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 Some of our favorite bits o' wisdom...

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. --Edward Gibbon

Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing. --Helen Keller

Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but curiosity is the mother of discovery. --Charles Handy

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. --Mark Twain

One key to happiness, is to do more... of fewer things. -- Robert Kiyosaki

We are not just our behavior, we are the person managing our behavior. --Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. --John Lennon

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.  -- James Joyce

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. --William Lloyd George

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. --Arthur Schopenhauer

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. --George Bernard Shaw

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. --Napoleon Hill

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail. --Abraham Maslow

A hammer breaks glass, but forges steel. -- old Russion proverb

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. --Henry Ford

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. --Roy Disney

You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season. --Chuang Tzu

Life is a terminal condition. So do the best you can with the time you have left. --Gerry Leeds

Don't mistake a clear view for a short distance. --Paul Saffo

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work is love made visible. --Kahlil Gibran

Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more; all good things will be yours. --Swedish Proverb

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, whole-heartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. --William H. Sheldon

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in the circumstances where others choose madness. --Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

God is dead. --Nietzsche

Nietzsche is dead. --God

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. --Jawaharlal Nehru

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. --Benjamin Franklin

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. --William Shakespeare

Life is a dance, if you know the steps. --Anonymous

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. --Henry David Thoreau

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. --George Santayana

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. --Arabian Proverb

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain

I am a part of all that I have met. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. --Charles Buxton

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. --Confucius

These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. --Mark Twain


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