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  1. ddsurfsca profile image70
    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    When you can do anything with next to nothing, and are happy doing so, you are better than the guy who does nothing with everything he's got, and is miserable when he fails.

  2. Laura du Toit profile image71
    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
        Dale Carnegie

  3. ddsurfsca profile image70
    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    To thine own self be true.

    If you cannot be happy with your own life, you cannot expect someone else to make your life happy, nor can you make another person happy.

  4. kannanwrites profile image92
    kannanwritesposted 14 years ago

    "Good faith, confidence is assuring, insuring and ensuring." - Navjot Singh Sidhu

  5. ddsurfsca profile image70
    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    Look inward for your own answers, for we all have them.

  6. Joy56 profile image65
    Joy56posted 14 years ago

    the best is yet to come.

  7. Jonathan Janco profile image61
    Jonathan Jancoposted 14 years ago

    "Come see the Amazing Egress!"
    - P.T. Barnum

  8. camlo profile image80
    camloposted 14 years ago

    "Certain is always better than uncertain."
    - Camlo De Ville

  9. ddsurfsca profile image70
    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    Every minute is another chance to start over and do it right,.

  10. ddsurfsca profile image70
    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    It is better to be pissed off than to be pissed on.

  11. Alhamora profile image55
    Alhamoraposted 14 years ago

    “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” - Mother Teresa

    1. Denise Handlon profile image88
      Denise Handlonposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      very true!  smile

  12. Denise Handlon profile image88
    Denise Handlonposted 14 years ago

    "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." Malcolm Forbes

  13. Beth100 profile image70
    Beth100posted 14 years ago

    “The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."

                    ~ Albert Einstein

  14. ddsurfsca profile image70
    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    Criticism is something that you can easily avoid by ...... doing nothing, saying nothing and being nothing....

  15. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 14 years ago

    "Whether we look for the positive or the negative in others we will ALWAYS find it.." ~  ~ Thomas LeBlanc

  16. Ultimate Hubber profile image70
    Ultimate Hubberposted 14 years ago

    HP isn't recovering from the panda update anywhere soon sad. -Ultimate Hubber

  17. Bellamie profile image60
    Bellamieposted 14 years ago

    What goes around comes around.

  18. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 14 years ago

    "If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some." ~ Benjamin Franklin

  19. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 14 years ago

    "Don't make decisions in anger: you can always tell a person to go to hell tomorrow" ~ Paulo Coelho

  20. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 14 years ago

    "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred years of sorrow." ~ Chinese Proverb

  21. Extinct Soul profile image60
    Extinct Soulposted 14 years ago

    Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
    - George Jackson

  22. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 14 years ago

    “When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.” ~ Bob Marley

    1. Extinct Soul profile image60
      Extinct Soulposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      “A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.”
      -Percy Ross

  23. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations." - Wes Moore

    1. Extinct Soul profile image60
      Extinct Soulposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      "I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."
      — Bruce Lee
      lol

  24. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." ~ James Baldwin

    1. Extinct Soul profile image60
      Extinct Soulposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Change is such hard work.
      - Billy Crystal

      1. Taleb80 profile image80
        Taleb80posted 13 years agoin reply to this

        “There never has been, and cannot be, a good life without self-control.” ~ Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (1828-1910)

  25. Jonathan Janco profile image61
    Jonathan Jancoposted 13 years ago

    It's easier to get things done with a gun and a kind word than it is with just a kind word.

    Al Capone

  26. Extinct Soul profile image60
    Extinct Soulposted 13 years ago

    I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy.
    - Jimmy Fallon

  27. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed." ~ Henrik Ibsen

  28. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity." ~ Zig Ziglar

    1. Extinct Soul profile image60
      Extinct Soulposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      If you have integrity—nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity—nothing else matters. 
      - Evelle J. Younger

  29. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "Excellence is...caring more than others think is wise;
    Risking more than others think is safe;
    Dreaming more than others think is practical.
    Expecting more than others think is possible."
    ~ Winston Churchill

  30. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see." ~ Ayn Rand

  31. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time." ~ Margaret Bonnano

  32. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is to be insincere." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  33. profile image0
    klarawieckposted 13 years ago

    The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. - Unknown (unfortunately!) big_smile

    1. Extinct Soul profile image60
      Extinct Soulposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      “Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired”
      - Mark Twain (try to understand madlolbig_smile)

  34. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons." ~ Denis Waitley

  35. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "Devote today to something so daring even you can’t believe you’re doing it." ~ Oprah

  36. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "A success is a failure that never quit." ~ Arthur Tugman

  37. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "If we don t change, we don t grow. If we don t grow, we aren't really living." ~ Gail Shelly

  38. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "The best way to predict your future is to create it!" ~ Old Chinese Proverb

  39. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” ~ Napoleon Hill

  40. Taleb80 profile image80
    Taleb80posted 13 years ago

    "You can learn about success by failing a few times." ~ Max Gitomer

 
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