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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.
- Jim Beggs
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
- R. D. Laing
- We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
- Different and new is just the same old if you keep doing it over and over.
- Kyran Pittman, Good Housekeeping, June 2011
- To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
- People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
- Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
- The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
- Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
- Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.
- George Asaf
- We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
- If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
- Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
- Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05
- No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
- Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
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