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Inspirational Quotes on life and society

*A select list from the past and present
Time tested bits of wisdom for living

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"Advertising is legalized lying." - H.G. Wells
"All good things are wild and free." - Henry David Thoreau
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." - Scottish Proverb
"Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress." - John Clapham
"Every season hath its pleasures; spring may boast her flowery prime. Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures brighten autumn's soberer time." - Thomas Moore
"FASHION - Unneeded. FAMINE - Unacceptable." - Grampa Ken
"Fine words and insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue." - Confucius
"For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death or hardship." - Epictetus
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Marcus Cicero
"Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives." - John Wilkins
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." - AA Motto
"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Have faith, hope, and charity. That's the way to live successfully." - 1950's song
"He who buys what he does not need steals from himself." - Author: Unknown
"He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves." - Chinese proverb
"He will succeed if he remains firm in principle and goes beyond selfish considerations to mingle freely with those who do not share his feelings, as well as those who do." - I Ching
"I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet." - Ancient Persian Saying
"If my call is important to you - answer the phone!" - Grampa Ken
"If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others." - Duc de Rochefoucauld
"If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?" - Shantideva
"If you wished to be loved, love." - Lucius Seneca
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." - Ansel Adams"
"It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." - Moliere
"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor." - Edmund Spenser
"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Liars when they speak the truth are not believed." - Aristotle
"Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it." - Will Rogers
"Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in our own." - Adam Gordon
"Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour." - Stephen Leacock
"My two TV favorites are MUTE and OFF." - Grampa Ken
"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat." - Henry Longfellow
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money." - Cree Indian Proverb
"Relax, smile. Take awhile." - Grampa Ken

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"Styles promote a competitive environment but friendship grows easier in a noncompetitive environment." - Grampa Ken
"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time." - Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society.
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life, which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run." - Henry Thoreau
"The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance." - Michel de Montaigne
"The measure of a person's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." - Thomas Macaulay
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton
"The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed." - Nicolas Chamfort
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words." - Buddha
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha
"There is enough on earth for everybody's need, but not for everyone's greed" - Gandhi
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about the things which are beyond the power of the will." - Epictetus
"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery." - Colonel Sanders
"There's much to fear - but only if we allow it." - Grampa Ken
"They can because they think they can." - Vergil
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." - Art Linkletter
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - Thomas Carlyle
"Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind." - Austin O'Malley
"To be wronged or robbed is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"We are never living, but only hoping to live; and, looking forward always to being happy, it is inevitable that we never are so." - Blaise Pascal
"We are what we think." - Buddha
"We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights." - Pearl S Buck
"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival." - Winston Churchill
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." - Albert Einstein
"What not to do is sit and stew" - Grampa Ken
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure, but, scattered along life's pathway, The good they do is inconceivable." - Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
"When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind." - Seneca
"When all else is lost the future still remains." - Christian Bovee
"When you are good to others, you are best to yourself." - Benjamin Franklin
"Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy though he be master of the world." - Epicurus
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission." - Arnold Bennett

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