Facts On Life

Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.  -Bert murray

achievements:  the product of the impossibilities.  -author unknown

he who will not reason is a bigot;  he who cannot reason is a fool; he who dares not reason is a slave.  -sir w. drummond

it takes two to get one in trouble.  -mae west

no man is rich enough to buy back his past.  -oscar wilde

a proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.  -miguel de cervantes

every man is a fool for at least five minutes everyday; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.  -elbert hubbard

the greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.  -luther burbank

only 5% think, 10% think they think, and 85% would lie down and die rather than try to think.  -dr. woods hutchinson

god has a history of using the insignificant to accomplish the impossible.  -author unknown

it's not how much hours you put in but how much you put into the hours.  -author unknown

urgent things are seldom important.  important things are seldom urgent.  -author unknown

all that you are is a result of what you have thought.  -author unknown

the truest expression of a person is in their dancing and music.  -author unknown

smart people speak from experience -- smarter people, from experience, don't speak.  -author unknown

half-truth is usually less than half of that.  -author unknown

experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn't do.  -william knudson

opportunities are seldom labeled.  -john a. shedd

we first form habits, then habits form us.  -john maxwell

the difficulties of life are intended to make us better -- not bitter.  -author unknown

peristence is stubborness with a purpose.  -rich de vos

when a winner makes a mistake, he says, "i was wrong."  when a loser makes a mistake, he says, "it wasn't my fault."  -author unknown

life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.  -thomas la mance

in every man, a child is hidden that wants to play.  -friedrich nitzsche

commandment number  one of any truly civilized society is this:  let people be different.  -david grayson

how vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!  -henry david thoreau

you can't hold a man down without staying down with him.  -booker t. washington

money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.  -henry wheeler shaw

people are usually convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.  -blaise pascal

the man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.  -bishop w.c. magee

education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.  -author unknown

thought without learning is labor lost, learning without thought is perilous.  -confucius

the process of learning requires not only hearing and applying, but also forgetting and then remembering.  -author unknown

new beginnings start in another beginning's end.  -song:  "closing time"

always remember that if god had meant today to be perfect, he wouldn't have invented tomorrow.  -author unknown

people who fly into rage always make a bad landing.  -author unknown

everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.  -carl jung

nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the loud than passing laws which cannot be enforced.  -albert einstein

without humility, there ain't no pride -- without fear, there ain't no bravery -- without ignorance, there ain't no learnin'.  -wolverine

the truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.  the hard part is doing it.  -author unknown

where you came from is not nearly as important as where you're going.  -author unknown

guts'll get you so far, then they'll get you killed.  -movie:  speed

all great spirits have always encountered vigilant opposition from mediocre minds.  -albert einstein

The purpose of life is to live it, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.   -Eleanor Roosevelt

Only in growth, reform and change... paradoxically enough...is true security to be found.   -Anne Morrow Lindbergh 

You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.  -R. Tagore 

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. 
Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.  -M. Scott Peck 

Words that do not match deeds are not important.   -Che Guevara 

For we lose not only by death, But also by leaving and being left, By changing and letting go and moving on.   -Judith Viorst 

The little things used to mean so much to Shelley, I used to think they were trivial.  Believe me nothing is trivial. 
-movie:  The Crow

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They 
would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.   -Robert Keith Leavitt

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.  -a Haida saying 

From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of 
sand and call it the world.  -Robert Pirsig

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much 
life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good 
for something.  -author unknown

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor and lovers of gain.  -Plato 

Life begins on the other side of despair.  -author unknown

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