Quotes by Unknown, Source

"To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries."

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"There are only two things to worry about, either you are healthy or you are sick. If you are healthy, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you are sick there are only two things to worry about, either you will get well or you will die. If you get well, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you die there are only two things to worry about, either you will go to heaven or to hell. If you go to heaven, then there is nothing to worry about. And if you to go hell, you'll be so darn busy shaking hands with your friends you won't have time to worry!"

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"The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve."

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"Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period."

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"Nobody knows what a boy is worth. We'll have to wait and see. But every man in a noble place a boy once used to be."

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"Nothing is worth making that does not make the man."

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"When the well's dry, they know the worth of water."

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"Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager."

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"My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."

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"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards."

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"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."

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"Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves -- that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives -- experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before."

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"You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say."

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"Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to your desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead."

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"Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It's like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean back ward trying -- only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers."

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"Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute."

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"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."

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"After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others."

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"The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing."

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"God does not ask about our ability, but our availability."

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"Two-thirds of promotion is motion"

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"To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to learn from what you understand is still something else, but to act on what you learn is all that really matters! How do I act?"

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"What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does."

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"People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up."

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"None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen."

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"Do it now. Then it's done."

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"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often"

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"Activity and sadness are incompatible."

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"Backbone beats wishbone every time."

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"Be both the gardener and the rose."

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"Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap."

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"Act, don't react!"

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"Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed."

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"Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late."

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"Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet."

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"Don't look back, just keep on walking."

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"Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it."

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"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

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"It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting."

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"I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so."

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