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Wise Words

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. – Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. – Dandemis

Whatever you are, try to be a good one. – William Makepeace Thackeray

The day will happen whether or not you get up. – John Ciardi

Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature. – Morihei Ueshiba

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. – Oscar Wilde

To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. – Chinese Proverb

When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. – N.Smith

Do not fall before you are pushed. – English Proverb

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. – Pema Chödrön

No useful man has time to go back and rub out his unfortunate foot prints. – Author unknown, from Dallas-Galveston News, c.1894

You live and let live. And eventually, that becomes enough. – Author Unknown

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis…. I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis. – E.B. White (1899–1985)

There is great power in letting go, and there is great freedom in moving on. – Author Unknown

All philosophy in two words, — sustain and abstain. – Epictetus

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. – Edward Steichen

Wake up, do your best, sleep, repeat. – Thingsweforget.blogspot.com, #660

Work hard, enrobe yourself in velvet hope, and rule your world! – Terri Guillemets