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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.
She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.
It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.
What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.
He, who for Love has undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousand-fold than one, Who never loved at all.
Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.
We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.
If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.
A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.
It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.
Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine.
One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.
There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that.
Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".
This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.
A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!
My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.
Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.
Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.