August Words of Wisdom

I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise. --Vin Scully

 

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. --Virginia Woolf

 

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. --Aristotle 

 

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness. --Seneca 

If you want to be beautiful, make beautiful choices. --Epictetus

Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. --Bryant McGill

 

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. --Albert Einstein

 

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but because of lack of commitment. --Vince Lombardi

Many may mock you for following the old ways, but if they are not going on the same journey, their words are meaningless. --Ryan Landry

 

I don't want to suffer, so excuse me if I excuse myself from situations that suck all of my energy. --Sylvester McNutt

Sometimes it takes courage just to stay alive in this world. --Seneca

 

Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me. --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. --Ayn Rand

 

We don't have inflation because we are living too well. We have it because the government is living too well. --President Ronald Reagan 

 

First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back flamboyantly. --Thomas Sowell

 

When a clown moves into a palace he does not become a King. The palace becomes a circus. --Turkish proverb 

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. --Frederick Douglas

If you want to change the world, change education. --Nelson Mandela

 

Truth is a force of nature. --President Donald Trump 

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am. --Diana, Princess of Wales

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