I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
– T.S.Eliot, an excerpt from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubt. But if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
– Francis Bacon
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
– Thomas A. Edison
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
– Nelson Mandela
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
– Voltaire
Then indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting over lost days.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute:
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage and then the mind grows heated;
Begin and then the work will be completed.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will.
To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to suceed.
– Bernard Edmonds
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
— Khalil Gibran, Sand And Foam
Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
Love me, and I may be forced to love you.
– William Arthur Ward
If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
You can become it.
– William Arthur Ward
Thus all the actions of men must necessarily be referred to seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, anger, and desire.
– Aristotle, Rhetoric (Book 1, Chapter 10)
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
– Oprah Winfrey
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
– Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere’s Fan
Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success, for those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles.
– Sydney Bremer
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of romance is uncertainty.
– Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Watch your thoughts, they become words;
Watch your words, they become actions;
Watch your actions, they become habits;
Watch your habits, they become character;
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
– Frank Outlaw, 18 May 1977
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