"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

-- Beverly Sills

"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected
by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic
fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results."

-- Herman Melville

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The
struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles
inside all of us -- that's where it's at."

-- Jesse Owens

"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but
you can't get more time."

-- Jim Rohn

"It's not enough to be busy... the question is: what are we
busy about?"

-- Henry David Thoreau

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there
is no path and leave a trail."

-- Harold R. McAlindon

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of
getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first
one."

-- Mark Twain

"May you live all the days of your life."

-- Jonathan Swift

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then... do
something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

-- Lee Iacocca

"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent
that rubs against it."

-- Bill Bernbach

"What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make
mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other
mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly
can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what
do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same
as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for
there is no other way of learning how to live!"

-- Alfred Adler

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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has
its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe
when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of
the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries
merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never
lose a holy curiosity."

-- Albert Einstein

"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better
to be wise than to be smart."

-- Alan Alda

"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again.
Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the
shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never
get the urge to throw a snowball."

-- Doug Larson

"Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with
quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature,
especially your own."

-- Arnold Bennett

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,
the more it begins to make sense."

-- Harold S. Kushner

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live,
remember that."

-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from

giving us wordy evidence of the fact."

-- George Eliot