My Favorite Quotes
The greatest handicap.......FEAR
The best day.......TODAY
The easiest thing to do.......FIND FAULT
Most useless asset.......PRIDE
The greatest stumbling block.......EGOTISM
The greatest mistake.......GIVING UP
The greatest comfort.......WORK WELL DONE
The Most Disagreeable person.......THE COMPLAINER
The worst Bankruptcy.......LOSS OF ENTHUSIASM
The greatest need.......COMMON SENSE
The meanest feeling.......REGRET ANOTHER'S SUCCESS
The best gift.......FORGIVENESS
The greatest moment.......DEATH
The greatest knowledge.......GOD
The greatest in the world.......LOVE"
~author unknown
"Don't be sad because it's over, smile because it happened."
"Good things happen to good people."
"Life's too important to take seriously."
"If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right."
"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
"If you reach for the moon and don't make it, at least you'll be among the stars."
"There are three kinds of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what just happened."
"If you really want something then go all the way to get it and never give up hope."
"Bad things may happen in life, but that's no reason to give up."
"True love is never lost or forgotten, it might just be misplaced."
"If your always dreaming of something better, you can never be happy with what you have."
"Someone dies only when they are forgotten."
"Everything happens for a reason."
"Falling in love is exactly that - falling. You don't have much control over it."
"The only remedy for a broken heart is another dose of love."
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present! I think this is special..live and savor every moment...this is not a dress rehearsal!"
"You are never granted a dream without the ability to make it come true."
"It is easy to fall in love, but hard to find someone to catch you."
"Obstacles are the scary things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
"Live is in the present, because the past will not change, and the future is yours to create."
"People who like others, are people who others like."
"If you truly love someone draw a circle around their name not a heart because hearts can be broken but a circle goes on forever!"
"Success is the self satisfaction of knowing that you have given your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
"Worry is wasting today's time cluttering up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles."
"It takes 64 muscles to frown, only 13 to smile."
"All things on earth point home in old October: sailors to sea, travelers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow, the lover to the love he has forsaken."
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of fight in the dog."
"It takes courage to have a dream and determination to make that dream come true."
"Some pursue happiness, others create it."
"God will never give you something you can't handle."
"The world is a lot like a merry-go-round. What you put out there is eventually what you're gonna get back."
"Life reveals that every good thing carries the possibility of pain."
"Love your enemies; it drives them crazy."
"Love is a good thing. Only the side effects are bad."
"Life is hard....handle with PRAYER."
"Every cloud doesn't mean a storm."
"It takes a little rain to make a rainbow."
"It's amazing how comforting the privacy of the mind can be."
"Amidst the clouds, lets build dream palaces and ride on blankets made of stars."
"Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got."
"Never compromise your dreams."
"The greatest dreams are those that become reality. The greatest reality is an inner peace devoid of useless worry over what the world thinks of you and making your life a lifetime of self discovery and awakenining."
"If music be the food of love, play on..." ~Shakespeare
"There are hundreds of lanuages in the world, but a smile speaks them all." ~Anonymous
"Don't go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ~Mother Teresa
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." ~George Bernard Shaw
"It is a man's world, but it really shouldn't be." ~Alicia Silverstone
"A friend is a gift you give yourself." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Yesterday love was such an easy game to play." ~The Beatles
"All you need is love." ~John Lennon
"Love can be deep inside, love can be suicide. Can't you see you can't hide what you feel when it's real." ~The Beatles
"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, now it's as if they are here to stay, Oh I believed in yesterday." ~The Beatles
"Do you smell what the ROCK is a cooking?" ~The ROCK (Shawn told me to put it here!)
"Life is like a lazy susan, chances may spin past you, but keep your eyes open and maybe something else will come by that's even better" ~Chris Steele
"Trust not you mind, trust not your heart, trust your soul." ~Chris Steele
"Mind is the logic and everything that takes thought, the heart is the caring side, and the soul is what is the true human, you can never change your soul, your heart and mind can change but your soul can never change." ~Chris Steele
"Well we've all been through it, thinking times are tough. And I'll see ya through it, when you've had enough. And I'll be beside you, many feelings the same. Bring back the ruin, bring back the rain." ~The Clarks
"This date's not you're mate and it's not where you're goin', but it's more like where you've been." ~The Clarks
"The student has passed her teacher.......if in fact he ever was the teacher......for he may have always been the student." ~Justin P.
"Hope isn't in the eyes, it's in the soul. But the soul may use the eyes to look for contentment." ~Megan R.
"Smile, it can't be that bad! Whatever you have done, I have probably done something stupider." ~Becky
"Autumn is the season when nature seems to stop growing and start glowing." ~William Arthur Ward
"It's almost impossible to watch the sunset and not dream." ~Bern Williams
"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it" ~John Irving
"It's snowing still. And freezing. However, we haven't had an earthquake lately." ~Eeyore, The House At Pooh Corner
"A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference." ~From Pooh's Little Instruction Book
"Brains first and then Hard Work." ~Eeyore
"It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal." ~Piglet
"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known." ~ From Pooh's Little Instruction Book
"You're blessed when you care. At the moment of being "care-full," you find yourselves cared for." ~Matthew 5:7 (THE MESSAGE)
"The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, peace, wars, love, hate, all that. Accept that it's unknown and it's smooth sailing." ~John Lennon
"Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of oure lives." ~Michael Gerber
"Worry is like a rocking chair, It gives you something to do, But doesn't get you anywhere." ~author unknown
"You don't like me, do you? Well for your information, it doesn't matter if you don't like me, because nobody likes me! If somebody liked me, then it would bother me if you didn't like me, but...that doesn't even make sense." ~Charlie Brown
"The people who get the most out of life are those who really try to accomplish something." ~Charlie Brown
"Hoping and praying should never be confused with studying." ~Linus
"On a beautiful day like this it would be best to stay in bed so yu wouldn't get up and spoil it." ~Charlie Brown
"It could have been better, but it could have been worse. For me that's good." ~Charlie Brown
"Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything." ~Charlie Brown
"You don't know anything about cows, do you?" ~Linus (that's dedciated to you Megan!) :)
"Music gives peace to the restless, and comforts the sorrowful. They who no longer know where to turn find new ways. And those who have despaired gain new confidence and love." ~Pablo Casals
"Within each of us is a loving, magical, powerful being...a Real Self. Music, friend that it is, cocoons us from our worries, enabling that hidden self to emerge." ~Terence Yallop
"You know why you don't love me? Because I talk too much. So from now on I'm not going to say anything. Is it working? I'm not talking as much as I used to. Have you noticed that I'm not bugging you anymore by talking too much? HAVE YOU NOTICED??!!" ~Lucy
"It's woman against piano...Woman is winning! Woman is winning!" ~Lucy
"My mind and my body hate each other." ~Charlie Brown
"Do you realize how many great moments in life are wasted? Take for instance the great moment coming up right now...Bang! It's gone! You've wasted it!" ~Lucy
"A good writer will sometimes search hours for just the right word!" ~Snoopy
"My stomach hurts clear down to my toes!" ~Marcie
"We've got to hold on to what we've got, doesn't really matter if we make it or not. We've got each other and that's a lot for ur.....Oh we're halfways there, Oh, living on a prayer, take my hand, we'll make it I swear, Oh, living on a prayer." ~Bon Jovi
"You may be exhausted with work, even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless." ~Mother Teresa
"A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love." ~Mother Teresa
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." ~Mother Teresa
"Love is not what we become, but what we already are." ~Stephen Levine
"Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love." ~Charlie Brown
"Love is extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." ~Iris Murdoch
"If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"One kind word can warm three winter months." ~Japanese Proverb
"We're all worried about what we should do, but because we don't know, that's what makes it life and us us." ~Megan R.
"I was standing all alone against the world outside. You were searching for a place to hide. Lost and lonely, now you've given me the will to survive. When we're hungry, love will keep us alive." ~The Eagles
"There are so many contradictions in all these messages we send. We keep asking 'How so I get out of here? Where do I fit in?' Though the world is torn and shaken, even if your heart is breakin', it's waiting for you to awaken, and someday you will learn to be still." ~The Eagles
"To be as best as you can is to try to come as close to perfect as you can, even if there is no such thing as perfect, let alone a thing such as close." ~The Walrus
"Music is a doctor of my soul." ~Doobie Brothers
"The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful, and so are you." ~The Beatles
"When you find yourself in the thick of it, help yourself to a bit of what is all around you." ~The Beatles
"All I see turn to brown as the sun burns the ground and fills my eyes with sand. As I scan this razor line, can I find, can I find where I have been?" ~Led Zeppelin
"The deeper you go, the higher you fly. The higher you fly, the deeper you go." ~The Beatles
"When you want somebody to love you, open your heart. When you want someone obsessed with you, close it." ~Adrian Pasdar's character from "Profit"
"Your life lies before you like fresh fallen snow. Be careful when you walk for every step will show." ~Unknown
"Love is a delightful day's journey. At the farther end kiss your companion and say farewell." ~Ambrose Bierce
"There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." ~Logan Pearsell Smith
"[the earth] is so small and so fragile and such a
precious little spot in that universe that you can
block it out with your thumb and you realize that on
that small spot is everything that means anything to you--
all of history and music and poetry and art and death and
birth and love." ~Russell Schweikart
"Our life is what our thoughts make it." ~Marcus Aurelius
"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 someday in your life you will have been all of these." ~George Washington Carver
"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going." ~Tennessee Williams
"Everybody needs a place to rest. Everybody wants to have a home. Don't make no difference what nobody says. Ain't nobody like to be alone." ~Bruce Springsteen
"They say the best way is just to live one day at a time...If you try to live seven days at once, the week will be over before you know it." ~Sally
"You wake up in the middle of the night and everything seems hopeless..you're all alone. You wonder, what is life all about. And why you're here and does anyone really care, and you just stare into the dark, and you feel all alone..." ~Charlie Brown
"Well we all fall in love, but we disregard the danger. Though we share so many secrets, there are some we never tell. Why were you so suprised that you never saw the stranger, did you ever let your lover see the stranger in yourself?" ~Billy Joel
"It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears." ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Love isn't in our brains, it's in our blood. We can't get rid of it by wishing it away." ~found it off of Di's band folder
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character." ~Henry David Thoreau
"Love yourself...its the way God wants you to be." ~SaraLove16
"I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent plant. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time...all of it." ~John London
"Lift up your head upon this day breaking for you. Give birth to a dream." ~Maya Angelou
"If you don't like something change it,if you cant change it, change the way you feel about it." ~Maya Angelou
* Note: For the first couple quotes, I do not know who said them.
If you have any quotes that you like and would like to see on my page, let me know by emailing me.
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