“Success in the end erases all the mistakes along the way.” — Chinese Proverb
“Don’t beat yourself. That’s the worst kind of defeat you’ll ever suffer.” — John Wooden
“All that we do is done with an eye to something else.” — Aristotle
“Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we aren’t British, and to the British that we aren’t Americans that we haven’t had time to become Canadians.” — Helen Gordon McPherson
“You cannot fatten the pig on market day.” — African Proverb
“Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.” — Carl Sandburg
“Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.” — Hayao Miyazaki
“Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.” — Philip Guedalla
“Information is the currency of democracy.” — Thomas Jefferson
“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.” — Wilson Mizner
“The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.” — Leigh Hunt
“You know you are getting older when ‘Happy Hour’ is a nap.” — Gray Kristofferson
“He that has a choice has trouble.” — Dutch Proverb
“He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.” — W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.” — Nikos Kazantzakis
“Curious people are interesting people, I wonder why that is.” — Bill Maher
“We don’t always get to choose what we love.” — Scott Westerfeld
“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” — Wilma Rudolph
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” — William Shakespeare
“God help the person who won’t marry until they find a perfect spouse, and God help them still more if they do. [ed]” — Benjamin Tillett
“Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.” — Gore Vidal
“I am grateful for the lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and floors that need waxing because it means I have a home.” — Nancie J. Carmody
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” — Khalil Gibran
“When you pass the buck, don’t ask for change.” — Solomon Short
“I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’.” — Henry Moore
“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” — Louis D. Brandeis
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you’ve failed by default.” — J. K. Rowling
“I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?” — Fran Lebowitz
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“Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.” — Catherine Deneuve
“New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.” — Hamilton Wright Mabie
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” — George Bernard Shaw
“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.” — Franz Kafka
“A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.” — Irish Proverb
“The fact that someone else loves you doesn’t rescue you from the project of loving yourself.” — Sahaj Kohli
“While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.” — Lady Bird Johnson
“I’d like to grow very old as slowly as possible.” — Charles Lamb
“Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“You are not born a winner; you are not born a loser. You are born a chooser.” — Abhishek Kumar
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” — Clifton Fadiman
“Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.” — Coco Chanel