1. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

2. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

3. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland

4. “If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.” – George Eliot

5. “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – George Eliot

6. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

7. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

8. “What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

9. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca

10. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

11. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

12. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

13. “The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.” – Unknown

14. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

15. “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

16. “When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” – H. Jackson Brown

17. “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” – Richard Koch

18. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

19. “Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong” – Brian White

20. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

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1. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
2. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” – Michelangelo
4. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
5. “If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
6. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
7. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
8. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill
9. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe
12. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
14. “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.” – David Zucker
15. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

- “About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.” – Manolo Blahnik

- “Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.” – James Earl Jones

- “All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” – Walt Disney

- “All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.” – Max Beerbohm

- “All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I’ve gone off the top, into total fantasy.” – Eddie Campbell

- “All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.” – Carl Jung

- “Although it is a fantasy film, it’s as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.” – Orlando Bloom

- “Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.” – Bryant H. McGill

- “And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy.” – Octavia Butler

- “And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.” – Peter Shaffer

- “Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.” – Godfried Danneels

- “Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.” – Joan D. Vinge

- “But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation.” – Fisher Stevens

- “But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.” – Iris Murdoch

- “But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.” – Shelley Duvall

- “But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.” – Elizabeth Moon

- “But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.” – Octavia Butler

- “CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.” – Arthur C. Clarke

- “Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can’t take the process too personally.” – Joseph Barbera

- “Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.” – Erika Slezak

- “Shopping is better than sex. At least if you’re not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like.” – Adrienne Gusoff

- “An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” – Agatha Christie

- “Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
So each is inevitably disappointed.” – Albert Einstein

- “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein

- “Men make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.” – Unknown

- “You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty.” – Unknown

- “The four most important words in any marriage…«I’ll do the dishes.»” – Unknown

- “No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.” – Unknown

- “Marriage is like jogging through a puddle of industrial strength rubber glue. You can work hard and make it through the struggles; however, you usually leave your bobby socks and sneakers behind along the way.” – Unknown

- “When a relationship goes flat, so does a couple of sets of car tires.” – Unknown

- “Men only have two faults….What they do, and what they say!” – Unknown

- “You can’t buy love on eBay.” – Unknown

- “If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?” – Bette Midler

- “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” – Brendan Francis

- “Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.” – Cathy Carlyle

- “Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.” – Cecilia Egan

- “The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him.” – Cher

- “Men aren’t necessities, they’re luxuries.” – Cher

- “By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is infinite, undying -
Lady, make note of this: One of you is lying.” – Dorothy Parker

- “I’m always looking for meaningful one night stands.” – Dudley Moore

- “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” – Erma Bombeck

- “Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.” – Fran Lebowitz

- “It is impossible to love and be wise.” – Francis Bacon

- “Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

- “Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.” – Fulton J. Sheen

- “Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.” – George Carlin

- “Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.” – Glenn Beck

- “I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.” – Groucho Marx

- “To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.” – Helen Rowland

- “Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.
There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.” – Henry Kissinger

- “When we got married I told my wife “If you leave me, I’m going with you.
And she never did.” – James Fineous McBride

- “Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.” – Jean Kerr

- “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford

- “It’s been so long since I made love,
I can’t even remember who gets tied up.” – Joan Rivers

- “Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name.” – Joan Rivers

- “You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.” – Jonathan Carroll

- “No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along.” – Joyce Brothers

- “If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.” – Katharine Hepburn

- “True love is like seeing ghosts; we all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one.” – La Rochefoucauld

- “If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question.” – Lily Tomlin

- “The only people who make love all the time are liars.” – Louis Jordan

- “The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby.” – Natalie Wood

- “Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.” – Oscar Wilde

- “Love is a grave mental disease.” – Plato

- “Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man that I want my children to spend their weekends with?” – Rita Rudner

- “Forget love, I’d rather fall in chocolate.” – Sandra J. Dykes

- “All marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.” – Shelley Winters

- “I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.” – Steve Martin

- “A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.” – Thomas Hardy

- “Marriage is a great institution for those who like institutions.” – Tommy Dewar

- “Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” – W. Somerset Maugham

- “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” – Walt Disney

- “Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.” – Woody Allen

- “The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.” – Woody Allen

- “Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.” – Woody Allen

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- “I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.” – Walt Disney

- “In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” – Andy Warhol

- “My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.” – Andy Warhol

- “I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is «In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.»” – Andy Warhol

- “I didn’t know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he’d be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much… that I had a hard time painting him.” – Norman Rockwell

- “Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.” – Orson Welles

- “Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.” – Bill O’Reilly

- “What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.” – Voltaire

- “The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I’m going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.” – John McCain

- “Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.” – Marilyn vos Savant

- “A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.” – P. J. O’Rourke

- “When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.” – Katharine Hepburn

- “I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.” – Stephen Colbert

- “When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That’s what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was You’re a Big Boy Now.” – Francis Ford Coppola

- “We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

- “Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.” – George Bernard Shaw

- “People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.” – Jerry Lewis

- “Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous. That’s easy. It’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.” – Kevin Bacon

- “Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.” – Jeff Foxworthy