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The good old days weren't always good; tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

Billy Joel

War makes no sense. Winning does not outweigh the incredible losses.

Unknown

Peter Finley Dunne

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Above all, try something.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Ghandi

Voltaire

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.

I would rather regret what I have done . . . than what I have not.

Fannie Hurst

One reason I don't drink is I want to know when I'm having a good time.

Nancy, Lady Astor

Mark Twain

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Mother Mary Jones

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

Unknown

Rebecca West

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

It is easy to say no. To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows.

Sophocles, "Antigone"

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

Sappho

Thomas Szasz

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

Don't count each day. Make each day count.

Unknown

Celtic toast

May you live as long as you want to. May you want to as long as you live.

We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.

Billy Joel

We can do no great things - only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

Mark Twain

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Garrison Kellior

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eyes and deny it.

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

The purpose of life is life.

Karl Lagerfeld

Amanda Grier

A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knocking it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

Rosie Perez

Scatter joy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Horace Mann

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Anonymous

May those that love us, love us, and those that don't, may God turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping.

Old Gaelic Blessing

Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

Frank Buchman

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

Philander Johnson

Marin County newspaper's TV listing for The Wizard of Oz

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.

Don't wait for the light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.

Sara Henderson

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Dr. Moshe Waldoks

A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable.

To do carefully and constantly and kindly many little things is not a little thing.

Unknown

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Leroy Eldridge Cleave

R.E. Shay

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Jack London

 

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