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Wise Words

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.  ~Henry David Thoreau

Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!  ~Allison Gappa Bottke

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.  Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day.  Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.  And this is all life really means.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson

If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree.  ~Jim Rohn

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.  ~Author Unknown

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.  ~Brecht

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.  ~Plato

Tough and funny and a little bit kind:  that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Always when judging, Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far." ~Robert Brault,

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.  ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them.  They cannot go right, unless you let them.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  ~Theodore Roosevelt

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.  ~Jimmy Johnson

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.  ~William Hale White

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.  ~John Lennon

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.  ~Albert Einstein

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.  ~Charles Dickens

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you are be a good one.  ~Abraham Lincoln

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.  ~Oscar Wilde

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak.  Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.  ~Author Unknown

Don't compromise yourself.  You're all you've got.  ~Janis Joplin

Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.  ~Albert Einstein

Just be ordinary and nothing special.  Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down.  The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.  ~Bruce Lee

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.  ~Hippocrates

Work out your own salvation.  Do not depend on others.  ~Buddha

Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour.  ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?  ~Abraham Lincoln

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"  ~Oprah Winfrey

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.  ~Benjamin Franklin

The best way to predict your future is to create it.  ~Peter Drucker

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.  ~Henry David Thoreau

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.  ~Thomas Edison

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.  ~Mick Jagger

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.  ~Author Unknown

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.  ~Frank Tyger

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.  ~W. Migner

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