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Durham

Recently, SFBig and the advertising world lost a giant. John Durham was the founder of SFBig but he was much more. He helped build a new industry into a community. He was a lifelong teacher, a lover of great food, wine and conversation. He was a mentor and key figure in countless success stories. To so many, he was a treasured friend. He was The Durham.

If the measure of a man is the lives he has touched, there is no tape or ruler long or deep enough to measure the impact of John Durham. – Rishad Tobaccowala

Here, we have collected his Durhamisms along with remembrances of those who knew him well.

Durhamism. (n) An aphorism describing life and truth. A compass that guides the willing toward a life well-lived. A sorbet for the soul. If Cole Porter had written koans, they would be Durhamisms.


Affection & Liking
Appreciation (past present future)
Commitment & Responsibility
Courage & Attitude
Faith (not religion) & Spirituality
Friendship
Health & Healing
Humor & Joy
Intelligence & Learning
Life
Love
Moments
Remembrances
Respect

1111

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then...

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1123

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get...

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1124

Love the way you look, look the way you love. Love yourself first and everything else...

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1125

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. People are always asking about the good...

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1126

Learn how to exhale, the inhale will take care of itself. To live is not breathing;...

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1127

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. Success will never be a...

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1128

If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress? No beauty shines brighter...

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1129

A real friend knows when to listen, when to stop listening, when to talk, when to...

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1130

Whatever life gives you, even if it hurts, just be strong, and put on your game...

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1122

Feed your faith and your tears will starve to death. Faith can move mountains, but don’t...

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1121

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted,...

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1120

A smile is something you can’t give away; it always comes back to you. All the...

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1112

Life isn’t measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of moments...

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1113

How many roads must a man walk down before he admits he’s lost?...

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1114

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers...

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1115

If you’re going to burn the bridge, torch the motherfucker....

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1116

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate,...

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1117

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. The kindest word in all the world is the unkind...

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1118

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to...

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1119

Don’t put the key to happiness in someone else’s pocket. Happiness is not a state to...

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1712

The illterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but...

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1713

Life marks us all down, so it’s just as well that we start out by overpricing...

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1714

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to,...

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1715

The naïve follow their hearts. The wise lead with their hearts. In the jurisdiction of the...

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1716

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an Invincible summer.”...

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1717

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is...

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1718

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might them sorrows know how...

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1719

Love’s sweetest language is a kiss. The love game is never called off on account of...

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1720

Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify. Memory is always faulty. Emotions are...

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1711

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity? The trouble...

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1140

Go the extra mile, it’s never crowded....

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1131

The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them. If I...

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1132

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. Gold cannot be pure and people...

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1133

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge...

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1134

We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we...

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1135

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. If you don’t decide what your life is about,...

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1136

Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow. Let yourself move to the next...

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1137

The key to happiness is letting each situation be what it is instead of what you...

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1138

Don’t chase people. Be an example. Attract them. Work hard and be yourself. The people who...

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1139

Don’t let someone who has done nothing tell you how to do anything....

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1732

Don’t love what you can’t trust. Don’t hate what you can’t have. Don’t say what you...

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1733

Refuse to lose. Refuse to be defeated. Refuse to be cheated and refuse to have regrets....

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1734

Sometimes life hands you a chance. It hands you something amazing, you almost think it’s a...

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1735

Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from...

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1736

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness from weakness....

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1737

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending. Breathe it all in,...

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1738

You are only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with. So...

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1739

Remember you’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think....

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1740

You find hope the same way you find happiness. You give it someone else and borrow...

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1731

F.R.I.E.N.D.S: Fight for you, Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by...

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1730

Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you. I am thankful for my...

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1721

“Never give in… never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never...

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1722

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what...

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1723

Interchangeable parts don’t, leakproof seals aren’t and self-starters won’t....

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1724

Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, loves gives us a...

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1725

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in aprat, and the joy in a heart....

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1726

There are some people in life that make you laugh a little louder, smile a little...

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1727

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is they always see the past...

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1728

If anyone asks me, the meaning of our flag, I say to him — it means...

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1729

If they respect you, respect them. If they disrespect you, you still respect them. Do not...

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1752

It’s easy to get lost when the map is in your hand and not in your...

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1753

There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t...

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1754

When you are unwell, you must cough, sneeze and ache prayer. Pray on the shadowy hillside...

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1755

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. The I in illness is...

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1756

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes....

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1757

Look at hopelessness in the face and say: “We are simply not meant to be together.”...

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1758

Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons. Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address....

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1759

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not...

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1760

Life would be perfect, if some people had mute buttons and some had edits buttons, bad...

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1751

I quote my soul, I quote my heart. But sometimes I just quote the wine. I...

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1750

Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get...

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1741

Freedom begins between the ears. Freedom is the oxygen of the soul....

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1742

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe allegience. It is also owed...

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1743

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected. Wash out your ego every once in...

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1744

We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart? Light travels faster than sound. That’s...

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1745

Wisdom doesn’t necesssarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. They say...

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1746

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man...

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1747

We mature in knowledge and wisdom but never the playground of our hearts. One of the...

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1748

Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life....

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1749

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday...

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1772

The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. Life’s real name...

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1773

A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock...

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1774

Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify. Memory is always faulty. Emotions are...

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1775

I’ve learned this about judging people — you can have all the facts and not know...

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1776

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. Feed your faith and...

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1777

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream....

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1778

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two...

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1779

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it’s hard to accept a...

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1780

Sometimes a WTF just says it all....

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1771

A Rattlesnake, if cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what...

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1770

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past,...

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1761

There are secrets I wil take to the grave – and other’s I’d feel safer having...

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1762

Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for...

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1763

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in. Love...

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1764

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. Some people come into our lives and...

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1765

In life’s poker game, the optimist sees the pessimist’s night and raises him the sunrise. Your...

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1766

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. The best teachers teach from...

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1767

The shortest distance between two points assumes you know where you’re going....

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1768

You’re an old-timer if you can’t remember when setting the world on fire was a figure...

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1769

Being a man or a woman is a matter of birth. Being a man or a...

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1792

All persons carry with them some means of happiness. Happiness is never stopping to think if...

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1793

You can accept reality without believing every yarn it spins. Seems like nothing ever brings you...

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1794

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have...

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1795

Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment. Resentment is rubbing salt into your own...

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1796

Sometimes you can make people forget the past with a present. You can give without loving,...

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1797

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us...

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1798

Memory is always faulty. Emotions are always true. The walls we build around us to keep...

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1799

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes....

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1800

A stranger stabs you in the front. A friend stabs you in the back. Relationships can...

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1791

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. I...

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1790

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word...

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1781

With arms outstreched I thank. With heart beating gratefully I love. With body in health I...

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1782

The light is always shining, to see it we stop focusing on the shadows it casts....

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1783

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun....

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1784

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. It is still possible to...

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1785

There was never a wise saying that couldn’t be made wiser by adding the words, “and...

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1786

Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for...

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1787

Life doesn’t hard out ribbons for the best-lived. It’s an internal decoration. We are known to...

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1788

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can...

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1789

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. The trouble with the world is that the...

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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up...

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1872

We spend January walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work...

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1873

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more...

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1874

Half annoyances of life will disappear if one is only patient under them. Almost all the...

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1875

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point....

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1876

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. We are always...

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1877

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. The last...

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1878

If you are far away from yourself, how could you ever be close to another? What...

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1879

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge...

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1871

One resolution I have made and try always to keep, is this: to rise above the...

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1870

You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate. The two...

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1861

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and...

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1862

Wine is a magician, for it loosens the tongue and liberates good stories. There are spunky...

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1863

Winter is the slow down, Winter is the search for self, Winter gives the silence you...

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1864

The naive follow their hearts. The wise lead with their hearts. In the jurisdiction of the...

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1865

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; action form habits; habits decide character;...

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1866

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Christmas...

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1867

It isn’t the size of the gift that matters, but the size of the heart that...

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1868

A little learning is dangerous, but downright ignorance is even more disastrous. Some folks are wise...

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1869

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to...

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1891

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up...

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1892

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate,...

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1893

It’s silly when any man assumes that he knows it all. It’s tragic when he does!...

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1894

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to...

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1895

In every age “the good old days” were a myth. No one ever thought they were...

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1896

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that...

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1897

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. Your...

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1898

After you’ve heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history....

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1899

While we try to teach out children all about life, Our children teach us what life...

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1890

When the world says, “Give Up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” Stubbornly persist, and...

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1889

“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.” Most of us...

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1880

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make,...

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1881

“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that...

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1882

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took....

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1883

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people thing of you if you could know how seldom...

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1884

In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity, truth, and let nothing...

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1885

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. Eventually you realize that if you’re going to talk...

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1886

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where...

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1887

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch....

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1888

Did you ever notice that when you put the words “The” and “IRS” together it spells...

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1911

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly,...

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1912

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, one from the world....

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1913

If you can’t get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud. There are...

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1914

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless...

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1915

Sometimes you can head off a decision you’ll regret by looking into your heart and finding...

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1916

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. Dreams are...

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1917

Just as darkness is the absence of light, ignorance is the absence of knowledge, and should...

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1918

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with texts and...

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1919

The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive,...

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1910

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a...

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1909

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their...

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1900

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. You...

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1901

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won’t stop talking, but that he...

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1902

In a world full of people who couldn’t care less, be someone who couldn’t care more....

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1903

Nobody’s perfect, and our fondest memories of anyone are of the amusing ways they proved it....

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1904

You know you have found love when you can’t find your way back....

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1905

One true friend adds more to our happiness than a thousand enemies add to our unhappiness....

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1906

“There are so many ways to call someone an idiot. In the south, you say “bless...

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1907

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. In retirement, ever...

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1908

There are a things you’ve done that come back to haunt you—and things that haunt you...

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2381

Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify. Memory is always fault. Emotions are...

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2382

As important as keeping a grasp on reality is keeping a grasp on possibility....

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2383

Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. How is where the heart’s tears can...

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2384

Every person is their own ancestor, and every person their own heir. They devise their own...

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2385

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loves you and were helped by you...

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2386

The wings of angels are hope and faith. While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with...

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2387

We hope with every breath. We love with every smile. Let Hope be your pulse, Faith...

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2388

Christmas is forever, not just for one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put...

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2389

May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is...

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2380

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the...

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2379

It is generally a more productive day when you learn something from life rather than try...

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1920

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. It’s not what you...

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2371

Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those...

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2372

While we try to teach our children about life, Our children teach us what life is...

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2373

Life’s real name is Choices. The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to...

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2374

One man’s daydreaming is another man’s day. Ah, the things we would do if we could...

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2375

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but you know what — if I had...

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2376

Never do anything that you wouldn’t want to explain to the paramedics. There are things you...

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2377

When people say to me: “How do you do so many things?” I often answer them,...

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2378

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never...

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1111

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Follow your passion, and success will follow you.

1123

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightful vague. —Bill Cosby

1124

Love the way you look, look the way you love. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

1125

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don’t you say, good now days?

1126

Learn how to exhale, the inhale will take care of itself. To live is not breathing; it is action.

1127

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.

1128

If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress? No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.

1129

A real friend knows when to listen, when to stop listening, when to talk, when to stop talking, when to pour wine, when to stop pouring wine, and hand over the bottle.

1130

Whatever life gives you, even if it hurts, just be strong, and put on your game face. Strong walls shake, but never collapse.

1122

Feed your faith and your tears will starve to death. Faith can move mountains, but don’t be surprised if God hands you a shovel.

1121

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants to go.

1120

A smile is something you can’t give away; it always comes back to you. All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile.

1112

Life isn’t measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of moments that take your breath away.

1113

How many roads must a man walk down before he admits he’s lost?

1114

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

1115

If you’re going to burn the bridge, torch the motherfucker.

1116

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. The naïve follow their hearts. The wise lead with their hearts.

1117

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.

1118

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.

1119

Don’t put the key to happiness in someone else’s pocket. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

1712

The illterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

1713

Life marks us all down, so it’s just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assued that the world will not raise your price.

1714

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

1715

The naïve follow their hearts. The wise lead with their hearts. In the jurisdiction of the heart there are no misdemeanors. Everything is referred to the Major Crimes Division.

1716

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an Invincible summer.” —Albert Camus

1717

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. Don’t miss the donut by looking through the hole.

1718

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might them sorrows know how to swim. The thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.

1719

Love’s sweetest language is a kiss. The love game is never called off on account of darkness.

1720

Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify. Memory is always faulty. Emotions are always true.

1711

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity? The trouble with the world is that the sutpid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

1140

Go the extra mile, it’s never crowded.

1131

The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them. If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.

1132

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. Gold cannot be pure and people cannot be perfect.

1133

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. It’s frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

1134

We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we visited with ourselves? Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

1135

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. If you don’t decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

1136

Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow. Let yourself move to the next chapter in life when the time comes. Don’t remain stuck on the same page.

1137

The key to happiness is letting each situation be what it is instead of what you think it should be.

1138

Don’t chase people. Be an example. Attract them. Work hard and be yourself. The people who belong in your life will come find you and stay. Just do your thing.

1139

Don’t let someone who has done nothing tell you how to do anything.

1732

Don’t love what you can’t trust. Don’t hate what you can’t have. Don’t say what you can’t show. Don’t judge what you don’t know.

1733

Refuse to lose. Refuse to be defeated. Refuse to be cheated and refuse to have regrets.

1734

Sometimes life hands you a chance. It hands you something amazing, you almost think it’s a dream, but not matter how much you pinch yourself, you don’t wake up. It’s moments like those that make life really worth living, because no matter how hard times get, there are always those miracle moments that lift you back on your feet.

1735

Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t turn out — take another shot.

1736

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness from weakness. When you judge without knowing me, you do not define me, you define yourself.

1737

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending. Breathe it all in, love it all out.

1738

You are only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with. So be brave enough to let go of those who keep weighing you down.

1739

Remember you’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

1740

You find hope the same way you find happiness. You give it someone else and borrow a little of it back. Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

1731

F.R.I.E.N.D.S: Fight for you, Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.

1730

Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you. I am thankful for my struggle because without it, I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.

1721

“Never give in… never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force… never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” —Winston Churchill

1722

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the times comes to let igo, to let it go.

1723

Interchangeable parts don’t, leakproof seals aren’t and self-starters won’t.

1724

Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, loves gives us a fair tale. When you tell your own fairy tale, you create your own magic.

1725

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in aprat, and the joy in a heart. Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. (for special friends Lissie Heinkle and Matt Canzano, congratulations!)

1726

There are some people in life that make you laugh a little louder, smile a little bigger and live just a little bit better.

1727

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

1728

If anyone asks me, the meaning of our flag, I say to him — it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctine that the world had ever known — the right of people to their own selves and to their liberties. (Salute to our country on FLAG DAY!)

1729

If they respect you, respect them. If they disrespect you, you still respect them. Do not allow the actions of others to decrease your good manners because you represent yourself, not others.

1752

It’s easy to get lost when the map is in your hand and not in your heart. Get involved. You don’t want to look back on your life and realie that you succesfully manged gto stay out of it.

1753

There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.

1754

When you are unwell, you must cough, sneeze and ache prayer. Pray on the shadowy hillside of hardship and on the sunny side of happiness.

1755

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. The I in illness is the isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we.

1756

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes. We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn’t a bore to somebody.

1757

Look at hopelessness in the face and say: “We are simply not meant to be together.” Hold courage’s hand and walk away. Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

1758

Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons. Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

1759

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. Saying is one thing, doing another. We must conisder the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

1760

Life would be perfect, if some people had mute buttons and some had edits buttons, bad times had fast forward buttons and good times had pause buttons.

1751

I quote my soul, I quote my heart. But sometimes I just quote the wine. I drink wine because I don’t like to keep things bottled up.

1750

Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in. The view is better when it is earned.

1741

Freedom begins between the ears. Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

1742

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe allegience. It is also owed to justice and humanity. Patriotism consists in not waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native coutnty is to reside some time in a foreign one.

1743

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected. Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.

1744

We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart? Light travels faster than sound. That’s why most people seem bright until you hear them speak.

1745

Wisdom doesn’t necesssarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.

1746

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.

1747

We mature in knowledge and wisdom but never the playground of our hearts. One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

1748

Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most out of the moment you are in now.

1749

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday awas better than today. I don’t think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you’r hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time! I have memories — but only a fool stores his past in the future.

1772

The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. Life’s real name is Choices.

1773

A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

1774

Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify. Memory is always faulty. Emotions are always true.

1775

I’ve learned this about judging people — you can have all the facts and not know the true story. If only closed minds came with closed mouths.

1776

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. Feed your faith and your fears will starge to death.

1777

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.

1778

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?

1779

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it’s hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories. It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

1780

Sometimes a WTF just says it all.

1771

A Rattlesnake, if cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against other is – a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. Hate cages all the good things about you.

1770

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

1761

There are secrets I wil take to the grave – and other’s I’d feel safer having cremated.

1762

Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped talking. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.

1763

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in. Love every color of the rainbow in your soul and every note of the tune in your heart.

1764

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

1765

In life’s poker game, the optimist sees the pessimist’s night and raises him the sunrise. Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom.

1766

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.

1767

The shortest distance between two points assumes you know where you’re going.

1768

You’re an old-timer if you can’t remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. A bomb has nothing to do with fredome – except men’s freedom to kill each other.

1769

Being a man or a woman is a matter of birth. Being a man or a woman makes a difference is a matter of choice. If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual care.

1792

All persons carry with them some means of happiness. Happiness is never stopping to think if you are there.

1793

You can accept reality without believing every yarn it spins. Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there.

1794

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast. I used to love night best but the older i get the more treasures and hop and joy I find in the mornings

1795

Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment. Resentment is rubbing salt into your own wound.

1796

Sometimes you can make people forget the past with a present. You can give without loving, by you can never love without giving

1797

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. Wash out your ego once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.

1798

Memory is always faulty. Emotions are always true. The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

1799

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes. Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

1800

A stranger stabs you in the front. A friend stabs you in the back. Relationships can stab you in the heart. Best friends poke each other with straws. Best friends: Its a promise, not a label.

1791

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

1790

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word “lonliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.

1781

With arms outstreched I thank. With heart beating gratefully I love. With body in health I jump for joy. With spirit full I live.

1782

The light is always shining, to see it we stop focusing on the shadows it casts.

1783

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

1784

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America as long as you don’t bring up any subject.

1785

There was never a wise saying that couldn’t be made wiser by adding the words, “and vice-versa.”

1786

Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you. Angels have no philosophy but love.

1787

Life doesn’t hard out ribbons for the best-lived. It’s an internal decoration. We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

1788

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only much as I dream can I be.

1789

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Extra not numbered

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

1872

We spend January walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our live… not lookin for flaws, but for potential.

1873

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is in reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

1874

Half annoyances of life will disappear if one is only patient under them. Almost all the other half will go the same way it one does not worry over them. Find patience or it will never find you.

1875

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point. So often in life a new chapter awaits. You ride off into the sunset and discover it’s the sunrise.

1876

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. We are always getting ready to live but never living.

1877

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.

1878

If you are far away from yourself, how could you ever be close to another? What is happening within us will reveal itself in the energy of our actions and words.

1879

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

1871

One resolution I have made and try always to keep, is this: to rise above the little things. Each New Year’s Day is like starting over on a treasure hunt with a slightly altered map.

1870

You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate. The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow.

1861

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.

1862

Wine is a magician, for it loosens the tongue and liberates good stories. There are spunky little angels at the top of a bottle of wine and fearless little devils at the bottom.

1863

Winter is the slow down, Winter is the search for self, Winter gives the silence you need to listen, Winter goes gray so you can see your own colors.

1864

The naive follow their hearts. The wise lead with their hearts. In the jurisdiction of the heart there are no misdemeanors. Everything is referred to the Major Crimes Division.

1865

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; action form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

1866

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

1867

It isn’t the size of the gift that matters, but the size of the heart that gives it. Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

1868

A little learning is dangerous, but downright ignorance is even more disastrous. Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

1869

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

1891

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where you broken heart has been sent to heal. God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.

1892

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.

1893

It’s silly when any man assumes that he knows it all. It’s tragic when he does! In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

1894

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

1895

In every age “the good old days” were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

1896

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can’t. One man’s daydreaming is another man’s day.

1897

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

1898

After you’ve heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history. Certainly! It might have been so; only it isn’t.

1899

While we try to teach out children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

1890

When the world says, “Give Up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

1889

“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.” Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else.

1880

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? Good morning.

1881

“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

1882

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took. Haste is a hurricane, patience a gentle breeze.

1883

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people thing of you if you could know how seldom they do.

1884

In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity, truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.

1885

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. Eventually you realize that if you’re going to talk sense, you’re going to antagonize its opponents.

1886

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

1887

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing up, a sound set of values — and witnesses.

1888

Did you ever notice that when you put the words “The” and “IRS” together it spells “THEIRS?” People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women.

1911

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically — to say “no” to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the best is often the “good”.

1912

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

1913

If you can’t get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud. There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

1914

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

1915

Sometimes you can head off a decision you’ll regret by looking into your heart and finding regret already there.

1916

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. Dreams are free therapy. Consult your inner Freud.

1917

Just as darkness is the absence of light, ignorance is the absence of knowledge, and should not be mistaken for a point of view. A little learning is dangerous, but downright ignorance is even more disastrous.

1918

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with texts and billboards. Flawed past is nostalgia; flawed present is opportunity.

1919

The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.

1910

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

1909

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.

1900

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.

1901

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won’t stop talking, but that he won’t let you stop listening. Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

1902

In a world full of people who couldn’t care less, be someone who couldn’t care more.

1903

Nobody’s perfect, and our fondest memories of anyone are of the amusing ways they proved it. It’s better to be perfectly useful than uselessly perfect.

1904

You know you have found love when you can’t find your way back.

1905

One true friend adds more to our happiness than a thousand enemies add to our unhappiness.

1906

“There are so many ways to call someone an idiot. In the south, you say “bless their heart.” In LA you way “they’re on their own journey.” And on the east coast you scream “idiot” at them until a vein bursts in your neck” (borrowed from on Twitter, but love it)

1907

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. In retirement, ever day is Boss Day and ever day is Employee Appreciation Day.

1908

There are a things you’ve done that come back to haunt you—and things that haunt you that you’re still doing.

2381

Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify. Memory is always fault. Emotions are always true. Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

2382

As important as keeping a grasp on reality is keeping a grasp on possibility.

2383

Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. How is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace. A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.

2384

Every person is their own ancestor, and every person their own heir. They devise their own future, and they inherit their own past. Every day ask yourself, “What would I do today if I were a better person?” At a certain point, some of us just sit down and watch the rest of our lives go by. Don’t let is happen to you!

2385

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loves you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

2386

The wings of angels are hope and faith. While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with our souls. The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Anges are here to help us take it peace by peace.

2387

We hope with every breath. We love with every smile. Let Hope be your pulse, Faith in every heartbeat and Joy with every breath.. (Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!)

2388

Christmas is forever, not just for one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself.
Peach on Earth, good will to all,
kind thoughts and words of cheer,
are things we should use often
and not just once a year.

2389

May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love. Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.

2380

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. A true friend is one who thingks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. If I had to sum of Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.

2379

It is generally a more productive day when you learn something from life rather than try to teach it something. It’s a mistake, when life hands you a tough lesson, to think that you can get back at life by not learning it.

1920

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. It’s not what you wear — it’s how you take it off.

2371

Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts.

2372

While we try to teach our children about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

2373

Life’s real name is Choices. The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn (and if your going to burn the bridge, torch the motherfucker!)

2374

One man’s daydreaming is another man’s day. Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can’t. (If not interrupted, an INFJ can stay in a fantasy-trance for hours.)

2375

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but you know what — if I had it do to over again, I would overdo it again. You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.

2376

Never do anything that you wouldn’t want to explain to the paramedics. There are things you do that come back to haunt you — and things that haunt you without ever leaving.

2377

When people say to me: “How do you do so many things?” I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: “How do you do so little?” It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the computer or television and treat life as if it goes on forever.

2378

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain. Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!

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