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From the words that carve our lives to the words that take us by surprise, From the sounds that disappear to the changes we begin to fear, One day I'll fail to breathe and all you'll have are memories

2007-03-01 15:05:37 · 7 answers · asked by Mexilent!!!! 3 in Education & Reference Quotations

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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. - Longfellow

Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills: -
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass. - Allen

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. - Freud

I know this, at least, from my experience; if a man proceeds confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has envisioned, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau

The younger man knows the rules, but the older man knows the exceptions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

One who does not read has no advantage over one who cannot read. - Mark Twain

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. - Mohandas Gandhi

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost

2007-03-02 02:21:39 · answer #1 · answered by Colonel Angus 4 · 1 0

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-Helen Keller

The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
-Seneca

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
-Hypocrites

Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick

The boundaries which divide life from death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one ends,
and the other begins?
-Edgar Alan Poe

One way to get the most out of life is
to look upon it as an adventure.
-William Feather

2007-03-02 06:03:34 · answer #2 · answered by ♥The ≈ μŊđīş¢¤vέřệÞ ≈ Me♥ 2 · 1 0

"We do not know the future...and cannot plan for it much. But we can dream such dreams, and have such ideals of lofty purpose, that we may know what kind of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour calls for noble action."

-Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Civil war general, congressional medal of honor winner, president of Bowdoin college, 4 term governor of Maine.

2007-03-01 23:14:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

The believer is happy, the doubter is wise.

2007-03-02 08:01:11 · answer #4 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0 0

omg, there are soo many that i luv.
there's;
only those who risk going too far will find out how far one can go.

2007-03-02 04:32:14 · answer #5 · answered by his habibah 1 · 0 0

"Life isin't all Burger King, you can't always have it your way."
-Marco Cardanini

2007-03-01 23:44:31 · answer #6 · answered by melissa c 2 · 0 0

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

2007-03-01 23:12:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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