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Beauty

 

There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.
- - - Antoine P. Berryer

 

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- - - Franz Kafka

 

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.
- - - Farrah Fawcett Majors

 

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
- - - Mere

 

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
- - -C. Reade

     Love

 

 

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
- - - - János Arany

 

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
- - - - Ninon de Lenclos

 

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- - - - Robert Frost

 

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- - - - Peter Ustinov

 

Words

 

Every word was once a poem.
~ ~ ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
~ ~ ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
~ ~ ~Rudyard Kipling

 

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
~ ~ ~Adlai Stevenson

 

 

It is the man who determines what is said, not the words.
~ ~ ~Henry David Thoreau

 

 

Time

 

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
- - - Margaret Bonnano

 

If you had a bank that credited your account each morning with $86,400, that carried over no balance from day to day, and allowed you to keep no cash in your account, and every evening cancelled whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day, what would you do? Draw out every cent of course!
Well, you do have such a bank, and it's name is "time." Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it rules off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose.
If you fail to use the day's deposits the loss is yours.
- - - Anonymous

 

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
- - - William Faulkner

 

 

Time is the thief you cannot banish.
- - - Phyllis McGinley

 

The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience.
- - - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy "War and Peace"

 

 

Truth 

 

For truth there is no deadline.
- - - Heywood Broun

 

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.
- - - Benjamin Franklin

 

Truth is completely spontaneous. Lies have to be taught.
- - - Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr.

 

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
- - - Steve Landesberg

 

 

Life

 

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
- - - Richard Bach

 

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
- - - Pearl S. Buck

 

My life is light, waiting for the death wind,
Like a feather on the back of my hand.
- - - T. S. Eliot

 

Life is a bitch, and then you marry one.
- - - Unknown

 

Life is just one damn thing after another.
- - - Elbert Hubbard

 

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It is the same damn thing over and over.
- - - Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
- - - Carl Sandburg

 

Life is like an ice-cream cone. You have to lick it one day at a time.
- - - Charles M. Schultz (Charlie Brown)

 

 

Dreams

Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
- - - - Erich Fromm

 

When we can't dream any longer we die.
- - - - Emma Goldman

 

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
- - - - T. E. Lawrence

 

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
- - - - George Bernard Shaw "Back to Methuselah"

 

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
- - - - Oscar Wilde

 

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