No one can persuade another to change. Each
of us guards a gate of change that can only
be opened from the inside. We cannot open
the gate of another, either by
agreement or by emotional appeal.
( authors: Marilyn Ferguson )
It is easier to dance in a
rage than in cold blood.
( authors: Dame Margot Fonteyn )
When you can't remember why
you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
( authors: Jane Fonda )
Winning may not be everything,
but losing has little to recommend it.
( author: Dianne Feinstein )
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical
fear so long sustained by now that we can
even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
( authors: William Faulkner )
Either you think -- or else others have to
think for you and take power from you,
pervert and discipline your natural tastes,
civilize and sterilize you.
( authors: F Scott Fitzgerald )
Everything can be taken from a man but ...
the last of the human freedoms -
to choose one's attitude in any given set of
circumstances, to choose one's own way.
( author: Viktor Frankl )
You don't need strength to let go of something.
What you really need is understanding.
( authors: Guy Finley )
Happiness means quiet nerves.
( authors: WC Fields )
The prudence of the best heads is often
defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
( authors: Henry Fielding )
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
( authors: Dwight D Eisenhower )
If evil be spoken of you and it be true,
correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
( authors: Epictetus )
A theory is something nobody believes,
except the person who made it.
An experiment is something everybody
believes, except the person who made it.
( author: Albert Einstein )
Between two evils, choose neither;
between two goods, choose both.
( authors: Tyron Edwards )
It is one of the blessings of old friends that
you can afford to be stupid with them.
( author: Ralph Waldo Emerson )
The best years of your life are
the ones in which you decide
your problems are your own.
You do not blame them on
your mother, the ecology,
or the president. You realize that
you control your own destiny.
( author: Albert Ellis )
I used to think the most awful thing would
be to be tortured to death slowly, but then
I realized I could always be
tortured to death MORE slowly.
( author: Albert Ellis )
Only dead fish swim with
the stream all of the time.
( author: Linda Ellerbee )
It is the chiefest point of happiness
that a man is willing to be what he is.
( author: Deciderius Erasmus )
Confession is always weakness. The grave
soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own
punishment in silence.
( author: Dorothy Dix )
To know what people really think,
pay regard to what they do,
rather than what they say.
( authors: Rene Descartes )
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream.
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
( authors: Ernest Dowson )
Neither current events nor history show
that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
( authors: Jefferson Davis )
Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
( author: Marlene Dietrich )
I have learned to live each day as it comes,
and not to borrow trouble by dreading
tomorrow. It is the dark menace of
the future that makes cowards of us.
( author: Dorothy Day )
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives
and remembering what one receives.
( authors: Alexandre Dumas )
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning
and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
( authors: Bob Dylan )
There is no despair so absolute as that
which comes with the first moments of
our first great sorrow, when we have
not yet known what it is to have suffered
and be healed, to have despaired
and have recovered hope.
( authors: George Eliot )
Blessed is the influence of one true,
loving human soul on another.
( authors: George Eliot )
