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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:17:49 GMT -5
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
~Thomas Moore
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:18:12 GMT -5
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
~Harold MacMillan
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:18:41 GMT -5
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
~Oscar Wilde
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:19:04 GMT -5
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:19:29 GMT -5
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
~Twyla Tharp
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:19:59 GMT -5
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
~Anthony J. D'Angelo
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:51:05 GMT -5
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
~Lewis Thomas
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:51:35 GMT -5
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:51:57 GMT -5
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
~BlaisePascal
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:52:21 GMT -5
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage doesn’t need to be lived again.
~Maya Angelou
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:52:42 GMT -5
Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
~Harry S Truman
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:53:04 GMT -5
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
~Maya Angelou
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:53:43 GMT -5
I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
~John Keegan
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:54:06 GMT -5
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
~Louis L'Amour
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:54:28 GMT -5
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
~Bob Dylan
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:54:54 GMT -5
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
~John Ruskin
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:55:22 GMT -5
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
~Leo Buscaglia
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:55:44 GMT -5
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
~Robin Williams
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:56:10 GMT -5
Mother Nature is a beautiful yet cruel mistress and she will prevail eventually.
~anonymous
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:56:34 GMT -5
I wonder, has there ever been a time in this century when anything in our world made sense?
~unknown
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:56:56 GMT -5
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:57:17 GMT -5
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
~Maurice Maeterlinck
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:57:39 GMT -5
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~Norman Cousins
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:58:02 GMT -5
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
~Albert Einstein
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Post by dreamer on Dec 2, 2011 6:58:42 GMT -5
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
~Alice Duer Miller
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