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Time sneaks up on you

  Photo: Mike / Pexels Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. - John Lithgow A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. - Tallulah Bankhead You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. - e e cummings The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. - G. K. Chesterton Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. -  Mark Twain To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. - Thomas Moore READ MORE NICE

Trust your instincts

  Image by Grok Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. - Rita Mae Brown The world belongs to the energetic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson You can observe a lot just by watching. - Yogi Berra, Berra's Law He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. - Helen Keller England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process. - John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1956 The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington The public will ...

Truth is beautiful

  Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson When you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry S Truman A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. - Louis L'Amour Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers MORE... NICE

We can learn much from wise words

  Image created by ChatGPT We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. - William Arthur Ward Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson In a mad world only the mad are sane. - Akira Kurosawa There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. - Enrico Fermi College isn't the place to go for ideas. - Helen Keller It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. - George Washington Anything too stupid to be said is sung. - Voltaire There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. - Muhammad Ali READ MORE NICE