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  • #1
    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.”
    Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

  • #2
    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?”
    Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

  • #3
    Harold Davis
    “Most sites need to prevent breadth — many many pages that are organized cohesively. A site that presents a single webpage is unlikely to present sufficient depth of content to justify extensive SEO.”

    The SCO trick is to draw traffic with desirable content, and to ’seduce’ the traffic into portions of the site that may not directly have anything to do with the content — this is the ultimate goal of the SEO campaign.”
    Harold Davis

  • #4
    Steve Krug
    “If there's one thing you learn by working on a lot of different Web sites, it's that almost any design idea--no matter how appallingly bad--can be made usable in the right circumstances, with enough effort.”
    Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

  • #5
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #7
    Kent M. Keith
    The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    Albert Camus

  • #9
    Aristotle
    “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
    Aristotle

  • #10
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #11
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
    Guillaume Apollinaire

  • #12
    Martha Washington
    “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
    Martha Washington

  • #13
    Lucille Ball
    “It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ”
    Lucille Ball

  • #14
    Sri Chinmoy
    “I am very happy
    Because I have conquered myself
    And not the world.
    I am very happy
    Because I have loved the world
    And not myself.”
    Sri Chinmoy

  • #15
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #16
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #17
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #18
    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  • #19
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    Théophile Gautier
    “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
    Théophile Gautier

  • #22
    Benjamin Franklin
    “How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #23
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #24
    Dan    Brown
    “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
    Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

  • #25
    Carl Sandburg
    “A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”
    Carl Sandburg

  • #26
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Knock, And He'll open the door
    Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
    Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
    Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
    Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

  • #27
    Philip Pullman
    “Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #28
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #29
    George Meredith
    “A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
    George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways

  • #30
    Susan B. Anthony
    “Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
    Susan B. Anthony



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