If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. ~Author Unknown
It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken. ~Aristotle
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. ~John Burroughs
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ~R. Baker
Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence. ~Attributed to Gene Baylos
We live and die; Christ died and lived! ~John Stott
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Expeditions of an Untimely Man
Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes. ~Author Unknown
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. ~Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary
When darkness descends on summer nights, the air around campfires, lanterns and cottage windows becomes filled with swirling moths seemingly intent on self destruction. The suicide fliers are drawn to the flames and light because they normally navigate a straight course by keeping constant the angle of moonlight or sunbeams falling on their eyes. Night lights created by humans disorient moths, causing them to flutter round and round the source without being able to get their bearings. ~Doug Bennet and Tim Tiner, Up North
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. ~Joseph Campbell
Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does. ~Joey Adams
TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it. ~Author Unknown, from New York Times, 1939
More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. ~Robert Gordon Menzies
Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool. ~Martin H. Fischer
Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. ~Adlai Stevenson
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance. ~Mr. Miyagi, The Next Karate Kid, 1994
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. ~Simon Rattle
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1845
Untold suffering seldom is. ~Franklin P. Jones
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. ~Thomas Boswell, in Inside Sports
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