" There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit – and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place. "

Virginia Kelley

" Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. "

Christiane Northrup, M.D.

" History knows no resting places and no plateaus. "

Henry Kissinger US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 – )

" Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. "

Euripides Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC – 406 BC)

" The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. "

Alfred Hitchcock, In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995) British movie director (1899 – 1980)

" This is no time to make new enemies. "

Voltaire, when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan. French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

" A child is the root of the heart. "

Maria de Jesus

" When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other. "

Bible, Ecclesaistes 7:14

" We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. "

Harold Nicolson

" It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. "

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

" I am a part of all I have seen. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson English poet (1809 – 1892)

" We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. "

Richard Feynman US educator & physicist (1918 – 1988)

" To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote. "

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

" We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. "

Stephen Covey

" I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others. "

Greville

" Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels. "

Stanislaw Lec

" There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. "

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love. "

Spanish Proverb

" Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds–and then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own. "

Michael Crichton, Prey US author & screenwriter (1942 – )

" Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. "

Carl Sagan US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 – 1996)

" Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty. "

Samuel Johnson, Rasselas English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)

" Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts. "

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics Dutch Jewish philosopher (1632 – 1677)

" History never looks like history when you are living through it. "

John W. Gardner, quoted by Bill Moyers US administrator (1912 – )

" Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. "

Soren Kierkegaard Danish philosopher (1813 – 1855)

" I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. "

John Constable English landscape painter (1776 – 1837)

" Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love. "

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 – 1931)

" You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. "

Henri-Fr

" Hope is the nurse of misery. "

American Proverb

" All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. "

Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher (1788 – 1860)

" Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language. "

Johnson

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