Friday, November 25, 2005

Quotes from http://www.mindoverclutter.com/quotes.htm

Quotes from
http://www.mindoverclutter.com/quotes.htm


"For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication."
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in Gift From the Sea

"Your house is your home only when you feel you have jurisdiction over the space."
~Joan Kron

"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you...If you don'tlife controls you."
~Anthony Robbins

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
~ Napoleon I

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
~Mark Twain

“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We're afraid.”
“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We will fall!”
“Come to the edge.”
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.
~Guillaume Apollinaire

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~Anais Nin

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
~Theodore Roosevelt

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
~Seneca

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
~Ambrose Redmoon

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~Dale Carnegie

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
~Lao Tzu

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
~George Bernard Shaw

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
~Samuel Beckett

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
~Elbert Hubbard

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
~Richard Bach

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
~Edmund Burke

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
~St. Augustine

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
~Helen Keller

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
~John F. Kennedy

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
~Mark Twain







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