Life ... An Owner's Manual
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"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well.
What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. - George E. Woodberry
A day without laughter is a day wasted. - Charlie Chaplin
A good conscience is a continual Christmas. - Benjamin Franklin
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. - Dutch Proverb
A little simplification would be the first step towards rational living, I think. - Eleanor Roosevelt
A man is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. - Albert Einstein
A smile is a curve that can straighten a lot of things.
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description
of a happy state in this world. - John Locke
A successful dreamer is one wakes up and does something about it.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. - Confucius
A ton of regret never made an ounce of difference.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep. - Leonardo da Vinci
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George Patton
Act like you expect to get into the end zone. - Christopher Morley
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher
than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. - Joel Hawes
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterton
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. - John Sales
Be smart, don't act smart.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything,
let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. - Charlotte Bronte
Despair is the conclusion of fools. - Benjamin Disraeli
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca
Do not believe in miracles ... rely on them.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;
but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. - Epicurus
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you.
It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. - Horace Mann
Do right and leave the results to God.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie
Don't count your days. Make your days count.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. - G. K. Chesterton
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished,
but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooten
Even if you're on the right track you'll still get hit if you don't move. - Will Rogers
Every accomplishment large and small begins with the same decision: I'll try. - Ted Key
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. - Norman Mailer
Everything is impossible for those who never try.
Fear less, hope more. Whine less, breathe more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
And all good things are yours. - Swedish Proverb
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him,
and to let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. - Henry David Thoreau
Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones;
and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
God is awake. - Victor Hugo
Having a dream you don't pursue is like buying an ice cream cone
and watching it melt all over your hand. - Frank Papasso
He not busy being born is busy dying. - Bob Dylan
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand. - Confucius
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
- Christopher Morley
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. - Winston Churchill
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,
can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
- Dorothee Solle
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. - Thomas Fuller
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
If you don't take a chance you don't have a chance.
If you run from the past, the present goes by too fast and
you end up being lost and out of breath in the future.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. - Joseph Addison
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. - Carl Sandburg
I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.
- Payne Stewart
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
- Saint Augustine
It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want. - Aristotle
It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Elinor Smith
It is better to sleep on what you intend doing than to stay awake over what you've done.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. - Benjamin Franklin
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. - Jerome K. Jerome
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. - Jean Nidetch
I've learned that most people resist change, and yet it's the only thing that brings progress.
- Age 66; Live and Learn and Pass it On by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I've learned that regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves
that rob us of the moment. - Age 29; Live and Learn and Pass it On by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I've learned that we grow only when we push ourselves beyond what we already know.
- Age 53; Live and Learn and Pass it On by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I've learned that when things get easy it's easy to stop growing.
- Age 53; Live and Learn and Pass it On by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Kindness is the language in which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
Know what to kiss ... and when.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Bruce Lee
Knowledge is learning something every day.
Wisdom is letting go of something every day. - Zen proverb
Laughter is inner jogging. - Norman Cousins
Laughter is the shock absorber of life's blows.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Learn to unlearn. - Benjamin Disraeli
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. - Josh Billings
Life is a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up
depends on what you're made of. - Jacob M. Braude
Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish but you only spend it once. - Lillian Dickson
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism;
the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is not counted by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that leave us breathless.
Life's hard. Wear a helmet.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi
Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare
Love is the difference between existence and life. - Mike Hutchison
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love is what the heart needs.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. - Epictetus
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts,
temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. - Aristotle
Motivation is what gets you started; habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun
Mud thrown is ground lost. - Louis Nizer
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day. - Johnny Carson
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. - Brendan Francis
Nobody really cares if you are miserable, so you might as well be happy. - Cynthia Nelms
Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. - Ralph W. Sockman
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. - Benjamin Disraeli
One cannot change the past, but one can ruin the present by worrying over the future.
One day your life is going to flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.
Only a life lived for others is worth living. - Albert Einstein
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. - Confucius
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. - Aristotle
People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plan your work and work your plan.
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes its goal.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. - Albert Einstein
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Swallow your pride occasionally; it's not fattening. - Frank Tyger
'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes. - Sarah Orne Jewett
The best things in life aren't things.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - JM Power
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way you use them.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything,
they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. - Saint Augustine
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are
for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos
The instant you have lost hope in tomorrow is the instant you lose meaning for today.
- Mike Hutchison
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes - Frank Lloyd Wright
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully. - Epicurus
The more time you spend worrying about the past the less time you have to think about the future.
The only ideas that will work for you are the ones you put to work.
The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. - Dale Carnegie
The problem is not that there are problems.
The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
- Theodore Rubin
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. - Robert Byrne
The question is not what you look at but what you see. - Henry David Thoreau
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Thomas Henry Huxley
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. - Ralph W. Sockman
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein
Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out. - Art Linkletter
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. - Henri Bergson
This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others or themselves. - Alexis de Tocqueville
Those who do not dream only experience a fraction of what life has to offer. - Mike Hutchison
Today's preparation determines tomorrow's achievements.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean.
It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.
It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. - John Wayne
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein
Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack. - George Patton
Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions.
Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- E. M. Forster
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. - Albert Einstein
What does not destroy me, makes me strong. - Friedrich Nietzsche
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure;
but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison
What worries you masters you. - Haddon W. Robinson
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
- Sydney Harris
When tempted to fight fire with fire remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. - Albert Einstein
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. - Theodore Roosevelt
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one,
but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. - Leo Burnett
When you're through changing, you're through. - Bruce Barton
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right. - Henry Ford
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be
experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love. - Bo Bennett
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Win as if you’re used to it and lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. - Golnik Eric
Worry is a misuse of imagination. - Dan Zadra
Worry: the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. - George Washington
Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles; it empties today of its strength. - JRR Tolkien
Would you live with ease? Do what you ought, not what you please. - Benjamin Franklin
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply,
with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
- Woodrow Wilson
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. - Henry Ford
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested. - Robert J. Sawyer
You can't direct the wind but you can adjust your sails.
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. - Ray Bradbury
You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin
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