"For some, time never heals... it peals!!"
~Sumit Sehrawat 2008 AD
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
– Kurt Vonnegut
"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."
– Tobias Wolff
"I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing."
– Rabbi Hillel
"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn."
– Mary Catherine Bateson
"We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it."
– William Butler Yeats
"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life."
– Queen Christina
"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."
– Norman Cousins
"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little."
– Plutarch
"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."
– Pyotr Tchaikovsky
"To play it safe is not to play."
– Robert Altman
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there."
– Josh Billings
"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
– Sarah Bernhardt
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
– Diane Ackerman
"Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble."
– Admiral William Halsey
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg."
– C. S. Lewis
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
– Pablo Picasso
"It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act."
– Charles Caleb Colton
"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball."
– Billie Jean King
"When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on — for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn."
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
– Freya Stark
"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."
– Socrates
"Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!"
– Charles Dickens
"We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart."
– Blaise Pascal
"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
– Matina Horner
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
– Marie Curie
"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed."
– Channing Pollack
"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
– George S. Patton
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
– Anna Freud
"Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it."
– Wally "Famous" Amos
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl."
– Saadi
"Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes, work never begun."
– Christina Rossetti
"I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?"
– William Stafford
"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
– Baruch Spinoza
"Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best."
– Marva Collins
"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything."
– Joan Didion
"If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted on the Sistine floor."
– Neil Simon
"Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do."
– Kathleen Winsor
"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
– Peter Drucker
"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
– Carlos Castaneda
"Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny."
– Don Sutton
"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
– Swami Sivananda Saraswati
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.…Success is shy — it won't come out while you're watching."
– Tennessee Williams
"Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that."
– Harold Kushner
The Zen of Sarcasm
12. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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