Saturday 15 January 2011

Quotations - Words of Wisdom 4


"The fool wonders, the wise man asks." Benjamin Disraeli.


"If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." Anne Bradstreet.


"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum." Oliver Wendell Holmes.


"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." Henry David Thoreau.

"Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes." Henry J. Kaiser.


"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg - not by smashing it." Ellen Glasgow.


"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude." Amy Tan.


"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." Epictetus.


"Think about all the beauty still left around you and be happy." Anne Frank.


"Sometimes small things lead to great joys." Samuel Joseph Agnon.


"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us." Ashley Montagu.


"The best way of making your dreams come true is to wake up." Paul Valery.


"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination." Roy M. Goodman.


"Think contentment the greatest wealth." George Shelley.


"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity." Edwin Land.


"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." Erich Fromm


"Experience is more convincing that logic." Isaac Abravanel.


"Let us take men as they are, not as they ought to be." Franz Schubert.


"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers.


"Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot." Steve Post.


"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open." Thomas Dewar.


"Don't accept that others know you better than yourself." Sonja Friedman.

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