" A contented mind is the best source for trouble. "

Titus Maccius Plautus Roman comic dramatist (254 BC – 184 BC)

" For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. "

Melody Beattie

" Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy. "

Edward Young English poet (1683 – 1765)

" We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. "

Cicero Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC – 43 BC)

" No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country. "

General George Patton

" Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

" A light heart lives long. "

Irish Proverb

" Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. "

Christopher Lasch

" Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. "

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine US actress & television talk show host (1954 – )

" Every now and then I like to lean out my window, look up and smile for a satellite picture. "

Steven Wright US comedian and actor (1955 – )

" Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. "

Spanish Proverb

" Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. "

John Steinbeck US novelist (1902 – 1968)

" Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. "

Epicurus Greek philosopher (341 BC – 270 BC)

" We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. "

H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)

" Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. "

H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)

" When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. "

Jimi Hendrix

" They say golf is not a contact sport. Not the way we play it. "

Alice Cooper, BBC6 Radio, The Bruce Dickinson show

" One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other. "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" I want freedom for the full expression on my personality. "

Mahatma Gandhi Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 – 1948)

" I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them. "

Joan Rivers US comedienne (1935 – )

" Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream. "

Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. "

Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" The greatest ideas are the simplest. "

William Golding, Lord of The Flies

" Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. "

John Barrymore, last words US actor (1882 – 1942)

" Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. "

General Colin Powell

" Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery. "

Matthew Arnold English critic & poet (1822 – 1888)

" The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music… Bodies never lie. "

Agnes De Mille US choreographer & dancer (1909 – 1993)

" Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly. "

Solon Greek lawgiver & politician in Athens (638 BC – 559 BC)

" Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. "

Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

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