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It is not because things are
difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
Julie Cameron, from Seneca, The Artist's Way
I asked for all things, that I
might enjoy life. I was given life, that I might enjoy all things... I got
nothing I asked for but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my
unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among men, most richly blessed!
-Roy Campanella
When you have once seen the glow
of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no
vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are
torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of
living, in the hearts you encounter.
Albert Camus
When you have once seen the glow
of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no
vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are
torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of
living, in the hearts you encounter.
Albert Camus
He who
despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a
fool.
Albert
Camus
You are forgiven for your
happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
How much better to know that we
have dared to live our dreams than to live our lives in a
lethargy of regret.
-Gilbert Caplin
Have
you ever noticed.... Anybody going slower than you is an
idiot and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George
Carlin
No man who has once heartily and
wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
-Thomas Carlyle
As I grow older, I pay less
attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
If life
was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
-Johnny
Carson
A woman
broke up with me and sent me pictures of her and her new boyfriend in bed
together. Solution?? I sent them to her dad.
-Christopher
Case
How many cares one loses when one
decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel, Dress designer
Everything here, but the soul of
man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within.
William Henry Channing
(1780-1842)
The cowards think of what they
can lose, the heroes of what they can win.
J.M. Charlier
Medicine is my lawful wife and
literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with
the other. Thought it's irregular, it is less boring this way, and besides,
neither of them loses anything through my infidelity.
Anton Chekov (Russian doctor and
author)
The way to love anything is to
realize that it might be lost.
G. K. Chesterton
To talk much and arrive nowhere
is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.
Ancient Chinese Proverb
You cannot prevent the birds of
sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests
in your hair.
Chinese Proverb
Putting it in plain terms, the
general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and
driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to
survive.
Noam Chomsky, from
"Necessary Illusions"
The smart way to keep people passive
and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow
very lively debate within that spectrumeven encourage
the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's
freethinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are
being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
-Noam Chomsky, Linguist and
Social Critic
A pessimist sees the difficulty
in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Sir Winston Churchill
I have
never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired
the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that
had the lion heart. I had the luck to give the roar.
Winston
Churchill
The
whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are
strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no
longer strong.
Winston
Churchill
One problem with gazing too
frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run
out on us.
Michael Cibenko
Of all the properties which
belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized
as that of character.
Henry Clay
A collective tyrant, spread over the
length and breadth of the land, is no more
acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Georges Clemenceau, French
Diplomat
Falsehood
is never so successful as when she baits her hook with
truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those
that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer
as those that are sometimes right.
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You can cheat an honest man but
not make a fool out of him.
Confucius
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at
large.
-- Confucius
Seek not outside yourself,
Success is within.
-Mary Lou Cook
All growth depends upon activity.
There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort
means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the
only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.
-Calvin Coolidge
If I lose the light of the sun, I
will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light If I
lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls I will write
always I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.
Dino Corvino,
Italian Poet
Nothing is more essential in the
treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and
foreboding.
-Norman Cousins
For better or worse, our future
will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them
real.
-Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi
To be nobody but yourself in a world
which is doing it's night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the
hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings
