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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. ~Agnes Repplier



People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story". ~Ken Burns



The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker



Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask "What the hell is wrong with the projector?" and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time. ~Colin Wilson



In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. ~John Comenius, 17th century philosopher Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ~Abraham Lincoln



Give blood. Play hockey. ~Author Unknown



It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. ~Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930



History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley



Medicine for the soul. ~Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes



A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. ~Isadora James



I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. ~Oscar Wilde



I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? ~Cicero



By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. ~George Herbert



The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries



Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide



You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau



A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com