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"The world is but a canvas to our imaginations."
               -Thoreau
 
 
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
--Simone de Beauvior
 
 
"Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
 --Nietzche
 
 
"How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!"
                                  --Alfred Lord Tennyson
 

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.  It is not so bad as you are.  It looks poorest when you are richest.  The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.  Love your life.
~ H. D. Thoreau

"Never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel."
                                        --Mark Twain
 
"Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way."
                  --Unknown

"Love is the ulitmate outlaw.  It just won't adhere to any rules.  The most any of us can do is sign on as it's accomplice.  Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet.  That would mean that security is out of the question.  The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate.  My love for you has no strings attached.  I love you for free."
--Tom Robbins,  'Still life with Woodpecker'
 
 
"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."
 --Wiliam Shakesphere Sonnet 110
 

"Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."                                            ~Martha Washington

"Judgements too quickly formed are dangerous."
  -Socrates, from Oedipus Rex
 
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
 -Plato
 
"The Future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
 -Eleanor Roosevelt

"Even a thought, even a possibility can shatter us and transform us."
   --Nietzsche 
 
 
"Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see."              
--Martin Luther

"Nature is made to conspire with the spirit to emancipate us."
  --Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
"Make no little plans.  They have no magic to stir men's blood.  Make big plans...a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die...but will be a living thing."
       --Daniel Burnham, Chicago Lakefront architect

"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong--nearly anybody will side with you when you are right!"              
 ~Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain