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ADVICE
But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
- Goethe

No man ever listened himself out of a job.
- Calvin Coolidge

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.
- Peter Kreeft

The proverb warns that, "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
- Thomas Szasz

I remember my father telling me the story of the preacher delivering an exhortation to his flock, and as he reached the climax of his exhortation, a man in the front row got up and said, 'O Lord, use me. Use me, O Lord - in an advisory capacity!'
- Adlai Stevenson

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
- Benjamin Disraeli

To make pleasure pleasant, shorten.
- Charles Buxton

Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.
- Mark Twain

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
- Cicero

Don't offer me advice, give me money.
- Spanish proverb

If you aren't rich, you should always look useful.
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

He who can lick can bite.
- French proverb

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
- Josh Billings

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.
- Diane de Poitiers

I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
- Mary Wortley Montagu

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
- Hannah Whitall Smith

'Be yourself!' is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
- Tom Masson

A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds.
- Rhodesian proverb

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
- Edgar Watson Howe

There is little serenity comparable to the serenity of the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced.
- Anonymous

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield

It is well enough, when one is talking to a friend, to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then; but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter, where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.
- Mary Lamb

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
- Arthur Helps

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.
- William Shakespeare

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue.
- Jewish proverb

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
- William A. Orton

Don't fight forces; use them.
- Buckminster Fuller

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
- Spanish proverb

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
- Marina Horner

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.
- Henry David Thoreau


You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
- Cervantes

Never give advice in a crowd.
- Arab proverb

Never give advice unless asked.
- German proverb

Whatever advice you give, be short.
- Horace

Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
- La Rochefoucauld

We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.
- La Rochefoucauld

Good counsel has no price.
- Guiseppe Mazzini

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
- Spanish proverb

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.
- Syrus

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
- Syrus

HAPPINESS
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Robert Frost

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
- Agnes Repplier

Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
- William Cowper

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
- Russell Baker

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
- Bertrand Russell

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
- Joseph Wood Krutch

I am happy and content because I think I am.
- Alain-Rene Lesage

Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
- Joseph Roux

Happiness is a result of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings, rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.
- Norman Bradburn

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
- Anonymous

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.
- Baltasar Gracian

If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.
- William Penn

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
- Horace

We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.
- Ken Keyes

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
- Sophocles

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
- Barbara Bush

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
- May Sarton

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence
- Aristotle

Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
- George Santayana

The pursuit of happiness ... is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
- Robert Henri

Make us happy and you make us good.
- Robert Browning

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
- Barbara Walters

The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.
- Bible

I love myself when I am laughing.
- Zora Neale Hurston

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
- Blaise Pascal

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
- Anais Nin

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
- Amanda Bradley

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
- Henry James

Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!
- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.
- Phyllis Battelle

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
- Brenda Ueland

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
- Jeanne Moreau

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
- Diane Ackerman

Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."
- Anton Chekhov

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
- Emily Dickinson

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
- Socrates

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
- Pierre de Beaumarchais

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler

Everything holds its breath except spring. She bursts through as strong as ever.
- B. M. Bower

To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.
- Llewelyn Powers

HEARTBREAK
You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.
- Anonymous

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
- Anais Nin

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
- John Donne

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
- Francoise Sagan

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Kahlil Gibran

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
- Anonymous

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
- Helen Rowland

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
- Margaret Mitchell

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- H. L. Mencken

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
- Harold Loukes

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
- Ninon de L'Enclos

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
- Neil Gaiman

You say that love is nonsense. ... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
- Henry Brooks Adams

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
- W. Somerset Maugham

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G. K. Chesterton

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
- Hermann Hesse

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
- Dinah Shore

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.
- Anonymous

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
- J. M. Barrie

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.
- Robert Byrne

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all pains, the greatest pain it is to love, but love in vain.
- Abraham Cowley

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police - it's gone.
- Marlene Dietrich

I know that thete are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking.
- Bible

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
- William Congreve

I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!
- Helen Selina

There is no sorrow like a love denied Nor any joy like love that has its will.
- Richard Hovey

If it hurts, it isn't love.
- Chuck Spezzano

He who has never experienced hurt, cannot experience true love.
- Tristan J. Loo

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
- Julia Roberts

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
- Terence

Lips that taste of tears, they say are the best for kissing.
- Dorothy Parker

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
- Sara Teasdale

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
- Oscar Wilde

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief. . . and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
- Giacomo Casanova

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

HOPE
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
- A. P. Herbert

It is a long lane that has no turning.
- Old saying

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
- Eric Hoffer

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
- Thornton Wilder

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
- Samuel Johnson

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.
- La Rochefoucauld

One need not hope in order to undertake; nor succeed in order to persevere.
- William the Silent

Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.
- Abraham Cowley

Hope is the poor man's bread.
- George Herbert

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest.
- Alexander Pope

I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
- Robert G. Ingersoll

Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.
- Martin Luther

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
- Francis Bacon

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.
- Satya Sai Baba

One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.
- William F. Lynch

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
- Norman Cousins

Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.
- Robert Schuller

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.
- Leston L. Havens

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.
- Carl Sandburg

'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all.
- Emily Dickinson

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
- Harriet Martineau

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
- Thomas Fuller

None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that.
- William Hazlitt

Wonder ... music heard in the heart, is voiceless.
- Rosemary Dobson

To all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
- Bible

Everybody lives for something better to come.
- Anonymous

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
- Samuel Johnson

At first we hope too much; later on, not enough.
- Joseph Roux

Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
- Mark Twain

He who does not hope to win has already lost.
- Jose Joaquin Olmedo

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
- John F. Kennedy

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- Bertrand Russell

Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.
- Charles Sawyer

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
- Tom Bodett

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
- Samuel Johnson

Great hopes make great men.
- Thomas Fuller

Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without.
- LeRoy Douglas

A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.
- Harvey Milk

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
- Robert Burton

It has never been, and never will be, easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
- Helen Keller

We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.
- Mother Teresa

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
- Ouida

And thou shalt be secure because there is hope.
- Bible

Hope! Of all the ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
- Abraham Cowley

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope.
- John Armstrong

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
- Dr. Karl Menninger

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
- Bernie S. Siegel

We must have hope or starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck

When hope is taken away from the people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after.
- Pearl S. Buck

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.
- Hal Lindsey

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope is the last thing ever lost.
- Italian proverb

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.
- Catherine de Hueck Doherty

Now the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope.
- Bible

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
- Anonymous

My faith is important. I have nothing without it.
- Kathy Ireland

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come; desire is the wish it may come.
- Sydney Smith

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
- Vauvenargues

Hope is the parent of faith.
- C. A. Bartol

No hope, no action.
- Peter Levi

Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
- Thomas Fuller

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
- William Sloane Coffin

Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.
- John Armstrong

Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement.
- Anonymous

Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.
- Jeremy Collier

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
- Eric Hoffer

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
- Pliny the Elder

Hope is a waking dream.
- Aristotle

Hope is but the dream of those that wake.
- Matthew Prior

Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.
- L. J. Cardinal Suenens

Hope and Happiness Hope is grief's best music.
- Anonymous

Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.
- Anonymous

The miserable have no medicine but hope.
- William Shakespeare

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
- Johann von Goethe

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
- Emil Brunner

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
- Julian of Norwich

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
- Jacques Cousteau

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom.
- Mary Todd Lincoln

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
- Orison Swett Marden

"Wait'll next year!" is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.
- Robert Orben

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
- Robert Burton

Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.
- Julia Dorr

Patience is the art of hoping.
- Vauvenargues

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
- Tertullian

human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.
- Alexandre Dumas

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
- Vincent NcNabb