What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
~ Bern Williams
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Learn something
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
~ David Eddings
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Attention
The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.
~ Walter Anderson
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Play
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
~ Fred Rogers
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Decline
Just as I have my own role to play, so does time. And time does its job much more faithfully, much more accurately, than I ever do. Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it’s been moving ever forward without a moment’s rest. And one of the privileges given to those who’ve avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old. The honor of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Dogs
We give them the love we can spare, the time we can spare. In return, dogs have given us their absolute all. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
~ Roger Caras
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Cultivate
Give fools their gold and knaves their power, let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall, who sows a field or trains a flower or plants a tree, is more than all.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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Courage
Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
~ Harper Lee
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Character
Competence is how good you are when there is something to gain. Character is how good you are when there is nothing to gain. People will reward you for competence. But people will only love you for your character.
~ Mark Manson
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It can’t be done
Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can’t be done.
~ Ben Morcell
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Creativity
The highest form of creativity is found by improvising within a set of restrictions.
~ Christopher Nolan
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Understanding
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, not to hate them, but to understand them.
~ Baruch Spinoza
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It’s the cake
A party without a cake is really just a meeting.
~ Julia Child
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Watch, quietly
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.
~ T.H. White
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I arrange my thoughts
[A]s I write I think about all sorts of things. I don’t necessarily write down what I’m thinking; It’s just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths. No matter how much I write, though, I never reach a conclusion. And no matter how much I rewrite, I never reach the destination. Even after decades of writing, the same still holds true.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Success
Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
~ Warren Buffett
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Happiness
You are genuinely happy if you don’t know why.
~ Joseph Mayer
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Wrong
Until we know we are wrong, being wrong feels exactly like being right.
~ David McRaney
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Experience
Experience is not what happens to you; It is what you do with what happens to you.
~ Aldous Huxley
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Moving
So much to lose or so it seems
~ Max Collins
These idle games and children’s dreams
How they confound and split the seams
Inside my mind, I just keep moving on
Into the unknown
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