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Birds sing after a storm

  Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? - Rose Kennedy You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. - Herman Melville There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way. -Jane Goodall The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. -Martin Mull A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. -John le Carre Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. -Alexandre Dumas As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust...

Courage is the price

  Amelia Earhart Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. --Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927 Love truth, and pardon error. --Voltaire Walking is man's best medicine. --Hippocrates The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --George Bernard Shaw Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. --Benjamin Franklin In summer, the song sings itself. --William Carlos Williams How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. --Henry David Thoreau At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. --Friedrich Nietzsche Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. --Napoleon Bonaparte Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. --Ralph Waldo Emerson READ MORE INTERESTING

The secret of staying young

  Lucille Ball The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. --Lucille Ball All things must change to something new, to something strange. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. --Marie Curie How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? --Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962 You live and learn. At any rate, you live. --Douglas Adams I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. --Jane Austen It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. --Sir Winston Churchill A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. --Herman Melville Lack of money is the root of all evil. --George Bernard Shaw You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. --Jack London READ MORE...

Glory is fleeting...

  Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. --Napoleon Bonaparte A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. --Wayne Gretzky The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. --Robert Frost You can't have everything. Where would you put it? --Steven Wright Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. --Groucho Marx I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. --Galileo Galilei Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? --Henry Ward Beecher The truth is rarely pure and never simple. --Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. --William Arthur Ward Live forever or die in the attempt. --Joseph Heller, Catch 22 READ MORE INTERESTING