Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act right, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Nicholas Ling

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Clive James

It's important the people should know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for.

Mary H. Waldrip

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.

Alfred Kahn

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Samuel Johnson

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one-- himself.

Dhammapada

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

Ruth E. Renkel

The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Martha Washington

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Aiden Nowlan

Don't sacrifice your own welfare for that of another, no matter how great. Realizing your own true welfare, be intent on just that.

Dhammapada

If we do not try, we will not know.

Ayya Khema

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Catherine Aird

Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.

Sutta Nipata

Lankavatara Sutra

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Agatha Christie

When one teaches, two learn.

Robert Half

Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.

Paulo Coelho

Some pursue happiness, others create it.

Anonymous

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

Wayne Dyer

The earth is bi-polar.

Unknown

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

David Ben Gurion

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Lady Bird Johnson

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Beca Lewis Allen

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.

Harrold Hill

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

No Peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.

Giovanni Giocondo

War does not determine who is right, war determine who is left.

Unknown

Worrying about everyone else gets you nowhere cause your fogetting about the only person that will take you anywhere

Unknown

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up lost.

Unknown

If you don't care where you are then you're not lost.

Unknown

Choices... Each morning I wake up and say to myself you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or ... I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or ... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life. Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life. Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, Dance like nobody's watching!

Unknown

Chance only favors the prepared mind.

Pasteur

Inhale the paradox - exhale the bliss...

Unknown

I can only please one person a day. This is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either.

Unknown

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Towns change -- but not wells. We all draw from the well. If almost at the water and the rope breaks -- misfortune.

(From an I-Ching reading)

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Unknown

If the whole world were upsidedown - I'd probably stub my toe on a smoke detector!

Ms. Amy Howard

You have to stand for something; Otherwise you'll fall for anything.

A Southern phrase

You never know until you try, but if you wait too long, you might miss the chance. By refusing to decide, you make a decision to be passive. Tighten your belt, toughen your hide, and step forward.

Unknown

Speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

Maggie Kuhn

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never presist in trying to set people right.

Logan Smith

Get out and correct for your own excessive gravity.

Rob Brezsny

Love doesn't makes the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin Adams

The trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another chance.

Edwin Chapin

You may be kind of anxious, wondering if things will go as planned. Odds are good you've had a similar experience before. It's good to learn from your experiences, but don't get stuck in them. Love prevails, so cast your fears aside.

Linda Black

I Love life, how fast it moves, all it has to offer; But the fumes do make me dizzy.

Little ol' Me, SjM

When love beckons to you follow it, though its ways are hard and steep. And when it speaks to you believe in it, though it's voice may shatter you.

Kahlil Gibran

It's smooth, but it has an edge.

Mr. Westort

I guess I just don't know everything, now do I?

Conspicuously Anonymous

It's your life. If you spend it with a half-person, you'll end up with a half-life.

Unknown

You do your part and the universe will provide you with all the needed opportunities.

Daniel "Whelland" Dowd

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

Felelon

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

Unknown

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Konrad Lorenz

It matters not how many fish are in the sea . . . if you don't have any bait on your hook.

Dial West

To get the full value of Joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Samuel Clemens

Have I missed the mark, or, like true archer, do I strike my quarry? Or am I prophet of lies, a babbler from door to door?

Cassandra, the cursed seer.

If you have to explain the punch line, perhaps it wasn't that funny to begin with.

Unknown

Every path has its puddle.

English proverb

'm not c o n c e i t e d . . . . . . I'm P e r f e c t. There's a difference.

Ms. MaryLou Damanda Daphney Whorefellow, Esq.

Love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant

Unknown

Why you no talk to me?

unknown (well kinda...)

I am the only person that I need to please today.

Unknown

Maybe I'll just get a water.... No, that's stupid....

Virginia D.

What about the... ...blue sox cap?

Virginia D.

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

Unknown

It is within my amazing power to solve every mystery, but I choose to let a few remain enigmas so that I may continue to be amused and surprised by life.

Unknown

Don't be sad that it ended, be happy that it happened.

Unknown

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who are we to be brilliant? Gorgeous? Talented? Fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of Earth. Your playing small does not save the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of the spirit that's within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we uncounsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

A laugh is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings.

Rancoise duc de la Rochefouchald

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

Katherine Hepburn

People will forget what you said .... People will forget what you did .... But people will never forget how you made them feel.

Unknown

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

Seneca The Younger

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

Not all who wander are lost.

JRR Token

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

What I proclaim is the truth as I have discovered it ...

Diamond Sutra

... well I don't know about that Jimmy, but one thing I do know is.... it's 4:30 and Grandma needs an eightball...

Heard, Overheard, and Slighly Modified

.. I'm not sure about that Guuuurrrrrl, I think I'd prefer.... [OOOOOOO(!)] dark wood!

Ms. Ginny

Tough times never last, tough people do.

Robert Schuller

The only difference between stumbling blocks and steppingstones is the way in which we use them.

Unknown

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.

Unknown

I should have realized I've always been better at buying things than making them.

She who wishes to remain annonymous

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Charles Kettering

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Janis Joplin

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

Unknown

What we think, we become.

Buddha

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Aesop

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

Charles Kettering

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Dolly Parton

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Henry Ford

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Dr. Seuss

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

Dr. Seuss

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

J. Petit Senn

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgement for absolute truth.

Aleister Crowley

When your work speaks for itself, don't interupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

I many not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Douglas Adams

The Day God Made Dog, He Just Sat Down and Smiled.

Unknown

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

it ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

W.C. Fields

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Whatever the self describes, describes the self.

Jakob Böhme

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Golda Meir

Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Frank A. Clark

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Willie Nelson

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius