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Inspirational quotes for this weekend

Awesome collection of inspirational quotes from some great, articulate minds who have put forth their thoughts on life so lucidly. Hope some of these inspire and motivate you. We can not direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails. -- Author Unknown Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. -- Buddha Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. -- Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -- Jonathan Kozel Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. --African Proverb Life is what happens, while you are busy making plans. --John Lennon Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. -- Elbert Hubbard There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be cont...

Interesting tidbits for this weekend

Did you know that an average person laughs about 15 times a day? that only one out of every three people wash their hands when leaving a public bathroom? that the oldest known disease in the world is leprosy? that close to fifty percent of the bacteria in the mouth lives on the surface of our tongue? that every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer? that on an average a person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime? that about 10% of the world's population is left-handed? that the average person has at least seven dreams a night? that having guilty feelings may actually weaken your immune system over a period of time? that on an average, men spend 60 hours a year shaving ?

Quotes for this weekend

An awesome collection of quotes for this weekend. Enjoy! Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. -Anonymous Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. -Francesca Reigler The spaces between your fingers were created so that another's could fill them in. - Unknown The doors of wisdom are never shut. -Benjamin Franklin To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. - Ken S. Keyes, Jr. Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. - Mary Wilson Little Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. - Benjamin Franklin It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. - Rami Belson A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -Herm Albright A conclusion is the pla...

Success quotes for this weekend

Some incredible quotes on success to motivate ourselves: A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. - Arthur Golden The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. - Maureen Dowd One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. - Marie Curie A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. - Charles Schwab Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. - Dr. David M. Burns The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. - Benjamin Mays Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau

Brain Quotes

A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. - Dutch Proverb An idle brain is the devil's workshop. - English Proverb The mind is like a parachute - it works only when it is open . - Frank Zappa He who at thirty has no brains, will never purchase an estate. - Spanish Proverb It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. - Montaigne My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery-always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? - Virgina Woolf If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel? - Van Morrison You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles. - Will Rogers If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. - Lyall Watson