Quotes by Unknown, Source

"Imagine a baseball thrown thru the air. A high speed camera takes pictures of it showing very great detail -- names, laces, etc. Someone shows you a picture -- can you tell what direction it is travelling? or even if it is moving? NO. You would have to know where it was thrown FROM to know what direction it is going. In times of high change, it's good to know a little bit about the PAST to understand the present freeze frame of the NOW and project to some degree of accuracy where we are GOING (The Future)."

Unknown, Source on the future   

"Whatever your past has been your future is spotless."

Unknown, Source on the future   

"We all need to take great interest in the future because we will spend the rest of our life there."

Unknown, Source on the future   

"The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show."

Unknown, Source on the future   

"We have inherited the past; we can create the future."

Unknown, Source on the future
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"The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him Look up, son, look up. Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission. Moral: Look ahead, not back."

Unknown, Source on the future   

"Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity."

Unknown, Source on generations   

"If you're a generous person you'll have no trouble admitting that somebody else is good. If you're a better person you'll find it's total impossibility."

Unknown, Source on generosity   

"So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius"

Unknown, Source on genius   

"There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You'll see yourself clearest in the eyes of your friends."

Unknown, Source on genius   

"Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores."

Unknown, Source on genius   

"Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm."

Unknown, Source on genius   

"A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable."

Unknown, Source on gentlemen
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"The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share"

Unknown, Source on giving   

"When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing."

Unknown, Source on giving   

"You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been."

Unknown, Source on giving   

"You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give."

Unknown, Source on giving   

"The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives."

Unknown, Source on giving   

"Go-Givers will become the best go-getters."

Unknown, Source on giving   

"Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me."

Unknown, Source on giving
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"Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose."

Unknown, Source on giving   

"Give light and people will find their own way."

Unknown, Source on giving   

"God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency."

Unknown, Source on giving   

"If you continually give, you will continually have."

Unknown, Source on giving   

"Seek joy in what you give not in what you get"

Unknown, Source on giving   

"Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment"

Unknown, Source on acceptance
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"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

Unknown, Source on accuracy
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"It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"Age withers only the outside."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others."

Unknown, Source on age and aging
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"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations."

Unknown, Source on age and aging
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"Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

Unknown, Source on age and aging
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"When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow."

Unknown, Source on age and aging