Quote Worthy

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. - Bertrand Russell

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is no longer ours. - Marcus Aurelius

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. - Copernicus

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly. - Russell

It is how one responds to the imperfections of others that will determine one’s growth. - Lucille Johnson

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. - George Shinn

Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. - Orlando A. Battista

You Are More Beautiful Than You Think ... Or Are You?

I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Forensic artist draws how women see themselves vs. how others see them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=litXW91UauE

Forensic artist draws how men see themselves vs. how women see them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T8Jiwo3u6Vo

Obstacles - Quotes

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Obstacles

I’ve always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you’ve got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish. - Chuck Norris

Look upon every obstacle as a challenge. Each hurdle conquered only boosts your determination. - Unknown

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. - Orison Swett Marden

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It is a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. - Unknown

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small. - Orison Swett Marden

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. - Robert Schuller

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they have not half the strength you think they have. - Norman Vincent Peale

The block of granite, which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. - Thomas Carlyle

The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. - Ralph Blum

The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no obstacles to overcome. - Helen Keller

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to achieve your goal, you do not change your decision to get there. - Zig Ziglar

Moments - Quotes

Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. - Mother Teresa

Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect. - Unknown

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Each moment is a place you’ve never been. - Mark Strand

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. - Henry Miller

For some moments in life there are no words. - David Seltzer

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. - Anne Lindbergh

In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away. - Shing Xiong

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings. - Oprah Winfrey

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries. - Unknown

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late. - Agatha Christie

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. - Andre Gide

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. - William Wirt

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. - Dr Seuss

Spend each moment perfecting the next, not correcting the last. - Scott Michael Durski

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. - John Updike

Taking a moment to take it easy is being a friend to yourself. - Unknown

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments. - Thich Nhat Hanh

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation. - Jonas Salk

This moment is the answer. Our practice is to open up this moment. It’s usually our ideas, our opinions, our beliefs, our fears, all of the psychological commentary that goes on in our mind that separates us from the moment. - Master Bon Soeng

We do not remember days, we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. - Thich Nhat Hanh

When everything seems to go wrong in your life, just remember that these moments will pass in time. - Unknown

Leisure - Quotes

A man must break his back to earn his day of leisure. - The Beatles

For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of all. - Kenneth Church Lamott

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively. - Eleanor Roosevelt

If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. - J. G. Ballard

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler. - Henry Ford

It's not a man's working hours that are important – it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make. - Agatha Christie

Leisure is a state of mind. - Roy C. Wood & Bob Brotherton

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence. - Josef Pieper

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. - Zimmerman

Our leisure is the time the devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks, is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed. - James Ellis

Take care of your leisure moments; do not suffer them to pass away in wanton idleness; you may make them seasons of great profit and gain. - J. W. Barker

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. - Evan Esar

The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour. - Thorstein Veblen

The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures. - Elisabeth Elliot

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. - Bertrand Russell

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness. - George Bernard Shaw

To make good use of leisure is difficult. - Chilo

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. - Mason Cooley

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. - George Eastman

Quote Worthy

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. - Saki

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars. - Les Brown

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. - Mark Twain

All the advice in the whole will never help you until you help yourself. - Fred Van Amburgh

It’s more important to grow your spirit than cut your dreams. - Robert Kiyosaki

The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience. - Robert Burton

Why spend time crying about the wind, when you can adjust the sails? - Dan  O’Donell

It’s not what you look at that maters, it’s what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt. - William Van Horne

Lending - Quotes

A loan though old is not a gift. - Hungarian Proverb

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown. - English Proverb

He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity. - Plato

If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own; when you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness; if you begin to press still further, either you must part with that which you have entrusted, or else you must lose that friend. - Plautus

If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money. - Benjamin Franklin

It is a great commendation to the lender to lend to those who deserve well. - W. Leeton

Lend to the needy. - R. Eleazar

Lending money to a friend often results in a two-fold loss; both money and friend are gone forever. - W. H. Milburn

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow. - James Ellis

That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets. - P. G. Wodehouse

Whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born. - Edward Bulwer Lytton

When a man lends money to the wicked, he justly gets paid for his interest. - Axionicus

Who lends recovers not; of if he recovers, not much; or if much, a mortal enemy. - Benito Feyjoo

Who lends to a friend loses doubly. - French Proverb

Who ventures to lend loses money and friend. - Dutch Proverb

Lessons - Lessons - Quotes

A great lesson, which people should learn, is to do their work at the beginning of the day when they have the time before them, instead of at the end of the day when most of the time is gone beyond recall. If we wait, our opportunities may be gone; the present is the hour for improving privileges which, once gone, will return no more. - Unknown

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. - Johann Georg Zimmermann

I shall endeavor not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. - Unknown

If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so. - Lev Grossman

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - Henry Miller

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. - Cervantes

No matter who tries to teach you lessons about life, you won’t understand it until you have to go through it on your own. - Unknown

Of all lessons to learn, learning to learn is the greatest. - Unknown

One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, anger, love loss, etc. change is never easy, you fight to hold on, and you fight to let go. - Unknown

Some lessons are learned best through pain. - Nicole

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. - Dale Turner

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable. - S. M. Stirling

The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them. - Magdeleine Sable

The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I still have a lot to learn. - Unknown 

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. - Horatius

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. - Unknown

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. - Denis Waitley

We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives. Some lessons are painful, some are painless, but all are priceless. - Unknown

Wounds make better lessons than lectures. - Brian Herbert & kevin J. Anderson

The science of persuasion

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The Science of Persuasion

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Quote Worthy

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. - Edwin Hubble Chapin

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. - Joseph Addison

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse, they forget everything except your refusal. - Pliny The Younger

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. - Christian Bovee

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man can have. - Arthur E. Morgan

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. - Mother Teresa

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the most intense hatreds. - Antoine Rivarol

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow