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A "Words to live by" thread.........again.

A "Words to live by" thread.........again.

I'll start this off again....

"You may be only one person in the entire world, but if you're really lucky you might be the entire world to one person."


.....now, follow this example, and please keep it nice.
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Reply #1576 Top
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
~G. Burns

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
~ML King
Reply #1577 Top
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.
Reply #1578 Top
Yesterday I dared to struggle.
Today I dare to win.
Smiling all the while!
Reply #1579 Top
Yesterday i had a fantasy,
a dream of something grand!
today i have,
what i've always had,
just not what i had planed.
tommarow,
who could know,
what's in store for me...
perhaps i'll go to bed,
with sleepy visions in my head,
i'll see all the things,
i can't have...
but... LOL!
could they realy make me happy?
i'll never ever know...
Reply #1580 Top
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point.
That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

~Mistinguett~
Reply #1581 Top
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Reply #1582 Top
Whoso loves, believes the impossible.
EB Browning
Reply #1583 Top
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Bethune:
Reply #1584 Top
Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it.

P.J. O'Rourke:
Reply #1585 Top
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Monkeys have monkey brains.....
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Reply #1586 Top
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BTW
Cats can revert to the wild anytime they need too.
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Reply #1587 Top
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And so can Lions...
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Reply #1588 Top
fantasies are wounderful but, we need to keep hold of reality so we don't become lost in them
Reply #1589 Top

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.


George Bernard Shaw
Reply #1590 Top
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
Reply #1591 Top
Let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

Robert F. Kennedy
Reply #1592 Top

People do more from custom than from reason.
Reply #1593 Top
"Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better." ~B.B.


We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
~Arthur Schopenhauer~

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ~Kierkegaard~
Reply #1594 Top
A great flame follows a little spark. ~Dante Alighieri~
Reply #1595 Top
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. ~Havelock Ellis
Reply #1596 Top
the great genius is the man who can do the average when everyone else is wondering what to do.

Albert Einstein - US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
Reply #1597 Top
People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.
Reply #1598 Top
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
Winston Churchill
Reply #1599 Top

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

~Jean Cocteau~
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"The best part of the road is where the road bends."
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