"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do
doesn't mean it's useless."

-- Thomas Alva Edison

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

-- Milton Berle

"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.
This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who
is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the
guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no
matter what happens."

-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do
doesn't mean it's useless."

-- Thomas Alva Edison

"To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be
able to laugh at yourself is maturity."

-- William A. Ward

"Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where
you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become
an overnight success."

-- Diana Rankin

"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your
name you'd have to pay cash."

-- Rita Mae Brown

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide
your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your
mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you
control your own destiny."

-- Albert Ellis

"There are only two kinds of people who are really
fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people
who know absolutely nothing."

-- Oscar Wilde

"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next
generation, it would be the ability for each individual to
learn to laugh at himself."

-- Charles Schulz

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to
somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to
your former self."

-- Whitney Young

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed
by belief."

-- Gerry Spence

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do
him absolutely no good."

-- Samuel Johnson

"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from
it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy
in our great men."

-- Captain J. A. Hadfield

"Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to
hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were the little
happy high notes. Would you leave soon? Let me hear the rumble
of the bass, the crash of the cymbals and the minor keys."

-- Jim Rohn

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if
you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got
to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death,
and therefore you must at the very least think noisy and
colorfully, or you're not alive."

-- Mel Brooks

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your
mind."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If people concentrated on the really important things in
life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."

-- Doug Larson

"Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow. We must fail in
order to know. Sometimes our vision is clear only after our
eyes are washed away with tears."

-- Unknown

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that it has never tried to contact us."

-- Bill Watterson

"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can
stop after eating one peanut."

-- Channing Pollack

"You just can't beat the person who won't give up."

-- Babe Ruth

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X+Y+Z, where X
is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut."

-- Albert Einstein

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success,
his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of
the beautiful jewels of wisdom."

-- James Allen

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so
well that no one would find fault with what he has done."

-- Cardinal Newman

"I want to put a ding in the universe."

-- Steve Jobs

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true
wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is
true power."

-- Lao-Tzu

"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining
somewhere nearby."

-- Ruth Renkel

Anaïs Nin

Quotes

• "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
• "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."
• "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
• "If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."
• "For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration."
• "It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before, to test your limits, to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
• "How wrong is it for a woman to expect man to build the world she wants, rather than set out to create it herself."
• "Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness."
• "Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself."
• "Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry."
• "Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
• "The only abnormality is the inability to love."
• "I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
• "Each friend represents a world in us, a world not possibly born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
• "I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
• "We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds."
• "The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy."
• "Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."
• "Dreams are necessary to life."
• "Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."
• "The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment with it, that was the miracle."
• "Love is the axis and breath of my life."

"I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I
can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for
which you are the explanation."

-- Robert Brault