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- Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
- Margaret Peters
- Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
- Hugh Prather
- Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
- Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
- Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
- Carlos Castaneda
- Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation.
- Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863 - 1938)
- Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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