Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery
Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin
current slides away, but eternity remains.
Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry Truman
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Publius Syrus
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friederich Nietzsche
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
Malcom Forbes
.Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
.Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Disraeli
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and
storms.
George Eliot
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward Phelps
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Pindar
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is
performed for the first or last time.
Peter Quennell
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
‚ Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."
‚ D.H. Lawrence
If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
Anonymous
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Aristophanes
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle
.Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle
.Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.
E.R. Beadle
Success is never final.
Winston Churchill
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by
experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is
knowledge.
Confucius
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius
A good book has no ending.
R.D. Cumming
There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.
Donald Harington
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
.So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself
to a very few hours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Juvenal
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Buddinton Kelland
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Dr Robert Schuller
no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the
dawn -jim morrisonContributed by jessica carr
I would rather be ashes than dust; I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brillant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot; I would rather be in a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow than in a sleepy and permanent planet; the proper function of man is to live, not to exist; I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them; I shall USE my time. ---Jack London
contributed by Heath Batz
You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love.----Russell Schweikart, astronaut
contributed by Heath Batz
Such as we are made of, such we be.---William Shakespeare contributed by Edmund
You only live once- but if you work it right, once is enough. --- Joe E. Lewis contributed by Sara Grunden
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -- Victor Hugo
Contributed by Carol
We teach what we live.--unknown
Contributed by Bill
In men whom men condemn as ill,
I find so much of goodness still,
In men whom men pronounce divine,
I find so much of sin and blot,
I do not dare to draw a line ,
Between the two where God has not
unknown contributed by Lesa
"From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax, to be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a
day of mindfulness, when we walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, and enjoy being together as if we are the
happiest people on Earth." -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Contributed by Robin Garrison
Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.
T.S. Elliot
In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life; it goes on!-----Leo Buscaglia--contributed by Kathleen
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didnt get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.---Buddha----contributed by Kathleen
It is better to deserve an honor and not receive it, than to receive one, and not deserve it!----- Mark Twain----contributed by Tom
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of another.-- Winston Churchill-- contributed by kathleen
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.--- Cherokee Saying contributed by Krystal
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
--- Emily Dickinson
contributed by Margaret Desmond
