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Archives - September 2012

September 1, 2012

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.

– Mary Anne Radmacher

September 2, 2012

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many people who work without living.

– Charles Reynolds Brown

September 3, 2012

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

– Anatole France, THE CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD

September 4, 2012

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

– Flannery O'Connor

September 5, 2012

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said "Parking Fine."

– Tommy Cooper

September 6, 2012

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

– Jacques Derrida

September 7, 2012

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

– Walter Benjamin

September 8, 2012

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

– Maxwell Maltz

September 9, 2012

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

– Edgar Watson Howe

September 10, 2012

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

– Serena Williams

September 11, 2012

For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.

– Deepak Chopra, M.D.

September 12, 2012

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

– Finley Peter Dunne

September 13, 2012

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

– Pablo Picasso

September 14, 2012

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

– Wu Ting-Fang

September 15, 2012

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

– Norman Vincent Peale

September 16, 2012

Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

– Les Brown

September 17, 2012

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

– Leonard Cohen

September 18, 2012

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

– John Powell

September 19, 2012

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

– Suzanne Necker

September 20, 2012

Seeing wildlife is like seeing celebrities, only better.

– Tanja Andrews

September 21, 2012

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

– Lou Holtz

September 22, 2012

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

– Percy Bysshe Shelley

September 23, 2012

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

– Denis Waitley

September 24, 2012

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

– Horace Mann

September 25, 2012

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

– Robin Williams

September 26, 2012

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

– Michael De Saintamo

September 27, 2012

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

– Carrie Fisher

September 28, 2012

A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.

– Elmer G. Letterman

September 29, 2012

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

– Hosea Ballou

September 30, 2012

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

– Paul Brown