Kotable Kotes

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

-Mother Teresa

Monday, February 26, 2007

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn how big and precious it is.

-Maxim Gorky

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

-Plato

Friday, February 16, 2007

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in your life, you will have been all of these.

-George Washington Carver

Thursday, February 15, 2007

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

-Nelson Mandela

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

-Neil Armstrong

Monday, February 12, 2007

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

-Sir Winston Churchill

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

-Albert Einstein

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

-Swami Vivekananda

Monday, February 05, 2007

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

-Henry Ward Beecher

Friday, February 02, 2007

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

-Socrates