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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience. -Cervantes 

Quotes are wisdom gained from others.  Some of the quotes below are current, from people living today; others come from voices of the past.  We’ll add quotes at the start of every month.  Be sure to come back for new words of wisdom.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.  Bruce Lee

We all live with the same objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.  Anne Frank

If one does not master one's circumcstances, then one is bound to be mastered by them. Amor Towles

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.  Aloud.  Coco Chanel

Succss is not final; failure is not final.  It is the courage to go on that counts.  Winston Churchill

Life is a sum game of all your choices.  Albert Camus

Don't walk ahead of me, I may not follow.  Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.  Just walk beside me and be my friend.  Albert Camus

Friends are the flowers in the garden of life.  Unknown

The heart that gives, gathers.  Hannah More

It is truly said, it does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. Chow Ching

A question’s power may not lie in the answer; rather, it may lie in the process of reaching an answer.  Unknown

Choose wisdom over fear, doubt or anger.  Unknown

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.  Chinese Proverb

May you get what you want and want what you get.  Gypsy Proverb often used by Don Baiocchi

Our years teach us much which the days never know.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.  Winston Churchill

Surviving is important.  Thriving is elegant.  Maya Angelou

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same.  Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.  Don Williams, Jr.