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Give all to love

  Give all to love; obey thy heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz All things must change to something new, to something strange. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The body says what words cannot. - Martha Graham Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. - Josh Billings The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - H. L. Mencken No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. - Lily Tomlin Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. - Robert Anton Wilson Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. - Vachel Lindsay READ MORE

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...

Love is an act of endless forgiveness...

  Peter Ustinov Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. --Peter Ustinov Nothing endures but personal qualities. --Walt Whitman Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. --Thomas Jefferson Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. --Isaac Asimov Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. --Ralph Waldo Emerson If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. --Mario Andretti It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. --Upton Sinclair A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. --Clare Booth Luce We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe C...

What's money?

  Bob Dylan What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. --Bob Dylan Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. --Rita Mae Brown Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. --George S. Patton Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. --Francis Quarles For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. --Virginia Woolf I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. --Joseph Conrad A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. --Nelson Mandela I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. --Edith Sitwell What you do speaks so loud that I can...

10 Quotes

Photo: Biography.com Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. - Ray Bradbury Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. - Norman Mailer Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. - Archimedes He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. - Sir Walter Scott Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. - Norman Vincent Peale All things must change to something new, to something strange. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The best mirror is an old friend. - George Herbert