Quotes #3 ~ Words From the Wise

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Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889
 
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
 
Peace does not come from the absence of conflict but from the ability to cope with it. ~ Caine
 
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
 
"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time."
- Joe Girard
 
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore. ~ Andre Gide
 
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with their imagination."

Robert Fulghum
 
"You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know." Lord Henry, The Picture Of Dorian Gray
I don't know why, but I love that quote.
 
'To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.' - Sir Winston Churchill
 
:high_five: nice!

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure
~Dumbledore~;)
 
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man
if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature
and more time tasting her sweetness
and respecting her seniority.
~ Elwyn Brooks White
 
^ I like that one :)

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Fr. Jerome Cummings
 
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

~ - Eleanor Roosevelt

 
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