I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. (Edgar Allan Poe)
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand. (Oprah Winfrey)
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always. (Albert Schweitzer)
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. (Apuleius)
If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. (W. S. Gilbert)
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. (J. D. Salinger)
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal)
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults. (Socrates)
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. (Colin Powell)
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. (Dorothy C. Fisher)
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. (Abraham Maslow)
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. (Joseph Wood Krutch)
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. (Blaise Pascal)
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. (William Shakespeare)
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. (James Bridie)
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead. (Homer)
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. (Erastus Flavel Beadle)
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. (Aeschylus)