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November 2004 Quotes

Happiness is not a reward --
it is a consequence.
Suffering is not a punishment --
it is a result.
Robert Ingersoll

In a consumer society there are
inevitably two kinds of slaves:
the prisoners of addiction and
the prisoners of envy.
Ivan Illich

Both tears and sweat are salty,
but they render a different result.
Tears will get you sympathy;
sweat will get you change.
Jesse Jackson

There are no bonds so strong as those
which are formed by suffering together.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Some people are so fond of ill-luck
that they run half-way to meet it.
Douglas Jerrold

There is no more miserable human
being than one in whom
nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James

Nothing changes more consistently
than the past;...the past that influences
our lives is not what actually happened
but what we believe happened.
Gerald W Johnson

To let friendship die away by negligence
and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily
to throw away one of the greatest
comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Samuel Johnson

Experience is that marvellous thing
that enables you recognise a mistake
when you make it again.
Franklin P Jones

Those who never retract their opinions love
themselves more than they love truth.
Joseph Joubert

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose
its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
Carl Gustav Jung

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived.
Truth is the child of time; ere long
she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Immanuel Kant

Nothing ever becomes real until it
is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb
to you till your life has illustrated it.
John Keats

You are not responsible for the
programming you picked up in childhood.
However, as an adult, you are one
hundred percent responsible for fixing it
Ken Keyes, Jr

People demand freedom of speech to make up
for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Soren Kierkegaard

The conventional army loses
if it does not win. The guerrilla
wins if he does not lose.
Henry Kissinger

It is often better to have a great deal of
harm happen to one than a little; a great
deal may rouse you to remove what a little
will only accustom you to endure.
Grenville Kleiser

There are two freedoms -- the false, where
a man is free to do what he likes; the true,
where he is free to do what he ought.
Charles Kingsley

Security depends not so much
upon how much you have, as upon
how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch

We need to teach the next generation of children
from Day One that they are responsible for their
lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest
curse, is that we have free choice. We can make
our choices built from love or from fear.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn
hope that if you just show up and try to do
the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait
and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott

Make somebody happy today.
Mind your own business.
Ann Landers

We need to suffer that
we may learn to pity.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Men, like nails, lose their
usefulness when they lose
direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor