• Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. – Jean-Paul Sarte
• This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what’s so. – Werner Erhard
• The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. – Walker Percy
• The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth. – Yuan-sou
• In my hut this spring, there is nothing — there is everything! – Sodo
• The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. – Henry Miller
• I am a part of all that I have met. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. – Tao Te Ching
• Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. – Wallace Stevens
• How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Hide your body in the Big Dipper. – Zen saying
• Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. – Jean-Paul Sarte

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Count your age by friends, count your life by smiles. / You have to wake up in order for your dreams to come true. / Never insult a crocodile until you’ve crossed the river. / If you don’t lie down no one can walk on you. / If you think things improve with age attend a class reunion. / A good scare is sometimes worth more to a man than good advice. / Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. / We have two ears and one mouth, Think twice, speak once! / You’re never fully dressed until you wear a smile. / It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. / The greatest mistake you can make is to be afraid of making one. / Happiness is the journey not the destination. / People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. / Look at life through the windshield not the rear view mirror. / To succeed do the best you can, where you are, with what you have. / Don’t let your voice mail be “voice jail” to your callers. / A man without humour is like a car without shock absorbers. / Wisdom is what’s left over after we smarten up. / Many people quit looking for work when they finally get a job. / About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. / Don’t wait for your ship to come in – swim out to it. / Talk less – Say more. / Autograph your work with quality. / You can only control two things your attitude and your activity. / Remember, there’s nothing more constant than change. / If you tell the truth sooner or later somebody’s going to find out. / Experience is the one thing you can’t get on easy payments. / All play and no work, does not work. / A goal is a dream with a deadline. / Dream of worthy accomplishments and stay awake to achieve them. / The only place success comes before work is the dictionary. / You can be happy without needing others to agree with you. / You are not late until you get there. / Glory comes from daring to begin. / Have a back bone not a wish bone. / Give your troubles to God, He will be up all night anyway. / The greater part of progress is the desire to progress. / Happiness is the place between too little and too much. / Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. / Destiny is not a matter of chance it’s a matter of choice. / Your children need your presence more than your presents. / Each of us has two ends a sitting end and a thinking end, Success depends on which we use. / Many spend half the time wishing for things they could have if they didn’t spend half the time wishing. / For every person who climbs the ladder of success there are a dozen waiting for the elevator. / God works with you, not for you. / If your dreams turn to dust vacuum. / Do it now, you become successful the very moment you start. / People may doubt what you say but they will believe what you do. / Success -Don’t do what you like, Like what you do. / Happiness is a choice not a response.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. / Success is … more attitude than aptitude. / Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. / If you can laugh at it then you can live with it. / If you must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it. / It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. / Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. / Make friends before you need them. / A friend walks in when everyone else walks out. / The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention. / Our favorite attitude should be gratitude. / The greatest of all faults is to imagine you have none. / Too many of us speak twice before we think. / Everyone has 20/20 hindsight. / It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. / It is no crime not to be perfect. / If others have sinned you need not mention it. / No man knows less than the man who knows it all. / Patience carries a lot of wait. / One who lacks courage to start has already finished. / A quitter never wins, a winner never quits. / Break a bad habit – Drop it. / Don’t learn safety rules simply by accident. / Failing to prepare, we prepare to fail. / Past failures are guideposts for future success. / There is no right way to do a wrong thing. / Don’t think there are no crocodiles just because the water is calm. / There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. / Seek joy in what you give not in what you get. / Procrastination is the thief of time. / Success comes in cans – failure comes in can’ts. / Anger is one letter short of danger / 2/3 of promotion is motion. / Having a sharp tongue can cut your own throat. / Life is what happens while you are making other plans. / A person of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds. / It’s better to be trusted than liked: underpromise – overperform. / All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today. / You always pass failure on the way to success. / Don’t let lack of praise nip you in the bud. / The surest way to go broke is to sit around and wait for a break. / The only thing worse than an alarm going off is the one that doesn’t. / Growing old is when fun is a lot more work. / An ego trip won’t get you anywhere. / The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just that little extra. / If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain. / A natural tendency is to want to be understood rather than understand. / Keep your heart a little softer than your head. / Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death. / The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

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They certainly do not have the “weightiness” of those traditional aphorisms from ancient Greece and the Enlightenment Period, but there still is an element of truth twisted into modern-day maxims. However, here is an entertaining list of modern principles and maxims.

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime. / The road to success is always under construction. / A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out. / Failure is the path of least persistence. / Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough. / Patience is counting down without blasting off. / Have a backbone not a wishbone. / Life is not no much a matter of position as of disposition. / If you don’t care where you’re going any road will get you there. / A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice. / He who throws mud loses ground. / Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others. / Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it. / A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. / Ideas won’t work unless you do. / The future is purchased by the present. / One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time. / Lost time is never found again. / A hard thing about business is minding your own. / Triumph is just “umph” added to try. / Caution is not cowardly, carelessness is not courage. / He who forgives ends the quarrel. / Children need more models than critics. / Frogs have it easy – they can eat what bugs them. / If the going gets easy you may be going downhill. / Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. / The best vitamin for making friends, B-1. / Jumping to conclusions can be bad exercise. / The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow. / Some folks won’t look up until they are flat on their backs. / If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep. / Birds have bills too and they keep on singing. / A good example is the best sermon. / The Ten Commandments are not multiple choice. / Well done! is better than, Well said! / Minds are like parachutes – they function only when open. / Live as you wish your kids would. / Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion. / People don’t fail, they give up. / When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope. / Smile, it takes only 13 muscles – a frown takes 64. / Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind can see. / Heaviest thing to carry – a grudge. / We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. / Tact is the ability to see others as they wish to be seen. / A bad conscience has a very good memory. / One thing you can give and still keep – is your word. / A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor. / A small leak can sink a great ship. / You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.

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(ed. – Do yourself a favour. Bookmark this page of Ayn Rand musings. When everything seems off-kilter, reread.)

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• All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
• The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.
• Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
• The most depraved type of human being . . . (is) the man without a purpose.
• All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
• You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
• Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
• If a society is to remain free, its government must be controlled.
• America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
• Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.
• Government “help” to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
• Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
• Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.
• The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
• Either we believe that the State exists to serve the individual or that the individual exists to serve the state.
• Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
• The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life – by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality…
• The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
• A man who struggles not to acknowledge that evil is evil, finds it increasingly dangerous to acknowledge that the good is the good.
• There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

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