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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 438 B.C.
- Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
- Robin Morgan
- Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
- Jonathan Kozol
- Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
- Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography, 1937
- The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve (1670 - 1729), The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
- A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
- John Tudor
- Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.
- Austin O'Malley
- Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open!
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Hannah Louise Shearer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, When The Bough Breaks, 1988
- Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.
- Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
- Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- I didn't really say everything I said.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - )
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