Winds of Fate

One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through life:
Tis the set of the soul
That decides its goal
And not the calm or the strife.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A Happy Man

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating
his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.

He will not be searching for happinesss as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.
He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself.

He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.

- W. Beran Wolfe

Ripples

Give a smile to someone passing,
Thereby making his morning glad;
It may greet you in the evening
When your own heart may be sad.

Do a deed of simple kindness;
Though its end you may not see,
It may reach, like widening ripples,
Down a long eternity.

- Joseph Norris

My Wage

For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
You must bear the task.

I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I asked of Life,
Life would have paid.

- Jessie B. Rittenhouse

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Wisdom: Part 1

...life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
- Grandma Moses

When one door closes, another opens.
But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door
that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are
still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
- Dr. Dale Turner

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
- Frank Leahy

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
- Brian Tracy

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.
- Baslo

Wisdom: Part 2

Feelings of inferiority and superiority are the same. They both come from fear.
- Dr. Robert Anthony

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful.
Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
- John Wooden

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.
- Denis Diderot

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really.
Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success, but it isn't at all.
You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes.
Make all you can. Because remember, that's where you'll find success.
- Thomas J. Watson

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
- Winston Churchill

Wisdom: Part 3

Its amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S. Truman

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
- Abigail Van Buren

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

No stupid man ever suspected himself of being anything but clever.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The best way to save face is to keep the lower part of it shut.
- Nathan J. Matteson

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
- W. Clement Stone

Wisdom: Part 4

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
- Lewis Mumford

Look at the world through 'soft eyes.' Hard eyes distinguish and judge, noting the differences
between ourselves and others. Soft eyes discern instead our commonality, the web of life that
weaves itself through all humanity and nature. -
Mary Manin Morrissey

One should count each day a separate life.
- Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul
be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

Millions long for immortality who do not know what
to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz

Thinking is the hardest work there is,
which is the reason why so few engage in it.
- Henry Ford

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't;
and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- unknown

Wisdom: Part 5

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Euripides

The government is best which governs least.
- Thomas Jefferson

Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance.
The other half comes from intelligence.
- Baslo

When I was a child, my mother said to me,
'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general.
If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.'
nstead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
- Pablo Picasso

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the
world is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.
- Dennis Dugan

You cannot find yourself, only create yourself.
- Anne B. Sekel

Opportunities are seldom labeled.
- John H. Shield

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
- Unknown

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
- Dale Carnegie

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more
difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
- Honore de Balzac

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Hector Berlioz

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for,
no wind is the right wind.
- Seneca

Wit: Part 1

Computers make it easy to do a lot of things, but most of the things
they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
- Andy Rooney

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she
will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
- Dave Barry

The juvenile seasquirt swims the sea searching for a rock to cling to.
When it finds a suitable spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it.
It's rather like men after they get married.
- unknown

USA Today has come out with a new survey:
Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.
- David Letterman

I've always wanted to be somebody, but now I see I should have been more specific.
- Lily Tomlin

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the 'up' button.
- Sam Levenson

Wit: Part 2

I stopped believing in Santa Clause when I was six.
Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
- Shirley Temple

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident.
That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
- Nathaniel Borenstein

I am the most anti-social person I know.
But of course, I don't know anyone because I'm so anti-social.
- Derek Neitzel

He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that,
if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
- P. G. Wodehouse

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
- Henry Morgan

Some people are wise and some are other-wise.
- unknown

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family...
in another city.
- George Burns

Wit: Part 3

Poor chap, he's got a PBS mind in an MTV world.
- unknown

Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
- Stephen Wright

Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead.
They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.
- Coronel

Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
- Groucho Marx

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
- Niels Bohr

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain

Wit: Part 4

I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
- Stephen Wright?

640K of computer memory ought to be enough for anybody.
- Bill Gates, 1981

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music,
no choreography and the dancers hit each other.
- Jack Handy

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry.
That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
- David Bissonette

The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football.
A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
- Joe Theisman

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
- Fletcher Knebel

An empty cab drove up, and Sarah Bernhardt got out.
- Arthur "Bugs" Baer

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