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• "FB is like a party. You never know who's going to show up! Family, friends, old, new or lost, of all walks of life, from any community, country, or continent. Welcome to my party.... "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret" -- Salvador Dali (1904-1989) "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." -- George Washington Carver "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" Dr Seuss (1904-1991) "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -- Albert Einstein Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.--Mark Twain "You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt “I’m hitting a lick for peace – and every time I’m in Georgia, I eat a peach for peace. But you can’t help the revolution, because there’s just evolution. I understand the need for a lot of changes in this country, but I believe that as soon as everybody can see just a little better, and get a little hipper to what’s going on, they’re going to change it. Everybody will – not just the young people, everybody is going to say, ‘Man, this stinks. I cannot tolerate the smell of this thing anymore. Let’s eliminate it and get straight with ourselves.’ I believe if everybody does it for themselves, it’ll take care of itself.” -- Duane Allman, in one of the last interviews that he gave, when asked what he was doing for the revolution...... "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." -- Marilyn Monroe "I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.” -- Neil Young “It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.” – Thomas de Quincy, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856 “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” -- Mother Teresa "I've had heartaches, headaches, toothaches, earaches, and I've had a few pains in the ass; but I've survived to tell about it." Dolly Parton The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson “Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”.......James Dean "The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth."....Albert Einstein "What a grand thing to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!" -- Victor Hugo "By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy." -- George Bancroft "Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use." -- Emily Post Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. (Romans 12:12) A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, A song is no song 'til you sing it, And love in your heart Wasn't put there to stay - Love isn't love 'Til you give it away. ~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)" "We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets"...Marilyn Monroe "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate." - Ann Landers, Francis Bacon said, "Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." Everything that deceives can be said to enchant. ~ Plato "They wish us luck But they think we’re just dreaming Let’s prove them wrong baby ’cause you know what luck is Luck is believing you’re lucky That’s all and showing just a little bit of faith" Rod Stewart from ""THE MOTOWN SONG" lyrics by Larry John McNally "Have no fear of perfection - You'll never reach it" -- Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. Jules Renard 1864 - 1910 When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break. ~William Hale White It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. -- Rebecca West Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -- William James Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues. -- Hugh Prather Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. -- Henry Miller “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes”. - Marcel Proust Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. -- Andy Rooney We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead. -- Publilius Syrus My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. -- Benjamin Disraeli It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. -- William Blake It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of. -- Randy K. Milholland When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears. -- Czech Proverb Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. -- Raymond Lindquist Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is. -- Hugh Macleod Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. -- Aristotle If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. -- George C. Marshall The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. -- Robertson Davies Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -- Will Durant The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say. -- Tom Stoppard Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich von Schiller Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. -- Dave Barry Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? -- George Price Only the shallow know themselves. -- Oscar Wilde Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. -- Howard Aiken The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. -- C. P. Snow There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. -- Cyrus H. Curtis Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. -- Charles Dickens I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. -- Henry David Thoreau The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "The only failure is the failure to try." -- Buckminster Fuller The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. -- Flannery O'Connor "They keep saying I'm some sort of 'sexual innovator'... I never thought of any of my poses as being sexual in any way, I never had anything like that in my mind." -- Bettie Page (see interview) "People said it was my smile. That I looked very happy, that I enjoyed my work, and I did." -- Bettie Page Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. -- Samuel Johnson Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. -- Og Mandino If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. -- Benjamin Franklin The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. -- Anna Quindlen Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. -- Pete Seeger Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. -- Eleanor Roosevelt There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. -- Emile Chartier The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. -- Abigail van Buren "I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy." ~Doris Day The wonderful, of which the miraculous is a subcategory, was never boring. - Jacobus de Voraigne Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. - Joseph Addison"