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Page 2 of 2 WISDOM It is characteristic of wisdom to not do desperate things. - Henry David Thoreau The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. - James Russell Lowell Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber Our main business is not to do what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle Brooding over the past paralyses the present and bankrupts the future. - Anonymous Today, well-lived, make every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. - Sanskrit Proverb The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. - Leo Kennedy Better be three hours too soon than one minute too late. - William Shakespeare Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. - Henri Bergson An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. - Orlando A. Battista An absurdity is anything advanced by our own opponents, contrary to our own practise, or above our comprehension. - Horace Smith If your outflow exceeds your inflow, your upkeep will be your downfall. - R. Anthony Visits always give pleasure: if not on the arrival then on the departure. - E. Berquier Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. - Plato We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' uttered merely to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi God doesn't play dice. -Albert Einstein WORDS Words are the flour and yeast that make the bread of life. - Alvin Day Words are very powerful. What we speak and write can inspire or injure, heal or hurt, motivate or manipulate, delight or demean. A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. - Jesamyn West Thought is private and mysterious, writing is long-lasting and official, but like the bellow of a commander to his troops, the spoken word has life and spirit. It electrifies and ignites souls and hearts to think, to attain, to be. - Alvin Day, Nasty comments are like the sharp nail you drive into the fence post. Even when you remove the nils by saying sorry, the holes are still there - Guevarrama WORK Work is love made visible – Kahlil Gibran On the day that you think you really hate your job, stop for a momen to think of the man who wishes he could find one – Guevarrama What is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth; it is to build a house with affection even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house; it is to charge all things you fashion with the breath of your own spirit – Kahlil Gibran
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