Tom Blair: "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, ‘there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.’ A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence."
Norman Vincent Peale: "Change your thoughts and you change your world."
John Atkinson: "If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will."
Mason Cooley: "Regret for wasted time is more wasted time."
Thich Nhat Hanh: "Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life…, our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive."
Japanese proverb: "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."
Sylvia Porter: "Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security. It also can be translated into a source of bitterness."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: "Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."
Hyman G. Rickover: "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Jerome David Salinger: "You’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there. But immediately. You can’t afford to lose a minute."
Thomas Alva Edison: "Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Martin Luther King, Jr: "Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Benjamin Franklin: It isn’t what you know that counts, it’s what you think of in time.
Alexander Smith: It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irradiating word."
Albert Camus: "Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
Eleanor Roosevelt: "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
Sydney Smith: "There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle – to do nothing at all."
Eric Hoffer: "A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past."
Michele Shea : "Creativity is…seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God."
Booker T. Washington: "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
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