" Patience is the key to content. "

Mahomet

" The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie–delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. "

Kurt Vonnegut US novelist (1922 – )

" Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage. "

Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin

" God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" From error to error one discovers the entire truth. "

Sigmund Freud Austrian psychologist (1856 – 1939)

" Stranger in a strange country. "

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. "

Unknown Quotations by unknown authors

" Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. "

Confucius, Analects Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

" You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. "

Rosalynn Carter US wife of Jimmy Carter 1946 (1927 – )

" When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. "

John B. Bogart (1848 – 1921)

" Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. "

William Dement

" Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy

" The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. "

H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)

" The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. "

Honore de Balzac French realist novelist (1799 – 1850)

" Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. "

Bertrand Russell British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

" Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. "

Elizabeth Goudge

" If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. "

Anais Nin US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 – 1977)

" Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. "

Pythagoras Greek mathematician, philosopher, & scientist (582 BC – 507 BC)

" The ideal condition
Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;
But since we are all likely to go astray,
The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. "

Sophocles, Antigone Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. "

Sir Wilfred Grenfell English missionary & physician (1865 – 1940)

" I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. "

Ernest Hemingway US author & journalist (1899 – 1961)

" Culture makes all men gentle. "

Menander Greek comic dramatist (342 BC – 292 BC)

" The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. "

Henry James British (US -born) author (1843 – 1916)

" A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. "

Elbert Hubbard US author (1856 – 1915)

" It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. "

Theodore Roosevelt, Paris, Sorbonne 1910 26th president of US (1858 – 1919)

" Indecision may or may not be my problem. "

Jimmy Buffett

" To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. "

e e cummings US poet (1894 – 1962)

" The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen not touched… but felt in the heart. "

Hellen Keller

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