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- The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
- Dr. Laurence J. Peter
- It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.
- French management saying
- People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
- Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
- We shall never cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
- Anna Louise Strong
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