Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, which it overflows upon the outward world.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (by Mathew Brady; Public Domain)
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov (1951, Galaxy Magazine; Public Domain)
Adversity causes some to break; others to break records. — William Arthur Ward (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. — Saint Augustine, 354-430 AD (1645, by Philippe de Champaigne; Public Domain) …The antidote: focusing on your own...
I count them braver who overcomes their desires than they who conquer their enemies; for the hardest victory is victory over self. — Aristotle (Image licensed by Penn Wealth) Without a large...
I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action. — Mae West (Los Angeles Times archive; Public Domain)
To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if one should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, until the...
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. — General Omar Bradley (Image licensed by Penn Wealth) It doesn’t take a battlefield environment to instill fear. We all...
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. — Lao Tzu (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old. — Mark Twain (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Love is the greatest refreshment in life. — Pablo Picasso (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way; and the pavement is eternal. — Willis R. Whitney, American chemist and founder of GE’s research lab (Image licensed by Penn...
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve. — Alexander Pope (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. — Benjamin Franklin (1778, by Joseph Duplessis, Public Domain) While friends generally accept is as we are and are less likely to point out our...
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. — Samuel Johnson (by John Opie, Public Domain)
Do you know what is harder to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude of some. — Napoleon (Image licensed by Penn Wealth) No matter our circumstances or any...
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. — Jim Rohn (Image licensed by Penn Wealth) Create a crystal-clear vision in your mind of what is on the other side of the fog-enveloped...
If you want success, don’t aim for it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. — David Frost (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. — Winston Churchill, on opposing party member Stafford Cripps (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to disregard them. — Cato the Elder, Roman soldier, senator, and historian (Public Domain)
