"A Wall"

A Wall A wall is a plan: Two friends making sure neither Becomes too friendly.

“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot." - George Herbert

"Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world." - Real Live Preacher

"Never give a child a sword." - Latin Proverb

"You must not come lightly to the blank page." - Stephen King

"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see." - Henry David Thoreau

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt

"One who cannot ask, cannot live." - Unknown

"By listening to the ideas of others, we can learn more about ourselves." - Unknown

"Whatever you endure today can prepare you for a better tomorrow." - Unknown

"Miracles happen all around us. We just need to be willing to see them." - Unknown

"It is impossible to say just what I mean!" - T.S Eliot

"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

"The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong." - Pierre Charron

"The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves." - Oscar Arias Sanchez

"It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion." - Catullus

"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." - Phillips Brooks

"The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God." - Eileen Elias Freeman

"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality." - Charles Lamb

"When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it." - Paul "Bear" Bryant

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagam

"It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion." - Catullus

"The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves." - Oscar Arias Sanchez

"The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong." - Pierre Charron

"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." - Phillips Brooks

“The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God.” ― Eileen Elias Freeman

"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality." - Charles Lamb

"When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it." - Paul "Bear" Bryant

"Do not resist growing older. Many are denied the privilege." - Irish saying

"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification." - Publilius Syrus

"Do good, and never mind to whom." - Italian proverb

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." - John Ruskin

"Do not resist growing older. Many are denied the privilege." - Irish saying

"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification." - Publilius Syrus

"The things that count most cannot be counted." - Kate Wolfe

"Worry is a misuse of imagination." - Dan Zadra

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." - John Ruskin

"It is better to appreciate what you do not have than to have what you do not appreciate." - Unknown

"Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time." - Leo F. Buscaglia

"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded." - Pope John Paul II

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.” ― Pope John Paul II

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman

"Let him that would move the world first move himself." - Socrates

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." - H. H. Munro

"We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit." - Sam Ewing

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

"Those who make history have not time to write it." - Klemens Von Metternich

"Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest." - Laurence Sterne

"Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest." - Laurence Sterne

"Those who make history have not time to write it." - Klemens Von Metternich

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

"The things that count most cannot be counted." - Kate Wolfe

"We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit." - Sam Ewing

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." - H H Munro

"Let him that would move the world first move himself." - Socrates

"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification." - Publilius Syrus

"Do not resist growing older. Many are denied the privilege." - Irish saying

"Do good, and never mind to whom." - Italian proverb

"It is better to appreciate what you do not have than to have what you do not appreciate." - Unknown

"Worry is a misuse of imagination." - Dan Zadra

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden

"Nothing lasts forever, not even your troubles." - Arnold H. Glasgow

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." - William Penn

"He that would be a leader must also be a bridge." - Welsh proverb

"Mistakes are their own instructors." - Horace

"Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor." - Alexander Smith

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Albert Einstein

"I praise loudly. I blame softly." - Catherine the Great

"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values." - William Ralph Inge

"The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count today." - Unknown

"Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else." - Unknown

"Good examples have twice the value of good advice." - Unknown

"It's not hard to make decisions, when you know what your values are." - Unknown

"The test of a person's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel." - Unknown

"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Unknown

"Often the best way to win is to forget to keep score." - Unknown

Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire

"Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get." - Unknown

"The more we share, the more we have." - Unknown

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Courage is being scared to death--but saddling up anyway." - John Wayne

"No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!" - John Muir

"Give all to love; obey thy heart." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at." - Carlos A. Urbizo

"It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit." - Robert Louis Stevenson

“Justice delayed is justice denied.” - William Gladstone

"Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead." - Laura Moncur

"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher." - Victor Hugo

"I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me--until the last small twig has grown." - Kathe Kollwitz

"Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off." - Paul Brodeur

"Cherish each hour of this day, for it can never return." - Og Mandino

"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment." - Seneca

“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.” - Mahatma Gandhi

"Dream in a pragmatic way." - Aldous Huxley

"Simplicity is the peak of civilization." - Jessie Sampter

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due." - William Ralph Inge

"You're blessed if you have the strength to work." - Mahalia Jackson

"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts." - Colette

"I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood." - Tom Hanks

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." - C.S. Lewis

"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it." - Elizabeth Bowen

"A will finds a way." - Orison Swett Marden

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown

"The ancestor of every action is a thought." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties." - Aesop

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." - Margaret Bonnano

"May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down." - Sara June Parker

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." - Charles Dickens

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it." - Alfred Hitchcock

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

"It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean." - Tony Robbins

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. - Lord Byron

"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody." - Mark Twain

"We can learn something new anytime we believe we can." - Virginia Satir

"If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had." - Izzy F. Stone

"What you cannot enforce, do not command." - Sophocles

"Seek home for rest, for home is best." - Thomas Tusser

"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die." - Amelia Burr

"Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest." - Wilson Mizner

"To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben

"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department." - Andrew Carnegie

"My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted." - Steven Wright

"It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding." - Kahlil Gibran

"It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good." - Lisa Williams

"The sweetest of all sounds is praise." - Xenophon

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike." - John Muir

"You must do the things you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us." - Samuel Johnson

"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that, in due course, they actually become the person they seem." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Nothing is easy to the unwilling." - Nikki Giovanni

"In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it." - Francis Thompson

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." - Freya Madeline Stark

"it seems like the daylight is coming, and no one is watching but me." - Counting Crows

"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy C. Fisher

"I don't want to live to see the day we say goodbye." - Hootie and the Blowfish

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." - Henry Ford

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out--it's the grain of sand in your shoe." - Robert Service

"Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion." - Tina Fey

"All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people." - Alexis Carrel

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best." - Frida Kahlo

"You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block." - John Rogers

"It is not enough to aim; you must hit." - Italian proverb

"Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth." - Barbra Streisand

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." - Walter Elliot

"The shell must break before the bird can fly." - Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned." - Harold S. Geneen

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone." - Robert Frost

"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy." - John Updike

"If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?" - Margot Fonteyn

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." - Oscar Wilde

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another." - Dan Bennett

"In wisdom gathered over time, I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." - Ansel Adams

"There are no 'easy answers,' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right." - Ronald Reagan

"Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them." - Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them." - Albert Camus

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." - Henry David Thoreau

"It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself." - Graham Greene

"The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty." - George F. Will

"Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable." - John D. MacDonald

"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing--peace is the measure." - George Melton

"The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society." - Emma Goldman

"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities." - Eric Hoffer

"Never let yesterday use up too much of today." - Will Rogers

"You are remembered for the rules you break." - Douglas MacArthur

"Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones." - Seneca

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain

"There is nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus

"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." - Oprah Winfrey

"It is only the first step that is difficult." - Marie De Vichy-Chaconne

"By constant self-discipline and self-control, you can develop greatness of character." - Grenville Kleiser

"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others." - Ellen DeGeneres

"After all is said and done, more is said than done." - Aesop

"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott

"You're blessed if you have the strength to work." - Mahalia Jackson

"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." - Dutch Proverb

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers. - African Proverb

"The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold." - Glenn Doman

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." - Indira Gandhi

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"Enthusiasm moves the world." - Arthur Balfour

"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality." - Henry David Thoreau

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." - Vernon Sanders Law

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."- Katherine Mansfield

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. - Edward J. Phelps

"Taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe." - Homer

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber." - Sir Winston Churchill

"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery." - John Paul Jones

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." - John F. Kennedy

"Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else."" - Anna Lappe

"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Complain to one who can help you." - Yugoslav proverb

"Perseverance does not equal worthiness." - Lawrence Kaplow

"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky. You look in you." - Alan Watts

"It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice." - Anne Tyler

"Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner." - Lady Gaga

"I shut my eyes in order to see." - Paul Gauguin

"It is always the simple that produces the marvelous." - Amelia Barr

"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry." - Henry Ward Beecher

"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman." - Betty Friedan

"Faith is a higher faculty than reason." - Philip James Bailey

“Faith is a higher faculty than reason.” - Philip James Bailey

"We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?" - Betty White

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie." - William Shakespeare

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

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence." - Edith Sitwell

"Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness." - Sir Robert Hutchinson

"More of me comes out when I improvise." - Edward Hopper

"Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion." - Eubie Blake

"Our heroes are people, and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love." - Randy K. Milholland

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." - Albert Einstein

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci

"When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure." - Aaron McGruder

"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." - Josh Billings

"Men are born to succeed, not fail." - Henry David Thoreau

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

"If we would confess our sins to one another, we would all laugh at the lack of originality." - Unknown

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers." - Rudyard Kipling

"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow." - Lawrence Clark Powell

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus

"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it." - Lyndon B. Johnson

"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." - Earl Mac Rauch

"What is forgiven is usually well remembered." - Louis Dudek

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." - Raymond Lindquist

"Mighty hard to tell the people you love you're a failure." - Laura Moncur

"I can resist anything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde

"Mighty hard to tell the people you love you're a failure." - Laura Moncur

"I can resist anything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde

"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object." - Joseph Addis

"True strength is delicate." - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

"If I am walking with two others, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself." - Confucius

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles DuBois

"Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry." - Spanish Proverb

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington

"You make your guests feel welcome and at home. That's the secret of entertaining. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself." - Barbara Hall

"It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters." - Seneca

"Failure is success if we learn from it." - Malcolm Forbes

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Reggie Leach

"Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon." - David Assael

"Men are only as loyal as their options." - Bill Maher

"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory." - Antonio Porchia

"Hope is necessary in every condition." - Samuel Johnson

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often." - Brian Tracy

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Agatha Christie

"All I ask for is the opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness." - Unknown

"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders a man happy." - Voltaire

"All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough." - Anna Quindlen

"If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave." - David

"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it." - Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Better to be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." - Aesop

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli

"By all means use some time to be alone." - Edward Young

"The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself." - Garth Brooks

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." - Conan O'Brien

"Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused." - King Charles I

"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small." - Lao Tzu

"Your life is what your thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." - George Bernard Shaw

"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please." - Pythagoras

"Little by little, one travels far." - J. R. R. Tolkien

"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does." - James Hilton

"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults." - Antisthenes

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." - Dr. Laura Schlessinger

"Don't fight the problem, decide it." - George C. Marshall

"My friends are my estate." - Emily Dickinson

"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it." - George McDonald

"I can live for two months on a good compliment." - Mark Twain

"Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent." - Langston Coleman

"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch." - Bette Davis

"Genius is eternal patience." - Michelangelo

"At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived." - Dame Rose Macaulay

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." - D. H. Lawrence

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." - H. L. Hunt

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." - Julia Sorel

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury. - Unknown

"In the absence of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras." - Tom Nolan

"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions." - Gloria Swanson

"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward." - Patricia Sampson

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas A. Edison

Call her. Wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, daughter, girlfriend, fiancée, or the woman you'd like to know better. Call her.

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them." - Lawana Blackwell

"Magnificent promises are always to be suspected." - Theodore Parker

“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion” - Richard John Neuhaus

"Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends." - Juvenal

"Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words." - Dr. Joyce Brothers

"There is admirable potential in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'" - Andre Gide

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"Reprove your friend privately; commend him publicly." - Solon

"Reprove your friend privately; commend him publicly." - Solon

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." - Agnes Repplier

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." - Agnes Repplier

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." - Samuel Johnson

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." - Samuel Johnson

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Marianne Williamson

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Marianne Williamson

"Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside." - Hugh Macleod

"Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside." - Hugh Macleod

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert Kennedy

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert Kennedy

“Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.” - H. Stein

"We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey." - John Hope Franklin

"Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language." - Henry James

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." - Samuel Johnson

"If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot." - Italian Proverb

"I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure." - Og Mandino

“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.” - Robert Burton

"Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best." - Kin Hubbard

"I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve." - Barack Obama

"Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good." - White Eagle

“To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.” - Tom Robbins

"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth." - Charles A. Dana

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa

"Love is trembling happiness." - Khalil Gibran

"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J. K. Rowling

“We can't control the wind, but we have the power to adjust the sails.” - Unknown

"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself." - Oprah Winfrey

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale

"If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do." - Julie Morgenstern

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be." - Oprah Winfrey

"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source." - The Dhammapada

"Every calling is great when greatly pursued." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim

"Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul." - Erica Eisdorfer

"Dreams are necessary to life." - Anais Nin

“We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.” - Persius

"The less you talk, the more you're listened to." - Abigail Van Buren

“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.” - Nikos Kazantzakis

"Be yourself. The world worships the original." - Ingrid Bergman

"Life is not an exact science, it is an art." - Samuel Butler

"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting." - Benjamin Franklin

"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius." - Joseph Addison

"If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people." - Oriental Proverb

"The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right." - Phil Crosby

“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit." - Jacqueline Cochran

"I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit." - Jacqueline Cochran

"I'm thankful for every moment." - Al Green

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered." - Michael J. Fox

"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt." - William Van Horne

"Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in." - Jennifer Neal

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. " - Mark Twain

"It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day." - Frank B. Kellogg

"The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." - Ivy Baker Priest

"Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle, i.e., being human." - Hugh Macleod

"Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better." - Kate Winslet

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

“A friend is someone that won't begin to talk behind your back when you leave the room.” - Unknown

“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” - Eden Phillpotts

"We are the hero of our own story." - Mary McCarthy

"Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most." - Kathryn L. Nelson

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have." - Eckhart Tolle

"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust." - Henry L. Stimson

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." - George Burns

"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others." - Anne-Sophie Swetchine

"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase." - Epictetus

“The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.” - Leontyne Price

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." - Aaron Rose

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." - Charles Caleb Colton

"He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying." - Michel de Montaigne

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Lead, follow, or get out of the way." - Laurence J. Peter

"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard." - William Lloyd Garrison

"Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either." - Jewish Proverb

"Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions." - Charles Caleb Colton

"When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake." - Stephanie Barron

"One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid." - Basil King

"As knowledge increases, wonder deepens." - Charles Morgan

“It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.” - Elizabeth Taylor

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." - J. K. Rowling

"Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them." - Bill Kelly

"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent." - J. H. Holmes

"Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say." - Robert W. Service

"You never find yourself until you face the truth." - Pearl Bailey

"Be who you are and be that well." - Saint Francis de Sales

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." - Thomas A. Edison

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." - Duke Ellington

"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it." - Horace Mann

"How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!" - Ann Radcliffe

"A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world." - Dorothy L. Sayers

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” - Socrates

"Life is largely a matter of expectation." - Horace

"She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell." - Marita Bonner

"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it." - Herodotus

"[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home." - David Frost

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”. - Victor Hugo

"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt

"What you risk reveals what you value." - Jeanette Winterson

"We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it." - Anne Wilson Schaef

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." - Rumi

"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton

"Hope is only the love of life." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” - Aristotle

"Silence is a source of great strength." - Lao Tzu

"We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us." - Charles de Gaulle

“We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.” - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it." - Samuel Butler

"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable." - Eric Hoffer

"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge." - Abraham Joshua Heschel

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon

"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own." - Aesop

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it." - Woodrow Wilson

"My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible." - Josephine demott Robinson

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde

"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great person is unique." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends." - Pearl S. Buck

"To be is to do." - Immanuel Kant

"You can't be brave if you've had only wonderful things happen to you." - Mary Tyler Moore

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." - Bertrand Russell

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived." - Abraham Lincoln

“Your actions speak so loud that I can't hear what you're saying.” - Unknown

"Responsibility is the price of freedom." - Elbert Hubbard

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything." - Eugene Delacroix

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

"Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose." - George Lucas

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

“A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities." - William Arthur Ward

"Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism." -- Eric Gibson

"Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?" - Cicero

"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." - Ronald Reagan

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." - Benjamin Disraeli

"A minute's success pays the failure of years." - Robert Browning

"Better to look weak and be strong than to look strong and be weak." - Laura Moncur

“The sea complains upon a thousand shores.” - Alexander Smith

"Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger."- Cicero

"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself." - Swami Vivekananda

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” - George Linnaeus Banks

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board [reading the child's schoolwork]^. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted." - Voltaire

"No one wants advice - only corroboration." - John Steinbeck

"So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity." - Andre Gide

"It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space." - Thomas K. Mattingly II

"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained." - Edward R. Murrow

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" - John Wooden

"Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does." - Bill Nye

"The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that." - Alexander Woo

"The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life." - William Shakespeare

"Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long." - Miguel de Cervantes

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death." - Joan D. Vinge

"In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything." - Jeffrey F. Chamberlain

"It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." - Jerome K. Jerome

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." - Edward Gibbon

"When deeds speak, words are nothing." - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H. P. Lovecraft

"You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature." - George W. Bush

"I passionately hate the idea of being 'with it,' I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." - Orson Welles

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation." - Roger Allen

"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense." - Josh Billings

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." - William Penn

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" - Audrey Hepburn

"Expect problems and eat them for breakfast." - Alfred A. Montapert

"Even God cannot change the past." - Agathon

"A friend is a second self." - Aristotle

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard

"Underpromise; overdeliver." - Tom Peters

"If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency." - Sir Joshua Reynolds

"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character." - Isabelle Eberhardt

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." - Kin Hubbard

"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure." - Benjamin Franklin

"The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy." - Charlotte-Catherine

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life." - Bertolt Brecht

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones." - Seneca

"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all." - Anna Quindlen

"Woe be to him that reads but one book." - George Herbert

"Woe be to him that reads but one book." - George Herbert