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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

My fave iphone quotes

* If I only had an hour to shop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.
* Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. - Abraham Lincoln

* I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart. Alize Walker
* Well done is better than well said
* Let no one who loves be called unhappy. for even love unreturned has its rainbow
* Respect a man, he will do more
* How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks -Marcus Aurelius
* What other people think about me is not my business
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* Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value
* The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it - Einstein
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. - Alex pope
* Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. -Disraeli
* Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct, they are matters of education and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. Disraeli
* Sir. I say that justice is truth in action. Disraeli

Friendship is born when one person says to another : "What! You too? I thought I was the only one" CS Lewis
He approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. Cato the Elder

* A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.
* The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along the lines
of excellence.
* Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

* Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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* An artist cannot do anything slovenly. Jane Austen
I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword. Goethe

Just trust yourself and you will then know how to live. Goethe.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges - Gibran
A purpose of human life, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut

* When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision. Lord Falkland.
* No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. Seneca
No one is safe from slander. The best way us to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk. Moliere.
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. Oprah

A chief event in which we have encountered a mind that startles us. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

* We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we rest the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us? Richard Bach, One
* To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life. RL Stevenson.

* Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. Seneca

The good befriend themselves - Sophocles
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

* Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

* There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which
are beyond the power of our will.

* The real service a friend can really render is to keep up your curage by holding up to
you a mirror is which you can see a noble image of yourself.