WILLIAM A. WARD

The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change and the realist adjust the sails.

-o0o-

ROBERT SERVICE

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out - it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.

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ANON

To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.

-o0o-

GOLDA MEIR

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

-o0o-

JOHN LENNON

Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans.

-o0o-

WILLIAM DEMENT

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

-o0o-

MEL BROOKS

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colourfully, or you're not alive. 

-o0o-

MARGARET THATCHER

Never go into a room unless you know how to get out of it.

-o0o-

H.L. MENCKEN

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

-o0o-

HELEN KELLER

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

 

-o0o-

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.

 

-o0o-

BUDDHA

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

-o0o-

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A GAL NAMED JO

The Songs of Jo Stafford

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CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

-o0o-

ANON

Today is the absolute day, the only day in the eternity of time. Every day is fresh and new, just as one’s life is new every day.

 

-o0o-

ELBERT HUBBARD

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. 

-o0o-

SAMUEL SMILES

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do, and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

-o0o-

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A GAL CALLED JO
The Songs of Jo Stafford
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DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

-o0o-

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The Songs of Jo Stafford
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CLINT EASTWOOD

As we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.

-o0o-

NELSON MANDELA

We must use time wisely and forever realise that the time is always ripe to do the right.

-o0o-

MARK TWAIN

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

-o0o-

ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH

I have a simple philosophy - fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, scratch where it itches.

-o0o-

MICHAEL J. FOX

There are no moments frozen in amber. It’s moving, it’s changing, so appreciate what’s good about right now and be ready for what’s next.

 

-o0o-

The DALAI LAMA

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

-o0o-

SAM SUNDQUIST

Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.

-o0o-

LUCILLE BALL

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.

-o0o-

PATRICK MOORE

There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to be legislation against it.

-o0o-

GILDA RADNER

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

-o0o-

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MAHATMA GANDHI

Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.

-o0o-

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