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"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book
"If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story."
-- Barbara Greene, Children's Writer
"If I have any message from this then it is if you really have a dream and you want to achieve it then you can and it really is possible."
-- Elen Macarthur, quoted after she broke all single-handed
women's sailing records and finished second in a
round-the-world yacht race. February 11th, 2001
"We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be."
-- Gladys Taber, American Author
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"We can do no great things - only small things with great love."
-- Mother Teresa
"Talent is *way* down on the list of things you need to write; it comes in a distant fourth, after persistance, motivation, and discipline. And the reason is that "talent" is as common as mud; what's rare is the motivation to sit down and actually *do* something with it, the discipline to do it regularly, and the persistance to stick with it until it's finished. I know oodles of extremely talented people who will never publish anything, because they won't ever sit down and actually *write* anything, much less finish it."
-- Patricia Wrede, Children's Writer
"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice."
-- Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Day of Affirmation Address at
the University of Capetown, South Africa, 1966
"I am not young enough to know everything."
-- Oscar Wilde
"A book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
-- C.S. Lewis
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein
"The mind opens and in creeps wisdom...the Great Secret isn't the variety of life. It's the variety of us."
-- Luoxana Troi, STNG
"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
-- Barbara Kingsolver
"The time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"
-- Anais Nin
"The force is within you. Force yourself."
-- Harrison Ford
"When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future."
-- Diane Fossey
"In wildness is the preservation of the world."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"What is now proved was once only imagined."
-- William Blake
"You can have anything you want – if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."
-- Oscar Wilde
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances."
-- Martha Washington
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
-- Sophia Loren
"I'm not afraid of storms. I'm learning to sail my ship."
-- Louisa May Alcott
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einsten
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
-- Malcom Forbes
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
-- Zelda Fitzgerald
"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, "You Learn by Living," 1960
For Lori, wherever you are: "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
-- Anais Nin
"I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that."
-- Linda Ellerbee
"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end."
-- Ursula K. LeGuin
"Go - not knowing where. Bring - not knowing what. The path is long, the way unknown."
-- Russian Fairy Tale
"One cannot step twice into the same river."
-- Herakleitos
"When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean."
-- Lin-chi
"I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."
-- Eudora Welty
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