"27 Wise Thoughts About Life"
"It is better to give than to receive because giving is a glorified way of receiving."
--- Copyright © 2003 Elvin Knox
"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
--- Jessamyn West
"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
--- Samuel Ullman
"Walking forward or backwards makes no difference as long as you're moving ahead."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by C. Neelley ---Texas
"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Habit breaking, the prerequisite for change and renewal, needs more than a simple decision. It takes motivation, desire, and will. Crisis can provide that and all too often is the sole force for change."
--- Robert H. Waterman
"God gives and forgives; man gets and forgets."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sathish Sundaram --- TamilNadu, India
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope, and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
--- Woodrow Wilson
"You cannot always wait for the perfect time. Sometimes you must dare to jump."
--- Yasmeen Bleeth
"Creativity, enhances, beyond, glittered chaos."
--- Copyright © 2003 Kelly Cannon
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"You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world."
--- Charlie Chaplin
"Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
--- Henry Miller
"What we have done for ourselves dies with us, but what we have done for others remains immortal."
--- Albert Pike --- Submitted by Casey E. Faucon --- Louisiana
"Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another."
--- Kenny Ausubel
"We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. It is oxygen to the soul."
--- George M. Adams
"Even concrete evidence isn't written in stone."
--- Copyright © 2003 Joseph P. Martino
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
--- Robert Frost
"Life works when you choose what you got. Actually what you got is what you chose. To move on, choose it."
--- Werner Erhard
"Every one of us has a destiny with greatness. The main obstacle to our attainment - allowing time to slip away through idleness or unfruitful pursuits."
--- Copyright © 2003 Scott Johnson
"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from his neck saying Make Me Feel Important! Never forget this message when working with people."
--- Mary Kay Ash
"One ungrateful man does an injury to all who need help."
--- Publilius Syrus
"You always get lucky, SOMETIMES!"
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Timbo Lewis --- Florida
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"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."
--- Baltasar Gracian
"You don't just luck into things. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
--- Barbara Bush
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, Personal Integrity, Humility, Courtesy, Wisdom, and Charity."
--- Dr. William Menninger
"Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct, no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course."
--- Edward J. Koch
"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors."
--- Lyndon B. Johnson