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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. ~Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead



No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero



Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. ~Seneca



Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937



Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. ~Aldous Huxley



You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose - or you can decide now to choose them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. ~Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson



I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~Charles Dickens



Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Lisa



Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ~George Will



We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ~Tom Robbins



Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ~Robert Cody Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks



History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. ~Dexter Perkins



Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~Charles Dickens



One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu



To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. ~Kenko Yoshida



Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors, 1923