The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
~quotes on Adversity by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight, 1931, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
~sayings on Gifts by Eleanor Powell We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures
~quotations on Thank You. by Thornton Wilder The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
~inspirational words of encouragement by Carl Sagan, Cosmos When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity
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Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors.
~quote about Golf by Paul O'Neil An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
~quotes on Politics by T.S. Eliot There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
~sayings on Adversity by Author Unknown I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
~quotations on Feminism by Cissy Farenthold The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
~inspirational words of encouragement by Edna St. Vincent Millay God made the country, and man made the town.
~saying about words of encouragement by William Cowper, The Task It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
~quote about Humility by Niccolo Machiavelli I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech.
~quotes on Censorship by Nancie J. Carmody You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
~sayings on Hawww by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
~quotations on America by Alexis de Tocqueville The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else – at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream.
~inspirational words of encouragement by Paul MacCready My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
~saying about words of encouragement by Duffy Daugherty Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
~quote about Happiness by Douglas Jerrold You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
~quotes on Environment by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes, 175 The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
~sayings on Success by Irving Berlin It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.
~quotations on Compliments by John Addington Symonds As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
~inspirational words of encouragement by Andrew Delbanco Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk.
~saying about words of encouragement by Author Unknown The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.
~quote about Perfection by Henry Miller Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
~quotes on Parenting by George A. Dorsey I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege.
~sayings on Poker by Jack Binion Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses.
~quotations on Horses by C.W. Anderson Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
~inspirational words of encouragement by Arthur Miller Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
~saying about words of encouragement by William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1822 They need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.
~quote about Worry by Jack Kerouac Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!
~quotes on Nostalgia by Alice Childress Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
~sayings on Risk by James Bryant Conant What was good enough yesterday isn't good enough today
What's good enough today won't be good enough tomorrow
Good enaogh.....isn't!
~quotations on Unknown by My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
~inspirational words of encouragement by A.A. Milne I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn.
~saying about words of encouragement by W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919 The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.
~quote about Food by Ralph Waldo Emerson A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.
~quotes on Women by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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