The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.   

- Allan K. Chalmers

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.  ~Author Unknown

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Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

Love your enemies.  It makes them so damned mad.  

~P.D. East

 

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know.  Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know.  Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about.  Amen.  ~Douglas Adams

 

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes

 

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
--George Eliot