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Sucking the marrow out of life
doesn't mean choking on the bone.
- Robin Williams as John Keating
in the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society
Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
Story is a sacred visualization,
a way of echoing experience.
- Terry Tempest Williams
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Destiny is not a matter of chance,
It is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
But rather something to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
We Learn...
10% of what we read,
20% of what we hear,
30% of what we see,
50% of what we see and hear,
70% of what we discuss,
80% of what we experience,
95% of what we teach others.
- William Glasser
Grace has been defined as the outward expression
of the inward harmony of the soul.
- William Hazlitt
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
When I took office, only high energy physicists
had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web...
Now even my cat has its own page.
- William J. Clinton
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
- William Allen White
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
Let me say this as clearly as I can:
No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt,
there is no justification for killing innocents.
- William J. Clinton
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
In today's knowledge-based economy,
what you earn depends on what you learn.
- William J. Clinton
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most...
I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
- William J. Clinton
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