Quotes of the
Week
Quotes of the
Week
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"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along."
"Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is
in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to
be discovered in every person."
Wilferd A. Peterson
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary."
Kathleen T. Norris
"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."
"Comedy is just a funny way of saying something serious."
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
"Be who you are
and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter
don't mind."
-- Dr.
Seuss
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing."
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
"It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bess."
"I believe we are here on planet earth to live, grow up, and do what we can to make this world a better place."
"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
"Better to have education than wealth."
"A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else."
"Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on."
"It is the ability to choose which makes us human."
"We drive into the future using only our rear view mirror."
“No man is an island entire of itself… every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.”
"You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks."
“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.”
“A friend is someone with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”
“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men.”
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
“Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine…”
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
"Be the change that you want to see in the world."