Quotations and advice

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the
right paths, but the final forming of a person's
character lies in their own hands."

-- Anne Frank


"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a
wonderful stroke of luck."

-- Dalai Lama


"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and
then doesn't hurt."

-- Charles M. Schulz 


"There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the
light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it."


-- Edith Wharton 




"Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am
thankful that the thorns have roses."

-- Alphonse Karr


"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the
world."

-- John le Carre  


"There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but
any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be
built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a
commitment to excellence, and a rejection of
mediocrity."

-- Buck Rodgers


"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's
blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering
that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not
die, but long after we are gone be a living thing,
asserting itself with ever-growing insistence."

-- Daniel Hudson Burnham




"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to
cross and which to burn."

-- David Russell 


"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious,
you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on
to someone else."

-- Mitch Albom 


"The human brain is unique in that it is the only
container of which it can be said that the more you put
into it, the more it will hold."

-- Glenn Doman 


"If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague."

-- Jerry Seinfeld 


"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its
original dimensions."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes


"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you
can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will
continue the learning process as long as he lives."

-- Clay P. Bedford 




"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone
ought to be."

-- Clementine Paddleford 

"Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people
can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault."

-- David M. Burns

"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not
your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so
does a hard-boiled egg."

-- Anonymous

"Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to
drop back."

-- Chinese Proverb

"A man who limits his interests, limits his life."

-- Vincent Price

"All the woulda-coulda-shouldas layin' in the sun,
talkin' 'bout the things they woulda-coulda-shoulda
done... But all those woulda-coulda-shouldas all ran
away and hid from one little did."

-- Shel Silverstein, Author

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a
heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

-- John Milton

"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once,
he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice
shots."

-- Charles F. Kettering

"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can
get yourself back."

-- Mick Jagger

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest
we take between two deep breaths."

-- Etty Hillesum


"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first
and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with
ourselves."

-- Walter Anderson

"If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be
the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found
again; and what we call time enough always proves little
enough."

-- Benjamin Franklin

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be
greater than your fear of failure."

-- Bill Cosby

"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is
to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy
the gloom of somebody else."

-- Arnold Bennett

"We did not change as we grew older; we just became more
clearly ourselves."

-- Lynn Hall

"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always
beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may
alight upon you."

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
 

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must
keep moving."

-- Albert Einstein
  

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but
wish we didn't."

-- Erica Jong
  

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain
nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice
being brave."

-- Mary Tyler Moore