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Wise Words
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. ~ Bette Davis
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. ~ Anonymous
Intelligence lies within a creative mind, not an extensive memory. ~ Christopher Acedillo
The key to a fulfilled life, without fear of death, is to know that we are all spiritual beings having a physical experience, rather than physical beings having a spiritual experience. ~ Ancient Proverb
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize Winner
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ~ English proverb
If you have men who will exclude creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. ~ Saint Frances of Assisi
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ~ Stephen Covey
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. ~ David Friedman
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human. ~ Liv Ullmann 
Your point of view is no one's truth but your own. ~ don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
In wildness is the preservation of the world. ~ Henry David Thoreau
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. ~ E. Kübler-Ross
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~ William Butler Yeats
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ~ James Dean
Updated May 2002.
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