Inspiration, by Quotations
 
"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough." - Seneca
 
"The trouble with our times is that future is not what it used to be." - Paul Valery
 
"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." - Thomas Dewar
 
"Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay." - Bill Stern
 
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.'' - Margaret Thatcher

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Emilio Zapata
 
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." - Ralph W. Sockman
 
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
 
"I think only through suffering all our wonderful human qualities come out in us. Unless and until you suffer, how will you understand other's suffering?" - Sree Chakravarti
 
"It requires more courage to suffer than to die." - Napoleon Bonaparte
 
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there light is from within." - Elizabeth Kubler Ross
 
If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
- Chinese Proverb
 
"What does not kill me makes me stronger." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there" - Will Rogers
 
"All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established." -Aristotle
 
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war." -Erasmus
 
"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."-Adlai E. Stevenson
 
"The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. " - G. K. Chesterton
 
"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men." -Mortimer Adler
 
"Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor." -Samuel Coleridge
"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories." - Montaigne
"Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely." - Rudolph Rummel
"The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone." - Henrik Ibsen
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
"Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle of liberty is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds." - Dante Alighieri
"The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations." - Eric Hoffer
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom" - Raymonde Uy
"The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men." - B.H. Liddell Hart
"War doesn't determine who is right, war determines who is left." Chinese Proverb
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light."- Unattributed
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dali Lama gave these instructions for life... 
-Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
-When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
-Follow the three Rs:
Respect for self
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions.
-Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a  wonderful stroke of luck.
-Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
-Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
-When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
-Spend some time alone every day.
-Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
-Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
-Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
-A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
-In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
-Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
-Be gentle with the earth.
-Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
-Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
-Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
-Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." - Anonymous

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people." - Victor Borge

"Seven days without laughter makes one weak." Mort Walker

"Between grand theft and a legal fee, there only stands a law degree." - Unattributed
 
"There are two kinds of lawyers, those that know the law and those that know the judge." - Unattibuted

"Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards." - Anonymous

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley

"Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
He who loses money, loses much;
He, who loses a friend, loses much more;
He, who loses faith, loses all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Friends, you and me....
You brought another friend....
And then there were 3....
We started our group....
Our circle of friends....
And like that circle....
There is no beginning or end....
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery."
 
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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