"Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season."

Wu-Men on worry
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"I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity."

Chatham, William Pitt The Elder, Lord on trust
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"Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes."

Carlyle, Thomas on youth   

"I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."

Webster, Daniel on originality   

"My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."

Lincoln, Mary Todd on procrastination   

"When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy."

Rushdie, Salman on thoughts and thinking
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"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength."

Lao-Tzu on cunning   

"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."

Buddha on endurance
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"Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker."

Runes, Dagobert D. on judgment and judges
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"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on pessimism
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"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset."

Jefferson, Thomas on pain
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"Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times."

Virgil on hope
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Carlyle, Thomas on age and aging   

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

Frost, Robert on communication
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"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."

Freud, Sigmund on repression
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"Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee."

Courtney, Margaret on fathers   

"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

Socrates on listening
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"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on body
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"Spring is not the best of seasons. Cold and flu are two good reasons; wind and rain and other sorrow, warm today and cold tomorrow. Whoever said Spring was romantic? The word that best applies is frantic!"

Unknown, Source on seasons   

"Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year."

Nash, Ogden on seasons   

"The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning."

Hoffer, Eric on novelty   

"Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling."

Eliot, T. S. on poetry and poets   

"Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster."

Bridges, William on new beginning   

"It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won."

Kennedy, John F. on leadership
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"We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization"

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius on opportunity
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"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

Disney, Walt on action
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"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."

Mortimer, John on age and aging   

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."

Gibran, Kahlil on adversity
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"This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on example
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"Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact."

Wilde, Oscar on conversation
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"If it's tourist season, why can't we kill them?"

Unknown, Source on travel   

"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."

Plutarch on silence
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"It is always in season for old men to learn."

Aeschylus on learning
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"The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]"

Bible on laziness   

"You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance."

Flaherty, Edward on love
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"The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch."

Rohn, Jim on action
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"The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them"

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea."

Twain, Mark on discovery
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"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."

Wimsey, Lord Peter on quotations
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"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on money
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