Carl Sagan
The brain is like a muscle.
When it is in use we feel very good.
Understanding is joyous.
~Carl Sagan~
Françoise Sagan
A dress makes no sense
unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
~Françoise Sagan~
Antoine
De Saint-Exupery
Life
has taught us that love does not
consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery~
True
love is visible not to the eyes
but to the heart,
for eyes may be deceived.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery~
A
single event can awaken within us
a stranger totally unknown to us.
To live is to be slowly born.
~Antoine De Saint Exupery~
It
is in the compelling zest of high adventure
and of victory, and in creative action,
that man finds his supreme joys.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery~
It
is the time you have wasted for your rose
that makes your rose so important.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery~
Perfection
is achieved,
not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery~
When
you give yourself,
you receive more than you give.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery~
Frances de Sales
Nothing is so strong as gentleness.
Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
~Frances de Sales~
Viscount Samuel
In the end men love better
that for which they have made sacrifices
than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.
~Viscount Samuel~
George
Sand
There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved.
~George Sand~
One is happy as a result of one's own
efforts --
once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness --
simple tastes, a certain degree of courage,
self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all,
a clear conscience.
~George Sand~
Carl
Sandburg
Time
is the coin of your life.
It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine how it will be spent.
Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
~Carl Sandburg~
A
baby is God's opinion that
the world should go on.
~Carl Sandburg~
I
tell you the past is a bucket of ashes,
so live not in your yesterdays,
not just for tomorrow,
but in the here and now.
Keep moving
and forget the post mortems;
and remember, no one can get the jump
on the future.
~Carl Sandburg~
It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine
how it will be spent.
Be careful lest you let other people
spend it for you.
~Carl Sandburg~
George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons
is a happier state of mind than to be
hopelessly in love with spring.
~George Santayana~
Irwin Sarason
Good friends are good for your health.
~Irwin Sarason~
May Sarton
I would like to believe when I die
that I have given myself away like a tree
that sows seed every spring and never counts
the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life.
It is the tree's way of being.
Strongly rooted perhaps,
but spilling out its treasure on the wind.
~May Sarton~
It is sometimes the most fragile things
that have the power to endure
and become sources of strength.
~May Sarton~
One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self,
but on the contrary by pursuing something else
and learning through discipline or routine …
who one is and wants to be.
~May Sarton~
Virginia Satir
Feelings of worth can flourish only
in an atmosphere where individual differences
are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated,
communication is open, and rules are flexible--
the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
~Virginia Satir~
Melvin Schleeds
Blessed are those who can give
without remembering and take
without forgetting.
~Melvin Schleeds~
Laura
Schlessinger
You've touched people and know it.
You've touched people and never may know it.
Either way, no matter what
your life feels like to you right now,
you have something to give.
It is in giving to one another
that each one of our lives becomes meaningful.
~Laura Schlessinger~
This is all you have.
This is not a dry run.
This is your life.
If you want to fritter it away
with your fears,
then you will fritter it away,
but you won't get it back later.
~ Laura Schlessinger~
Language is our way of
communicating what we want
and who we are.
~Laura Schlessinger~
Don't
worry so much about your self-esteem.
Worry more about your character.
Integrity is its own reward.
~Laura Schlessinger~
Because
you're able to do it
and because you have the right to do it
doesn't mean it's right to do it.
~Laura Schlessinger~
The reward for doing right
is mostly an internal phenomenon:
self-respect, dignity, integrity,
and self-esteem.
~ Laura Schlessinger~
Values
are principles and ideas
that bring meaning to the seemingly
mundane experience of life.
A meaningful life that ultimately
brings happiness and pride requires
you to respond to temptations
as well as challenges with honor,
dignity, and courage.
~ Laura Schlesinger~
Arthur Schopenhauer
Honor has not to be won;
it must only not be lost.
~Arthur Schopenhauer~
Olive Schreiner
A child sees everything, looks straight at it,
examines it, without any preconceived idea....
~Olive Schreiner~
The troubles of the young are soon over;
they leave no external mark.
If you wound the tree in its youth
the bark will quickly cover the gash;
but when the tree is very old,
peeling the bark off ...
you will see the scar there still.
~Olive Schreiner~
Robert
H. Schuller
As
we grow as unique persons,
we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
~Robert H. Schuller~
Impossible
situations can become
possible miracles.
~Robert H. Schuller~
Problems
are not stop signs,
they are guidelines.
~Robert H. Schuller~
Again and again,
the impossible problem is solved
when we see that the problem
is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
~Robert H. Schuller~
Commit
yourself to a dream . . .
Nobody who tries to do something
great but fails is a total failure. Why?
Because he can always rest assured
that he succeeded in life's most
important battle - he defeated
the fear of trying.
~Robert H. Schuller~
Always look at what you have left.
Never look at what you have lost.
~Robert H. Schuller~
Faith is making claims to victory
before it is achieved.
~Robert H. Schuller~
Charles Schwab
I consider my ability to arouse
enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess.
The way to develop the best that is in a man
is by appreciation and encouragement.
~Charles Schwab~
David Joseph Schwartz
How we think shows through in how we act.
Attitudes are mirrors of the mind.
They reflect thinking.
~David Joseph Schwartz~
Delmore Schwartz
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage.
Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
~Delmore Schwartz~
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.
~Arnold Schwarzenegger~
General
H. Norman Schwartzkopf
Leadership
is a potent combination
of strategy and character.
But if you must be without one,
be without the strategy.
~General H. Norman Schwartzkopf~
The truth of the matter is
that you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
~General H. Norman Schwarzkopf~
Albert
Schweitzer
I
don't know what your destiny will be,
but one thing I do know: the only ones
among you who will be really happy
are those who have sought
and found how to serve.
~Albert Schweitzer~
Constant
kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
~Albert Schweitzer~
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful
for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
~Albert Schweitzer~
Even if it's a little thing,
do something for those who have need of help,
something for which you get no pay
but the privilege of doing it.
~Albert Schweitzer~
It is not enough merely to exist.
It's not enough to say,
"I'm earning enough to support my family.
I do my work well. I'm a good father,
husband, churchgoer." That's all very well.
But you must do something more.
Seek always to do some good, somewhere.
Every man has to seek in his own way
to realize his true worth. You must give
some time to your fellow man.
Even if it's a little thing, do something for
those who need help, something for which you
get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
For remember, you don't live in a world all your own.
Your brothers are here too.
~Albert Schweitzer~
Sir Walter Scott
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
~Sir Walter Scott~
Florida
Scott-Maxwell
Life does not
accommodate you,
it shatters you. It is meant to,
and it couldn't do it better.
Every seed destroys its container
or else there would be no fruition.
~Florida Scott-Maxwell~
Elizabeth Seaton
Live simply that others might simply live.
~Elizabeth Seaton~
Chief
Seattle
This
we know...
the earth does not belong to man,
man belongs to earth.
All things are connected,
like the blood which connects one family.
Whatever befalls the earth
befalls the children of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life -
he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.
~ Chief Seattle~
Man did not weave the web of life,
he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.
~Chief Seattle~
What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from loneliness of spirit.
For whatever happens to the beasts
happens to man.
All things are connected...
~Chief Seattle~
Erich Segal
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
~Erich Segal~
Frederick Seitz
A good scientist is a person
in whom the childlike quality
of perennial curiosity lingers on.
Once he gets an answer,
he has other questions.
~Frederick Seitz~
Seneca
Be
silent as to services you have rendered,
but speak of favors you have received.
~Seneca~
Difficulties
strengthen the mind,
as labor does the body.
~Seneca~
The
day which we fear as our last
is but the birthday of eternity.
~Seneca~
For
many men,
the acquisition of wealth
does not end their troubles,
it only changes them.
~Seneca~
It is not because things are difficult
that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare
that they are difficult.
~Seneca~
Our
care should not be
to have lived long
as to have lived enough.
~Seneca~
This
is the law of benefits between men;
the one ought to forget at once what he has given,
and the other ought never to forget
what he has received.
~Seneca~
Whatever
one of us blames in another,
each one will find in his own heart.
~Seneca~
Let
tears flow of their own accord:
their flowing is not inconsistent with
inward peace and harmony.
~Seneca~
Nothing deters a good man
from doing what is honorable.
~Seneca~
Speech
is the mirror of the mind.
~Seneca~
I will govern my life
and thoughts as if
the whole world were
to see the one
and read the other,
for what does it signify
to make anything a secret
to my neighbor, when to God,
who is the searcher of our hearts,
all our privacies are open?
~Seneca~
The
greatest remedy for anger is delay.
~Seneca~
To be feared is to fear:
no one has been able to strike terror into others
and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
~Seneca~
It
is quality rather than quantity that matters.
~Seneca~
He
that does good to another
does good also to himself.
~Seneca~
Live
among men as if God beheld you;
speak to God as if men were listening.
~Seneca~
The spirit in which a thing is given
determines that in which the debt is
acknowledged; it's the intention,
not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
~Seneca~
Wherever
there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for kindness.
~Seneca~
True
happiness is ... to enjoy the present,
without anxious dependence upon the future.
~Seneca~
The
best way to do good to ourselves
is to do it to others;
the right way to gather is to scatter.
~Seneca~
Fire
is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
~Seneca~
Luck is what happens
when preparation meets opportunity.
~Seneca~
Dr.
Seuss....Theodore
Seuss Geisel
Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter,
and those who matter don't mind.
~Dr. Seuss....Theodore
Seuss Geisel~
You
have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy
who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss....Theodore
Seuss Geisel~
I
like nonsense,
it wakes up the brain cells.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient
in living, it's a way of looking at life
through the wrong end of a telescope.
Which is what I do,
and that enables you to
laugh at life's realities.
~Dr. Seuss....Theodore
Seuss Geisel~
I
have heard there are troubles
of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead
and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going
to have troubles with me!
~Dr. Seuss....Theodore
Seuss Geisel~
My uncle ordered popovers
from the restaurant's bill of fare.
And, when they were served,
he regarded them with a penetrating stare.
Then he spoke great words of wisdom
as he sat there on that chair:
"To eat these things," said my uncle,
"You must exercise great care.
You may swallow down what's solid,
but you must spit out the air!"
And as you partake of the world's bill of fare,
that's darned good advice to follow.
Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.
And be careful what you swallow.
~Dr. Seuss....Theodore
Seuss Geisel~
William
Shakespeare
My
crown is called content,
a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
~William Shakespeare~
Love
is not love which alters
when it alteration finds.
~William Shakespeare~
To
weep is to make less
the depth of grief.
~William Shakespeare~
And
this, our life,
exempt from public haunt,
finds tongues in trees,
books in the running brooks,
sermons in stones,
and good in everything.
~William Shakespeare~
They
do not love
that do not show their love.
~William Shakespeare~
The
quality of mercy
is not strained;
It droppeth as the
gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath.
It is twice blessed--
It blesseth him that gives,
and him that takes.
~William Shakespeare~
What's
in a name?
that which we call a rose
By any other name
would smell as sweet.
~ William Shakespeare~
Love
sought is good,
but giv’n unsought is better.
~William Shakespeare~
No
legacy is so rich as honesty.
~William Shakespeare~
Love
all. Trust a few.
Do wrong to none.
~William Shakespeare~
It
is not in the stars
to hold our destiny
but in ourselves.
~William Shakespeare~
Vipin
Sharma
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
~Vipin Sharma~
George
Bernard Shaw
Perhaps the greatest social service
that can be rendered by anybody
to the country and to mankind
is to bring up a family.
~George Bernard Shaw~
If
history repeats itself,
and the unexpected always happens,
how incapable must Man be
of learning from experience!
~George Bernard Shaw~
A
life spent making mistakes
is not only more honorable,
but more useful than a life spent
doing nothing.
~George Bernard Shaw~
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn
as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
~George Bernard Shaw~
It
is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless,
until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
~George Bernard Shaw~
Miracles,
in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain,
surround us on every hand:
life itself is the miracle of miracles.
~George Bernard Shaw~
I
don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world
are the people who get up and look
for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them,
make them.
~George Bernard Shaw~
To
withhold deserved praise
lest it should make its object conceited
is as dishonest as to withhold payment
of a just debt lest your creditor
should spend the money badly.
~George Bernard Shaw~
This
is the true joy in life --
being used for a purpose recognized
by yourself as a mighty one;
being thoroughly worn out before
you are thrown on the scrap heap;
being a force of nature instead of
a feverish selfish little clod of ailments
and grievances, complaining that
the world will not devote
itself to making you happy.
~George Bernard Shaw~
I
want to be thoroughly used up when I die,
for the harder I work the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.
~George Bernard Shaw~
Liberty
means responsibility.
That is why most men dread it.
~George Bernard Shaw~
We
have no more right
to consume happiness without
producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
~George Bernard Shaw~
I
hope you have lost your good looks,
for while they last any fool can adore you,
and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
No, give me a ruined complexion
and a lost figure and sixteen chins
on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig.
Then you shall see me coming out strong.
~George Bernard Shaw~
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community
and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,
for the harder I work the more I live.
~George Bernard Shaw~
Imagination is the beginning of creation.
You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine;
and at last you create what you will.
~George Bernard Shaw~
Life is not meant to be easy, my child;
but take courage -- it can be delightful.
~George Bernard Shaw~
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past,
but by the responsibility for our future.
~George Bernard Shaw~
Ted
Shawn
Dance is the only art of which we
ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
~Ted Shawn~
George Sheehan
Happiness is different from pleasure.
Happiness has something to do
with struggling and enduring
and accomplishing.
~George Sheehan~
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Leisure is a form of silence,
not noiselessness.
It is the silence of contemplation
such as occurs when we
let our minds rest on a rosebud,
a child at play, a Divine mystery,
or a waterfall.
~Bishop Fulton J. Sheen ~
Percy Bysshe
Shelley
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley~
Love withers under constraints:
its very essence is liberty:
it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear:
it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited
where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley~
William
Shenstone
The proper means of increasing the love
we bear our native country
is to reside some time in a foreign one.
~William Shenstone~
Barbara
Sher
....being judgmental about your own behavior
is actually another cop-out
because it makes you feel as though
you're doing something virtuous.
~Barbara Sher~
We are like violins.
We can be used as doorstops,
or we can make music.
~Barbara Sher~
Florence Scovel Shinn
If one asks for success and prepares for failure,
he will get the situation he has prepared for.
~Florence Scovel Shinn~
Dinah Shore
Trouble is part of your life --
if you don't share it,
you don't give the person who loves you
a chance to love you enough.
~Dinah Shore~
Gen. David M. Shoup
The galleries are full of critics.
They play no ball, they fight no fights.
They make no mistakes
because they attempt nothing.
Down in the arena are the doers.
They make mistakes
because they try many things.
The man who makes no mistakes
lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure.
He is the one who never tries anything.
His is the brake on the wheel of progress.
And yet it cannot be truly said
he makes no mistakes,
because his biggest mistake
is the very fact that he tries nothing,
does nothing, except criticize those who do things.
~Gen. David M. Shoup~
Beverly
Sills
I
had found a kind of serenity,
a new maturity... I didn't feel better
or stronger than anyone else but
it seemed no longer important whether
everyone loved me or not--
more important now was for me to love them.
Feeling that way
turns your whole life around;
living becomes the act of giving.
~Beverly Sills~
Neil
Simon
Don't
listen to those who say, "It's not done that way." Maybe it's not, but
maybe you will. Don't listen to those who say, "You're taking too big a
chance." Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would
surely be rubbed out by today. Most importantly, don't listen when the little
voice of fear inside of you rears its ugly head and says, "They're all
smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder,
prettier, luckier and have connections…" I firmly believe that if you
follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and
cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move
others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by
which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respect.
~Neil Simon~
Alan Simpson
If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
~Alan Simpson~
Isaac Bashevis
Singer
Children don't read
to find their identity,
to free themselves from guilt,
to quench the thirst for rebellion
or to get rid of alienation.
They have no use for psychology....
They still believe in God,
the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins,
logic, clarity, punctuation,
and other such obsolete stuff....
When a book is boring,
they yawn openly.
They don't expect their writer
to redeem humanity,
but leave to adults such childish illusions.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer~
We know what a person thinks
not when he tells us what he thinks,
but by his actions.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer~
The Siri Singh Sahib
There is no liberation without labor....
and there is no freedom which is free.
~The Siri Singh Sahib~
Dave E. Smalley
The survival of the fittest is the
ageless law of nature,
but the fittest are rarely the strong.
The fittest are those endowed
with the qualifications for adaptation,
the ability to accept the inevitable
and conform to the unavoidable,
to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.
~Dave E. Smalley~
Ruth Smeltzer
You have not lived a perfect day,
even though you have earned your money,
unless you have done something for someone
who will never be able to repay you.
~Ruth Smeltzer~
Samuel Smiles
Hope... is the companion of power,
and the mother of success for who so hopes
has within him the gift of miracles.
~Samuel Smiles~
Alexander
Smith
Love
is but the discovery of ourselves in others,
and the delight in the recognition.
~Alexander Smith~
Sydney Smith
It is the greatest of all mistakes
to do nothing because you can only do little
- do what you can.
~Sydney Smith~
Will Smith
Money and success
don't change people;
they merely amplify
what is already there.
~Will Smith~
Ralph W.
Sockman
The test of courage comes
when we are in the minority.
The test of tolerance comes
when we are in the majority.
~Ralph W. Sockman~
Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
~Ralph Sockman~
Socrates
I
am not an Athenian or a Greek,
I am a citizen of the world.
~Socrates~
I
cannot teach anybody anything,
I can only make them think.
~Socrates~
Death
may be the greatest
of all human blessings.
~Socrates~
People demand freedom of speech
to make up for the freedom of thought
which they avoid.
~Socrates~
The shortest and surest way
to live with honor in the world
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be;
all human virtues increase
and strengthen themselves
by the practice
and experience of them.
~Socrates~
Ikkyu Sojun
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers,
but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~Ikkyu Sojun~
Bishop Robert
South
Innocence is like polished armor;
it adorns and defends.
~Bishop Robert South~
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement,
but rather a fresh stimulus.
~Robert South~
Alfred
D. Souza
For
a long time it had seemed to me
that life was about to begin--real life.
But there was always some obstacle
in the way, something to be gotten through first,
some unfinished business,
time still to be served,
a debt to be paid.
Then life would begin.
At last it dawned on me
that these obstacles were my life.
~Alfred D. Souza~
Mickey Spillane
If you're a singer you lose your voice.
A baseball player loses his arm.
A writer gets more knowledge,
and if he's good,
the older he gets,
the better he writes.
~Mickey Spillane~
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Faith
goes up the stairs
that love has built and
looks out the window which
hope has opened.
~Charles Haddon Spurgeon~
A
good character is the
best tombstone. Those who loved you
and were helped by you will remember
you when forget-me-nots have withered.
Carve your name on hearts,
not on marble.
~Charles Haddon Spurgeon~
Giving is true loving.
~Charles Haddon Spurgeon~
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.
To know is not to be wise.
Many men know a great deal,
and are all the greater fools for it.
There is no fool so great a fool
as a knowing fool. But to know
how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
~Charles H. Spurgeon~
Josiah
Stamp
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities,
but we cannot dodge the consequences
of dodging our responsibilities.
~Josiah Stamp~
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The happiest people I have known
have been those who gave themselves
no concern about their own souls,
but did their uttermost to mitigate
the miseries of others.
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton~
Virginia Woolf....Adeline Virginia Staphen
The first duty of a lecturer:
to hand you after an hour's discourse
a nugget of pure truth
to wrap up between
the pages of your notebooks,
and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
~Virginia Woolf....Adeline Virginia Staphen~
Freya
Stark
Few
are the giants of the soul
who actually feel that the human race
is their family circle.
~Freya Stark~
Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all,
but a piece of one's home
that one carries in one's heart...
~Freya Stark~
Richard Steele
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~Richard Steele~
Wallace Stegner
She saw objectives, not obstacles.
~Wallace Stegner~
Gloria
Steinem
I do not like to write -
I like to have written.
~Gloria Steinem~
The act of acting morally is behaving
as if everything we do matters.
~Gloria Steinem~
Stephen
....democracy, wherever it exists in the world,
is a treasure to be cherished and protected.
~Stephen~
Gil Stern
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society.
The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
~Gil Stern~
Laurence Sterne
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction
in conversing with the ancient and modern dead,
- who yet live and speak excellently in their works.
My neighbors think me often alone,
- and yet at such times I am in company
with more than five hundred mutes
- each of whom, at my pleasure,
communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs
- quite as intelligently as any person living can do
by uttering of words.
~Laurence Sterne~
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
A free society is one
where it is safe to be unpopular.
~Adlai Ewing Stevenson~
Robert
Louis Stevenson
You
can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
~Robert Louis Stevenson~
It
is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose,
and the eyes will take care of themselves.
~Robert Louis Stevenson~
To
know what you prefer instead of humbly saying
Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer
is to have kept your soul alive.
~Robert Louis Stevenson~
It
is not so much for its beauty
that the forest makes a claim upon
men's hearts, as for that subtle something,
that quality of air that emanation from old trees,
that so wonderfully changes
and renews a weary spirit.
~Robert Louis Stevenson~
Keep
your fears to yourself,
but share your courage with others.
~Robert Louis Stevenson~
Don't
write merely to be understood.
Write so that you cannot possibly be
misunderstood.
~Robert Louis Stevenson~
Our
business in this world is not to succeed,
but to continue to fail in good spirits.
~Robert Louis Stevenson~
Don't
judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds you plant.
~Robert Louis Stevenson~
The
world has no room for cowards.
We must all be ready somehow to toil,
to suffer, to die. And yours is not
the less noble because no drum beats
before you when you go out
into your daily battlefields,
and no crowds shout about your coming
when you return from your daily victory
or defeat.
~Robert Louis Stevenson~
All speech, written or spoken,
is a dead language, until it finds
a willing and prepared hearer.
~Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson~
The difficulty of literature
is not to write,
but to write what you mean;
not to affect your reader,
but to affect him precisely as you wish.
~Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson~
Alexandra
Stoddard
What we do today, right now,
will have an accumulated effect
on all our tomorrows.
~Alexandra Stoddard~
Henry L. Stimson
The only way to make a man trustworthy
is to trust him.
~Henry L. Stimson~
Irving
Stone
Story writers say that love is concerned
only with young people,
and the excitement and glamour
of romance end at the altar.
How blind they are.
The best romance is
inside marriage; the finest love stories
come after the wedding, not before.
~Irving Stone~
Wallace Clement Stone
We create our lives a thought at a time.
And sometimes, it comes down to
changing a thought such as
'Why did this happen to me?'
into 'There is a divine plan
and there is a reason for this,
and my choice is to create the most
positive reaction I can.'
~Wallace Clement Stone~
There is little difference in people,
but that little difference makes a big difference.
The little difference is attitude.
The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
~Wallace Clement Stone~
Marie Stopes
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen.
But if you are beautiful at sixty,
it will be your soul's own doing.
~Marie Stopes~
Margaret Stortz
When we are grateful for the good we already have,
we attract more good into our life.
On the other hand, when we are ungrateful,
we tend to shut ourselves off from the good
we might otherwise experience.
~Margaret Stortz~
Jim
Stovall
Integrity
is doing the right thing,
even if nobody is watching.
~Jim Stovall~
Harriet
Beecher Stowe
When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you till it seems
as though you could not hold on a minute longer,
never give up then,
for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe~
Home
is a place
not only of strong affections,
but of entire unreserve;
it is life's undress rehearsal,
its backroom,
its dressing room.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe~
C. Neil Strait
Friendship is not only doing something for someone,
but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.
~C. Neil Strait~
Kindness is more than deeds.
It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch.
It is anything that lifts another person.
~C. Neil Strait~
Alfred Billings Stree
Nature is man's teacher.
She unfolds her treasures to his search,
unseals his eye, illumes his mind,
and purifies his heart;
an influence breathes from all
the sights and sounds of her existence.
~Alfred Billings Street~
Picabo Street
Adversity creates heroes.
~Picabo Street~
Errol Strider
Often we seek to grow or change ourselves
by adjusting the external aspects of our lives.
... We all too often forget that permanent
or real change only comes when the center
of our being, our inner drives ad motivations,
undergoes transformation.
~Errol Strider~
Anna Louise Strong
To fall in love is easy,
even to remain in it is not difficult;
our human loneliness is cause enough.
But it is a hard quest worth making
to find a comrade through whose
steady presence one becomes steadily
the person one desires to be.
~Anna Louise Strong~
Mildred White Struven
A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot.
It has to go though the white heat of the furnace
to become porcelain.
~Mildred White Struven~
Marsha Petrie Sue
Non-participation gives us hardening of the attitude.
Life goes on, and if we do not participate,
life still goes on. If a negative attitude
is not getting us where we want to go,
then why not change the attitude?
Reshaping attitudes is possible.
Awareness is the key initial step.
~Marsha Petrie Sue~
Every day is a new beginning.
Treat it that way.
Stay away from what might have been,
and look at what can be.
~Marsha Petrie Sue~
Dr. Suess
Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter,
and those who matter don't mind.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,
it's a way of looking at life through
the wrong end of a telescope.
Which is what I do,
and that enables you to
laugh at life's realities.
~Dr. Seuss~
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It's not.
~Dr. Seuss~
Ed
Sullivan
If
you do a good job for others,
you heal yourself at the same time,
because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
It transcends all barriers.
~Ed Sullivan~
Sun-Tzu
Supreme excellence consists in
breaking the enemy's resistance
without fighting.
~Sun-Tzu~
Sunshine Magazine
He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.
~Sunshine Magazine~
Han Suyin
There is nothing stronger in the world
than gentleness.
~Han Suyin~
Jonathan
Swift
Vision:
the art of seeing things invisible.
~Jonathan Swift~
Alice M. Swaim
Courage is not the towering oak
that sees storms come and go;
it is the fragile blossom
that opens in the snow.
~Alice M. Swaim~
Emanuel Swedenborg
True charity is the desire to be useful to others
with no thought of recompense.
~Emanuel Swedenborg~
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Providence has hidden a charm
in difficult undertakings,
which is appreciated only by those
who dare to grapple with them.
~Anne-Sophie Swetchine~
There is a transcendent power in example.
We reform others unconsciously
when we walk uprightly.
~Anne Sophie Swetchine~
Charles
Swindoll
The
remarkable thing we have is a choice
every day regarding the attitude
we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past...
We cannot change the fact
that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do
is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
~Charles Swindoll~
The
secret of living a life of excellence
is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence.
Really, it's a matter of programming our minds
with the kind of information that will
set us free.
~Charles Swindoll~
People
who soar are those who
refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things
would change. They neither complain
of their lot nor passively dream of some
distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize
in their minds that they are not quitters;
they will not allow life's circumstances
o push them down and hold them under.
~Charles Swindoll~
Cultivate
your own capabilities,
your own style. Appreciate the
members of your family for who they are,
even though their outlook or
style may be miles different from yours.
Rabbits don't fly.
Eagles don't swim.
Ducks look funny trying to climb.
Squirrels don't have feathers.
Stop comparing.
There's plenty of room in the forest.
~Charles Swindoll~
If you're running a 26-mile marathon,
remember that every mile is run
one step at a time.
If you are writing a book,
do it one page at a time.
If you're trying to master a new language,
try it one word at a time.
There are 365 days in the average year.
Divide any project by 365
and you'll find that no job
is all that intimidating.
All it takes is discipline--
daily discipline, not annual discipline.
~Charles R. Swindoll~
Thomas Szasz
Knowledge is gained by learning;
trust by doubt;
skill by practice;
and love by love.
~Thomas Szasz~
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Discovery consists of seeing
what everybody has seen and
thinking what nobody has thought.
~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi~
song
playing....To Love Somebody
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