Quotable quotes and sources~

[hera_82]

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If you look up, there are no limits.
-- Japanese Proverb

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
-- [b]Andre Gide

[jugs_06]

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

- Albert Einstein


"There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it."

- Charles Edward Montague

[bokiratx]

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

[hera_82]

When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb

Necessity does the work of courage.
-- [b]George Eliot

[hera_82]

It is the foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
-- German Proverb

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
-- [b]Thomas Fuller

[splendid moonlight]

Whatever we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. - Anna Jameson

[jugs_06]

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

- Thomas Edison

[hera_82]

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.
-- Chinese Proverb

He that gives should never remember,
he that receives should never forget.
-- [b]Talmud

[kentabs]

i love you more today than yesterday.... but not as much as tomorrow....

[awan]

do not do unto others what you don't want to do unto yo