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Start before you are ready
~ Robert Zuckerman, from Kindsight

It is not enough to add years to one's life, one must also add life to those years.
~JFK

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~ Dr. Seuss

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
~ Carl Bard

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
~ Peter Drucker

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
~ Eric Hoffer

You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.
~ Winston Churchill (attribution disputed)

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
~ Thomas A. Edison

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
~ Blaise Pascal

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
~ Soren Kierkegaard

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
~ Robert Jackson

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
~ Larry Wall, Creator of Perl

The desire to protect ourselves is what stands in our way of being fully able to respond.
~ Patrick Cassidy

If I had only a year left to live, how would I live it? A day?

Common sense is a set of prejudices you accumulate (until the age of 18)
~ Paraphrased from Albert Einstein

The trouble with so many of us is that we have sought directions, answers, values, and beliefs from the important people in our world. Rather than trusting ourselves to search within and find our own answers to the conflicts in our life, we sell out by becoming what others expect of us. Our being becomes rooted in their expectations, and we become strangers to ourselves.
~ Gerald Corey, Theory and Practice of Counseling & Psychotherapy

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure."
~ H. L. Mencken, Minority Report (1956)

Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
~ Edward de Bono

Perception is real even when it is not reality.
~ Edward de Bono

If you never change your mind, why have one?
~ Edward de Bono

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
~ Czech Proverb

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Fun is the process of discovering areas in a possibility space.
~ Will Wright

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
~ Will Cuppy

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.
~ Douglas Adams, Last Chance To See...

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All models are wrong; some models are useful.
~ George Box

Ye have made your way from worm to man, and much within you is still worm.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Snowmen fall from Heaven, unassembled.
~ Unknown

Grant me the Serenity to prioritize things I cannot delegate, the Courage to say No when I need to, and the Wisdom to know when to go home.
~ Unknown

Your question is [your quest]. No questions -- no journey. Timid questions -- timid trips. Radical questions -- an expedition to the root of your being. Bon voyage.
~ Sam Keen

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
~ Mark Twain

If someone wrote a book about your life, would anyone want to read it?
~ From Ad for U.S. Army

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We must love them both, those with whom we agree, and those with whom we disagree. For both have labored in the search of truth, and both have helped in the finding of it.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
~ R.E. Shay

One saggy boob said to the other saggy boob: "If we don't get some support soon, people will think we're nuts."

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
~ French Poet, Paul Valery

To find your true self, you need to cultivate your eccentricities.
~ paraphrased from James Hillman (Jungian Psychologist)

To live in the hearts we leave behind, is not to die.
~ Thomas Campbell

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, three or more is a congress.
~ John Quincy Adams

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
~ Bertrand Russell

People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home.
~ Dagobert D. Runes

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
~ Edgar Allen Poe