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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
- The Talmud
- In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.
- Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
- Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
- They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), An Enemy of the People, 1882
- Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
- Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-22-05
- The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
- John Herschel (1792 - 1871)
- Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
- Johann Georg von Zimmermann
- There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
- Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- Walking is man's best medicine.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
- Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- 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.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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