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“When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.”
Picasso

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“Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain.”

Diane de Pointiers

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“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.”
Rabindranath Tagore

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“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”

Mary Anne Radmacher

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"That is true. True, true, true - except for the lies."
E. Izzard

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“We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.”

Leo F. Buscaglia

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"But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes."

Bodhidharma

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“Summer wanes; the children are grown;
Fun and frolic no more he knows. . . .”

William Cullen Bryant

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

Oscar Wilde

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"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."
George Washington

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“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”

Abraham Lincoln

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“The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.”
Doug Larsen

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"I also wanted to express a lot of old hurts past and things like that. And what ended up happening, and I'm really glad, is that it became like a love letter. So, I was saved from myself. A love letter to everyone I've loved."

Jim Carrey

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“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

Oscar Wilde

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"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."

Abraham Lincoln

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"Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water."
The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674

Right ... I wonder what made those women so mad at coffee ... Anyhow, I found another saying which I really like but did not know. Apparently, it's a Dutch proverb (though I had never heard of it before:
"Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm." :biggrin:

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“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Aaron Copland

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“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
Lord Byron

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“When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.”

William Barclay

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Beautiful! :nod:


"Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art."

Bliss Carman

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“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

Albert Einstein

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"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth."

Sophocles

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“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

Albert Einstein

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"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do"
Oscar Wilde

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"I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing."

Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean)

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“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

Voltaire

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"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery."

Aeschylus

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“Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.”

Joseph Heller

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“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.”
Hebner St. Catherine of Siena

It might be, but I'd prefer the right hand though ;)

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:rotfl:

“Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.”

Oscar Wilde

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Well, I don't know about that one since I haven't got a bad experience with marriage - but this one might be true.

“It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On the other hand, when being recoverd means that you can cope with it ...

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“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”

Harry Crews

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“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
Leonardo da Vinci

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“Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do, will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, will never...never forget it.”

Curtis Judalet

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)

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“The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.”

Brian Tracy

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"It is good for once to have instructions. After you dicide to follow them everthing is easy; you don't need to make anything up"
Peter Hobbs

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“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

Erica Jong