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Journal Topics
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Quotes
The quotes require the students to write what they think the quote or idea means and then
write how the idea applies to their lives.
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"All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well." - Julian of Norwich
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"Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination." - Carl Jung
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"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Einstein
- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
- "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Einstein
- "I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short." - Blaise Pascal
- "God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily." - Unknown
- "It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad." - Jimmy Buffet
- "There is a part of me that wants to write, a part that wants to theorize, a part that wants to sculpt, a part that wants to teach.... To force myself into a single role, to decide to be just one thing in life, would kill off large parts of me." -H. Prather
- "Dance as if no one is watching. Sing as if no one is listening. Love as if you
have never been hurt." -Unknown
- "Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even."- Ann Landers
- "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston
Churchill
- "Success is a journey, not a destination." - Ben Sweetland
- "Success is knowing what your values are and living in a
way consistent with your values." - Danny Cox
- "The wealthy man is the man who is much, not the one who
has much." - Karl Marx
- "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Robert F. Kennedy
- "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give
up. There's no use being a damn fool about it." - W. C. Fields
- "I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous
to offer me the position." - Mark Twain
- "Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what
you have; it depends solely on what you think." - Dale Carnegie
- "Find a job that you love doing and you will never have to
work a day in your life." - Confucius
- "May you live all the days of your life." - Unknown
- "Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning
by study." - Francis Bacon
- "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over
the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain
- "I'm never bored anywhere; being bored is an insult to oneself."
- Jules Renard
- "Life is short; art is long." - Hippocrates
- "Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When you don't
know what harbor you're aiming for, no wind is the right wind."
- Seneca
- "Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole
purpose of life is to enjoy it." - Samuel Butler
- "The greatest discovery is that a human being can alter his
life by altering his attitudes of mind." - William James
- "If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be
no brilliant achievement." - Hsun-tzu
- "He who could learn to fly must first learn to walk and run
and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." - Nietzsche
- "Live every act fully, as if it were your last." - Buddha
- "It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." - Sir
Edmund Hillary
- "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece
of the continent, a part of the main." - John Donne
- "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
- Lord Acton
- "Those who can't remember the past are condemned to repeat
it." - George Santayana
- "I dislike arguments of any kind; they are always vulgar
and often convincing." - Oscar Wilde
- "Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing." - Vince
Lombardy
- "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large
numbers." - Unknown
- "Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics
of a vigorous mind." - Unknown
- "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore
Roosevelt
- "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."-
Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Millions say the apple fell, but Newton was the one to ask
why." - Bernard M. Baruch
- "There can be no surer sign of decay in a country than to
see the rites of religion held in contempt." - Niccolo Machiavelli
- "When I look back on all these worries I remember the story
of the old man who said on his death bed that he had had a lot
of trouble in his life, most of which never happened." - Winston
Churchill
- "One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting
what one is trying to achieve." - Paul Nitze
- "People want to know how much you care before they care how
much you know." - James F. Hind
- "There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder
voices." - Louis L'Amour
- "I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come
up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to
rain, it will." - Clint Eastwood
- "There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the
shore like an idiot." - Steven Wright
- "What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how
valuable we are." - Edgar Z. Friedenberg
- "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition
from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
- "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is
too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach
it." - Michelangelo Buonarroti
- "All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly
in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal
- "Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
- Pythagoras
- "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abe Lincoln
- "A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." - Lao Tzu
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