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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
- Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003
- If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
- Peter McWilliams
- My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- Life itself is a quotation.
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
- Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living.
- Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
- The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
- You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- Maya Angelou (1928 - )
- But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
- Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
- Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
- Sharon Salzberg
- Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
- Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
- It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
- Erica Jong
- Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
- Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
- Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
- Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974)
- If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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