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fun is good.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Topic: Hope
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. -Nikos Kazantzakis.
Topic: Choice
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Author: Bible
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.
Topic: Providence
Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
Topic: Worry
Author: Confucius
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Topic: Taste
The only thing you have to do is breathe; Everything else is just optional.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
Author: Earl Warren
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Topic: Quiet
Author: Erich Segal
We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.
Topic: Behavior
Author: Sharon Stone
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
Topic: Fact
Author: Philip Roth
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. -Leo Buscaglia.
Topic: Anger
I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave, Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf Came I to crouch, as I conceive. Dame Nature doubtless has designed A man the monarch of his mind.
Topic: Mind
Author: John Byrom
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Topic: Abstinence
Author: W C Fields
Speak of the gods as they are.
Topic: Gods
Feast of Luke the Evangelist Almighty God, who created humanity after your image and gave them living souls that they may seek you and rule your creation, teach us so to investigate the works of your hand that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen our intelligence for your service. And grant that we may so receive your Word as to believe in him whom you sent to give us the science of salvation and the forgiveness of our sins. All this we ask in the name of the same Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.
Topic: Pity