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If we had no winter

  If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet, 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655 In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing... sweet lovers love the spring. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, sc. 3 [Spring is] when life's alive in everything. - Christina Rossetti An optimist is the human personification of spring. - Susan J. Bissonette Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. - Victor Hugo To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Santayana I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. - Rene Descartes Make not your thoughts your prisons. - William Sha...

We can't all be heroes

  We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. - Henry David Thoreau Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness. - Norman Vincent Peale In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936 I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791 We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. - Thomas Paine, The Crisis, no. 4, September 11, 1777 Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty n...

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

10 Quotes

Elvis Presley. Photo: Google I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.  - Elvis Presley  I hate music, especially when it's played.  - Jimmy Durante  My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.  - Martin Luther If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.  - Pierre Beaumarchais  Hope is a waking dream.  - Aristotle My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.  - Mary Shelly  Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson  Change your thoughts and you change your world.  - Norman Vincent Peale  We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.  - H. G. Wells  You can't build a reputation on what you...

10 quotes for today - 17 January 2019

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. - Norman Vincent Peale Your inner knowing is your only true compass. - Joy Page Everyone who wills, can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition - they somehow already know what you truly want to become. - Steve Jobs Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927 Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before whic...