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May you find great value in these Mothballs quotes and sayings.
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist
except in the mothballs of memory.
- John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley)
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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