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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)
- Only sick music makes money today.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Der Fall Wagner, Section 5
- Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), Chance Acquaintances, 1952
- When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'
- Rita Rudner
- You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- [S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
- Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
- The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
- I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance. - Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
- Jodie Foster (1962 - )
- It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, April 22, 2003
- The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
- Michael Friedman
- One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
- Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972)
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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