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Cunningham's Law:
The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
~Mark Twain
There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analyzing our past mistakes and profiting by them - and forgetting them.
~Dale Carnegie, in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.
~Dale Carnegie, in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ~ Dale Carnegie, in How to Win Friends and Influence People
It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone.
~ Juror #9 in 12 Angry Men
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of anything better from them.
~Jane Austen, in Sense and Sensibility
You expect me to account for opinions which you chuse to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
~ Mr Darcy, in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content; but her own opinion continued the same, and she left him disappointed and sorry. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.
~Jane Austen, in Pride and Prejudice
From the internet:
I wanted to post a joke about sodium but I was like, Na, people won't understand.
From an article in Forbes:
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
~Albert Einstein
Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
~ Douglas Adams
The lions were chained, but he saw not the chains.
~ John Bunyan, in The Pilgrim's Progress
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
~ Anne Frank, in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
~ Walt Whitman
Some people show off their beauty because they want the world to see it. Others try to hide their beauty because they want the world to see something else.
~ Kostas Dounas, in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
I have heard men tell of many battles in this cousins' war, and they always spoke of heroism, of the courage of men, of the power of their comradeship, of the fierce anger of battle, and of the brotherhood of survival. I have heard ballads about great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of the leader. But I did not know that war was nothing more than butchery, as savage and unskilled as sticking a pig in the throat and leaving it to bleed to make the meat tender. I did not know that the style and nobility of the jousting arena had nothing to do with this thrust and stab. Just like killing a screaming piglet for bacon after chasing it round the sty. And I did not know that war thrilled men so: they come home like laughing schoolboys filled with excitement after a prank; but they have blood on their hands and a smear of something on their cloaks and the smell of smoke in their hair and a terrible ugly excitement in their faces. I understand now why they break into convents, force women against their will, defy sanctuary to finish the killing chase. They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this. I feel I have been a fool not to know, since I was raised in a kingdom at war and am the daughter of a man captured in battle, the widow of a knight, the wife of a merciless soldier. But I know now.
~ Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England, in The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
~ Zig Ziglar
This is the essence of discrimination: formulating opinions about others not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics.
~ Joe Miller, in Philadelphia
Sonny (to Sunaina's brother): Tell her from me what I should have told her the day we met. What I will announce to anyone who asks and many who do not.
Sunaina (overhearing this): Including your mother?
Sonny: I will tell every mother in the land.
Sunaina: What will you tell them?
Sonny: The only thing that matters in this world. That I love you, and always will.
Sunaina: Why are you only saying this now?
Sonny: Because Sunaina, love of my life, no more will I believe that I'm not worthy. For only by loving you as you deserve will I become so.
~The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
~ Jane Eyre
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.
~ Anne Elliot, in Persuasion by Jane Austen
People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.
~ Simon Sinek
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
~ Will Durant
Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.
~Jamie Anderson
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generations.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.
~ Celia Cruz
One day the mountain that is in front of you will be so far behind you, it will be barely visible in the distance. But the person you become in learning to get over it? That will stay with you forever. And that is the point of the mountain.
~ Brianna Wiest
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
~ Rose Kennedy
We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.
~ Emile Zola
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, "It will be happier."
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
~Mark Twain
There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analyzing our past mistakes and profiting by them - and forgetting them.
~Dale Carnegie, in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.
~Dale Carnegie, in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ~ Dale Carnegie, in How to Win Friends and Influence People
It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone.
~ Juror #9 in 12 Angry Men
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of anything better from them.
~Jane Austen, in Sense and Sensibility
You expect me to account for opinions which you chuse to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
~ Mr Darcy, in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content; but her own opinion continued the same, and she left him disappointed and sorry. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.
~Jane Austen, in Pride and Prejudice
From the internet:
I wanted to post a joke about sodium but I was like, Na, people won't understand.
From an article in Forbes:
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
~Albert Einstein
Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
~ Douglas Adams
The lions were chained, but he saw not the chains.
~ John Bunyan, in The Pilgrim's Progress
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
~ Anne Frank, in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
~ Walt Whitman
Some people show off their beauty because they want the world to see it. Others try to hide their beauty because they want the world to see something else.
~ Kostas Dounas, in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
I have heard men tell of many battles in this cousins' war, and they always spoke of heroism, of the courage of men, of the power of their comradeship, of the fierce anger of battle, and of the brotherhood of survival. I have heard ballads about great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of the leader. But I did not know that war was nothing more than butchery, as savage and unskilled as sticking a pig in the throat and leaving it to bleed to make the meat tender. I did not know that the style and nobility of the jousting arena had nothing to do with this thrust and stab. Just like killing a screaming piglet for bacon after chasing it round the sty. And I did not know that war thrilled men so: they come home like laughing schoolboys filled with excitement after a prank; but they have blood on their hands and a smear of something on their cloaks and the smell of smoke in their hair and a terrible ugly excitement in their faces. I understand now why they break into convents, force women against their will, defy sanctuary to finish the killing chase. They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this. I feel I have been a fool not to know, since I was raised in a kingdom at war and am the daughter of a man captured in battle, the widow of a knight, the wife of a merciless soldier. But I know now.
~ Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England, in The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
~ Zig Ziglar
This is the essence of discrimination: formulating opinions about others not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics.
~ Joe Miller, in Philadelphia
Sonny (to Sunaina's brother): Tell her from me what I should have told her the day we met. What I will announce to anyone who asks and many who do not.
Sunaina (overhearing this): Including your mother?
Sonny: I will tell every mother in the land.
Sunaina: What will you tell them?
Sonny: The only thing that matters in this world. That I love you, and always will.
Sunaina: Why are you only saying this now?
Sonny: Because Sunaina, love of my life, no more will I believe that I'm not worthy. For only by loving you as you deserve will I become so.
~The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
~ Jane Eyre
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.
~ Anne Elliot, in Persuasion by Jane Austen
People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.
~ Simon Sinek
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
~ Will Durant
Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.
~Jamie Anderson
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generations.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.
~ Celia Cruz
One day the mountain that is in front of you will be so far behind you, it will be barely visible in the distance. But the person you become in learning to get over it? That will stay with you forever. And that is the point of the mountain.
~ Brianna Wiest
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
~ Rose Kennedy
We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.
~ Emile Zola
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, "It will be happier."
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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