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Wake up, do your best, sleep, repeat. ~Thingsweforget.blogspot.com, #660
Work hard, enrobe yourself in velvet hope, and rule your world! ~Terri Guillemets
The biggest problem in the world
Could have been solved when it was small.
~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu
Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams. ~Michael Beckwith
Bloom where you are planted. ~Mother Jones
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail. ~Ramakrishna
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed,become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard
I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon,www.wildthymecreative.com
Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. ~Robert Charles Whitehead
Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~Author Unknown
The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. ~S.A. Sachs
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. ~Oscar Wilde
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~Ray Bradbury
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that 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.... In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David Thoreau
Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ~Sarah Bernhardt
Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton
Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained. ~Mike Dolan,www.hawaiianlife.com
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha
Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers
Walk lightly through life. ~Guy Finley
Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln
Be true to your word and your work and your friend... ~John Boyle O'Reilly, from the poem "Rules of the Road"
Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company," The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? ~Henry David Thoreau, letter to H.G.O. Blake, 16 November 1857
Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams. ~Patch Adams
Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
Being loved by all is little fun
Unless you're also loved by one.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river. ~Lao Tzu
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec
Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~Author Unknown
Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~Tad Williams
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish
Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up. ~Chris Fedak and Allison Adler, Chuck, "Chuck Versus the Ring"
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~Horace
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers. ~Stephen Dunn
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~Thomas Edison
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~Bill Veeck
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger
When you lose, don't lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John C. Collins
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger
Follow the seasons. Follow your heart. Lead by example. Lead with love, alongside simplicity and courage, embracing duty, shunning fear. ~Terri Guillemets
Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true. ~Jeb Dickerson,www.howtomatter.com
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin
Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down. ~Walter Winchell, 1932
When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer
Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young
Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes. ~From the television show Scrubs
Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown
It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. ~Author Unknown
The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown
For visions come not to polluted eyes. ~Mary Howitt
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool. ~Richard Feynman
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti
God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash
Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes
I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson
Work hard, enrobe yourself in velvet hope, and rule your world! ~Terri Guillemets
The biggest problem in the world
Could have been solved when it was small.
~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu
Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams. ~Michael Beckwith
Bloom where you are planted. ~Mother Jones
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail. ~Ramakrishna
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed,become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard
I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon,www.wildthymecreative.com
Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. ~Robert Charles Whitehead
Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~Author Unknown
The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. ~S.A. Sachs
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. ~Oscar Wilde
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~Ray Bradbury
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that 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.... In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David Thoreau
Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ~Sarah Bernhardt
Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton
Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained. ~Mike Dolan,www.hawaiianlife.com
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha
Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers
Walk lightly through life. ~Guy Finley
Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln
Be true to your word and your work and your friend... ~John Boyle O'Reilly, from the poem "Rules of the Road"
Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company," The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? ~Henry David Thoreau, letter to H.G.O. Blake, 16 November 1857
Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams. ~Patch Adams
Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
Being loved by all is little fun
Unless you're also loved by one.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river. ~Lao Tzu
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec
Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~Author Unknown
Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~Tad Williams
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish
Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up. ~Chris Fedak and Allison Adler, Chuck, "Chuck Versus the Ring"
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~Horace
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers. ~Stephen Dunn
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~Thomas Edison
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~Bill Veeck
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger
When you lose, don't lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John C. Collins
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger
Follow the seasons. Follow your heart. Lead by example. Lead with love, alongside simplicity and courage, embracing duty, shunning fear. ~Terri Guillemets
Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true. ~Jeb Dickerson,www.howtomatter.com
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin
Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down. ~Walter Winchell, 1932
When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer
Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young
Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes. ~From the television show Scrubs
Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown
It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. ~Author Unknown
The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown
For visions come not to polluted eyes. ~Mary Howitt
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool. ~Richard Feynman
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti
God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash
Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes
I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson
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