W.D. Frank Quotes
The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good." L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz, 1910
We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.
Moments don’t last forever, but their memories do.
Always tell the truth –– or the truth will tell on you. Honest.
The truth is not what it seems, but what it is.
There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?
Having kids is not the same as being a parent.
He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?
When you tell a lie, everything that you say in the future may be treated as suspect.
A lie repeated many times doesn’t change the truth.
Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood.
One day, and it may be long off, but one day there will be bacon again. It might be mouse bacon, but that will do for me.
Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don't get it: If you're not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.
I am unconcerned with what yesterday has left behind, but rather what tomorrow will bring.
Being a good loser helps build character, provides valuable lessons, and helps you become mentally prepared for your next challenge.
If you’re not proud of what you do, you’re not done.
When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.
The Wanderer then leaves behind the spiritual seeker, with all the accumulated knowledge and lofty spiritual experience, and takes the first step on the Journey.
Your life is determined by the sum of the choices that YOU make.
You can’t live an unhealthy lifestyle and expect a healthy outcome.
How could I have ever thought she was what was wrong in my life? She was the only thing that made any sense, and when she was broken and hurting, so was I.
If you stop focusing on all the reasons why you can’t do it, you just may surprise yourself to see what you can do.
We tell our stories, especially as young people, in part because we want them to be true. We want life to be full of adventure and creativity and daring that might, just might, be real.
He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.
When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
Whether a man favors crepes and classical or cornbread and country, the complexities of life are all the same.-The Rabbi-
No matter how dreary and grey our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.
Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.
Paradise is not a place, it’s a state of mind.
I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.
Respect is priceless. Earn it every day!
It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.p 284
Always give everything 110 percent. It's the extra 10 percent that everyone remembers.
To exist is to stand out, away from the background, " The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.
Liberty is too precious to be buried in books. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say, 'I'm free'.
The day is crisp and clear, almost like every other morning he's taken the same walk in the snow, hiking to the forest and back.
The reality is that every single person is individual and special. There has never been and will never be another person on the Earth like you!
Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory in this way, but the moment the study are in insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.
