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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Voltaire
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
Les Brown
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Canada: A few acres of snow.
Voltaire
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
Voltaire
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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A mistake may mark a man, but admiting a mistake is the mark of a man.
Zak Vora
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No cost is too heavy for the preservation of one's honor.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.
Unknown
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We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Euripedes
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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Alex Comfort
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May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields.(Irish Blessing)
Unknown
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All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
Joni Mitchell
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If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb
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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
Georges Duhamel
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We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
Milan Kundera
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides
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Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
Anne Rice
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See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
Douglas Adams
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I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
J. C. Penny
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Badness is only spoiled goodness.
C. S. Lewis
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And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
Adolf Hitler
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When good men die their goodness does not perish,
Euripedes
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Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.
H. L. Mencken
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Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
Unknown
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When you reach the thing you were desiring, if it doesn't satisfy you, it was not what you were desiring.
C. S. Lewis
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence.
Robert G. Ingersoll
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
G. K. Chesterton
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...Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream mother-goose, Alice-and- Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
Sylvia Plath
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The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
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Here's to our girlfriends and wives; may they never meet!
Groucho Marx
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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
Ambrose Bierce
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
Johann K. Lavater
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