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Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
- Richard Bach
 
A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.
- Richard Bach
 
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Francis Bacon
 
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- Francis Bacon
 
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
 
Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
- Francis Bacon
 
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
- Francis Bacon
 
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
- Francis Bacon
 
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
- Francis Bacon
 
Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.
- Francis Bacon
 
There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
- Roger Bacon
 
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
- Francis Bacon
 
Constancy is the foundation of virtue.
- Francis Bacon
 
Star You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
- Joan Baez
 
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
 
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
- Walter Bagehot
 
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
 
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our affects on others.
- Pearl Bailey
 
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
- Pearl Bailey
 
The worst men often give the best advice.
- P. J. Bailey
 
The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.
- Newton Diehl Baker
 
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
- Russell Baker
 
Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.
- Vernon Baker
 
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.
- Christina Baldwin
 
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
- James Baldwin
 
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
- James Baldwin
 
The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
- James Baldwin
 
The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
- James Baldwin
 
Star If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody.
- Malcolm Bane
 
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
- Tallulah Bankhead
 
As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep you eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole!
- Dr. Murray Banks
 
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
- Russell Banks
 
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world. A true leader must first see an idea as opportunity, then choose to act upon it.
- Joel Barker
 
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
- Clive Barnes
 
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
- Julian Barnes
 
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
- Dave Barry
 
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
- Dave Barry
 
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizons. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about--the more you have left when anything happens.
- Ethel Barrymore
 
The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
- John Barrymore
 
A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.
- John Barrymore
 
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.
- Bruce Barton
 
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
 
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
- Basil
 
It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.
- Frederic Bastiat
 
In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.
- Frederic Bastiat
 
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
- Marston Bates
 
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
- Orlando A. Battista
 
Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.
- Jean Baudrillard
 
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Bayly
 
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile.
- Mary Beard
 
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
- Sir Cecil Beaton
 
...The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think-rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
- James Beattle
 
We all are born mad. Some remain so.
- Samuel Beckett
 
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
- Henry Ward Beecher
 
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher
 
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
- Henry Ward Beecher
 
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
- Brandan Behan
 
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
- Brandan Behan
 
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell
 
The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize a set of facts, and that no one has any claim to be considered as a serious rival to Darwin in the "discovery" of this theory who did not conduct his evolutionary studies upon a reasonably wide basis of facts. To have ideas, apercus, is not enough, and it is the overevalutation of such clever but uncontrolled guesses which is apt to produce the ludicrous fallacy of combination, in which fragments of the final theory are collected from widely scattered sources and are combined in such a way as to impugn the originality of him who was the first to see how such a synthesis was possible.
- P.R. Bell
 
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
- Robert Benchley
 
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
- Robert Benchley
 
Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want.
- Sue Bender
 
I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one.
- James G. Bennet
 
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
- Arnold Bennett
 
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren G. Bennis
 
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
- A. C. Benson
 
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
- A. C. Benson
 
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
- Edward F. Benson
 
Hard work never killed anybody but why take the chance?
- Edgar Bergen
 
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman
 
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Henri Bergson
 
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.
- Irving Berlin
 
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Hector Berlioz
 
Why haven't women got labels on their foreheads saying, "Danger: Government Health Warning: Women can be dangerous to your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor blades and good standing among your friends."
- Jeffery Bernard
 
Never speak more clearly than you think.
- Jeremy Bernstein
 
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
- Leonard Bernstein
 
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
- Dave Berry
 
There's nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know.
- Ambrose Bierce
 
He gets on best with women who has learned to get on without them.
- Ambrose Bierce
 
Genius -- To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
- Ambrose Bierce
 
An egotist is a person of low taste--more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce
 
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
- Ambrose Bierce
 
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, 'patriotism' is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
- Ambrose Bierce
 
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
- Larry Bird
 
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
- Jim Bishop
 
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
- Otto von Bismarck
 
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
- Otto von Bismarck
 
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
- Otto von Bismarck
 
What is now proved was once only imagined.
- William Blake
 
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- William Blake
 
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.
- William Blake
A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
- Jerome Blather
 
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
- Arthur Block
 
You have to choose where you look, and in making that choice you eliminate entire worlds.
- Barbara Bloom
 
What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.
- Srully Blotnick
 
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J.H. Boetcker
 
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
- Niels Bohr
 
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
 
A fool always finds some greater fool to admire him.
- Nicholas Boileau
 
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok
 
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
- Robert Bolton
 
Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely.
- Erma Bombeck
 
The only reason I would take up jogging is so I could hear heavy breathing again.
- Erma Bombeck
 
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
 
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
 
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
 
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 
Faith is like a radar that sees through the fog - the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
- Corrie Ten Boom
 
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
- Daniel Boone
 
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
- Louis E. Boone
 
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
 
We easily forget that smog is the price of freedom of our streets from manure, and from the flies and diseases it brought.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
 
We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.
- Father Leo Booth
 
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
- James H. Boren
 
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
- Nathaniel Borenstein
 
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge
 
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
- Jorge Luis Borges
 
A man gradually identifies himself with the form of his fate; a man is, in the long run, his own circumstances.
- Jorge Luis Borges
 
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
- Max Born
 
Never trust a computer which you cannot lift.
- Dave Boulton
 
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
- Alec Bourne
 
It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons.
- John Christian Bovee
 
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
- John Christian Bovee
 
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
- John Christian Bovee
 
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
- Lord Brabazon
 
And these children that you spit on,
as they try to change their worlds,
Are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware of what they're going through.
So I turn myself to face me
but I have never caught a glimpse.
How the others; mesiah, fakir
are much too fast to take that test.
- David Bowie
 
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
- Gamaliel Bradford
 
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
- F.H. Bradley
 
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
- General Omar Bradley
 
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
- General Omar Bradley
 
Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call "genius" has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.
- Nathaniel Branden
 
If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.
- Nathaniel Branden
 
We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...
- Nathaniel Branden
 
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
- Dick Brandon
 
Always behave like a duck -- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
- Jacob Braude
 
There's no fool like an old fool - you can't beat experience.
- Jacob Braude
 
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
 
The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
- Wernher Von Braun
 
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.
- Thomas Bray
 
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
- James Henry Breasted
 
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Sylvia Bremer
 
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
- Gerald Brenan
 
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
- Michael Bridge
 
Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
 
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
 
Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
 
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
 
I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
 
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
 
The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
- Peter Brimelow
 
Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia- that is, nowhere.
- Denis William Brogan
 
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
- Jacob Bronowski
 
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep going forward.
- Charlotte Bronte
 
A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
- H. Brooke
 
Always tell the truth, not only because it is the decent thing to do, but because it gives you such an advantage over the man who is trying to remember his lies!
- Sam Brookes
 
Humor is but another weapon against the universe.
- Mel Brooks
 
Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic", they mean they are going to make money out of it.
- Brigid Brophy
 
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Broughan
 
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
- Charles Brower
 
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
- David Brower
 
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
- Charlie Brown
 
Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.
- Gene Brown
 
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
 
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
 
The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
- James Brown
 
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
- Les Brown
 
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
- Les Brown
 
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
- Les Brown
 
If you can't return a favour, pass it on.
- Louise Brown
 
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
- Rita Mae Brown
 
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
- Sam Brown
 
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Browne
 
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
- Thomas Browne
 
Truth never hurts the teller.
- Robert Browning
 
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
- Emil Brunner
 
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
- Jean de La Bruyere
 
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan
 
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
- John Buchan
 
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it.
- Pearl S. Buck
 
... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
- Pearl S. Buck
 
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
 
I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
 
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
- Buddha
 
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- Buddha
 
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
- Buddha
 
The point of the teachings is to control your own mind. Restrain your mind from greed, and you will keep your body right, your mind pure and your words faithful. Always thinking of the transiency of your life, you will be able to desist from greed and anger and will be able to avoid all evils.
- Buddha
 
To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
- Buddha
 
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- Buddha
 
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
- Buddha
 
As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of ties. If anyone thinks that the mesh of a net is an independant thing, he is mistaken. It is called a net because it is made up of a series of interconnected meshes and each mesh has its place and responsibility in relation to the other meshes.
- Buddha
 
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
- Buddha's last words
 
Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better than political opportunist slamming hate horse shit in the public park.
- Charles Bukowski
 
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
- Bill Bulko
 
Kindness is always undeserved. And what rejoices man's heart is precisely what he is given as a sheer gift...a gift which he has not deserved.
- Rudolf Bultmann
 
Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.
- Anthony Burgess
 
I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin
 
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
 
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
- Edmund Burke
 
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- Carol Burnett
 
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a hand full of mud, either.
- Leo Burnett
 
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair.
- George Burns
 
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
- George Burns
 
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
- George Burns
 
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
- Aaron Burr
 
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
 
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
- William Burroughs
 
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
- Sir Richard Francis Burton
 
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
- Sir Richard Francis Burton
 
From none but self expect applause.
- Sir Richard Francis Burton
 
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
- Leo F. Buscaglia
 
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
- Leo F. Buscaglia
 
Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

- Leo F. Buscaglia

 
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
 
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
 
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler
 
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler
 
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
 
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- Samuel Butler
 
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- Samuel Butler
 
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themsleves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
- Octavia Butler
 
Don't go through life, grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth
 
When you work in the right consciousness, when your work becomes organically a part of your whole self, and when you do your work out of that commitment, no matter what other people do, no matter what the compensation may be, do it for the health of your own soul, then you open the door by which the affluence of the Universe flows forth into your life.
- Eric Butterworth
 
You are a rich and creative spiritual being. You can never be less than this. You may frustrate your potential. You may identify with that which is less than what you can be. But within you now and always is the unborn possibility of a limitless experience of inner stability and outer treasure, and yours is the privilege of giving birth to it. And you will, if you can believe.
- Eric Butterworth
 
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
- Charles Buxton
 
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
- Robert Byrne

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