Words of the Wise VIII

And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality--a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means
W.F.B Dubois

The people who get on this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them
George Bernard Shaw

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination
Tommy Lasorda

Out of respect for things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures and my style is directly related to my limitations
Billy Joel

Happiness is finding your old room as you left it before college
Joan Wiberg

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts
John Wooden

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn
Alvin Toffler

If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X, Y is play and Z is keeping your mouth shut
Albert Einstein

This is the place where I learned to live this life, to curse this life and to claim this life for my very own
Jodie Foster

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that the world is transformed
J. Krishnamurti

Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness
Helen Keller

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly
Saint Francis DeSalas

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others
Grayson Kirk

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make us feel
Irwin Federman

Friendship is a golden gift cherished above all life's treasures
Country Bear

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart
Helen Keller

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it
Horace

Each time something different and challenging has happened to me it has marked the beginning of a new era in my life
Kimberly Kirberger

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