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William Blake: Truth and Lies

‎”A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” ~ William Blake.
Unknown: Happiness, trials, sorrow and hope

“May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human & enough hope to make you happy.” ~ Author Unknown.
Wayne W. Dyer: Circumstances

“Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.” ~ Wayne W. Dyer Embed from Getty Images
Zig Ziglar: Friendship

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” ~ Zig Ziglar.
Nelson Mandela: Head and Heart

Image via Wikipedia “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” —Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (b. 1918).
Friedrich Nietzsche: Importance of why

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche.
Albert Einstein: Dangerous place

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” ~ Albert Einstein.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld: Neither last nor first

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/74809293 “It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.” —Francois De La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680).
Louis Heath Leber: Always room for improvement

“There’s always room for improvement, you know – it’s the biggest room in the house.” ~ Louise Heath Leber.
Michel de Montaigne: Firm belief

“Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.” —Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592) http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/171073526
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Speaking loudly

‎“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Robert Frost: Worry and work

‎“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.” ~ Robert Frost.
Soren Kierkegaard: Life, backwards and forwards

‎“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard.
Ben Hecht: Second hand of a clock

Image via Wikipedia Embed from Getty Images Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -Ben Hecht, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, director, and producer (1894-1964)
Paulo Coelho: Scarring, complaints and sainthood

“Don’t complain because our scars are our medals. But hit back whenever it’s possible, because we are not saints.” —Paulo Coelho. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/150574555
Beverly Sills: Shortcuts

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” ~ Beverly Sills, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Shaping the New You.
Jack Lynch: Grammar and style

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over Windows versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. -Jack Lynch, English professor, author (b. 1967) Embed from Getty Images
Will Durant: Fatal to certainty

“Inquiry is fatal to certainty.” —Will Durant, historian (1885-1981).
Henry David Thoreau: Better alive than dead

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) Embed from Getty Images
Miguel de Cervantes: Self-deceit

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. -Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (1547-1616) Embed from Getty Images
Golda Meir: Absurdity

I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism. -Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1898-1978)
John Ruskin: What we think, know or believe versus what we do

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900) Embed from Getty Images
Piet Hein: Late for the previous, early for the next

It ought to be plain / how little you gain / by getting excited / and vexed. / You’ll always be late / for the previous train, / and always in time / for the next. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
Samuel Johnson: Two kinds of knowledge

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784).
John Gilmore: Net and censorship

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. -John Gilmore, software engineer and activist (b. 1957)
Roland Barthes: Language

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.” -Roland Barthes, literary critic and philosopher (1915-1980).
Samuel Butler: Self-portrait

“Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” —Samuel Butler, poet (1612-1680)
Eric Hoffer: Nationalist pride

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)
William Proxmire: Power

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. –William Proxmire, US senator, reformer (1915-2005) Embed from Getty Images
J M Barrie: Life—a diary

Image via Wikipedia The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. -J.M. Barrie, novelist and playwright (1860-1937)
Blaise Pascal: Different meanings, different effects

Image via Wikipedia “Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.” —Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662) .
Robert Frost: Poetry

“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.” —Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963).
Anonymous: A smile is a curve that sets everything straight

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” ~Anonymous.
Billings Learned Hand: Words are chameleons

“Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment. “ —Billings Learned Hand, jurist (1872-1961)..
Anatole France: Average men and lives

“The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.” —Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/463960493
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr: Superstition

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, poet, novelist, essayist,…
Sydney J. Harris: Elitism

“Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.” —Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986).
William Hazlitt: Familiarity, contempt and admiration

“Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.” —William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830).
Judy Garland: One man

“In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.” —Judy Garland, actress and singer (1922-1969).
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Solitude

Image via Wikipedia “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882).
Albert Camus: Last Judgement

“Don’t wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day.” —Albert Camus, writer and philosopher (1913-1960).
Anton Chekhov: A life of art

Image via Wikipedia “If you want to work on your art, work on your life.” —Anton Chekhov, short-story writer and dramatist (1860-1904).
Lazare Hippolyte Carnot: Clamor and suffering

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering: in a despotic state there is little complaint but much suffering. -Lazare Hippolyte Carnot, statesman (1801-1888)
Jane Welsh Carlyle: Injustice

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor. -Jane Welsh Carlyle, letter writer (1801-1866) Embed from Getty Images
Thomas Carruthers: Progressively unnecessary

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -Thomas Carruthers
Bill Bryson: Language

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. –Bill Bryson, author (b. 1951) Embed from Getty Images
P J O’Rourke: Shame, humiliation and publicity

“You can’t shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.” —P.J. O’Rourke, writer (b. 1947).
Unknown: Battle between two wolves

Image via Wikipedia One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that was going on inside himself. He said, “My son, it is between two wolves. One is evil: anger, envy,sorrow,regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity,guilt,resentment,inferiority,lies, false pride,superiority,and ego. The other is good: joy, peace,love, hope,serenity,humility,kindness,benevolence,empathy,generosity,truth, compassion,and faith.” The grandson thought about it for…
Joseph Conrad: Foes and friends

Embed from Getty Images You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. -Joseph Conrad, novelist (1857-1924)
John Lubbock: What we see

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” ~ John Lubbock, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk, Growing Up