Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

~ Oscar Wilde

Speed gets you nowhere if you're headed the wrong way.

-- American proverb

A friend will help you move... A true friend will help you move Bodies

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
~ Socrates

"The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard."

~Steven Wright


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"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."
~ H.L. Mencken

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Antonio Porchia (1886-1968)
Writer

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

~ Florence Scovel Shinn

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

~ Anonymous

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"Prizes are for children."
~ Chrales Ives, upon being given, but refusing, the Pulitzer prize

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

~ Claude M. Bristol

"Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory."
~ Albert Schweitzer

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

-Albert Einstein

"If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut."
~Albert Einstein

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Henry Miller (1891-1980)
Writer

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

~ Gilda Radner

We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

Robert Urich (1946-2002)
Actor

"Anatomy (n): something everyone has, but which looks better on a girl."
~ Bruce Raeburn.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Lance Morrow
Journalist

"Victory goes to the one who has no thought of himself"
~ Shinkage School of Swordsmanship

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

~ John Barrymore

"In your seeing," he said, "there should be only the seeing. In your hearing, nothing but the hearing; in your smelling, tasting, and touching, nothing but smelling, tasting, and touching; in your thinking, nothing but the thought."

-Khuddaka Nikaya

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"Think about what you're thinking about..."
-me

"If you chose to dance with a bear, don't stop when you get tired."
~Russian Proverb

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

~ Steven Tyler ~

We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers
nor the downward rush of the stream;
sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.
-Loy Ching-Yuen

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

~ George Eliot

A lot of dust becomes a mountain.

(I forgot the source, but I think it's a Chinese or Japanese saying)

When drinking water, remember its source.

-- Chinese proverb

Grace has been described as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

~ William Hazlitt

I can't lift with my legs. I don't have any hands on my legs.

-radio station commercial-

Love is like the sea, it's a moving thing; but still it takes its shape from the shore it meets and it's different with every shore.

Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960)
Writer

Find reasons to do the important things, instead of reasons not to do them.

Ernie J. Zelinski
Consultant

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists of being wise in time.

-- American proverb

The door to opportunity is marked "push."

-unattributed

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

~ Thomas Carlyle

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 succeed.

~ Bernard Edmonds

"Don't be fooled by the real thing"

- ARTelevision

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

~Charles Dickens