WALT DISNEY

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

St FRANCIS of ASSISI

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

DR. SEUSS

Think left and think right
And think low and think high.
Oh, the thinks you can think up
If only you try!

JANE GOODALL

What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

African Proverb

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

CHARLES READER

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

G.K. CHESTERTON

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

ANON

Love while you’ve got love to give
Live while you’ve got life to live

-o0o- WISE MEN SAY is FIVE YEARS OLD today -o0o-

Looking back to the start of the project, I was astonished to see that on that first day I posted no less than 23 quotes! Among them was the one I chose for today. So here's to the next 5 years!!!

ANON

Some minds are like concrete - thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.


Today at John's Gallery - Five Paintings by Women Artists
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GEORGE ELIOT

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand. The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

FRANZ SCHUBERT

Let us take men as they are, not as they ought to be.


Today at John's Gallery - Five famous paintings including the Mona Lisa
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THICH NHAT HANH

Whatever activity you do, do it slowly, with the attention it deserves. Do not rush to end it. Be relaxed in everything and bring your full attention to it.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.


Today at John's Gallery - Five Paintings by Adolphe-William Bouguereau
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ANON

Three things that make us human:
our longing to know the meaning of life, our capacity for love, and our ability to laugh.

ELLEN DeGENERES

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren’t any space aliens. We can’t be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we’re not all there is. If so, we’re in big trouble.

MALCOLM FORBES

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Chinese Proverb

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.

MILTON GARLAND

Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind.


Today at John's Gallery - Avenue at Middelharnis, by Meindert Hobbema
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PHYLLIS THEROUX

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

OSCAR WILDE

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 bring a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

JOHN WAYNE

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

ANON

Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Do not go where the path may lead. Go where there is no path and make a trail.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

MARILYN VOS SAVANT

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent