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

/> 961. “A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.” – The Wizard to the Tin Man, The Wizard of Oz
962. “A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” – Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook
963. “Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” – Hannah More
964. “The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.” – David Starr Jordan
965. “Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.” – Cher
966. “Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.” – George Van Valkenburg
967. “When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.” – Stephen Hawking
968. “It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts.” – Oscar Levant
969. “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
970. “Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are.” – Houssaye
971. “Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.” – General Douglas MacArthur
972. “Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.” – Thomas Fuller
973. “It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.” – John Steinbeck
974. “It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.” – Isaac Asimov
975. “Meaningful coincidences touch a deep feeling in the psyche. These synchronistic events give us a sense that we’re part of a greater whole.” – Jean Shinoda Bole
976. “We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.” – Herman Melville
977. “If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.” – William Penn
978. “Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments, but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.” – Joseph Addison
979. “When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.” – Rabbi Harold Kushner
980. “True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” – William Penn
981. “Getting to know someone is not a task—it’s an art.” – Pierce LeBlanc
982. “Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.” – Igor Stravinsk
983. “Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.” – Karl Barth
984. “My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency…become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'“ – Rudolph Giuliani
985. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim
986. “There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, 'We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.'“ – Jim Collins
987. “When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.” – David Orr
988. “Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” – Erick Golnik
989. “Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.” – Anonymous
990. “Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying a grudge, the other guy's out dancing.” – Buddy Hackett
991. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” – John Muir
992. “We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” – Iris Murdoch
993. “Hearing is one of the body's five senses. But listening is an art.” – Frank Tyger
994. “A mistake is simply another way of doing things.” – Katharine Graham
995. “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.” – Bishop Westcott
996. “Reading is important — read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.” – Gwendolyn Brooks
997. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa
998. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy
999. “Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
1000. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
1001. “Don't solve your problems. Dissolve your problems – so that they should not recur again.” – Yogi Bhajan
1002. “Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.” – Washington Irving
1003. “No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca
1004. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – e. e. cummings
1005. “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” – Tuli Kupferberg
1006. “The greatest carver does the least cutting.” – Tao Te Ching
1007. “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.” – Benjamin Disraeli
1008. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas A. Edison
1009. “People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing—that's why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
1010. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein
1011. “Don’t postpone joy.” – Bumper Sticker
1012. “I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.” – Sara Teasdale
1013. “Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.” – Baltasar Gracián y Morales
1014. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” – Buddha
1015. “It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.” – Charles Caleb Colton
1016. “Some pursue happiness, others create it.” – Anonymous
1017. “Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.” – Billie Jean King
1018. “If it were not for the last minute, nothing would get done.” – Anonymous
1019. “A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.” – Alexandre Dumas
1020. “Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.” – Anonymous
1021. “Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.” – Raymond Charles Barker
1022. “Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.” –Pindar
1023. “Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.” – Lin Yutang
1024. “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.” – Dodie Smith
1025. “To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.” – Katharine Hepburn
1026. “All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.” – Michael Carr
1027. “It is wisdom to believe the heart.” – George Santayana
1028. “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
1029. “It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.” – Anatole France
1030. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Philo
1031. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Sir Winston Churchill
1032. “The grand essentials for happiness are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for.” – Chalmers
1033. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
1034. “You are unique. Just like everyone else.” – Anonymous
1035. “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
1036. “The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by somebody weaker than you.” – Buddha
1037. “A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
1038. “I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
1039. “If you are good, be better.” – Anonymous
1040. “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
1041. “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh
1042. “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” – William Wordsworth
1043. “Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to dust.” – Marcus Aurelius
1044. “Every man is the architect of his own fortune.” – Sallust
1045. “Facing it — always facing it — that's the way to get through. Face it!” – Joseph Conrad
1046. “Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.” – Bono
1047. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
1048. “You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a fine spirit of hope of achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” – Woodrow Wilson
1049. “Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'“ – Maya Angelou
1050. “In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.” – John Ruskin
1051. “None will improve your lot if you yourself do not.” – Bertolt Brecht
1052. “Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.” – Alfred Tennyson
1053. “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – George S. Patton
1054. “One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud
1055. “You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.” – Joseph Joubert
1056. “There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.” – Margaret Mitchell
1057. “Forever on Thanksgiving Day The heart will find the pathway home.” -Wilbur D. Nesbit
1058. “Ruin and recovering are both from within.” – Epictetus
1059. “Hem your