Some things are better said by others…

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle [Will Durant]

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle

“If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.”
– Johnny Depp

“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”
– Mik Everett

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
– Sven Goran Eriksson

“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.”
– Frank Wilczek

“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
– Max De Pree

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
– Mark Twain

“True friends stab you in the front.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I am prepared to go anywhere, provided It be forward.”
– David Livingstone

“Aut inveniam viam aut faciam” [I shall either find a way or make one.]
– Latin Proverb

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
– Albert Einstein

“Human beings want to know too much about each other, and that’s why there are so many lies.”
– Pete Hamill, Forever

“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
– Walter Benjamin

“Experience is what you get when you didnt get what you wanted.”
– Randy Pausch

“Rest not – Life is sweeping by – go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“It is better to wear out than to rust out.”
– Richard Cumberland

“In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.”
– Gamaliel Bradford

“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
– John Stuart Mill

“Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel… the moment you feel, you’re nobody ― but-yourself ― in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else ― means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.”
– E.E. Cummings

“…The self is never to be found, but must be created, not the happy accident of passivity, but the product of a thousand actions, large and small, conscious or unconscious, performed not “away from it all,” but in the face of “it all,” for better or for worse, in work and leisure rather than in free time.”
– Robert Penn Warren

“Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Love is a verb, not a noun”
– Carrie Jenkins

“Men don’t come with a purpose. We must make ourselves necessary.”
– Ed Latimore

“Debriefs often help give birth to new ideas.”
– Tim Denning

“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, and stupid people already have all the answers.”
– Socrates

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
– Earl Nightingale

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I don’t trust anyone who’s nice to me but rude to the waiter. Because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position.”
– Muhammad Ali

“If the phone rang at 11 PM, do you want it to be that asshole on the other end?”
– Anthony Bourdain

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest achievement.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“If we think we have to feel confident in order to act confidently, we set ourselves up for failure.”
– Barbara Markway Ph.D.

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Life, like the universe itself, tolerates no stasis — in the absence of growth, decay usurps the order. Like all forms of destruction, cynicism is infinitely easier and lazier than construction.”
– Brain Pickings

“A ship does not sail with yesterday’s wind.”
– Louis L’Amour, The Walking Drum

“He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.”
– Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
– Gustav Mahler