“The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns you more than them.” — Chinese Proverb
“Never water yourself down just because someone can’t handle you at 100 proof.” — Unknown
“Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.” — Steven Pressfield
“If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.” — Steven Wright
“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through.[sic]” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.” — Jack LaLanne
“Look closely at wisdom – there is a very small space between ‘“wiz’ and ‘dumb'” — Chase Leblanc
“As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.” — Proverbs 27:19
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” — George Washington
“Fate whispers to the warrior, ‘You cannot withstand the storm.’ And the warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.'” — Unknown
“He’s completely unspoiled by failure.” — Noel Coward
“The seed never explains the flower.” — Edith Hamilton
” Any event,once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.” — Lee Simonson
“When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.” — Vanna Bonta
“Insanity doesn’t run in my family; it gallops.” — Cary Grant
“Necessity dispenseth with decorum.” — Thomas Carlyle
“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.” — Martha Graham
“There’s nothing wrong with celebrating the good things in our past. But memories, like witnesses, do not always tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” — Stephanie Coontz
“If the world was perfect, it wouldn’t be.” — Yogi Berra
“In the face of pain there are no heroes.” — George Orwell
“Do what you did in the beginning of a relationship and there won’t be an end.” — Anthony Robbins
“It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.” — Evelyn Underhill
“It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.” — Deng Xiaoping
“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” — Maya Angelou
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” — Havelock Ellis
“People are often as motivated by the fear of loss as they are by the desire for gain.” — Seth Godin
“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” — Mark Twain
“The young know the rules, the old know the exceptions.” — Confucius
“Encouragement is oxygen for the soul. It takes very little effort to give it, but the return in others is huge.” — John C. Maxwell
“Maturation is when you realize how many things don’t require your comment.” — Rachel Wolchin
“To be an ideal guest, stay at home.” — Edgar Watson Howe
“Success is never so interesting as struggle.” — Willa Cather
“Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse.” — Golda Meir
“To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.” — Marc Hack
“Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side because it is fake.” — Unknown
“The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.” — Rabindranath Tagore
“When you find people who not only tolerate your quirks, but celebrate them with glad cries of ‘Me Too!’, be sure to cherish them because those weirdos are your tribe.” — Unknown
“I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved.” — Rose Kennedy
“Alimony: Bounty after the mutiny.” — Max Kaufman