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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
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Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Camino Real
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.: W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, And Now All This (1932) introduction
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.: Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
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I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.: A. Whitney Brown
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.: Mary S. Calderone
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.: Halifax
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.: Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, 07-10-2001
Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.: Brett Butler, 'Knee Deep in Paradise'
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 06-29-06
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.: Dutch Proverb
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The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003