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Thoreau, Henry David	I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
Thoreau, Henry David	I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Thoreau, Henry David	I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Thoreau, Henry David	I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o’clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.
Thoreau, Henry David	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.
Thoreau, Henry David	If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Thoreau, Henry David	In a pleasant spring morning all men’s sins are forgiven.
Thoreau, Henry David	In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Thoreau, Henry David	In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.
Thoreau, Henry David	In the wilderness is the salvation of mankind.
Thoreau, Henry David	It is a great art to saunter.
Thoreau, Henry David	It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Thoreau, Henry David	It is the greatest of advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Thoreau, Henry David	It requires a direct dispensation from heaven to become a walker.
Thoreau, Henry David	It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Thoreau, Henry David	Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.
Thoreau, Henry David	Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Thoreau, Henry David	Love of the morning is a measure of health.
Thoreau, Henry David	Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Thoreau, Henry David	Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.
Thoreau, Henry David	Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring.
Thoreau, Henry David	My furniture, part of which I made myself, and the rest cost me nothing of which I have not rendered an account, consisted of a bed, a table, a desk, three chairs, a looking-glass three inches in diameter, a pair of tongs and andirons, a kettle, a skillet, and a frying pan, a dipper, a wash-bowl, two knives and forks, three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil and jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp…A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Thoreau, Henry David	My greatest skill has been to want but little.
Thoreau, Henry David	Nothing must be postponed; find eternity in each moment.
Thoreau, Henry David	Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Thoreau, Henry David	Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify, simplify.
Thoreau, Henry David	Our thoughts are the epochs of our lives; all else is but a journal of the winds that blew while we were here.
Thoreau, Henry David	Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Thoreau, Henry David	Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Thoreau, Henry David	Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Thoreau, Henry David	Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand, instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your account on your thumb-nail.
Thoreau, Henry David	Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
Thoreau, Henry David	Success in business is his who earns a living pursuing his highest pleasure.
Thoreau, Henry David	Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Thoreau, Henry David	That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Thoreau, Henry David	The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Thoreau, Henry David	The cold-weather walker…When you go out on a freezing morning—snow-covered paths and roads, trees on all sides extending bare snow-outlined branches—moving through that immense muffled frozen landscape, then you walk quickly and well, to keep warm by feeling the heat of your own body. The well-being in walking in the cold is partly from that feeling of a small stove burning in your vitals.
Thoreau, Henry David	The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Thoreau, Henry David	The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Thoreau, Henry David	The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until the other is ready.
Thoreau, Henry David	The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour…all the memorable events, I should say, transpire in the morning time and in the morning atmosphere.
Thoreau, Henry David	The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Thoreau, Henry David	The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Thoreau, Henry David	The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Thoreau, Henry David	The sun is but a morning star.
Thoreau, Henry David	The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Thoreau, Henry David	There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Thoreau, Henry David	Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Thoreau, Henry David	Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
Thoreau, Henry David	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.
Thoreau, Henry David	Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Thoreau, Henry David	What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Thoreau, Henry David	What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Thoreau, Henry David	While men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
Thoreau, Henry David	Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Thoreau, Henry David	You don’t walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second.
Thorndike, Edward	Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Thucydides	We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom.
Thurber, James	All human beings should try to learn, before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
Thurber, James	One martini is all right, two is too many, three is not enough.
Thurman, Howard	Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.
Thurman, Howard	The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.
Thurmond, Strom	A government which promises everything must pay its bills with everybody’s money.
Tibbon, Judah Ibn Tzavaah	Retire without supper and rise without debt.
Tibetan proverb	Pain exists to measure pleasure by.
Tibetan proverb	The highest art is the art of living an ordinary life in an extraordinary manner.
Tibetan saying	Signs from the soul come silently, as silently as the sun enters the darkened world.
Tillich, Paul	Love is the drive toward the reunion of the separated.
Tillich, Paul	Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
Tillotson, John	Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.
Tilson, Michael Thomas	A wise friend of my father’s had said to me: “You should not go into music unless it is a compulsion. In the end, all you really have as a center is the music itself. Make sure that you have to be with it every day. If that’s true, the you should become a musician.”
Times-Leader	If you have spunk enough, you can make quite a successful career of doing what others should but would rather not.
Tindell, Kip	Studies show that the average American spends nearly an hour a day looking for things—a bit more than fifteen days a year that could be spent on happier, more productive pursuits.
Tindell, Kip	There are literally and truly millions of original, sustainable business ideas out there right now, just waiting for the right entrepreneurs to bring them into being.
Tindell, Kip	When students or aspiring entrepreneurs ask me how they can tell if their business idea is any good, I always use the analogy of musicians who made a hit record. Almost every time, I’m sure, they knew they had a winner while they were recording it and listening to it in the studio. They just knew. There was no doubt it would be a huge hit from the moment they walked out of the studio. We certainly didn’t feel that way when we were wandering around the wilderness with a handmade furniture concept called Basics—that one just never felt right. But once we developed the storage and organization concept and came up with the name The Container Store, we were so excited that we knew customers would feel the same way. We just knew.
Tobin, Pat	When parents say to kids, “Go to your room & think about what you’ve done,” it’s really good practice for what you’ll do every night as an adult.
Todd, Michael	How do you want your NO, fast or slow?
Toffler, Alvin	The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Tolkien, J. R. R.	It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
Tolkien, J. R. R.	It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
Tolkien, J. R. R.	Not all those who wander are lost.
Tolkien, J. R. R.	Not all who wander are lost.
Tolkien, J.R.R. (Bilbo Baggins)	I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been.
Tolle, Eckhart	Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Tolle, Eckhart	Always say “yes” to the present moment.
Tolle, Eckhart	Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Tolle, Eckhart	The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the now, the most precious thing there is. Life is now.
Tolle, Eckhart	Wisdom comes with the ability to be still.
Tolstoy, Leo	A woman accidentally dropped a precious pearl into the sea, and she started to scoop ocean water with a spade, one cup after another. A sea-sprite came to her and said, “When will you stop scooping the water?” The woman said, “When I have taken all the water from the sea, and retrieved my pearl from the bottom.” Then the sea-sprite retrieved the pearl and returned it to her.
Tolstoy, Leo	All really great things are happening in slow and inconspicuous ways.
Tolstoy, Leo	Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Tolstoy, Leo	Art is the activity whereby a person makes a conscious attempt to use the particular means at his disposal to transmit his feelings to others so that they feel them as intensely as he does.
Tolstoy, Leo	Learn what to do, think, and say the truth at all times. Only when you start to learn this can you understand how far we are from real truth.
Tolstoy, Leo	Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Tolstoy, Leo	People can live without need and without jealousy only when they lead a life of moderation.
Tolstoy, Leo	Really true, good, and great things are always simple.
Tolstoy, Leo	The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.
Tolstoy, Leo	There is nothing in the world that should not be expressed in such a way that an affectionate seven-year-old boy can see and understand it.
Tolstoy, Leo	When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
Tolstoy, Leo	You can look at life as death, and death as an awakening.
Tomlin, Lily	Behind every failure there is an opportunity someone wishes they had missed.
Tomlin, Lily	Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Tomlin, Lily	The best mind-altering drug is truth.
Torgeby, Markus	Everything that I do demands an effort. If I want the water to heart up or if something has to dry, I must fix it; no one else will do it for me. Make a fire or go cold, it’s as simple as that, I like the clarity.
Torgeby, Markus	I had to go back to basics in order to find my way. I fed on solitude and nature.
Torgeby, Markus	I’ve a thousand ideas going round and round in my head. It’s difficult to switch off when it’s quiet, because then there’s nothing to distract one’s thoughts.
Torgeby, Markus	If you are never silent and never look at yourself from the outside, you will end up living a life that isn’t yours.
Tourles, Stephanie	The best treatment for feet encased in shoes all day is to go barefoot. One-fifth of the world’s population never wears shoes—ever! But when people who usually go barefoot usually wear shoes, their feet begin to suffer. As often as possible, walk barefoot on the beach, in your yard, or at least around the house. Walking in the grass or sand massages your feet, strengthens your muscles and feels very relaxing…If you can cut back on wearing shoes by 30 percent, you will save wear and tear on your feet and extend the life of your shoes.
Tourles, Stephanie	Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal.
Tournier, Paul	No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.
Tournier, Paul	Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Towers, Sheryl	Growth comes when we aim for our ideal, and not necessarily when we achieve it.
Town & Country	When you are finished speaking, punctuate the end of your toast by asking guests to raise their glasses (done by extending the arm straight out from the shoulder, not over your head like a flag) and drinking to the honoree(s). It is customary to delicately tap glasses with the people closest to you; it is not necessary to stretch across the table in order to accommodate those outside arm’s reach. All that’s required is a nod and a smile. If the toast is being offered in your honor do not drink. Wait until everyone takes a ceremonial sip, and then stand to offer your thanks…briefly.
Townsend, Chris	More backpacking trips are ruined by sore feet than by all other causes combined. Pounded by the ground below and the weight of you and your pack above, your feet receive harsher treatment than any other part of your body.
Toynbee, Arnold	The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Tracy, Brian	We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.
Tracy, Brian	You are always moving in the direction of your most dominant thoughts.
Trevelyan, G. M.	I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
Trevelyan, G. M.	There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
Trevelyan, George Macauley	After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.
Trevino, Lee	Heck, I wish they’d make the gallery ropes out of bounds. We’re the only sport that plays in the audience.
Trevino, Lee	My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.
Trevino, Lee	Remember Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.
Trevino, Lee	You can talk to a fade but a hook won’t listen.
Trevino, Lee	You never learn to play golf on a golf course—the place to learn how to play golf is on the practice range.
Trobisch, Ingrid	Writing forces us to articulate our innermost feelings.
Trotsky, Leon	Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
Trotsky, Leon	Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
Truman, Harry S.	I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Truman, Harry S.	Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Trussel, Duncan	When you first meet him, you’re meeting his bodyguard. His bodyguard is smart and charming, and keeps people out. Deep inside, his true self is very human, which is to say beautiful and kind of a mess—needy, insecure, judgmental, like most of us. It is full of love, warmth, and rage.
Tschetter, Kris	What’s worse than losing? Most people’s answer is that there is nothing worse than losing, but there is—Not playing at all is worse than losing.
Tully, Byron	“Networking” among Old Money is done very, very diplomatically. When you tell someone what you do or what your are interested in doing for a living, wait for them to inquire further about it. Do not press. Old Money can spot a sales pitch a mile away.
Tully, Byron	“See that coffee table? It’s two hundred years old. Put your feet on it. Put your drink on it. We don’t care. We use our things. Just don’t get so drunk you fall and break it. Mother would go nuts.”
Tully, Byron	A good regimen for reading is to alternate: read a book that you want to read about a subject that interests you, a guilty pleasure, even. Then read a book that you should read, a classic.
Tully, Byron	A nice car is nice. A nice bank account is nicer.
Tully, Byron	Americans have a bad habit of asking people what they do for a living upon an initial introduction.
Tully, Byron	An Old Money saying: It should take someone five minutes to realize that you’re well-dressed.
Tully, Byron	Buy a well-maintained used car that costs no more than ten percent of your yearly income.
Tully, Byron	Cow’s milk is expensive and unnecessary for good health. It is a processed food. Avoid it.
Tully, Byron	Don’t think about working an eight-hour day or a ten-hour day. Focus on working for 45 minutes at a time, addressing whatever task is at hand, without interruption or procrastination. Then take a break if you can. Then go back to work for another 45 minutes. You’ll get more done in less time.
Tully, Byron	Don’t try to be funny. You’re either funny or you’re not. In either case, use humor cautiously during an initial conversation. Do not tell jokes. Do not do a stand-up comedy routine. You may tell brief—emphasis on brief—interesting stories about things you have done or want to do. Immediately after doing so, however, direct the conversation back to the person or persons you’re talking with. Ask about their interests.
Tully, Byron	Good travel guides: Fodor’s Travel Guides, Frommer’s Travel Guides, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides.
Tully, Byron	If you are a man, never, ever abandon a woman who may be in danger, regardless of the situation. Come to her defense. If you are a woman, never, ever allow a man to be accused or humiliated unjustly by others. Come to his defense.
Tully, Byron	If you are just starting out or staring over, feel free to rent rather than rush into owning a primary residence. Old Money seeks financial independence first, if they do not already have it, and then seek the comfort of owning a primary residence later.
Tully, Byron	If you came alone, leave alone. If you came with a guest, leave with that guest, unless they are driving and have been drinking. Then inform your host.
Tully, Byron	If you’ve only read what’s required for school or work, you’re living half a life.
Tully, Byron	Less stuff, more room.
Tully, Byron	Old Money chooses the neighborhood first and the house second. Better to live in a smaller residence in a better neighborhood than a bigger residence in a lesser neighborhood.
Tully, Byron	Old Money considers what each purchase will cost. Not just what it will cost to buy, but what it will cost to own.
Tully, Byron	Old Money doesn’t live with white walls. They’re too stark. Paint can soften a room’s atmosphere and encourage relaxation, or stimulate it (like red for a dining room) and contribute to appetite and conversation. Use it.
Tully, Byron	Old Money has a small percentage of its overall net worth invested in a primary residence because a primary residence is primarily an expense and not an income-producing asset. Members of the middle class will save and borrow in order to purchase a primary residence which will do nothing but require future expenditures to maintain. The mortgage will also be the largest monthly expense of the household. Opportunities for career advancement, savings, or investment may be missed if the mortgage is too large or consumes too much of the household budget.
Tully, Byron	Old Money is an investor, not a consumer.
Tully, Byron	Old Money knows that so much of life depends on the ability to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, whether you like it or not. Indeed, this may be the major lesson in all of formal education.
Tully, Byron	Old Money lives far below its means, especially with regards to housing, because a home ownership or rent can be the largest expense in the household budget.
Tully, Byron	Old Money social events are upbeat. Conversation is lively and optimistic. Tragedy, personal problems and unpleasant topics are not discussed.
Tully, Byron	Old Money, if it does not inherit a home, will rent first, keeping and conservatively investing the money it would have put into a down payment. It will purchase a primary residence later in life, make a larger down payment, have lower monthly payments, and more financial independence.
Tully, Byron	People try to solve an emotional issue with a financial decision. Old Money doesn’t do this. It solves its emotional problems by objective self-examination and sets them apart from financial decisions.
Tully, Byron	Read the plays of William Shakespeare (or the 17th Earl of Oxford, if you prefer); the poems of Walt Whitman, the short stores of Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving; the novels of Charles Dickens; the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson; the meditations of Marcus Aurelius; the life of Lord Byron; the thoughts of Tagore.
Tully, Byron	Sort out emotional issues, which are often at the core of overeating, by being honest with yourself about things that bother you. Discuss them with a trusted friend or competent professional. Get some answers, make some choices. Move forward without using food as a crutch or a weapon to beat yourself up with.
Tully, Byron	The ability to engage in conversation comfortably and enjoyably with people one has never met is a hallmark of Old Money. For the shy or inexperienced, it simply requires the practice of a few fundamentals.
Tully, Byron	The money sits in savings or money market accounts, doing little, but not going anywhere, either.
Tully, Byron	The quality of the material you read will either elevate your intellectual abilities or erode them. You are also trading precious time to load ideas into your brain. Select your materials with care.
Tully, Byron	There’s no comfort in relaxation if you haven’t experienced the contrast of challenging work.
Tully, Byron	Unlike most people, Old Money has made a budget and keeps it in mind when making decisions regarding expenditures.
Tully, Byron	Wear a sweater. Open a window. Light a fire. Turn on a fan. Central air is money.
Tully, Byron	When asked a question, respond honestly but diplomatically. Elaborate a little, but remember: conversation is an exchange. One word answers can kill it, but so can monologues.
Tully, Byron	When traveling, send postcards to friends, family, and yourself.
Tupper, Martin Farquhar	Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Turansky, Scott and Miller, Joanne	The greatest enemy of listening is wanting to tell your own story.
Turkish proverb	Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
Turkish proverb	No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
Turkish proverb	None is so rich as to throw away a friend.
Turkish saying	Measure a thousand times, cut once.
Tutu, Desmond	My father used to say, “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.”
Tversky, Amos	The nice thing about things that are urgent is that if you wait long enough they aren’t urgent anymore.
Twain, Mark	A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Twain, Mark	Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more.
Twain, Mark	Drag your thoughts away from your troubles…by the ears, by the heels or any other way you can manage it. It’s the healthiest thing a body can do.
Twain, Mark	Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
Twain, Mark	Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Twain, Mark	Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience; this is the ideal life.
Twain, Mark	Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Twain, Mark	I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Twain, Mark	I’m an old man who has known a great many problems, most of which never happened.
Twain, Mark	It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
Twain, Mark	It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
Twain, Mark	It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Twain, Mark	It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they’re still rolling.
Twain, Mark	The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everybody else up.
Twain, Mark	The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.
Twain, Mark	The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Twain, Mark	The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Twain, Mark	The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Twain, Mark	Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
Twain, Mark	We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
Twain, Mark	We like the people who say straight out what they think—provided they think the same as us!
Twain, Mark	Work like you don’t need the money.Dance like no one is watching.And love like you’ve never been hurt.
Twain, Mark	You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
Tyger, Frank	Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
Tyson, Mike	Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
Tyson, Mike	There’s nothing wrong with being afraid of somebody. Just never be intimidated.
Tzu, Chuang	It is the wise person who sees near and far as the same, does not despise the small or value the great.
Tzu, Chuang	The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.
Tzu, Chuang	To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Tzu, Chuang	Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
Tzu, Lao	A good walker leaves no tracks.
Tzu, Lao	Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Tzu, Lao	I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Tzu, Lao	Lao Tzu fell asleep and dreamt he was a butterfly. Upon waking he asked, “Am I a man who has just been dreaming that he was a butterfly? Or a sleeping butterfly now dreaming he is a man?”
Tzu, Lao	Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.
Tzu, Lao	Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Tzu, Lao	Questions confine answers. When there are no longer questions, answers are no longer bound by them.
Tzu, Lao	Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Tzu, Lao	Simplicity is the highest quality of expression. It is that quality to which art comes in its supreme moments. It makes the final stage of growth. It is the rarest, as it is the most precious result which men secure in their self-training.
Tzu, Lao	To attain knowledge, add things every day.To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
Udler, Wilfred	Dreams reflect current and future unsolved problems and rehearse their possible solutions.
Ueland, Brenda	For me, a long five-or six-mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.
Uldrick, Bess Streeter	Love is the light that you see by.
Ulmer, Ernestine	Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
Unknown	“Acre” literally means the amount of land plowable in one day.
Unknown	“No” is a vitamin that makes you grow and makes you strong.
Unknown	2 activities for a couple that they like together, is key to successful relationship.
Unknown	2 billion people are overweight or have obesity (out of world population of 8 billion.)
Unknown	50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells all while you have been reading this sentence.
Unknown	51,000 people can fit onto a football field if they stand really close together.
Unknown	75% of the Earth’s population has no postal address.
Unknown	78% of women say they would love to receive a romantic letter or poem, but only 50% of men have ever written either.
Unknown	80 Percent Rule…Eat until you are 80 percent full. The idea behind the adage is that it takes about 20 minutes for the stomach to tell the brain it is full. Under-eating, as the theory goes, slows down the body’s metabolism in a way such that it produces fewer damaging oxidants—agents that rust the body from within. Unlike most Americans, who keep eating until their stomachs are full, you should stop as soon as you no longer feel hungry. This practice has another advantage. It provides a helpful nudge to stay fit. The 20 percent gap between not being hungry and feeling full could be the difference between losing weight and gaining it.
Unknown	90% of all the data ever produced by humans was created in the last two years.
Unknown	94% of the world’s information is stored digitally.
Unknown	A 4-year-old asks an average of 437 questions a day.
Unknown	A bad habit is at first a caller, then a guest, and at last a master.
Unknown	A birthday is the start of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the ride.
Unknown	A boat is usually 6 times longer than it is wide—ratio used by modern shipbuilders.
Unknown	A bolt of lightning goes 20,000 miles a second.
Unknown	A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read.
Unknown	A difficult fact to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.
Unknown	A five-year-old boy comes to the counter super excited. He’s holding a picture book about beavers. I need to scan the bar-code, but he doesn’t want to give me the book. “I don’t wanna lose my page,” he says. “I’ll put a bookmark in it for you.” “What’s a bookmark?” I put the decorative paper rectangle in his book. “Now you can open right back to your page.” His mind is blown.
Unknown	A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
Unknown	A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn’t.
Unknown	A girl received a letter from her boy friend who was away at college. He wrote, “Dear Sweetheart, I want you to know that I love you. I am not rich like Harry, I am not good-looking like Joe, I don’t have a convertible like Mike, but I do love you.” She immediately wrote a very short note back saying “Dear Sweetheart, I love you also; but could you tell me more about Harry, Joe and Mike?”
Unknown	A group of two hundred executives were asked what makes a person successful. Eighty percent listed enthusiasm as the most important quality.
Unknown	A half truth may be the wrong half.
Unknown	A hug is a handshake from the heart.
Unknown	A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.
Unknown	A husband is one who stands by you in troubles you wouldn’t have had if you hadn’t married him.
Unknown	A large man can perspire up to 5 gallons of water a day.
Unknown	A lie has speed, truth has endurance.
Unknown	A lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
Unknown	A man fell asleep in his usual place in a commuter train. Somewhat unusually, the train stopped just short of the station, waiting for the signal to change. The man woke up with a start, sprang up, opened the carriage door, stepped out and fell onto the track. But he quickly climbed back in again. As he shut the door, he said to his fellow passengers, “I bet you think I’m really stupid!” Then he walked across to the other door, opened it, and fell out onto the embankment.
Unknown	A man is never too busy to talk about how busy he is.
Unknown	A man who buys a book is not just buying a few ounces of paper, glue and printer’s ink; he may be buying a whole new life.
Unknown	A man’s acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
Unknown	A man’s greatest strength develops at the point where he overcomes his greatest weakness.
Unknown	A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
Unknown	A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
Unknown	A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn, stabbed to death by a quip, or worried to death by a frown.
Unknown	A New Orleans manufacturing firm announced that it would award twenty-five dollars for any money-saving ideas submitted by employees. The first payment went to the man who suggested the award be cut to ten dollars.
Unknown	A pilot came aboard a large tanker to help bring it into harbor. The captain asked him if he really knew where all the rocks were. “No,” he replied, “but I know where there aren’t any!”
Unknown	A pint of milk in a supermarket can contain milk from over a thousand different cows.
Unknown	A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
Unknown	A radio-broadcast voice will be heard 13,000 miles away before it is heard at the back of the room in which it originated.
Unknown	A raindrop that falls into the Thames will pass through the bodies of eight people before it reaches the sea.
Unknown	A raw carrot is still alive when you eat it.
Unknown	A scientist has it figured out that in 36,000,000 years the moon will be close enough to the earth to create tides 650 feet high. That would endanger the safety of most of the inhabitants of the globe. Well, we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.
Unknown	A small hurricane releases energy equivalent to the explosions of six atomic bombs per second.
Unknown	A smile is a passport that will take you anywhere you want to go.
Unknown	A square mile of sunlight weighs about three pounds. Sunlight has weight because it exerts pressure on anything it encounters. If all the sunlight reaching Earth could be weighed, it would tip the scales at more than 87,000 tons.
Unknown	A strength carried to excess becomes a weakness.
Unknown	A thief broke into my house last night and started to search for money. So I got up and started searching with him!
Unknown	A toddler uses the same amount of energy in a day as an adult on a 30-mile run.
Unknown	A trained walker can walk a 26.2-mile marathon in eight hours or less, or walk 20 to 30 miles in a day. Steadily building your mileage with training allows you to walk long distances with less risk of injury.
Unknown	A wise man’s question contains half the answer.
Unknown	A wise person will desire no more than he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
Unknown	Abundance, unless we use the utmost care, destroys discipline.
Unknown	Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Unknown	After just four moves in a game of chess, there are 318,979,564,000 possibilities for the layout of the board.
Unknown	Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost state in the USA.
Unknown	All the unhappiness of man stems from one thing only: That he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.
Unknown	Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose.
Unknown	Amateurs work until they get it right. Professionals work until they can’t get it wrong.
Unknown	An “Insect of the Month” calendar wouldn’t have to repeat a species for more than 80,000 years.
Unknown	An easy way to make a bad day better is to smile at everyone you meet.
Unknown	An English person from 2013 could not understand an English person from 1300 without a translator.
Unknown	An error doesn’t become a mistake until you choose to ignore it.
Unknown	An expert in one field is no expert if one field is all he knows.
Unknown	An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Unknown	Andrew Jackson’s parrot shouted obscenities at his funeral.
Unknown	Any meaningful idea in business is able to be stated in less than one minute.
Unknown	Art is older than humanity.
Unknown	As a result, one’s strength levels decrease with each missed workout. In fact, studies have shown that a high level of strength development show measurable degeneration after as little as 96 hours of normal activity. (4 days)
Unknown	At any given moment, there are 1,800 thunderstorms raging around the world, generating about 6,000 flashes of lightning each minute.
Unknown	At any one time, 45 million people in the world are drunk.
Unknown	At first I believed I could, then I believed I couldn’t. I was right both times.
Unknown	At the third cup, wine drinks the man.
Unknown	Atoms in a row measure 200 million to the inch.
Unknown	Avalanches can hurtle down slopes at speeds of up to two hundred miles per hour.
Unknown	Babylon Village on Long Island, where I grew up, is, as the locals say, a drinking village with a fishing problem.
Unknown	Bald eagles can fly to an altitude of 10,000 feet.
Unknown	Bamboo can grow at a speed of around three feet per day!
Unknown	Based on the rate at which knowledge is growing, it can be speculated that by the time today’s child reaches fifty years of age, 97% of everything known in the world at that time will have been learned since his birth.
Unknown	Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did.
Unknown	Be first to say hello.
Unknown	Be kind, work hard, stay humble, smile often, keep honest, stay loyal, travel when possible, never stop learning and always be thankful.
Unknown	Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sunrise.
Unknown	Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers that cannot be given you because you wouldn’t be able to live them. Live the questions now.
Unknown	Be what you wish others to become.
Unknown	Beauty that is unaware of itself is the most beautiful.
Unknown	Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart all worked regular shifts each day, just like an accountant settles in at the computer. They did not sit down to work because they were inspired, but became inspired because they sat down to work.
Unknown	Before accepting an invitation for the future, imagine that you must show up tonight.
Unknown	Ben & Jerry became friends at gym class after the coach shouted at them for being “the two slowest, fattest kids.”
Unknown	Better to go to bed supperless than to get up in debt.
Unknown	Books and friends should be few but good.
Unknown	Bread is the most common way people mess up on etiquette, at least in the minds of those with an eye for such things. Instead of biting into a whole roll, put it on your bread plate and tear off bite-size pieces to butter and eat.
Unknown	Bureaucracy is when the first person who answers the phone can’t help you.
Unknown	Bush Market in Kabul, named after George W. Bush, sells food and supplies stolen from US military bases.
Unknown	Buying what you do not need is an easy road to needing what you cannot buy.
Unknown	Caffeine makes its way to the brain about 30 minutes after it’s ingested and continues to stimulate the nervous system for up to eight hours afterward.
Unknown	Chocolate is the answer. The question is pretty much irrelevant.
Unknown	Choose a goal for which you are willing to exchange a piece of your life.
Unknown	Common sense and consistency will succeed more frequently than raw genius.
Unknown	Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done.
Unknown	Connie and I have been married for 52 years. I proposed to her on the telephone. I called her up and said, “Honey, I love you. Will you marry me?” And she said, “Yes, who is this?”
Unknown	Conversation is more than two monologues.
Unknown	Countless, unseen details are often the only difference between mediocre and magnificent.
Unknown	Courage is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.
Unknown	Courage is doing what you must when doing what you must is the hardest thing of all.
Unknown	Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Unknown	Data doesn’t stick in our minds, but stories do. Stories have emotions, data does not.
Unknown	Date someone who is a home and an adventure all at once.
Unknown	Discontentment makes rich men poor while contentment makes poor men rich.
Unknown	Do not threaten a child; either punish or forgive him.
Unknown	Do you ever wake up, kiss the person beside you, and just be thankful to be alive? I did. Not really appreciated on flights, apparently.
Unknown	Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it’s passion that persuades.
Unknown	Doing nothing gets pretty tiresome because you can’t stop and rest.
Unknown	Don’t be surprised how quickly the universe moves once you’ve decided.
Unknown	Don’t call the world dirty because you have forgotten to clean your glasses.
Unknown	Don’t cross the bridge until you have the exact toll ready.
Unknown	Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
Unknown	Don’t give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping.
Unknown	Don’t leave your tongue in gear when your brain is idling.
Unknown	Don’t ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday. Let it go.
Unknown	Don’t worry because a rival imitates you. As long as he follows in your tracks, he can’t pass you.
Unknown	Doubling a child’s height on his second birthday gives a close estimate of his final adult height. A boy of two is 49.5 percent of his adult height, a girl of two is 52.8 percent of her adult height.
Unknown	Drink a pint of water or sports drink before you set out and when you return and then every 15 to 20 minutes during your walk.
Unknown	Drinking one glass of wine makes you more attractive; drinking a second undoes all the good work.
Unknown	Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper is so high, and its lifts are so fast, that you can watch the sun set at ground level, travel to the roof, and watch it set again.
Unknown	During Isaac Newton’s 29-year fellowship at Cambridge, he taught only three pupils.
Unknown	Each life needs its own quiet place.
Unknown	Each man has a choice in life: he may approach it as a creator or critic, a lover or a hater, a giver or a taker.
Unknown	Earth has eight times as many trees as scientists previously thought.
Unknown	Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
Unknown	Eddington, the great physicist of our day, was once asked to describe men’s position in the universe. He replied instantly, “He is almost precisely halfway in size between an atom and a star.”
Unknown	Eigengrau (“brain gray”) is the color your eyes see in total darkness.
Unknown	Einstein’s general theory of relativity showed that gravity is a consequence of the curvature that space undergoes around a massive object.
Unknown	Emoji is the fastest-growing language in history.
Unknown	Epigrams cover a multitude of sins.
Unknown	Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter’s initials in the lunar dust. They will still be legible in 50,000 years.
Unknown	Even though not at your best, you were still the best.
Unknown	Every day we live presents opportunities for adventure. A beautiful view, a fragrant flower, a little trip to another town, an unexpected letter, a joyful reunion with a friend. All of these commonplace experiences, and many more, make up the warp and woof from which the fabric of our daily life existence is woven.
Unknown	Every grain of sand on the planet is unique.
Unknown	Every man’s memory is his private literature.
Unknown	Every mile is two in winter.
Unknown	Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle—when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.
Unknown	Every person has an equal chance to become better than they are.
Unknown	Every pound you lose feels like 5 fewer pounds to your knees.
Unknown	Every time you heal a part of yourself, you bring more light into the world.
Unknown	Every year, the average American eats 23 chickens and one-eighth of a cow.
Unknown	Every year, the moon moves 1.5 inches away from the earth.
Unknown	Excellence is never an accident.
Unknown	Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Unknown	Exercising every day? Not feeling it today? Occasionally skipping exercise may help you recover more fully from previous workouts and energize you for the next one, especially if you’re coming down with something.
Unknown	Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn’t do.
Unknown	Failing well is better than succeeding badly.
Unknown	Failure is a resource. It helps you find the edge of your capacities.
Unknown	Failure is frequently the path of least persistence.
Unknown	Fear—whether it is fear of falling, fear of failing, or fear of being found out—is a heavy burden to carry.
Unknown	Few people succeed in business unless they enjoy their work.
Unknown	Find a job you really enjoy and you’ll add five days to every week of your life.
Unknown	First impressions are often lasting ones. Indeed, if you play your cards right, you can enjoy the benefits of what sociologists call the “halo effect.” This means that if you’re viewed positively within the critical first four minutes, the person you’ve met will likely assume everything you do is positive. Four minutes! Studies tell us that’s the crucial peril on which impressions are formed by someone we’ve just met. Within a mere ten seconds, that person will begin to make judgments about our professionalism, social class, morals and intelligence. People tend to focus on what they see (dress, eye contact, movement), on what they hear (how fast or slowly we talk, our voice tone and volume), and on our actual words. Bungle a first encounter, and in many cases the interviewer will mistakenly assume you have a slew of other negative traits. Worse, he or she may not take the time to give you a second chance.
Unknown	Five species of grass account for half the calories in the human diet.
Unknown	For 2,000 years, chocolate was known only as a drink. The first solid chocolate bar was sold in 1849.
Unknown	For want of a nail the horseshoe was lost. For want of a horseshoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the battle was lost. For want of a battle the war was lost.
Unknown	For your ship to come in, you must first build a dock.
Unknown	Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families.
Unknown	Friends are those rare people who ask how you are—and then wait to hear the answer.
Unknown	Friendship survives death better than absence.
Unknown	Give destiny a destination.
Unknown	Giving up is not giving in, nor is it failing. It is no longer needing to be right.
Unknown	Go away and stop leaving me alone.
Unknown	Going far beyond the call of duty, doing more than others expect—that is what excellence is all about.
Unknown	Good advice is one of those insults that ought to be forgiven.
Unknown	Great, iTunes terms and conditions have changed, and my attorney is on vacation. Just perfect.
Unknown	Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
Unknown	Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes softly and sits on your shoulder.
Unknown	Harvard has a library of rare colours.
Unknown	Have patience—in time, grass becomes milk.
Unknown	He could not have been more than four years of age, as he stood in front of the lost and found desk. He was hardly tall enough to reach the top, and there were traces of hastily-wiped tears on his chubby face as he asked in quavering voice, “Has any mothers been turned in this morning?”
Unknown	He who angers you controls you.
Unknown	He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
Unknown	He who is most creative conceals his sources the best.
Unknown	He who lacks courage thinks with his legs.
Unknown	He who speaks first loses.
Unknown	Her touch made my scars beautiful.
Unknown	Here’s a young girl, who is destined to succeed: She visited a farm one day and wanted to buy a large watermelon. “That’s three dollars,” said the farmer. “I’ve only got 30 cents,” said the young girl. The farmer pointed to a very small watermelon in the field and said, “How about that one?” “Okay, I’ll take it,” said the little girl. “But leave it on the vine. I’ll be back for it in a month.”
Unknown	Here’s what this eighth grader said is the key: “You can’t just chat, you have to ask for an order!”(Girl Scout cookies)
Unknown	Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.
Unknown	Home is a restaurant which never closes.
Unknown	Honey contains natural enzymes that keep it fresh forever, without artificial preservatives. Supplies of honey disinterred in this century by archaeologists from the Egyptian pyramids proved as fresh as the day they were bottled, three thousand years ago
Unknown	Hope ties us to the future as memory ties us to the past.
Unknown	How are you going to feel not going out to walk, compared to how good you’ll feel after getting out there?
Unknown	How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk.
Unknown	How To Make A Speech:Be SincereBe BriefBe Seated
Unknown	How you view yourself will determine how far you will go in life.
Unknown	Hubble scientists say the telescope’s resolving power can separate individual beams of a car’s headlights three thousand miles away.
Unknown	Humility is the only certain defense against humiliation.
Unknown	I can’t turn water into wine, but I can turn ice cream into breakfast.
Unknown	I critic is one who would have you write it, sign it, paint it, play it, or carve it as he would—if he could.
Unknown	I did not know how hard it would be to say good-bye. Yet is was harder still, when I refused to say it.
Unknown	I don’t know what I want, and I won’t be happy until I get it.
Unknown	I don’t talk to no truck. (graffiti scrawled on a New York City Consolidated Edison repair truck whose side had been painted with the slogan: “Ask me how you can save on your electric bills.”)
Unknown	I dropped my ice cream cone on the ground, and it landed pointy end up, which made the earth, at least for a moment, one giant topping.
Unknown	I fulfilled my awkwardness quota today.
Unknown	I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
Unknown	I sleep with a knife under my pillow. You never know when someone is going to break in and give you a cake.
Unknown	I take a campus job at the library. I thought I’d hate cataloging books. Turns out, I love it. It’s like straightening out the world. Putting socks in the sock drawer, underwear in the underwear drawer. Everything goes where it belongs and makes it easy for other people to find.
Unknown	I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days or great days.
Unknown	I think in full, correct sentences.
Unknown	I want to be somebody to somebody.
Unknown	I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
Unknown	I wish “Sir” was “Dad” instead.
Unknown	I wondered why somebody didn’t do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.
Unknown	I’d stop drinking lattes, but I’m no quitter.
Unknown	I’m so far behind, I think I’m first!
Unknown	I’m walking home to my heart.
Unknown	Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not.
Unknown	If a man tells you that he never tells the truth, can you believe him?
Unknown	If a person has any connection with Harvard University, the state of Texas, or the U.S. Marine Corps, he will find a way to make that known to you during the first ten minutes of your first conversation.
Unknown	If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. Then give up. There’s no need to be an idiot about it.
Unknown	If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt, they would fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
Unknown	If it takes less than five minutes to fall asleep it is likely linked to sleep deprivation. A healthy sleeper takes about 15 minutes.
Unknown	If only we fought just as hard to understand as we do to disagree.
Unknown	If outgo exceeds income, then upkeep is your downfall.
Unknown	If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
Unknown	If the sun were the size of a soccer ball, the earth would be the size of a pea.
Unknown	If the world’s total land area were divided equally among the world’s people, each person would hold 8.5 acres.
Unknown	If two people agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing all the thinking.
Unknown	If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
Unknown	If you are losing more than two pounds a week you are probably losing muscle as well as fat.
Unknown	If you can’t explain it in sixty seconds, you probably can’t sell it. You have just one minute to get your prospect’s attention. If he does not understand you, you have lost him before you had the chance to sell him. Think of sending a telegram, not a letter. Make every word count.
Unknown	If you can’t find an item, search very thoroughly in the place where you’d expect that item to be.
Unknown	If you can’t think of a topic of conversation, ask, “What’s keeping you busy these days?”
Unknown	If you cannot find happiness along the way, you will not find it at the end of the road.
Unknown	If you don’t care where you are, then you ain’t lost.
Unknown	If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.
Unknown	If you focus on winning, you will lose. Instead: concentrate on how to go about achieving your objective. Focus on the process.
Unknown	If you have a great idea that comes to you in a dream, you might want to jot down the idea when you awaken. Most people forget 90 percent of their dreams.
Unknown	If you have forgotten someone’s name, say, “Please remind me of your name?” rather than “I’m sorry, I’ve forgotten your name.” The former is much more palatable.
Unknown	If you keep getting lost in your work, you can be pretty sure you’re following the right path in life.
Unknown	If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he’ll believe you. But if you tell him a bench has just been painted, he has to touch it to be sure.
Unknown	If you want it tomorrow, ask for it yesterday.
Unknown	If you want your dreams to be as fascinating to other people as they are to you, don’t mention it’s a dream until the end of the story.
Unknown	If you will do your best today, you will be able to do even better tomorrow.
Unknown	If you’re buying an item that you’re not sure you’ll use, buy or borrow a cheap one (yoga mat, kitchen knife, tennis racket), and then if you use it regularly, upgrade.
Unknown	If you’re nervous about an upcoming event or experience, visit the location ahead of time to make it more familiar.
Unknown	If your absence doesn’t make any difference, your presence won’t either.
Unknown	In a hot climate, you can sweat as much as three gallons of water a day.
Unknown	In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Unknown	In America, the average adult walks less than 5,000 steps per day (compare that to our hunter-gatherer ancestors who walked an estimated 10,000 to 18,000 steps per day.)
Unknown	In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. That person must be fired.
Unknown	In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.
Unknown	In business and in life imaginary difficulties are harder to overcome than real ones.
Unknown	In Greenwich, Conn., any baby born in Manero’s Steakhouse is given free meals for life.
Unknown	In Japan, you can rent friends.
Unknown	In movies, reels of still photographs are projected onto screens at 24 frames per second, tricking our eyes into seeing a continuous moving picture.
Unknown	In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of five times around the equator.
Unknown	In the classic Moby Dick, the captain says, “I will not have anyone on board who is not afraid of a whale!”
Unknown	In the First World War, it was patriotic in the UK to kick dachshunds.
Unknown	In the USA, one-third of the domestic waste sent to landfill is grass clippings.
Unknown	Instead of saying, “I enjoy spending money,” say, “I enjoy saving money.”
Unknown	Irving Berlin couldn’t read or write music and could only play the piano in F sharp.
Unknown	It doesn’t matter how much milk you spill so long as you don’t lose the cow.
Unknown	It doesn’t matter how old you get; buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised nine-year-old was given $100.
Unknown	It has been estimated that the earth receives only a twenty-millionth part of one percent of the sun’s output. Yet this infinitesimal amount from one of the billion trillion similar stars makes it possible to live, have warmth, food and light.
Unknown	It is believed that around 80% of Earth’s gold is still buried underground.
Unknown	It is easier to float a rumor than to sink one.
Unknown	It is ironic that the most sophisticated eye in all of nature’s creation was given to the common housefly—so that it may better sit on your potato salad.
Unknown	It is not the speaker who controls communication, but the listener.
Unknown	It is not what we avoid, but what we overcome that makes us strong.
Unknown	It is possible to learn from an enemy things we cannot learn from a friend.
Unknown	It is remarkable how little a man can live on, especially when compared with how much he wants.
Unknown	It is unfortunate to have more dollars than sense.
Unknown	It takes a plastic container 50,000 years to start decomposing.
Unknown	It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to Earth. All totaled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as an ocean liner.
Unknown	It takes four seasons to know one year.
Unknown	It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out as it did to gain it.
Unknown	It usually takes fifteen to twenty minutes after a human’s footsteps have ceased or his scent has disappeared for animals to begin to move about again.
Unknown	It would take more than an hour for a heavy object to sink to the deepest part of the ocean.
Unknown	It’s easy to be an angel when nobody ruffles your feathers.
Unknown	It’s hard to see the line if you’re standing on it.
Unknown	It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car.
Unknown	It’s not how much you make, but how you manage what you make that will make you rich.
Unknown	It’s not what you own that counts, it’s what owns you.
Unknown	It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
Unknown	It’s okay to have a meltdown. Just don’t unpack and live there.
Unknown	Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul.
Unknown	Just how ambitions was Grandma Jones when it came to her grandchildren? Well, when a stranger inquired as to their ages, she replied, “The doctor’s in the third grade and the rocket scientist is in the fifth.”
Unknown	Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
Unknown	Keep mementos that are small in size and few in number.
Unknown	Keep problems in perspective by asking yourself, so what? Example: There’s no other flight out tonight—so what?…I’ll be an hour late for my meeting if I take a morning flight- so what?…It may blow the deal—so what?…etc. The seemingly endless cycle of so-whats will eventually lead you to the truth: you’re not going to die.
Unknown	Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Unknown	Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Unknown	Learn from the mistakes of others. You won’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Unknown	Learn to say “NO” without explaining yourself.
Unknown	Learned that sometimes friends aren’t forever.
Unknown	Less than 1% of books published sell more than 50 thousand copies.
Unknown	Lie once and 1000 truths will be doubted.
Unknown	Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.
Unknown	Life is a continuous process of getting used to things we hadn’t expected.
Unknown	Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles.
Unknown	Life’s short. Fish hard.
Unknown	Light tomorrow with today.
Unknown	Listening is the beginning of understanding.
Unknown	Live to learn…forget…and learn again.
Unknown	Live while you live.
Unknown	Live your life so you don’t have to hide your diary.
Unknown	Living means making your life a memorable experience.
Unknown	Long-term success has more to do with being resilient than always making the right decisions.
Unknown	Look out the window while you’re eating breakfast. See the bird after the worm, the cat ready to pounce on the bird, and the dog after the cat. Now you’re ready to face the business world.
Unknown	Love is the accurate assessment, and the adequate supply of another person’s need.
Unknown	Love makes one little room an everywhere.
Unknown	Love often needs backbone.
Unknown	Love supersedes correction.
Unknown	Mahatma Gandhi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan, and moral.
Unknown	Make a lot of noise, but know when to fly in formation.
Unknown	Make not your thoughts your prison.
Unknown	Making a friend just takes a moment, but being a friend takes a lifetime.
Unknown	Mamie Adams always went to a branch post office in her town because the postal employees there were friendly. She went there to buy stamps just before Christmas one year and the lines were particularly long. Someone pointed out that there was no need to wait in line because there was a stamp machine in the lobby. “I know,” said Mamie, “but the machine won’t ask me about my arthritis.”
Unknown	Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Unknown	Manage the paradox of being 100 percent committed to what you are doing while keeping an eye open for other opportunities.
Unknown	Many feel they must think everything over a long while to avoid mistakes. Yet science has discovered that the longer one things about a thing, the more likely he is to make the wrong decision. The reason for this is simple: For most of this process of “thinking it over” is just excuse-hunting—we are hunting up an excuse to justify doing what we would like to do—rather than what we should do. This is not thinking: it is self defense. Make the decision clearly without this clutter and you will likely be right. Think too long and you may be wrong.
Unknown	Many of us die with the music still inside.
Unknown	Maps make the journey less interesting.
Unknown	Mark of a professional: Consistency!
Unknown	Marriage should be a duet—when one sings, the other claps.
Unknown	Masquerading as a normal person day after day is exhausting.
Unknown	Mature wisdom can often be confused with being too tired.
Unknown	Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change.
Unknown	May the very best day of your past be the worst day of your future.
Unknown	McDonald’s is actually the world’s largest toy distributor.
Unknown	Money doesn’t always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.
Unknown	Money is an amoral instrument and like science serves good and evil alike. There is no such thing as dirty money; the stain is only on the hand that holds it as giver or taker.
Unknown	More deals are killed by sloppy execution than by bad concepts. A salesperson presents a dirty sample and loses the order. A deal is made verbally and is not confirmed in writing. The result is a misunderstanding and a possible law suit. You travel for a meeting and someone puts the wrong documents in your bag. Success depends on an overwhelming attention to detail.
Unknown	More knowledge won’t offset a lack of wisdom.
Unknown	More than 75% of all the countries in the world are north of the equator.
Unknown	More than 800 languages are spoken in New York today.
Unknown	More than a billion people in the modern world live on no more than $1 a day.
Unknown	Mosquitoes have killed more people than have all the world’s wars combined.
Unknown	Most lightning strikes range from 10 million to 30 million volts. By contrast, the “third rail” that powers a typical commuter train carries 600 volts.
Unknown	Most lip balm is made to be addictive. The more you put it on the more you need it.
Unknown	Most of our difficulties stem from inconsistent thinking, not lack of thoughts. We wrestle inconclusively with our problems by thinking about them in a random manner.
Unknown	Most of us fight harder for our rights than for our responsibilities.
Unknown	Most people spend more time planning their summer vacation than planning their lives.
Unknown	Most worries are reruns.
Unknown	Mother means selfless devotion, limitless sacrifice, and love that passes understanding.
Unknown	Move slow…as fast as you can.
Unknown	My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back.
Unknown	Nature never fools around in just being decorative.
Unknown	Never be afraid to test yourself by your critic’s words.
Unknown	Never be too busy to meet someone new.
Unknown	Never delegate responsibility without authority.
Unknown	Never get too tired, too hungry, too lonely.
Unknown	Never in the history of calming down has anyone calmed down by being told to calm down.
Unknown	Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
Unknown	Never let the bottom of your purse or your mind be seen.
Unknown	Never make a decision based on fear.
Unknown	Never miss an opportunity to make others happy,Even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
Unknown	Never miss deadlines. Ever.
Unknown	Never say anything uncomplimentary about another person’s dog.
Unknown	Never shake hands across a desk. If you’re welcoming a client, parent or colleague into your office then walk around the desk to shake their hand before returning to your seat. It’s bad body language to have something between two people when shaking hands.
Unknown	Never think of me as your boss. Just think of me as your friend—who’s always right!
Unknown	Never try to teach a pig to think. It doesn’t work and it annoys the pig.
Unknown	Ninety-Nine percent of the universe is nothing.
Unknown	No matter how “healthy” you eat, overeating is not good. If you focus on a diet primarily based on whole foods, you’ll likely find it relatively easy to stick to the right amount. PS: We all overeat sometimes, and that’s OK! We’re talking here about eating the right amount on average.
Unknown	No matter how I used yesterday, I received twenty-four hours today.
Unknown	No more powerful, alluring words have ever been invented by the human race than these four: “Once upon a time…”
Unknown	No one ever went broke saving money.
Unknown	No person in the world has more determination than he who can stop after eating one peanut.
Unknown	Nobody has ever lasted more than 45 minutes in the world’s quietest room.
Unknown	Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
Unknown	Not all things have to be scrutinized nor all friends tested nor all enemies exposed and denounced.
Unknown	Nothing is quite so annoying as to have someone go right on talking when you’re interrupting.
Unknown	Nothing is really work unless you’d rather be doing something else.
Unknown	Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on to uncompleted tasks.
Unknown	Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor’s party than being there.
Unknown	Nothing so encourages a man like results.
Unknown	Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Unknown	Now and then it is good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Unknown	Number of faces the average person learns and remembers throughout his lifetime: 10,000.
Unknown	Nuts just take up the space where chocolate ought to be.
Unknown	Obesity kills three times as many people as malnutrition.
Unknown	Of the 247 billion email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam.
Unknown	Often all it takes to start down the path to bankruptcy is a small raise in pay.
Unknown	Often, hard work is just the easy work that you didn’t do right the first time.
Unknown	Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.
Unknown	On a clear day in flat, open country, you can see 3.2 miles, if you’re six feet tall and not too myopic.
Unknown	On a clear, moonless night and when there are no obstructions, the human eye can see the light of a single match as far as fifty miles away.
Unknown	On a QWERTY keyboard a typist’s fingers cover 20 miles a day; on a Dvorak keyboard it’s only one mile.
Unknown	On particularly rough days when I’m sure I can’t possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100%. And that’s pretty good.
Unknown	Once a group includes five people, a single conversation is very hard to maintain.
Unknown	Once everyone at your table is seated, unfold the napkin and lay it across your lap. When you finish eating and leave the table, loosely crumple your napkin to hide any stains and set it to the left of your plate.
Unknown	One can only judge a man by his actions when he is absolutely free to choose.
Unknown	One morning I read in The New York Times business section that a subsidiary of a major corporation had posted a loss that could only be described as fatal. I thought, “If I were the chief financial officer of the parent corporation, I’d like to sell this division in the worst way.” I picked up the phone and made a cold call to the CFO. I got his assistant on the phone and told her I had a client interested in buying the ailing division. It took only seconds for the CFO to be on the line inviting me to stop by and see him at the earliest opportunity. I went over that afternoon and met the CFO. Sure enough, he was more than ready to sell the division. When he asked me who my client was, I told him that I wan’t in a position to divulge that information at that time. I left his office with all the necessary financials and went directly to the public library. I made a list of every company in the same business category that might be in the market to expand. I started cold-calling the president of each company. I told each assistant that I was calling to see if the president might be interested in the purchasing of a competing company. Every president took my call. On the eighth call I found a company in the expansion mode. Sixty days later the deal was done and I earned a $200,000 finder’s fee. To me this was living proof that you can get your job through The New York Times.
Unknown	One of the best feelings in the world is knowing your presence and absence both mean something to someone.
Unknown	One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
Unknown	One person with courage makes a majority.
Unknown	One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
Unknown	Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
Unknown	Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
Unknown	Our lives are shaped by those who love us—by those who refuse to love us.
Unknown	Our society displays far too little correlation between its purported beliefs and its behavior.
Unknown	Paradox…as your world becomes smaller and smaller, it actually becomes bigger and bigger.
Unknown	Part of the richness one feels in the best relationships is the result of many memories garnered over the years.
Unknown	Patience is the best remedy for most trouble.
Unknown	Patience shows intelligence.
Unknown	People change, but seldom.
Unknown	People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.
Unknown	People do odd things to get even.
Unknown	People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world.
Unknown	People probably aren’t as interested in your hobby or your travels as they seem to be.
Unknown	People used to need rest after work; today they need exercise.
Unknown	People who say “I wish I had time to read” are not readers.
Unknown	People who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do.
Unknown	People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
Unknown	People will teach you how to sell them if you’ll pay attention to the messages they send you.
Unknown	People wouldn’t get divorced for such trivial reasons, if they didn’t get married for such trivial reasons.
Unknown	People you talk to on the telephone are instantly aware of your self-image, although they may not be conscious of it, and they respond accordingly.
Unknown	Percentage of all life forms known to have existed that exist today: 0.01. Or, 98 percent of plants and animals that ever inhabited the earth are extinct.
Unknown	Perhaps the most intriguing thing Richard observed as he watched his father, who was truly an entrepreneurial genius, was that his dad engaged in many joint ventures with people who had products and ideas but were short on capital. Richard learned that if 10 percent is a fair percentage of the business you receive as a result of your investment, but you know you can get 11 percent, it is wise to take only 9 percent. Li Ka-shing taught his boys that if he took less than he could get, countless other people with good ideas and good products but no money would flock to his doorstep. The net result is that instead of making one profitable—albeit greedy-deal, he could make numerous good, solid deals at the lower percentage, and the total amount of profits would be dramatically higher. That’s being intelligently selfish, which is really unselfish and wise.
Unknown	Persistence—Ernest Hemingway often worked for hours to perfect one paragraph.
Unknown	Pet parrots released into the wild teach wild parrots how to talk.
Unknown	Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.
Unknown	Pigs, dogs, and some other animals can taste water, but people cannot. Human’s don’t actually taste the water, they taste the chemicals and impurities in the water.
Unknown	Plants grow larger and more quickly when watered with warm water than those watered with cold water.
Unknown	Poetry is a working model of a system of ordered patterns, and as such is a fine medium for the promotion of order and the punishment of disorder.
Unknown	Poetry is an impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Unknown	Poetry is the grouping of words, phrases, and ideas that have always loved each other but have never gotten into that combination before.
Unknown	Police in Oakland, Ca., spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them, shouting out “Give yourself up.”
Unknown	Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Unknown	Pollen is forever. It’s one of the few natural substances that will not deteriorate.
Unknown	Portion control is extremely important! On average, American meal portions are enormous. A rather small meal, according to American standards, is still quite large. Even if you are eating less than the people around you, odds are you’re still eating far too much. You have to be mindful of how much food you are eating. Here’s the great news: when you eat less food, you save money! When it comes to vegetables, you can eat as much as you want! I have yet to meet a person that is overweight because of a broccoli addiction. If you are still hungry after a meal, just eat more vegetables (or fruits like apples). For nuts and oils, a serving is about the size of your thumb. It’s a much smaller amount than you might think but this is a must!
Unknown	Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Unknown	Present information in threes.
Unknown	Prime farmland is disappearing to development at the rate of almost 50 acres per hour.
Unknown	Professionals go back to the basics at least once a year.
Unknown	Quitting is usually a long-term solution to a short-term problem.
Unknown	Rate of Speaking: Faster versions were consistently rated as more credible. What’s more, audiences that heard the faster versions gave the speaker higher ratings for being knowledgeable and intelligent. If you’re to err one way or the other, it’s safest to speak just a bit more rapidly than the other person. Speak too slowly and you lose the other party’s attention. Speak much too rapidly and you destroy rapport. The most effective course: adjust your speaking rate to the other person’s, and perhaps crank it up a notch to reinforce impressions of intelligence.
Unknown	Remember that no time spent with children is ever wasted.
Unknown	Remember that your character is your destiny.
Unknown	Retail sign: “Closed When Not Open”
Unknown	Robert Frost wrote Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening in minutes!
Unknown	Rounded corners on electronic devices have been patented by Apple.
Unknown	Rule of thumb: one gram of protein per pound of body weight.
Unknown	Rule of thumb: Request the order three times. After each objection, present the prospect with a complete explanation—and request the order. The salesperson who asks for the order three times will be far more successful than the one who makes only one request. Studies have shown that when three requests are made instead of one, productivity can increase fivefold. Beyond the third request, the lass of diminishing returns will probably set in.
Unknown	Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution.
Unknown	Safety rules are not supposed to be learned by accident.
Unknown	Sales…we have 3-5 seconds to get to the point—throw your fastball at them.
Unknown	Salt is the only rock humans can eat.
Unknown	Scrabble’s inventor assigned values to letters by counting their frequencies in the New York Times.
Unknown	Seeing too much is seeing nothing.
Unknown	Settle one difficulty and you keep a hundred others away.
Unknown	Seven shuffles are needed to mix a fifty-two-card deck randomly.
Unknown	Seventy-five percent of Americans are chronically dehydrated.
Unknown	Shoppers are more likely to buy a banana if it matches the Pantone colour 12-0752 known as “Buttercup”.
Unknown	Sign on a Pentagon executive’s desk: “This job is so secret I don’t know what I’m doing.”
Unknown	Sign posted in a school cafeteria: “Shoes are required to eat in the cafeteria.” Handwritten underneath: “Socks can eat wherever they like.”
Unknown	Silences make the real conversation between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Unknown	Simple is desirable.Complex is realistic.
Unknown	Simplicity is the dream of all who have too much to do.
Unknown	Simplicity is the real luxury.
Unknown	Simplify, don’t complicate—especially processes, procedures, and policies.
Unknown	Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Unknown	Slow down. Happiness is trying to catch you.
Unknown	Smiling does not necessarily mean you’re happy. Sometimes it just means you’re strong.
Unknown	Sneezes can travel up to 200 feet.
Unknown	So often we overlook the important while attending to the urgent.
Unknown	Some goals are so worthy, it’s glorious even to fail.
Unknown	Some men have their first dollar. The man who is really rich is one who still has his first friend.
Unknown	Some people don’t want advice; they just use you as a wastebasket for their worries.
Unknown	Some people talk to express their thoughts; some talk to conceal their thoughts; but most just talk to keep from thinking.
Unknown	Some pursue happiness, others create it.
Unknown	Some successful business people look at their businesses as large canvases, like an artist, that are unlimitless with what they can do.
Unknown	Some things you’ll figure out. Some you won’t. That’s life.
Unknown	Sometimes sharing your riches is not easy.
Unknown	Sometimes simply holding hands is holding on to everything.
Unknown	Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.
Unknown	Sometimes you have to leave your home to find your home.
Unknown	Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
Unknown	Sometimes you just have to be done. Not mad, not upset. Just done.
Unknown	Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.
Unknown	Sometimes, being kind counts for more than being right—especially when you’re the boss.
Unknown	Sometimes, the best way to control yourself is to slow yourself down. Then, you can think about the things you’re about to do before you do them.
Unknown	Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
Unknown	Space is not something to be filled with beautiful things; space is beauty.
Unknown	Spent more time reading than living.
Unknown	Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground.
Unknown	Strange how much you’ve got to know before you know how little you know.
Unknown	Strength is more impressive yet less effective than wisdom.
Unknown	Stretching is often the ignored part of the triad of exercise that also includes aerobics/cardio and strength training.
Unknown	Studies have shown that when someone keeps a secret, they are physically burdened. Keeping a secret literally weighs you down.
Unknown	Study when you study; play when you play.
Unknown	Success humbles the great man, astonishes the common man, and puffs up the little man.
Unknown	Success is 99 percent failure.
Unknown	Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Unknown	Take time to think—you can do more work with your head than you can with your feet!
Unknown	The Albatross has a wing span of up to 14 feet and only needs to visit land once every few years. Amazingly, these birds can travel hundreds of thousands of miles without ever touching land.
Unknown	The Amish diet is high in meat, dairy, refined sugars, and calories. Yet obesity is virtually unknown among them. The difference is, since they have no TVs, cars, or powered machines, they spend most of their time doing manual labor.
Unknown	The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
Unknown	The artist doesn’t see things as they are, but as he is.
Unknown	The atom-bomb explosion at Hiroshima was generated by matter weighing no more than a paper clip.
Unknown	The average adult male burns about 100 calories per mile of walking.
Unknown	The average American saves less than anyone in the world…in 1989, @ 5 1/2 % of our disposable income vs. West Germany, Japan and South Korea, where the percentage of savings has long been in the 12% to 28% range.
Unknown	The average person blinks 14,440 times per day.
Unknown	The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.
Unknown	The best medicine: Two miles of oxygen a day. This is not only the best, but cheap and pleasant to take. It suits all ages and constitutions. It is patented by infinite wisdom, sealed with a signet divine. This medicine never fails. Spurious compounds are found in large towns; but get into the country lanes, among green field, or on the mountain top, and you have it in perfection as prepared in the great laboratory of nature.
Unknown	The best parachute folders are those who jump themselves.
Unknown	The best way to be successful is to follow the advice you give others.
Unknown	The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.
Unknown	The best way to make a thousand dollars in the stock market is to start with five thousand and quit when you’ve only lost four.
Unknown	The big rewards come to those who travel the second undemanded mile.
Unknown	The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
Unknown	The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you work for someone else.
Unknown	The clergy can do nothing about rainy Sundays; they are in sales, not in management.
Unknown	The coldest known place in the Solar System is in a crater at the north pole of the Moon.
Unknown	The deaths of two-thirds of people in the world go unrecorded.
Unknown	The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra effort.
Unknown	The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way a man uses them.
Unknown	The difficulties we experience always illuminate the lessons we need most.
Unknown	The easiest golf stroke is the fourth putt!
Unknown	The easiest thing to decide is what you’d do in someone else’s shoes.
Unknown	The easiest way to get into trouble is to be right at the wrong time.
Unknown	The egotist says, “Everyone has a right to my opinion.”
Unknown	The Eiffel Tower is not 984 feet tall, regardless of what your encyclopedia says. Its height varies by six inches depending upon the temperature. Thus, if you want to set height records, measure in the summer when everything is at its tallest.
Unknown	The energy in ten minutes of one hurricane is equal to that of all the nuclear weapons in the world.
Unknown	The energy of one sizable hurricane in one day could power the United States for three years.
Unknown	The eyes are the window to the soul.
Unknown	The feeling that you’ve done a job well is rewarding; the feeling that you’ve done it perfectly is fatal.
Unknown	The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat yourself.
Unknown	The follow-up letter, after a successful cold call, should be sent promptly. It can never be sent too soon.
Unknown	The greatest amount of bacteria on your body is hidden between your toes.
Unknown	The greatest golfers in the world have all been ex-duffers.
Unknown	The harder you work at what you should be, the less you’ll try to hide what you are.
Unknown	The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.
Unknown	The Irish ignore anything they can’t drink or punch.
Unknown	The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles, and to practice daily.
Unknown	The key to success, happiness, and health is to do one thing, and only one thing, at a time.
Unknown	The keys I have don’t fit.
Unknown	The largest and most distant body of water so far discovered is 30 billion trillion miles away, with 140 trillion times more water than Earth.
Unknown	The largest known black holes are 20 billion times more massive than the Sun.
Unknown	The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long; more than the number of atoms in the universe.
Unknown	The miles aren’t going to walk themselves.
Unknown	The more things you appreciate, the greater are your riches.
Unknown	The more you are in a state of gratitude, the more you will attract things to be grateful for.
Unknown	The most enjoyable way to follow a vegetable diet is to let the cow eat it and take yours in roast beef.
Unknown	The most important handshake of your life will happen when your newborn infant’s tiny hand grabs hold of your index finger.
Unknown	The most meaningless statistic in a ball game is the score at halftime.
Unknown	The most underdeveloped territory in the world lies under your hat.
Unknown	The mother of three notoriously unruly teenagers was asked whether or not she’d have children if she had it to do over again. “Yes,” she replied. “But not the same ones.”
Unknown	The nest of the bald eagle can weigh well over a ton.
Unknown	The normal healthy mind reflects itself in a healthy body.
Unknown	The old place that eternity touches time is now.
Unknown	The oldest living thing on earth is the world-famous General Sherman tree, a forest giant now growing in Sequoia National Park. Nearly 4,000 years old, it’s as ancient as the Egyptian pyramids.
Unknown	The only lie I ever told you is that I liked you when I already knew I loved you.
Unknown	The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Unknown	The optimist fell ten stories. At each window he shouted to his friends: “All right so far.”
Unknown	The Past is Prologue.
Unknown	The Past: It is history. Make the present good and the past will take care of itself.
Unknown	The person who does not have a smiling face should not open his shop.
Unknown	The person who is idle simply because he does not have to work is merely a respectable hobo.
Unknown	The Popsicle was invented by an 11-year-old-boy who kept it secret for 18 years.
Unknown	The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.
Unknown	The present age seems more concerned about speed than direction.
Unknown	The primary components of happiness are number of friends, closeness of friends, closeness of family, and relationships with co-works and neighbors.
Unknown	The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.
Unknown	The proud young father had just returned from the doctor’s office where he had paid something on his account. “Just to think, dear,” he said to his beaming wife, “only three more payments and the baby is ours.”
Unknown	The proud young father had just returned from the doctor’s office where he had paid something on his account. “Just to think, dear,” he said to his beaming wife, “only three more payments and the baby is ours.”
Unknown	The reason advice often goes in one ear and out the other is that there is nothing between the ears to stop it.
Unknown	The secret is to become wise before you get old.
Unknown	The secret of patience is doing something else in the meantime.
Unknown	The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
Unknown	The secrets we keep, keep us from the health we deserve.
Unknown	The Solar System is traveling around the galaxy at more than half a million miles per hour.
Unknown	The storage capacity of the human brain exceeds 4 terabytes.
Unknown	The story is told of an accomplished artist who was applying the finishing touches to a bronze sculpture. He kept filing, scraping, and polishing every little surface of his masterpiece. “When will it be done?” asked an observer. “Never,” came the reply. “I just keep working and working until they come and take it away.”
Unknown	The story is told of an eccentric cello player who sawed away on one note hour after hour and day after day. Someone asked him why he didn’t play other notes, as other players did. He answered: “They are hunting it; I have found it.”
Unknown	The Sun gets 4 million tons lighter every second.
Unknown	The sun is losing mass at an estimated rate of five million tons per second. It is so big, however, that even at this rate it will take about five billion years before it begins to cool.
Unknown	The sun is so large that, if it were hollow, it could contain more than one million worlds of the size of our earth. There are stars in space so large that they could easily hold 500 million suns of the size of ours.
Unknown	The sun’s powerful gravitational field could hold planets in orbit to a distance 1,000 times greater than the distance of Pluto from the sun.
Unknown	The sunrise never finds us where the sunset left us.
Unknown	The tallest wave thus far reliable measured at sea registered 112 feet. Experts suspect killer waves that leave no witnesses may be nearly twice as high.
Unknown	The temperature of a typical lightening bolt can reach 50,000 F degrees, this is five times greater than the Sun’s surface.
Unknown	The terminal velocity of a raindrop is 30 feet per second, or 22 miles per hour.
Unknown	The things that come to those who wait may be the things left by those who got there first.
Unknown	The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Unknown	The total quantity of energy in the universe is constant.
Unknown	The traditions we create will be the memories our children will cherish in the future.
Unknown	The trouble with life is that there is no background music.
Unknown	The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Unknown	The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.
Unknown	The vast galaxy we live in is spinning at the incredible speed of about 490,000 miles an hour. But even at this breakneck speed, our galaxy still needs over 200 million years to make one rotation. And there are at least one trillion over galaxies in the universe.
Unknown	The wonderful thing about friends is that they can grow separately and yet not grow apart.
Unknown	The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
Unknown	The zero was invented in India. So was the concept of infinity.
Unknown	Therapy is expensive, popping bubble wrap is cheap! You choose.
Unknown	There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it’s easy.
Unknown	There are as many molecules in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
Unknown	There are no degrees of honesty.
Unknown	There are no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart.
Unknown	There are now more white-tailed deer in Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin than existed in the entire United States at the time of Columbus.
Unknown	There is a great deal of practical benefit in making a few mistakes early in life.
Unknown	There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.
Unknown	There is an aesthetic beauty in doing things precisely.
Unknown	There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
Unknown	There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her living boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, “If I could only see the world, I will marry you.” One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend. He asked her, “Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?” The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sign of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn’t expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him. Her boyfriend left her in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: “Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine.”
Unknown	There were about sixty million bison when the Europeans landed in America. By the 1880s, all but five hundred bison were killed. Today there are 350,000 bison in America.
Unknown	There’s a bookshop in Tokyo that only stocks one book at a time.
Unknown	There’s always a good reason, and then there’s the real reason.
Unknown	There’s an ideal height for a backyard fence: just high enough to keep the dogs out but low enough to shake hands over.
Unknown	There’s no need to put your best foot forward if you drag the other one.
Unknown	They all worked hard on the stuff that was hard, until it wasn’t hard at all.
Unknown	Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.
Unknown	Think of the times when you have been totally honest with yourself and remember how calm you felt.
Unknown	This hot fudge sundae hasn’t killed me, so it must be making me stronger.
Unknown	This inscription appears in the armory of the Commonwealth of Venice: “Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.”
Unknown	Those of you who think you know everything are very annoying to those of us who do.
Unknown	Those who are happiest, whether king or peasant, are those who find peace in their home.
Unknown	Those who are successful never look toward the ground for their next step, but towards the horizon.
Unknown	Those who dance are considered mad by those who cannot hear the music.
Unknown	Three good meals a day is bad living.
Unknown	Three men had adjacent businesses in the same building. The businessman who ran the store at one end of the building put up a sign reading “Year-End Clearance!” At the opposite end of the building, the other businessman, not to be outdone, put up a sign that said, “Close-Out Sale!” The businessman in the middle knew his store was going to be hurt badly, so he put up a sign that said, “Main Entrance!”
Unknown	Tidal waves on the open ocean sometimes reach speeds of more than five hundred nautical miles per hour.
Unknown	Time can’t be given, but it can be shared.
Unknown	Time is nature’s way to keep everything from happening all at once.
Unknown	To be creative, you have to generate boatloads of ideas. To be creative successfully, you have to let most of them sink, because the real genius lies in picking good ideas. Today’s symphony orchestras play only about 35 percent of Johann Sebastian Bach’s, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s, or Ludwig van Beethoven’s compositions—which means these composers have a pretty low success rate! The rest of us, realistically, can’t hope to do any better.
Unknown	To be loved is the dearest wish of the heart.
Unknown	To be successful follow the advice you give to others.
Unknown	To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Unknown	To finish sooner, take your time.
Unknown	To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Unknown	To psych your opponent about to hole out: “I’d give you that putt if it wasn’t downhill.”
Unknown	To see clearly in a working situation, a 40-year old requires twice as much light as a 20-year old, a 60-year old requires four to five times what a 20-year old needs.
Unknown	To stay young in spirit, keep taking on new thoughts and throwing off old habits.
Unknown	Traveling at the speed of the fastest elevator in the Empire State Building, it would take a bit more than 30 minutes to reach the bottom of the Mariana trench.
Unknown	Treat success and failure much the same.
Unknown	Trees sleep at night to rest their branches.
Unknown	Truth is like poetry. And most people hate poetry.
Unknown	Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.
Unknown	Try ankle and wrist weights for training. Weights in your backpack. Don’t overestimate what you can do. Build in some time of rest and even days off on long treks.
Unknown	Try to perceive things from a different perspective.
Unknown	Two common objects have the same function, but one has thousands of moving parts, while the other has absolutely no moving parts—an hourglass and a sundial.
Unknown	Two fishermen were telling their experiences. One told of fishing in a certain brook and catching a speckled trout weighing ten pounds. The other fisherman told of yanking out his line and discovering a lighted lantern on the hook. “Now wait a minute,” said the first fisherman; “you may have hooked an old lantern, all right, but it wasn’t lighted.” “Maybe I did stretch the truth a bit there,” said the second fisher-man. “I’ll tell you what I’ll do; you take eight pounds off your trout and I’ll blow out my lantern.”
Unknown	Two people are always easier to sell than one. Three are easier than two; a whole group is easiest. Nobody likes to make a decision. With more than one, they share the responsibility, and they also look to the salesperson to help them make the decision.
Unknown	Two-thirds of human communication is by gesture, not speech.
Unknown	Uncertainty principle is the principle which states that one can never be exactly sure of both the position and the velocity of a particle; the more accurately one knows the one, the less accurately one can know the other.
Unknown	Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power, or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
Unknown	Use all the brains you have plus all you can borrow.
Unknown	Waiting indefinitely for life to begin.
Unknown	Walking is a lost art: nowadays people in every walk of life don’t.
Unknown	Walking is a pleasure only when you can afford to ride if you want to.
Unknown	Walking is the one exercise you can follow all the years of your life. If there is one thing you can count on, showing up in the life histories of men who have lived to a great age in Good Health, that one “constant” is walking. Action absorbs anxiety…helps take the stress out of life!
Unknown	Walking one mile in:Less than 11 minutes Give the U.S. national team a call11 to 14 minutes Very fit14 to 19 minutes AverageMore than 19 minutes Room for improvement
Unknown	Walking shoes wear out (loose their cushion) after only 450 miles.
Unknown	We “get a life” one choice at a time.
Unknown	We are a part of all we have met.
Unknown	We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite.
Unknown	We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.
Unknown	We believe space is to be filled up, the Japanese believe space is to be created.
Unknown	We can give advice but we can’t give the wisdom to profit by it.
Unknown	We don’t all need someone to live with, but rather someone to be alive with.
Unknown	We don’t know who discovered water, but we’re pretty sure it wasn’t a fish.
Unknown	We don’t know who we are are till we’ve connected to someone else.
Unknown	We gather to learn and scatter to live.
Unknown	We know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
Unknown	We lose our friends, our usefulness and our religion—not by great decisions, but by small neglects.
Unknown	We need fire without wild fire.
Unknown	We’re just better human beings when we are with the person we are supposed to be with.
Unknown	We’re usually very concerned about saying “the right things.” But what you say is far less important than how you say it. Only 7 percent of the feeling communicated in a spoke message is conveyed by the words themselves. 38% comes from how we speak—the tone, volume, inflection, et cetera. A whopping 55% of meaning is conveyed non-verbally with body language.
Unknown	Wealthy people miss one of life’s great thrills—making the last car payment.
Unknown	Wearing tweed when fishing is the same as wearing a sign that says I HAVE MORE MONEY THAN SKILL.
Unknown	Wearing your socks outside your shoes gives you a better grip in icy weather.
Unknown	What is the easternmost state? Alaska. Alaska’s Aleutian Islands extend all the way into the eastern hemisphere, and thus contain the easternmost point of the United States. The islands also mark the westernmost sites in the U.S.
Unknown	What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.
Unknown	What’s the rainiest place on Earth? The mountain in the center of the Hawaiian island of Kauai gets 460 inches of rain a year.
Unknown	Whatever you do, don’t let your progress go unnoticed—even if you are the only one who’s noticing.
Unknown	When a man forgets himself, he usually does something that everyone else remembers.
Unknown	When alone, we have our thoughts to watch; when in family, our tempers; when in society, our tongues.
Unknown	When Beethoven conducted the premiere of his Ninth Symphony in Vienna, he was completely deaf. After it ended, one of the soloists had to turn him around so he could see the audience applauding.
Unknown	When he was 90, Pablo Casals, the renowned cellist, was asked, “Why do you still practice so many hours a day?” Countered he, “Because I think I am improving!”
Unknown	When people tell me “You’re going to regret that in the morning,” I sleep till noon because I am a problem solver.
Unknown	When two friends part they should lock up each other’s secrets and exchange keys.
Unknown	When was it the last time that you did something for the first time?
Unknown	When you are scared, the trick is not to rid your stomach of butterflies, but to make them fly in formation.
Unknown	When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world.
Unknown	When you dance with your customer, let him lead.
Unknown	When you don’t have an education, you’ve got to use your brains.
Unknown	When you stop looking for something, you see it right in front of you.
Unknown	When you write something down to preserve it, you also absorb it. Each of the quotations in these journals, from sources as diverse as Socrates and the Pennsylvania Dutch, had given him pause—first when he came across it and then when he transcribed it.
Unknown	When your past calls, don’t answer. It has nothing new to say.
Unknown	Why do people who know the least know it the loudest?
Unknown	Why is there never enough time to do right, but always enough time to do it over?
Unknown	Wisdom has two parts: 1) having a lot to say. 2) not saying it.
Unknown	Wish I could color outside lines.
Unknown	With each glass of this wine, I double the number of friends I have in this room.
Unknown	Without using precision instruments, Eratosthemres measured the radius of the Earth in the 3rd century B.C. and came within 1% of the value determined by today’s technology.
Unknown	Worry is misused imagination.
Unknown	Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Unknown	Writing is talking to oneself.
Unknown	Yesterday in this space I predicted that the world would come to an end. It did not, however. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused. (Note in a newspaper personal ad)
Unknown	Yesterday’s hits won’t win today’s ball game.
Unknown	You already sold it; don’t buy it back!
Unknown	You are free the moment you do not look outside yourself for someone to solve your problems.
Unknown	You are my sixty-second sunset.
Unknown	You are not what you think you are. What you think, you are.
Unknown	You are young at any age if you’re planning for tomorrow.
Unknown	You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
Unknown	You can do anything, but not everything.
Unknown	You can fold a piece of paper in half 13 times.
Unknown	You can tell when you’re on the right road—it’s uphill.
Unknown	You can’t get the worm out of the apple by polishing the apple.
Unknown	You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one.
Unknown	You don’t get old until you stop walking, and you don’t stop walking because you’re old.
Unknown	You have no liabilities—only some assets more developed than others.
Unknown	You just get into a “groove.” Whole-food, plant-based eating is just what you do—you don’t even have to think about it.
Unknown	You know it’s a good design when people either love it or hate it.
Unknown	You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
Unknown	You never know your differences until you get married.
Unknown	You never lose your capacity to improve your cardiovascular fitness or get stronger, no matter your age.
Unknown	You never really leave a place you love. Part of it you take with you, leaving a part of yourself behind.
Unknown	You only live once? False. You live every day. You only die once.
Unknown	You only need to be three feet underwater to be protected from bullets.
Unknown	You set a specific goal. You get expert instruction. You do focused training for purposeful practice. You then get meaningful feedback. If you follow that loop—if you start that process—the more you go around that loop, the more your skill goes from novice to expert. This principle has been effective in everything from helping athletes train to students learning to play an instrument to helping entrepreneurs succeed.
Unknown	You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.
Unknown	Your brain is at its biggest in the morning and gradually shrinks as the day goes on.
Unknown	Your brain is no stronger than its weakest think.
Unknown	Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
Unknown	It’s a good day to have a good day.
Unknown	May we live simply so that others may simply live.
Unknown	On average, five thousand logos, labels, announcements, and advertisements flicker across our consciousness daily!
Unknown	The sound of arguments can affect the brains of sleeping babies.
Unknown	The waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Unknown	To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Unknown	Truth does not hurt unless it ought to.
Updegraff Robert R.	Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late.
Urschel, John	Coding can sound daunting, but pretty much anyone with a facility for math and a willingness to read some books can do it.
Urschel, John	Math is a young man’s game. There is a reason that the major award for achievement in mathematics, the Fields Medal, is awarded only to mathematicians under the age of forty.
US Marine Corps	If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late. If you’re late, you’re dead.
Uslan, Michael	You must knock on doors until your knuckles bleed. Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again. It’s the only way to achieve your goals in life.
Ustinov, Peter	Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Ustinov, Peter	Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Vail, Theodore	Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Valentine, Dan	A man may travel far in his life, but there is always a small part of him that never leaves the town where he was born and the neighborhood where he spent his boyhood. Hometowns can be big or small—a hamlet hardly on the highway or the neighborhood of a large city. But large or small, a hometown holds the memories of youth.
Valery, Paul	A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Valery, Paul	The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Valvano, Jim	My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, be believed in me.
Van Buren, Abigail	When two people love each other, every day is Thanksgiving and every night is New Year’s Eve.
Van Dyke, Henry	Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to walk and to play and to look up at the stars.
Van Gogh, Vincent	Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Van Gogh, Vincent	Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Van Gogh, Vincent	I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.
Van Gogh, Vincent	If your inner voice is telling you that you can’t paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
Vanbee, Martin	Do the very best you can today and tomorrow you can do better.
Vanderbilt, Amy	One face to the world, another at home makes for misery.
Vanderbilt, Gloria	By 1973, she was far from my mind, and I as saddened to admit, I had let her slip from my life.
Vanderbloemen, William	A person’s greatest strength, when unguarded, can become that same person’s greatest weakness.
Vardon, Harry	When practicing, use the club that gives you the most trouble—not the one that gives you the most satisfaction.
Vargas, Elizabeth	There is a saying in recovery that you are only as sick as your secrets.
Vaughan, Bill	A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Vauvenargues, Marquis de	Habit is everything—even in love.
Vauvenargues, Marquis de	Solitude is to the mind what diet is to the body.
Vegetius	Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Veninga, Robert	A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.
Venning, Ralph	Seek that your last days be your best days.
Verdi, Giuseppe	It is better to invent reality than to copy it.
Vere, Aubrey de	To be really honest means making confession whether you can afford it or not; refusing unmerited praise; looking painful truths in the face.
Vidal, Gore	The brain that doesn’t feed itself eats itself.
Vinci, Leonardo da	Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Vinci, Leonardo da	One of the functions of art is undoubtedly to allow to us escape from the narrowness of our own vision and discover something of the breadth and depth, beauty and wholeness of life.
Vinci, Leonardo da	Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner, you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
Vinci, Leonardo da	Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
Vodka	Trust me, you can dance.
Voltaire	Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us, as well.
Voltaire	Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.
Voltaire	He who is only wise lives a sad life.
Voltaire	No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire	Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
Voltaire	Regimen is better than physic. Every one should be his own physician. We should assist, not force nature. Eat with moderation what you know by experience agrees with your constitution. Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep. What will alleviate incurable evils? Patience.
Voltaire	We must cultivate our own gardens.
Vonnegut, Kurt	The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
Vonnegut, Kurt	The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
Vonnegut, Kurt	We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Voors, Tim	During their past trails, their backpacks had shrunk considerably to ultralight setups, often not much heavier than 11 pounds. That included all their belongings, from tent to sleeping mat, sleeping bag, and clothes. Forty-liter packs seemed to be the norm these days, with some as small as 39 or even 35. Quite compact compared to my 55 liters.
Voors, Tim	Everyone had found their own rhythm, and the order we hiked in had even crystallized into a fixed pattern. We walked in an order based on our age.
Voors, Tim	I must confess to being an awfully annoying hiking evangelist. I am a strong believer and recruiter for the cause. I love bringing people into the fold of long-distance hiking. And while I do admit that hiking is certainly not for everyone, for practically every able-bodied person between the age of five and 85, I see no reason why they wouldn’t benefit from the goodness of some regular or long-distance walking in nature. It could be regular short walks, long distance hikes, religious pilgrimages, tramping, promenading, jaunting, rambling, putting one foot in front of the other, strolling, Nordic walking, stretching your legs, or simply getting some fresh air. Putting one foot in front of the other is free, keeps you fit, gets your blood flowing, allows your mind to wander, rests your nerves and stress.
Voors, Tim	I walked 12 hours a day—a lot of time to dream.
Vreeland, Diana	Elegance is refusal.
Wade, Robert	I don’t paint how it looks. I paint how it feels.
Wagner, Paul	Pour wine up to the widest part of glass, no higher. White wine warmed after coming out of fridge to around 60 degrees, red wine cooled down from our room temperature to around 60 degrees. Chips and popcorn go well with wine. Don’t “pop” the cork when opening, more gentle.
Wagner, Richard	Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Waitley, Denis	Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Waits, Tom	I was trying to prove something to myself…It was like, “Am I genuinely eccentric? Or am I just wearing a funny hat?”[On quitting alcohol]
Waits, Tom	The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
Waits, Tom	The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
Wakoski, Diane	The sign must come like dawn. You cannot see its arrival, but know when it is there.
Wald, George	A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.
Walker, Addison	It’s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
Walker, Alice	Expect nothing; live frugally on surprise.
Walker, Alice	In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
Walker, Alice	In search of my mother’s garden, I found my mother.
Walker, Alice	Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Walker, Alice	Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
Walker, Johnny	It’s not trespassing if the boundaries you cross are your own.
Walker, Margaret	Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.
Wall Street Journal	$77,000 in assets puts you in the world’s wealthiest 10 percent.
Wallace, David Foster	The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
Wambebe, Maj	Non is richer than he who simply has peace of mind.
Wanamaker, John	Whatever you have to say to people be sure to say in words that will cause them to smile and you will be on pretty safe ground. And when you do find it necessary to criticize someone, put your criticism in the form of a question which the other fellow is practically sure to have to answer in a manner that he becomes his own critic.
War Cry	Too many people decide what they want to believe, then go looking around for half-facts to prove they are right.
Ward, William A.	Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Ward, William A.	The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence.
Ward, William A.	Trust is a treasured item and relationship. Once it is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.
Warhol, Andy	An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he—for some reason—thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Warhol, Andy	Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Warner, Charles Dudley	Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just enough baggage.
Warner, Charles Dudley	The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Warren, Frank	There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others and those we hide from ourselves.
Warren, Mercy Otis	The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend.
Warren, Robert Penn	The poem is a little myth of man’s capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see—it is, rather, a light by which we may see—and what we see is life.
Warye, Suzanne	We don’t have to be addicted to alcohol to receive the benefits of abstinence from it.
Washington, Booker T.	Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Washington, Booker T.	Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him.
Washington, Booker T.	I beg of you to remember that whenever our life touches yours, we help or hinder. Whenever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker. There is no escape. Man drags man down, or man lifts up man.
Washington, Booker T.	Secure an education at any cost.
Washington, George	Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Waters, John	Life is nothing if you’re not obsessed.
Watson, Rob	Mother nature always bats last and she always bats 1000.
Watson, Thomas	In the early 1960’s, CEO Tom Watson Jr. summoned to headquarters an executive who was responsible for a venture that lost $10 million. Watson, whose fierce temper was legendary, asked the man if he knew why he’d been called in. The man said he assumed he was being fired. Watson responded: “Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons.”
Watson, Thomas	The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
Watson, Thomas	We are to find as much bitterness in weeping for sin as ever we found sweetness in committing it.
Watson, Tom	A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.
Watson, Tom	I’d rather face a four-foot putt coming back than leave the ball short on the front lip.
Watson, Tom	The first thing you look at is the lie. The lie tells you what to do.
Watterson, Bill	If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
Watts, Alan	Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are impermanent.
Watts, Jack	It’s funny, but if you look back, you can nearly always discern patterns of thought and behavior that have had a profoundly negative impact on your life. You think, I should have said no right then and there, or How could I have let him do that to me?
Waugh, Alec	You can fall in love at first sight with a place as well as a person.
Waugh, Evelyn	We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
Wayne, John	Alcohol won’t solve your problems. Then again, neither will milk.
Wayne, John	Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes to us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
Webb, Mary	Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
Webb, Maynard, E-Bay CIO	“Real time” is when you develop something, you roll it out, and you have 15 million people telling you it’s not working.
Webster, Daniel	Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Webster, Jean	It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most, it’s making a great deal out of the little ones.
Wei, Wang	You ask what is the ultimate answer? It is the song of the fisherman, sailing back to shore.
Weil, Simone	A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear on ourselves.
Weil, Simone	Refuse to be an accomplice.
Weil, Simone	The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Weil, Simone	The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Weinberg, Becky	You are all in my imagination.
Weiss, Gary	Fraud is not always a great, cynical master plan, with sinister characters gathering in smoky bars to hatch their schemes. The people involved can be ordinary, not criminals, willing to do a favor for a friend, a colleague, or an employer. Willing to look the other way. Willing to not think too closely about what they’re doing.
Weiss, Robert	One recipe for friendship is the right mixture of commonality and difference. You’ve go to have enough in common so that you understand each other and enough difference so that there is something to exchange.
Weld, William	The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work; It is work.
Welles, Orson	I started at the top and worked my way down.
Wellinton, General	My men are not braver than other troops—they are just brave five minutes longer.
Wells, H. G.	The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
Welty, Eudora	Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world.
Welty, Eudora	Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from a hole.
Welty, Eudora	That summer, lying in the long grass with my head propped against the back of a saddle…I listened to the mountain silence until lI could hear as far into it as the faintest clink of a cowbell.
Welwood, John	The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart.
Werden, Colette	It’s OK if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire.
Wesley, John	Wine is one of the noblest cordials in nature.
West, Jessamyn	Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
West, Jessamyn	I’ve done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
West, Jessamyn	It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
West, Jessamyn	We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don’t, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
West, Mae	You’re never too old to become younger.
West, Rebecca	The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Weston, Edward	Anyone can walk. It’s free, like the sun by day and the stars by night. All we have to do is get on our legs, and the roads will take us everywhere.
Weston, Edward	I have always said that walking would keep a man young. Walking is the road to health.
Wharton, Edith	If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.
Wharton, Edith	In spite of illness, in spite even of the arch-enemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
Wharton, Edith	Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
Wharton, William	General life-theory: if you don’t know how things should be done, everything is possible.
Wharton, William	It’s funny how one forgets. Probably forgetting is the closest thing to death most living people ever know. It isn’t sleep.
Wharton, William	Not thinking of myself as a writer gives me the freedom to be one.
Wharton, William	People who die together stay together.
Wharton, William	So life goes on. It does for all of us, longer than most of us permit ourselves to believe.
Wharton, William	There is a study that says a little child, from infancy on, should have three books read to it a day. The same study says that any normal child who has had 3,000 books read to it before going to school will do much better all the way through to university…that’s a lot of books!
Wharton, William	What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don’t have to die to go to heaven.
Wharton, William	You know you’ve grown up when you’d rather have Christmas at your own home with your own kids, than go off to your parents’ house.
Whedon, Joss	People with real power never fear losing it. People with control think of little else.
White, Betty	Keep the other person’s well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.
White, E. B.	A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
White, E. B.	Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
White, E. B.	Being with you is like walking on a very clear morning—definitely the sensation of belonging there.
White, E. B.	Make the work interesting, and discipline will take care of itself.
White, E. B.	One of the most time consuming things is to have an enemy.
White, E. B.	The only sense that is common in the long run is the sense of change—and we all instinctively avoid it.
White, Jack	I always have my own rules, and I can bend them if I want.
White, Jerry	Positive attitudes, affirmation, appropriate discipline, stable relationships and love cultivate the soil of confidence.
White, Joe	We’re so busy giving our kids what we didn’t have that we don’t take time to give them what we did have.
White, Ron	I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
White, Slappy	Learn as little as you can about as many things as possible.
Whitefield, George	I had rather wear out than rust out.
Whitehead, A. N.	It takes a very unusual mind to undertake an analysis of the obvious.
Whitehead, Alfred North	A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
Whitehead, Alfred North	All truths are half-truths.
Whitehead, Alfred North	Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Whitehead, Alfred North	Seek simplicity and distrust it.
Whitehead, Alfred North	The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Whitehead, Alfred North	We think in generalities, we live in detail.
Whitehorn, Katherine	Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
Whitehorn, Katherine	The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
Whiting, Edward	You can no more measure a home by inches or weigh it by ounces, than you can set up the boundaries of a summer breeze or calculate the fragrance of a rose. Home is the love which is in it.
Whitman, Harold Thurman	Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Whitman, Walt	As for me, I know of nothing else but miracles.
Whitman, Walt	Happiness, not in another place, but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.
Whitman, Walt	I find the best way to spending my days—at least did long ago—is the freeway; not to make plans, but go this path or that as the mood dictates.
Whitman, Walt	I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Whitman, Walt	I loafe and invite my soul.
Whitman, Walt	I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
Whitman, Walt	Nothing out of its place is good and nothing in its place is bad.
Whitman, Walt	Peace is always beautiful.
Whitman, Walt	To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
Whittaker, Tom	One of the things that really attracts me about mountaineering is its total pointlessness. So I’ve dedicated my life to it.
Whittier, John Greenleaf	Beauty seen is never lost.
Whittier, John Greenleaf	Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: “It might have been!”
Whittier, John Greenleaf	The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.
Wholey, Dennis	Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
Wiers, Charles R.	Doubly rich is the man still boyish enough to play, laugh and sing as he carries and emanates sunshine along a friendly road.
Wiesel, Elie	Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
Wiesel, Elie	The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
Wigmore, Ann	The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.
Wild, Ron	Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Wilde, Oscar	A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
Wilde, Oscar	Always forgive your enemies—nothing annoys them so much.
Wilde, Oscar	Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Wilde, Oscar	I can resist everything except temptation.
Wilde, Oscar	It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Wilde, Oscar	It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much and live with her too little.
Wilde, Oscar	Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Wilde, Oscar	Simple pleasures, are the last refuge of the complex.
Wilde, Oscar	The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Wilde, Oscar	The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Wilde, Oscar	The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Wilde, Oscar	The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Wilde, Oscar	There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Wilde, Oscar	Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
Wilde, Oscar	When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
Wilde, Oscar	Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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.
Wilder-Taylor, Stefanie	A tool I learned in recovery is called “Think Through the Drink.” Using this tool, you follow what would happen if you had a drink, ate that donut, played that hand of blackjack, took that Xanax, through to its inevitable conclusion.
Wilder-Taylor, Stefanie	Is your life better when you aren’t drinking?
Wilder, Thornton	Keep making the movements of life.
Wiley, Kim Wright	Two things in this world are true: People want what they don’t have, and people have what they don’t want. If you can find a way to connect those who have with those who want, you can provide enormous value and get very rich in the process.
Williams, Ben	There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Williams, Bern	Praise can give criticism a lead around the first turn and still win the race.
Williams, Bern	What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
Williams, Bern	What we say is patience is often just a lack of courage to change a situation.
Williams, Robin	Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”
Williams, Robin	You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
Williams, Ted	Golf is the only sport where the ball doesn’t move until you hit it.
Williams, Ted	Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
Williamson, Edward B.	I gave George Allen an unlimited budget and he exceeded it[On why he sacked the Redskins head coach]
Wilman, Jon	President James A. Garfield could simultaneously write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other.
Wilson-Schaef, Anne	You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself you.
Wilson, Edmund	No two persons ever read the same book.
Wilson, Woodrow	Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Wilson, Woodrow	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 our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to sunshine and light.
Winchester College motto	Either learn or depart, there is no third choice here.
Winegar, Bridger	Each time I shut my computer down, I throw my head back in maniacal laughter and scream “Fool! I was only using you!”
Winegar, Bridger	If people say they just love the smell of books, I always want to pull them aside and ask, To be clear, do you know how reading works?
Winfrey, Oprah	Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Winfrey, Oprah	Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Winn, Raynor	Better be careful—before you know it, you’ll start recording distance and time.
Winn, Raynor	I wasn’t living my life; I was just existing in someone else’s.
Winn, Raynor	Is a thousand miles far enough to turn darkness into light? Can using a body in the way it was made to be used reverse symptoms that are thought to be irreversible?
Winn, Raynor	It seems you can spend your whole life looking for something you never see, but the moment you give up on the search and turn the other way, the thing you long for will appear, as if it was always there, just slightly out of view.
Winn, Raynor	Some wrong decisions are easy to spot and easy to rectify: you get on the wrong train; you get off at the next stop. Others you don’t know are wrong until it’s too late to step back.
Winn, Raynor	Something remarkable happens when you walk a long-distance path. I think you find an honesty that you don’t see in normal life. It unites those who walk in a sort of trail-induced euphoria that gives you a sense of openness, where normally we’re all so closed. I think that’s the place where trail magic comes from.
Winn, Raynor	Sometimes in life you don’t know how much you rely on something until it’s taken away.
Winn, Raynor	Sufism philosophy contains the idea that the action of walking for a long time allows the world to fall away; eventually the walker and the path become one, the walker reaches the wayless way.
Winn, Raynor	The shock of something going right is almost as powerful as when it goes wrong.
Winn, Raynor	The understanding that life isn’t easy, but maybe it isn’t meant to be easy.
Winn, Raynor	There’s something incredibly infectious about laughter, wherever it comes from.
Winn, Raynor	We follow the river, as so many have before, along a path worn into the ground by thousands of feet, carrying thousands of hopes and dreams across this same piece of land. My feet join theirs, connecting me to each person that has trodden this ground, each life that has gone before, each story that has yet to come. Our energy beaten into the ground, until part of us has become this ground.
Winn, Raynor	We inhabit this path and it inhabits us.
Winn, Raynor	You never ever stop until you can’t take another step.
Winn, Raynor	You’re putting yourselves in the way of hope. Do that and anything can happen.
Winnie the Pooh	Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
Winters, Jonathan	I couldn’t wait for success so I went ahead without it.
Witherspoon, Reese	If you are not yelling at your kids, you are not spending enough time with them.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig	The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig	The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Wodehouse, P. G.	If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
Wolfe, Thomas	All things on earth point home in old October.
Wolfe, W. Beran	If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, education his son…He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.
Wonder, Stevie	Time is long but life is short.
Wonka, Willy	A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Wood, Beatrice	My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
Wooden, John	Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Woodruff, Lee	Endurance is an expression of love.
Woolcott, Alexander	There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.
Woolf, Virginia	It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
Woolf, Virginia	No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
Woolf, Virginia	One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Woolf, Virginia	There is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Woolworth, F. W.	I am the world’s worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.
Wordsworth, William	How tunefully the forests ring!
Wordsworth, William	Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
Wordsworth, William	Nothing can bring back the hour of the splendor in the grass, of the glory in the flower.
Wormer, Dean Vernon	Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Wren, Christopher	Varieties of uniformities make complete beauty.
Wright Edelman, Marian	Don’t feel entitled to anything you don’t sweat and struggle for.
Wright, Frank Lloyd	Every great architect is—necessarily—a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Wright, Frank Lloyd	Pictures deface walls oftener that they decorate them.
Wright, Frank Lloyd	Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Wright, Frank Lloyd	The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest and, therefore, when most was required of imagination in order to build at all. Limitations seem to have always been the best friend of architecture.
Wright, Frank Lloyd	The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Wright, Frank Lloyd	The truth is more important than the facts.
Wright, H. Norman	Anger is an expression of frustration, fear and hurt, and these feelings turn into anger in order to disguise what we are really feeling. Anger is a form of dishonest emotional expression.
Wright, H. Norman	We go through life like a video player on fast-forward. What about the other buttons: play and pause?
Wright, Steven	I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Wright, Steven	I wish the first word I ever said was the word “quote,” so right before I die I could say “unquote.”
Wright, Steven	Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Wright, Steven	I went to a restaurant that serves “breakfast at any time.” So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.
Wright, Steven	There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
Wright, Vinita Hampton	Each generation must learn the same truths as every generation that came before.
Wright, Wilbur	Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Wright, Wilbur & Orville	We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
Wu, J.	A monk asked master Chi-Ch’en: “What is the way upward?” The master replied, “You will hit it by descending lower.”
Wuorio, Eva-Lis	Every night the river sings a new song.
Wyche, Sam	It is amazing what blind loyalty toward a single goal can produce.
Yaconelli, Michael	Silence and solitude are not instant cures to busyness. They are lifetime commitments worked out in the real world of schedules and flawed human beings.
Yaghjian, David	The reason I paint is because it makes me sane.
Yamada, Kobi	Be good to yourself. If you don’t take care of your body, where will you live?
Yamani, Ahmed	When money is at stake, never be the first to mention sums.
Yankoski, Mike	A homeless guy walked past wearing a cardboard sign that said, “Ignore me for $1.00.”
Yankwich, Leon	There are no illegitimate children—only illegitimate parents.
Yates, Cynthia	The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
Yeats, J. B.	Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.
Yeats, William Butler	And say my glory was I had such friends.
Yee, Rodney	Stillness is timeless dancing happening now.
Yiddish folk saying	If you have money, you are wise and good-looking and can sing well too.
Yiddish proverb	The eyes are the mirror of the soul.
Yiddish proverb	Truth is the safest lie.
Yiddish saying	A joke is a half-truth.
Yiddish saying	All of us are crazy good in one way or another.
Yiddish saying	Stupid solutions that succeed are still stupid solutions.
Yiddish saying	What can burn and not burn up, a passion that gives birth to itself every day.
Yonge, Charlotte	The mistake we make is when we seek to be loved, instead of loving. What makes us cowardly is the fear of losing that love.
Young, Ed	As you are married through the years, you can keep on falling in love—over and over again.
Young, Edward	Friendship’s the wine of life.
Young, Edward	Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
Young, Margaret	Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Young, Melvina	A good friend tells you when you have spinach in your teeth. A great friend tells you that ordering the sundae instead is the best way to avoid getting spinach in your teeth.
Young, Melvina	It’s not that other people don’t get me at all…it’s that you get me completely.
Young, Owen D.	It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
Young, Vash	There is no finer sensation in life than that which comes with victory over ones’s self. It feels good to go fronting into a hard wind, winning against its power; but it feels a thousand times better to go forward to a goal of inward achievement bruising aside all our old internal enemies as you advance.
Yugoslav proverb	A good rest is half the work.
Yutang, Lin	Appreciate the present hour…Sit and hear your own breathing and look out on the universe and be content…One does not have to do something to pass the time; time can pass by itself.
Yutang, Lin	Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Yutang, Lin	If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Yutang, Lin	The stream of time is carrying us forward; we live between yesterday and tomorrow.
Zadra, Dan	Mediocrity is the place in the middle; it’s the best of the worst, or the worst of the best—and who really wants to live or work in a place like that?
Zadra, Dan	Some favorite expressions of small children: “It’s not my fault…They made me do it…I forgot.” Some favorite expressions of small adults: “It’s not my job…No one told me…It couldn’t be helped.” True freedom begins and ends with personal accountability.
Zadra, Dan	Today, all restaurants are clean, all gas stations are convenient, all realtors have listings, and all banks have money. All things being equal, the distinguishing value now becomes your people.
Zappa, Frank	Most rock journalism is people who cannot write interviewing people who cannot talk for people who cannot read.
Zebian, Najwa	These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
Zebroff, Karen	The mere thought of walking outdoors on a brilliant golden-blue day causes fire-works of delight to go off in most people’s psyche. It gives one an instant feeling of happiness and meditation! We are not only in touch, at that moment, with the physical splendour of nature, but also with the beauty of merging our own spiritual nature with it.
Zell, Sam	I don’t have any magic formulas. I’m extraordinarily focused. I read five newspapers a day and six magazines a week, and I’m constantly collecting information from both what I read and the people I talk to, and somehow or other that all gives me a perspective.
Zemke, Ron	Left to our own devices, we pay more and more attention to things of less and less importance to the customer.
Zen Buddhist saying	Before enlightenment—chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment—chop wood, carry water.
Zen in the Art of Archery	Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
Zen parable	One windy day two monks were arguing about a flapping banner. The first said, “I say the banner is moving, not the wind.” The second said, “I say the wind is moving, not the banner.” A third monk passed by and said, “The wind is not moving. The banner is not moving. Your minds are moving.”
Zen proverb	No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
Zen proverb	Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
Zen proverb	Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Zen saying	If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If it is still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.
Zen saying	The enlightened man eats when he is hungry and sleeps when he is tired.
Zen saying	When nothing is done, everything is done.
Zevon, Warren	You’re supposed to enjoy every sandwich. (When asked by David Letterman if his terminal condition had taught him something.)
Ziglar, Zig	A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Ziglar, Zig	Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Ziglar, Zig	I was tremendously impressed when Seko won the Boston Marathon in 1981. His training program was simplicity itself, and Seko explained it with twelve words: “I run ten kilometers in the morning and twenty in the evening.” At this point you probably think, There’s a catch! But this plan enabled him to outrun the world’s greatest, fastest, most gifted runners. When Seko was told that this plan seemed too simple compared to that of other marathoners, he replied, “The plan is simple, but I do it every single day, 365 days a year.” Simple? Yes. Easy? No.
Ziglar, Zig	Listening is loving.
Ziglar, Zig	People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing–-that’s why we recommend it daily.
Ziglar, Zig	Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
Ziglar, Zig	When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.
Ziglar, Zig	You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Ziglar, Zig	You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Zoeller, Fuzzy	How did I four-putt? I missed the hole. I missed the hole. I missed the hole. I made it.
Zohar	Observe people when they are angry, for it is then that their true nature is revealed.
Zohar	There is no true justice unless mercy is part of it.
Zola, Émile	If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
Zuckmayer, Carl	Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.

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