“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
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“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
Source: Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
“Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no”
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”
“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”
Source: What I Know For Sure
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
“Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.”
Source: The play as theater
Source: You learn by living
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers
“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
“I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.”
“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.”
Source: What I Know For Sure
“The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.”
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run”
“You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.”
“Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.”
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
Source: The Writings of John Burroughs. [