• I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. Douglas Adams
• While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled.  P. G. Wodehouse
• Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. Elaine St. James
• Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. C[yril] Northcote Parkinson
• There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year!  Kathleen Norris
• Is not life a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche
• No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. W. A. Nance
• I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. E. V. Lucas
• I never lost a football game. Once in a while time ran out. Vince Lombardi
• An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. Robert A. Humphrey
• I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. Bill Hoest
• A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
• Several excuses are always less convincing than one. Aldous Huxley
• It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word! Andrew Jackson
• Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth. Douglas Jerrold
• A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. Joseph Addison
• When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. Joseph Addison
• Wealth unused might as well not exist. Aesop
• The man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 30 has wasted 20 years of his life. Muhammad Ali
• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel
• If everything's under control, you're going too slow. Mario Andretti
• Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. Isaac Asimov
• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov
• Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.  Bernard M. Baruch
• It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
• Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing. Robert Benchley
• You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut.  Sally Berger
• Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.  Heywood Broun
• Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be. Charles Brower
• All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke
• I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you. Ashleigh Brilliant
• There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted.  James Branch Cabell
• A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers
• Neutral men are devil's allies. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going. Irwin Corey
• Fast. Powerful. User-friendly. Choose any two. Eric Daniels
• One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering. René Descartes
• Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?" Annie Dillard
• Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. Benjamin Disraeli
• Assumption is the mother of the screw-up. Angelo Donghia
• You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. Abba Eban
• Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]
• Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up. Michael J. Gelb
• Normal is in the eye of the beholder. Whoopi Goldberg
• If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. James Goldsmith
• I believe you rarely achieve more than you expect. Carol Grosse
• I realized that nothing I ever did could possibly add anything to what I already had. Eckhart Tolle
• Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. Theodore Roethke
• Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities – yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings.
• We have learned to live our lives incorrectly to perfection. Don Juan
• If you don’t overcome clarity, you’ll stay on the surface of knowledge, or perhaps you’ll become a clown as you go about telling others how much you know. Don Juan.
• Duhkha – Life as we usually live it is suffering – or, more exactly, is bedeviled by the peculiar frustration which comes from attempting the impossible.
• To travel well is better than to arrive.
• It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I". Alan Watts.
• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell
• When the light comes at last into the mind given to contemplation; or when the goal is finally achieved by anyone, it always comes with just one happy realization: “I need do nothing.” Course in Miracles
• It’s almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things. John Logue
• Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. Tom Wilson
• I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. Lily Tomlin
• This could be the best day of my life, so far... Well it’s possible! Marshall Thurber

• To Change One’s Life

1. Start immediately.

2. Do it flamboyantly.

3. No exceptions.

William James

• It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. John Andrew Holmes
• You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka
• It’s no good running a pig farm badly for thirty years while saying, Really I was meant to be a ballet dancer. By that time, pigs will be your style. Quentin Crisp
• Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. Sydney J. Harris
• Resolve, and thou art free. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Work like you don’t need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you’ve never been hurt. Mark Twain
• Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. Tallulah Bankhead
• We are here on Earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I do not know. W. H. Auden
• How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was? Satchel Paige
• Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do is work. Play will never kill you, work will. I never worked a day in my life. Dr. Leila Denmark, 100, USA’s oldest practicing physician.
• Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
• All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. Anonymous
• If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Lin Yutang
• One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant
• Don’t refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase. That’s what wild geese are for. Anonymous
• Your body is your temple. It’s also your dance hall and bowling alley. Dharma, Dharma and Greg
• You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers
• Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz
• It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. G.H. Hardy
• Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz
• The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks. Unknown
• We cannot become who we need to be, by remaining who we are. Invent yourself everyday. Unknown
• Life is too long not to be happy. Thom Barber
• For every sixty seconds of anger, you lose one minute of happiness. Unknown
• If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little bit more. Jules Renard
• Find out what you care about—and live a life that shows it. Don Myers
• The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment. T. H. White
• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard
• It takes one a long time to become young. Pablo Picasso
• The real measure of a day’s heat is the length of a sleeping cat. Charles J. Brady
• A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o’clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already. Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

If you can start the day without caffeine,
If you can get going without pep pills,
If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,
If you can understand that your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,
If you can overlook it when those you love take it out on you, when through no fault of yours, something goes wrong,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can ignore a friend’s limited education and never correct him,
If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,
If you can face the world without lies and deceit,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
If you can say honestly that deep in your heart you have no prejudice against creed, color, religion, or politics,
Then my friend, you are almost as good as your dog.

Unknown

• If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t there more happy people? Anonymous
• Life is just one damned thing after another. Elbert Hubbard
• I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson
• The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. J. K. Galbraith
• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S. Truman
• In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular. Kathy Norris
• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. Soren Kierkegaard
• A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams... John Barrymore
• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde
• The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg. Samuel Butler
• It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent. Vincent van Gogh
• After the game, the king and the pawn go in the same box. Italian Proverb
• Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. John Ruskin
• The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them. Kimon Nicolaides
• Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson
• The average man who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. Anatole France
• And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. H.L. Mencken
• An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. Bonnie Friedman
• You know how dumb the average guy is? Well, by definition, half of them are even dumber than that. J.R. Dobbs
• If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day. John A. Wheeler
• Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. Will Rogers
• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life! But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. Alfred D. Souza
• I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. D. Ackerman
• If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right. Beatrice Lopez
• We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. Unknown
• Once a man sets his foot upon the spiritual path, the way grows ever more narrow, until at last he can only do what he must. Ursula Le Guin
• Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise; risking more than others think is safe; dreaming more than others think is practical; and expecting more than others think is possible. Unknown
• If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de St. Exupery
• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu
• Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won’t help. Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
• Generally, by the time you are REAL, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out, and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all because once you are Real, you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand. Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
• I wanted a perfect ending... Now I’ve learned the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner
• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
• Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill
• If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? Linda Ellerbee
• Find something you love to do, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. Harvey Mackay
• Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning? David Halberstam
• The truth is out there? Does anyone know the URL? Unknown
• Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. Sitting Bull
• They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? Jeanette Winterson
• Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence. Vermont proverb
• All men should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. James Thurber
• I think one must finally take one’s life is one’s arms. Arthur Miller
• You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. Robin Williams
• We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. Horace
• When you want to hurry things, that means you do not care about the things themselves, but want to get on to something different. A lust for newness replaces the enjoyment of this moment. Unknown
• In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Al Rogers
• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell
• The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. Abraham Lincoln
• The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. Keynes
• Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. Paula Poundstone
• There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer. When asked to define “great” he said, I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger! He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages. Unknown
• Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. Elias Schwartz
• It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as warning to others. Unknown
• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde
• Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. Stephen Vincent Benet
• How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most. Stephen Covey
• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. Charles Mingus
• The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions. Robin S. Sharma, Who Will Cry When You Die?
• The fate of the country...does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning. David Henry Thoreau
• People, like plants, may need to be repotted occasionally, at least until the pot is big enough for the specimen to grow without stunting. Robert Ford
• A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright
• Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses
• There are three kinds of people:
  The ones that learn by reading.
  The few who learn by observation.
  The rest of them who have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. Will Rogers
• You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow T. Wilson
• If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else. But in many situations, you’ll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it. John Maxwell
• ...you don’t know the nature of the next wave no matter how long you have been sitting on the beach. Lee L. Jampolsky, The Art of Trust
• Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll
• Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. --Jacob M. Braude
• The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with ONLY a loaf of bread are three billion to one. --Erma Bombeck
• A politician worries about the next election; a statesman about the next generation. David O. Carter
• There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who can deal in binary and those who can't. Frank Clarke
• It is only when we realize that everything is pointless that we can act fearlessly. R.W. Fassbinder
• "Somebody's got to be angry or nothing gets fixed." Carl Hiaasen
• Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood. D. B. Hudson
• Our lives begin to end the day [that] we become silent about things that matter. Dr. Martin Luther King jr
• Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. Horace Mann
• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw
• After you eat, shit and sleep, it’s all made up. bobJuan
• Do nothing and achieve all things. kevJuan