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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
- Victoria Holt
- Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
- Krishnamurti
- Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
- George Tooker
- A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
- Doug Larson
- I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
- Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), Fahrenheit 451, 1953
- Such friendship at once enhances the lustre of prosperity, and by dividing and sharing adversity lessens its burden.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
- Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
- There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)
- How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
- Belva Plain
- I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), The Last of Cheri, 1926
- The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Laughter is by definition healthy.
- Doris Lessing
- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
- Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
- I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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