Nothing ever goes away. (Barry Commoner)
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. (Brian Tracy)
It is not a fish until it is on the bank. (Irish Proverb)
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. (Leo C. Rosten)
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. (Brock Chisholm)
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it. (John Whitehead)
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. (Anna Louise Strong)
One's own self conquered is better than all other people. (The Dhammapada)
Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Pablo Neruda)
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. (G. C. Lichtenberg)
Patience is the companion of wisdom. (Saint Augustine)
It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents. (Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett)
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. (Fran Lebowitz)
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. (Horace)
Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. (Eubie)
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. (George Bernard Shaw)
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit (Heinrich Heine)
I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope. (Sextus Julius Frontinus)