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"I should like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home." -- Hazlitt

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"Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men." -- Mencius

"The temperature in any room is room temperature." -- Steven Wright

"How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live!" -- Thoreau

"What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?" -- Irv Kupcinet

"The world is like a mirror: frown and it frowns at you; smile, and it smiles too." -- Herbert Samuel

"Age is a high price to pay for maturity." -- Tom Stoppard

"If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work." -- Ogden Nash

"Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music." -- Nikki Harris

"America is the only country in the world where you can burn the flag but can't tear the tag off the mattress." -- Jackie Mason

"To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it." -- Kierkegaard

"Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out and you need help getting a potato chip across town." -- Ron Darian

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel Goldwyn

"A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." -- Emerson

"You're only young once but you can be immature forever." -- Anonymous

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." -- John Ciardi

"Never eat more than you can lift." -- Miss Piggy

"Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette." -- Ann Landers

"Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it." -- Don Herold

"Our language is funny--a fat chance and a slim chance are the same thing." -- J. Gustav White

"I should like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home." -- Hazlitt

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." -- Mark Twain

"A traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see." -- Chesterton

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." -- Dolly Parton

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page." -- St. Augustine

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." -- Henry David Thoreau

"You can tell the size of a man by the size of the things that make him mad." -- Adlai Stevenson

"Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one." -- J. P. Morgan

"The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television." -- Anonymous

"Being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned." -- Samuel Johnson

"I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell." -- Alec Yuill Thornton

"I dream my painting and then I paint my dream." -- Vincent Van Gogh

"We are growing serious and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull." -- Addison

"It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old." -- Mark Twain

"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing." -- Redd Foxx

"My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule." -- Santayana

"Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not the color, but to accept God's final decision on where your lips end." -- Jerry Seinfeld

"Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows." -- Kin Hubbard

"People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first." -- David H. Comins

"I have great faith in fools--self confidence my friends call it." -- Edgar Allan Poe

"Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth." -- Picasso

"Every artist was once an amateur." -- Emerson

"Years leave wrinkles upon the skin...but this loss of enthusiasm, of passion and ideals, leaves wrinkles on the soul." -- Schopenhauer

"It is much less painful to fail at something unimportant." -- Michael Lynberg

"Some men see things as they are and ask 'why?' I dream of things that never were and say 'why not?'" -- Robert Frost

"Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death." -- Albert Schweitzer

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong in the broken places." -- Hemingway

"If we seek security rather than the realization of our abilities, safety rather than growth, then we will be accentuating and developing our capacity for fear rather than courage, and security will, paradoxically, always remain slightly outside of our reach." -- Michael Lynberg

"Money often costs too much." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People in the West are always getting ready to live." -- Chinese Proverb

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." -- Eddie Rickenbacker

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." -- Oprah Winfrey

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." -- Anne Frank

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -- Henry David Thoreau

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." -- Sir Winston Churchill

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -- Abraham Lincoln

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." -- Josh Billings

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." -- Malcolm X

"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer." -- Muhammad Ali

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself." -- Amelia Earhart

"He was a wise man who invented beer." -- Plato

"A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing in nothing. " -- Maya Angelou

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison

"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive." -- John Sladek

"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth." -- Bonnie Friedman

"There is nothing like returning to a place that has remained unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have. " -- Nelson Mandela

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. " -- Marcel Proust

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde

"The dying process begins the minute we are born." -- Carol Matthau

"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse." -- Jules Renard

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." -- Marianne Williamson

"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy." -- Lazarus Long

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." -- Henry Ford

"It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -- Aristotle

"Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish opinions." -- Sankara, a Buddhist monk

"You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall." -- Tim Ward

"Do not speak unless you can improve on silence." -- a Buddhist sage

"Anything worth doing isn't done for a reason." -- Cherie Sogsti

"If you knew the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it." -- The Buddha

"Follow your desire as long as you live...for the wasting of time is an abomination of the spirit." -- Ptahhotpe, 2350 B.C.

"The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them." -- P.D. Ouspensky

"If you want to be happy in life, keep all of your commitments and don't expect other people to keep any of theirs." -- John-Roger & Peter McWilliams

"The price of greatness is responsibility." -- Winston Churchill

"Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it." -- Benjamin Franklin

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life: That word is love." -- Sophocles, 406 B.C.

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." -- Confucius

"Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events." -- Tim Ward

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in ideways, champagne in one hand--strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, "Woo-Hoo,What a Ride !" " -- Unknown

"Until you make peace with yourself, you'll never be content with what you have." -- Doris Mortman

"Let me listen to me and not to them." -- Gertrude Stein

"Earth's crammed with heaven." -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains." -- Anne Frank

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." -- Harold Wilson

"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; what you will discover will be yourself. " -- Alan Alda

"Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done. " -- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." -- Michelangelo Buonarroti

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." -- Helen Keller

"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other." -- Ann Landers

"What worries you, masters you." -- Hadden W. Robinson

"Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer, but wish you didn't." -- Erica Jong

"My favorite thing to do is to go where I've never been." -- Diane Arbus

"Heaven is where: the police are British, the cooks are Italian, the mechanics are German, the lovers are French, and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where: the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, the police are German, and it is all organized by the Italians." -- T-shirt in Tortola, British Virgin Islands

"Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little." -- Julia Alvarez

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, Gorgeous talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking So that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others." -- Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inaugural Speech

"Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" -- Mary Oliver

"To understand all is to forgive all." -- French saying

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein

"A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth. You're weak." -- Anonymous

"You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." -- Max Ehrmann

"Not all who wander are lost." -- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. " -- La Bruyere

"People who don´t have much are capable of stunning generosity. " -- Kevin Fattor

"A person who is without fear cannot be controlled." -- Cheri Huber