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Life is a school of probability.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likely to impede change.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself
The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
Every change begins with a vision and a decision to take action.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
