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"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."-- Lady Bird Johnson
"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you." -- Herbert Gasser
"Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle: 'A truck!'"
"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!" Oscar Wilde on his deathbed
"Where did all these damn indians come from?" General Custer when dying
"He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him." ~Written on someone's gravestone
"Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, and above." ~~Gia, Gia when dying
"On the view of earth from 3.7 billion miles away: 'Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home, That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [...] There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.'" ~~Carl Sagan
"To open your eyes and see the sky is not enough. To open your ears is still not enough. For only if you open your mind will you hear the clouds whispering love's sweet songs and dancing together across the noisy sea. "
"When you come to the end of everything you know, and the next step is into the depths of darkness of the great unknown, you must believe one of two things: Either you will step out onto firm ground or you will be taught to fly. " ~~Patrick Overton
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time." -Anna Freud
"Pain is never permanent."-- Saint Theresa of Avila
"Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight."-- Scottish Proverb
"Love teaches even asses to dance."-- French Proverb
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."-- Raymond Lindquist
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."-- Anne Frank
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."~~~Marianne Williamson
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." --Oprah Winfrey
MULDER: "Scully, I was like you once. I didn't know who to trust, and I chose another path, another life, another fate, where I found my sister. And even though my world was unrecognizable and upside down, there was one thing that remained the same-- [takes her face in his hands] you were my friend, and you told me the truth. Even when the world was falling apart, you were my constant, my touchstone."SCULLY: "And you are mine." -The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (The X-Files)
"Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away." -Author Unknown
"Get up every day and try a little harder than the day before. " —Emeril Lagasse
“Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.” —Anonymous.
“Did you know that when someone annoys you, it takes forty-two muscles to frown, but it only takes four muscles to extend your arm out and smack 'em in the head?” —Unknown.
“When life hands you a lemon, say, ‘Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?’” —Henry Rollins.
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.” —Frieda Norris.
“Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.” —Banks.
“The clock isn't slower; you're just faster.” —Adidas
“The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.” —Anonymous
“Love is not finding the perfect person, but finding the imperfect person perfect.” —Unknown.
"A teddy bear teaches a child that love means being there when you're needed." —Ubby.
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." —Anonymous
"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it." —Swedish proverb.
“Only do what your heart tells you”-Princess Diana
Charles Oakley on Toronto's slow start which led to a 27-12 deficit after one quarter: "I don't know. Maybe because it's Easter, an early game. I don't know ... the eggs."

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