- And this, too, shall pass. (?)
- “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
~ Goethe - Experience is the hardest teacher. It gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. (?)
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever. ~Gandhi (although I’ve head it attributed to others) - Your talent is God’s gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift back to God.
~Leo Buscaglia - A finished person is a boring person. ~Anna Quindlen
- If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way. ~Mark Twain
- The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination . ~Albert Einstein
- How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these.
~George Washington Carver - Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
~1 Corinthians 13:7 - That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
~Ninon de Lenclos - Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~Mark Twain - If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you like to win, but you think you can’t
it is almost certain that you won’t.
Life’s battles don’t always go to the
stronger woman or man, but sooner or later
those who win are the ones who think they can.
~Unknown - Prejudice is a great time-saver. It allows you to form opinions without thinking.
~Unknown - As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way!
~Irish Blessing - No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~Eleanor Roosevelt - Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
~Mark Twain - Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
~C. Archie Danielson - Work like you don’t need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you’ve never been hurt.
~Mark Twain - Character is what you are when no one is looking. (?)
- When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
~Ernest Hemingway -
If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
~Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
~Phyllis Diller -
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
~Albert Einstein -
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
~Kahlil Gibran
About Books:
“Borrowers of books–those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of lost volumes.”
~Charles Lamb
Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona (date unknown). It reads:
A Curse Against Book Stealers
For him that stealeth a book from this library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain crying aloud for mercy and let there be no surcease to his agony till he sink to dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for ever and aye.
Henny Youngman once said: “I have 2,000 books and no bookcase. No one will loan me a bookcase.
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