Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.(T. S. Elliot)
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. (Aristotle)
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.(Elizabeth Kubler Ross)
The journey is the reward.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou (Maya Angelou)To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' (George Bernard Shaw)
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.Donald Foster
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.Cullen Hightower
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.John Constable (1776 - 1837)
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.Hazrat Inayat Khan
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Cheryl Tiegs (1947 - ), O Magazine, May 2004The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.John Cage (1912 - 1992)
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
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