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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. – Ansel Adams

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. – Nicholas Murray Butler

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. – Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, 1969

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving. Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! – Amanda Bradley

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. – Author Unknown

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. – Ursula K. Le Guin

I will not die an unlived life…. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. – Dawna Markova

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. – Pierre Tielhard de Chardin

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way. – Dr. Seuss

Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet. – Author Unknown

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do. – Victor Hugo

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. – T.S. Eliot

God give me the strength to face a fact though it slay me. – Thomas Huxley

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. – Pamela Vaull Starr

Every man is the son of his own works. – Miguel de Cervantes

Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way. – Lee Venden

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them. – John B. Gough

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under. – Rosellen Brown

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. – Elbert Hubbard

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. – Mignon McLaughlin