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- All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.
- North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon
- Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
- Hans Margolius
- Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase -- that's what wild geese are for.
- Anonymous
- It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
- Anonymous
- At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour Lost
- If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
- Immanuel Hermass von Fichte
- Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
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