Say What? by Sandy Foster (best black authors txt) 📖

emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your heart.” – Chinese Proverb
1155. “Courage is the human virtue that counts most — courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.” – Robert Frost
1156. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
1157. “To realize one's nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for.” – Oscar Wilde
1158. “It is human to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.” -Anatole France
1159. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard
1160. “We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?” – Jean Cocteau
1161. “It is wisdom to believe the heart.” – George Santayana
1162. “It is a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.” – Somerset Maugham
1163. “What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.” – Samuel Johnson
1164. “Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.’” – Ann Landers
1165. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
1166. “None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
1167. “Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.” – Dig Hammarskjöld
1168. “A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful—five years later.” – Phyllis Battle
1169. “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.” – Mahatma Gandhi
1170. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.” – Abraham Lincoln
1171. “If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.” – W. Beran Wolfe
1172. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” – Lao-Tzu
1173. “I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.” – Etty Hillesum
1174. “Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.” – Anonymous
1175. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
1176. “There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.” – Thomas Jefferson
1177. “There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.” – Margaret Deland
1178. “A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live.” – Lao-Tzu
1179. “Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.” – Phillips Brooks
1180. “There are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.” – Indira Gandhi
1181. “Always behave like a duck — keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.” – Jacob Braude
1182. “Laughter is the closest distance between two people.” – Victor Borge
1183. “Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.” – St. Francis de Sales
1184. “Today is yesterday's pupil.” – Thomas Fuller
1185. “Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald
1186. “Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.” –Maimonides
1187. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
1188. “A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.” – Abigail Van Buren
1189. “It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out—it's the grain of sand in your shoe.” – Robert Service
1190. “All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Dorothea Brande
1191. “Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
1192. “Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.” – Carl Sandburg
1193. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” – Mark Twain
1194. “In pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up.” – R.H. Grenville
1195. “I have always believed that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” – Hermann Hesse
1196. “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
1197. “My name is Salmon, like the fish. First name Susie.” – Susie, The Lovely Bones
1198. “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” – Leo Tolstoy
1199. “To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.” – Baruch Spinoza
1200. “Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” – Henry Van Dyke
1201. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
1202. “No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.” – Leon Wieseltier
1203. “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1204. “You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.” – Robin Williams
1205. “I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” – Mother Teresa
1206. “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” – Anna Quindlen
1207. “To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.” – Robert M. Pirsig
1208. “Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.” – George Sheehan
1209. “We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.” – Abraham Lincoln
1210. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol
1211. “It may be that those who do most, dream most.” – Stephen Leacock
1212. “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
1213. “First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.” – Thomas a Kempis
1214. “Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.” – Victoria Holt
1215. “Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.” – Rumi
1216. “The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.” – Gail Godwin
1217. “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
1218. “Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.” – Erich Fromm
1219. “The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.” – Aesop
1220. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France
1221. “Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.” – William Saroyan
1222. “Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” – James Bryant Conant
1223. “Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.” – Suzanne Somers
1224. “It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.” – Winston Churchill
1225. “What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” – Ellen Burstyn
1226. “The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.” – Warren Buffett
1227. “Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set on fire.” – George Matthew Adams
1228. “We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.” – Shana Alexander
1229. “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
1230. “Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.” – Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant
1231. “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.” – John Updike
1232. “When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.” – Sydney Smith
1233. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov
1234. “Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.” – Edward Abbey
1235. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” – Theodore Seuss Giesel
1236. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – William Shedd
1237. “When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.” – St. Francis De Sales
1238. “Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
1239. “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.” – Milan Kundera
1240. “Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.” – Ruth E. Renkel
1241. “If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?” - Dolores Huerta
1242. “The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home, reads only a page.” –Saint Augustine
1243. “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
1244. “The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Anonymous
1245. “Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.” – Will Rogers
1246. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely