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The Beginning Period They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts - Henry Bromel Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water - Swedish Proverb If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages - Elaine Liner The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself - Mark Twain Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon - Susan Ertz You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try - Beverly Sills Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean - Christopher Reeve The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun' - Phillip Lopate What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that - Victor Kiam If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it - Herodotus Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday - Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is too short for traffic - Dan Bellack When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere - Francois de La Rochefoucauld This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same - Real Live Preacher The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) "My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'" - Harmon Killebrew "One man's garbage is another's treasure." Common Proverb You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine - Flip Wilson Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love - Charles M. Schulz The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge - Arnold Palmer Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in - Amy Lowell I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity - John D. Rockefeller Creativity is a drug I cannot live without - Cecil B. DeMille Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up - Pablo Picasso To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong - Joseph Chilton Pearce I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight - Robin Green Humanity can be quite cold to those whose eyes see the world differently - Eric A. Burns A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject - Sir Winston Churchill If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? - Vince Lombardi If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em - Yogi Berra Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world - Hans Margolius We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character - Henry David Thoreau The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose - Heda Bejar Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf - Rabindranath Tagore Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys - Gail Pool Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one - Jane Howard In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary - Aaron Rose When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you - Frederic Nietzche Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles - Charlie Chaplin How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct - Benjamin Disraeli He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit Unknown You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients - Julia Child When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile - Bob Edwards We think in generalities, but we live in detail - Alfred North Whitehead Patience is the greatest of all virtues - Cato the Elder A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains - Dutch Proverb Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others - Sir Francis Bacon Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet Aristotle Patience is the companion of wisdom - Saint Augustine Our patience will achieve more than our force - Edmund Burke