A Little More About Life

contributed by jojo de leon

• Love deeply and passionately, you may get hurt but its the only way to live your life completely.
• A fine is a tax for doing wrong, a tax is a fine for doing well. 
• Light travel faster than sound, this is why people appear bright until you hear them speak.
• The things that come to those who wait may be the things left by those who get there first.
• Procrastination is the thief of time. 
• In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough. 
• There is something more powerful than anybody, and that is everybody. 
• The future is made of the same stuff as the present. 
• You have to study a great deal to know a little. 
• Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. 
• In youth we learn, in age we understand. 
• Genius is nothing more but a greater aptitude for patience. 
• Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. 
• More tears have been shed over men's lack of manners than their lack of morals. 
• Be silent always when you doubt your sense. 
• Great thoughts come from the heart .
• Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. 
• Privilege is the greatest enemy of right. 
• There is strong shadow where there is much light. 
• Be just before you're generous. 
• One man with courage makes a majority. 
• He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
• Life has value only when it has something valuable as its objects. 
• The historian is a prophet in reverse. 
• Little things affect little minds. 
• But he that dare not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose. 
• Be always sure you're right -- then go ahead. 
• A good heart is better than all heads in the world. 
• Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. 
• If peace can not be maintained with honor, then it is no longer peace. 
• The easiest person to deceive is oneself. 
• Not always the fanciest cake is the best to eat. 
• Man is not the creature of circumstances.  Circumstances are the creatures of man. 
• Minds ripen at very different ages. 
• A man is but what he knoweth. 
• Even nectar is poison if taken in excess. 
• A light heart lives long. 
• Mistakes are the portals of discovery. 
• You get what you accept. 
• There will always be hard work in life.  It's up for you to chose where you want it to be.
• Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• One who looks for a friend without fault will have none.

Thank you jojo for these contributions!

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