Living Quotes

Tobacco, Cancer and Death

2009-03-28T20:25:00.000-07:00

My neighbor stopped smoking yesterday. He is survived by a wife and child. Harry Bauer

The top executives of the seven largest American tobacco companies testified in Congress today that they did not believe that cigarettes were addictive, but that they would rather their own children did not smoke. Philip J. Hilts

When I don't smoke, I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. Russell Hoban

The single most important preventable cause of death, responsible for one out of every six deaths in the U.S. C. Everett Koop

Stinking'st of the stinking kind, filth of the mouth and fog of the mind. Charles Lamb

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Success

2009-03-27T19:56:00.000-07:00

It took me twenty years to become an overnight success. Eddie Cantor

Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen

If A is a success in life, the A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. Albert Einstein

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. W. C. Fields

If you work hard and play by the rules in this great country, you can get ahead. Richard Gephardt

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Self-Love/Self-Hate and Love/hate

2009-03-26T19:10:00.000-07:00

All the affectionate feelings of a man for others are an extension of his feelings for himself. Aristotle

If you love yourself too much, nobody else will love you at all. Thomas Fuller

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. Eric Hoffer

To love one's self in the right way and to love one's neighbor are absolutely analogous concepts, are at bottom one and the same. Kierkegaard

Self-love seems so often unrequited. Anthony Powell

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Politics -- Brinkley, Nixon, de Gaulle, Lenin and Rossiter

2009-03-25T17:20:00.000-07:00

As long as I've known anything about politics, I've been skeptical. And it has evolved. The more I saw, the more skeptical I became. David Brinkley

The big thing in politics is to know when it is time to leave. Charles de Gaulle

There is no morality in politics. There is only expediency. Lenin

Politics is only a game, and a shabby game at that, if it is not directed to larger and nobler ends. Clinton Rossiter

I played by the rules of politics as I found them. Richard M. Nixon

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The Madness of Man

2009-03-24T18:27:00.000-07:00

This world is full of madmen, and he who would not wish to see one must not only shut himself up alone, but also break his looking glass. Nicolas Boileau

I and the world happened to have a slight difference of opinion. The world said I was mad, and I said the world was mad. I was outvoted, and here I am. Richard Brothers

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying "You are not mad. You are not like us." St. Anthony

There is only one difference between a madman and me: I am not mad. Salvador Dali

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Joseph Heller

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Losing Life, Love, Happiness

2009-03-23T18:16:00.000-07:00

I hate to lose more than i like to win. Larry Bird

When you think you've lost everything, you find out you can always lose a little more. Bob Dylan

It's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. Never give up and never give in. Hubert H. Humphrey

There are fights which should be made even if a loss is certain. Frank Tollman

Sometimes, it is too late to win. but it's never too late to lose. Tom Warson

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Ideas -- Grand, small, important, foolish

2009-03-22T18:06:00.000-07:00

There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. Joseph Joubert

You talk of our having an idea. We do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not. Heinrich Heine

Idea won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. A. Whitney Griswold

Ideas come from God. Albert Einstein

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God and Man

2009-03-21T17:49:00.000-07:00

I could not say I believe. I know. I have had the experience of being gripped by something stronger than myself, something that people call God. Carl Jung

God can no more do without us than we can do without him. Meister Eckhart

Think of God more frequently than you breathe. Epictetus

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own. John F. Kennedy

I would believe only in a God who could dance. Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Heart by Jesus, Buddah, Gandhi, Helen Keller, et al.

2009-02-08T17:31:00.000-08:00

Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land." Helen Keller

Speak to his heart, and the man becomes suddenly virtuous. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible. Mohandas Gandhi

What is most needed is a loving heart. Buddha

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Jesus

It all starts with the heart. With no heart, there is no love. Without love, the world would be a dull, boring place with no respect for man, God, or beast. Very few people would offer their fellow man a little shelter from the storms of life.

Without a heart, the world would be heartless.

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Standing Up when None Join Us

2009-02-01T19:46:00.000-08:00

Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone. Mohandas Gandhi

If no one responds to your call, walk alone, walk alone. Rabindranath Tagore

I may stand alone, but would not change my free thoughts for a throne. Lord Byron

The man that stands by himself, the universe stands by him also. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone, but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. Hubert H. Humphrey

At times we must stand alone by ourselves. Sometimes it is because the fight is ours alone. Other times, it is because our friends and neighbors do not recognize the need. In each instance, we are tested.

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Seeing Ourselves, Others, and the World

2009-01-31T19:34:00.000-08:00

If we live truly, we shall see truly. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We love to see through others, but we dislike being seen through. La Rochefoucauld

As a man is, so he sees. William Blake

We see things as we are, not as they are. Jennifer Stone

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe

What is this world in which we live? Who are we? Who are our friends, lovers, family? Our perceptions tell us what are our world is, and therefore, who are what we are. Each of us lives in this world of ours, and yet each of us has a different perception of it.

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What if God was not God

2009-01-30T20:41:00.000-08:00

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. Clarence Darrow

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Friedrich Nietzsche

Outside man, there is nothing. George Orwell

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter. Woody Allen

If there were no God, he would have to be invented. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If the atheists are proven correct that there is no god, God would still remain as the single most influential factor in all world events, small and large.

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God is dead. Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead. God

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Promises, Honesty, and what they mean

2009-01-29T17:38:00.000-08:00

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. Lou Holtz

Promise little and do much; so shalt thou have thanks. Thomas Fuller

The righteous promise little and perform much, the wicked promise much and perform not even a little. Talmud

A nod of an honest man is enough. James Kelly

An honest man's word is as good as his bond. Cervantes

It is my promise that represents me. If you cannot believe the words of my promise, then you cannot believe my heart, my soul, the very essence of who I am. Give your promises wisely and sparingly. In the end, you will be judged by the promises that you keep, rather than the ones you make.

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Positive Quotations about Football

2009-01-28T07:00:00.000-08:00

Football isn't a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. Vince Lombardi

Sometimes, Rock, when the team's up against it, when things are going wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock, but I'll know about it, and I'll be happy. George Gipp

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committe meetings. George Will

I give so much of myself on Sunday. I drain all the life out of myself out there. I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life is. Randall Cunningham

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. Erma Bombeck

Football is one of America's great passions. We spend four months watching football and eight months talking about it. America just flat loves football. Mr. Rheaman

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Patience is not always easy to bear, but it is often the best remedy

2009-01-27T17:10:00.000-08:00

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. Soren Kierkegaard

Patience and diligence, like faith, move mountains. William Penn

Be patient, my soul; await the fulfillment of God's promise, and you shall enjoy the abundance of His goodness in Heaven. Thomas Kempis

It is very strange . . . that the years teach us patience; the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. Elizabeth Taylor

Bear with patience what thou canst not remedy with prudence. Thomas Fuller

Patience can move mountains because it does not stop, it does not falter, it does not tire. Patience resists all. Be strong, and you may work miracles in your life.
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Art, Artists, and the People who Influence Them

2009-01-26T15:16:00.000-08:00

Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the courage to consider myself an artist in the great and ancient sense of that word. . . . I am only a public entertainer who understands his age. Pablo Picasso

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business. John Berryman

The artist is not a reporter, but a great teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be. H. L. Mencken

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen. Edward Craig

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want. Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. Oscar Wilde

We are all artists in one form or another. Whether it is at work or home, the way we perform those ordinary everyday tasks is a product of our individual styles. True art is not that which is bought and sold. It is that which reflects our lives, our dreams, our heart.

You are an artist.

The world is waiting for your touch.

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Hope for the heart, the soul, for mankind

2009-01-25T16:45:00.000-08:00

If it were not for hope, the heart would break. John Ray

Hope encourages men to endure and atempt everything. In depriving them of it or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul. Maurice de Saxe

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. Mignon McLaughlin

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed. Jim Wallis

Keep hope alive. Jesse Jackson

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, no of others, but of oneself. James Baldwin

At times, we are all called upon to push forward through the pains and troubles of the heart, the soul, and the body. Oftentimes, we cannot see the end. Frequently, we cannot even see the path. Yet we must push forward into the uncertainty of tomorrow's world or we will surely drown in the troubles of today's.

It is hope that gives us the strength to carry on.

And we do.

Each and every one of us.

Each and every day.
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Praise and Criticism in Live, Love and Relationships,

2009-01-17T09:06:00.000-08:00

I praise loudly. I blame softly. Catherine II

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise. Mary Kay Ash

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory. Cicero

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. John Ruskin

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised." E. M. Cioran

If you want to make a friend, very often, you must do nothing more than offer praise, honestly and openly. The same is true of an enemy. You can create them by your criticisms faster than by your actions.

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Change in Life, Friends, Jobs, Love

2009-01-15T08:54:00.000-08:00

Always! That is the dreadful word. . . . It is a meaningless word too. Oscar Wilde

There are no permanent chan ges because change itself is permanent. Ralph L. Woods

Impermanence is the law of the universe. Carlene Hatcher Polite

To remain young, one must change. Alexander Chase

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed. Shirley MacLaine

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr

Your life, and all that it encompasses, is yours to do as you wish. If you want more, or different, or better, it is you who must provide the change to accomplish or acquire what you want.

Enthusiasm for Life, Love, and Living

2009-01-13T08:39:00.000-08:00

To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists and must be hunted for and found. Joan Baez

Energy is equal to desire and purpose. Sheryl Adams

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. Bertrand Russell

When his enthusiasm goes, he's through as a player. Pete Rose

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. Ivern Ball

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. Ernest Newman

You have a choice in this world. You can accept your life as it is, or you can work hard to turn it into the life that you want. The choice is yours. Do not fool yourself. Although all of your wishes may not come to pass, it is not true that life is holding you down. If you want it, you must work. The work starts today. Rouse yourself. Do not let today pass.

Using Time, Wasting Time, and LIfe

2009-01-11T08:04:00.000-08:00

I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. Bernard Berenson

You may ask me for anything you like, except time. Napoleon Bonaparte

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality! How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it. Sir Winston Churchill

Make use of time. Let not advantage slip. William Shakespeare

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Euripides

Seize the hour. Sophocles

He's (Yogi Berra) one of those Christmas Eve guys. There ar people like that. . . . Evey day in their lives is Christmas Eve. Joe Garagiola

There is only so much time in your life. One day you will follow all who came before you and leave this earth. Use your time wisely. If you work at it, you may be lucky enough to live your life as Yogi Berra did. Joe Garagiola was right. Yogi Berra lived every day happy, smiling, full of joy. To him, it was always Christmas Eve.

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A New Year with New Hope -- Quotes about the Future

2009-01-01T15:53:00.000-08:00

It's a brand-new year, and we can turn it into a brand-new world. No matter your situation, there is always hope. As long as we have a future, hope will not abandon us.

Here are quotations about facing the future, starting again, looking ahead at the problems, opportunities and blessings that await us.

I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow. Louis L'Amour

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to tust. It is not ours yet. George MacDonald

When I look at the future, it's so bright, it burns my eyes. Ophrah Winfrey

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there. Gene Brown

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Charles F. Kettering

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William Penn on Life and Kindness

2008-12-31T10:46:00.000-08:00

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show , or any good thing I can do for any fellow being, let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn

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The Desiderata, Max Ehrmann, and Old St. Paul's Church

2008-11-30T16:49:00.000-08:00

The Desiderata is an essay on life written by Max Ehrmann.
There has been much confusion about the authorship, but Max
did write it back in the 1920s. There is no connection with
Old Saint Paul's Church, except that a priest found a copy of
the Desiderata mixed in with church papers and assumed that
it belonged to the church. It doesn't.

THE DESIDERATA
by Max Ehrmann

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly
and listen to the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your busines affairs,
for the world if sull of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life if full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your sould.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiul world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Alice Potter on life and the world

2008-10-30T17:52:00.000-07:00

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.

Alice Potter