Words to live by


Never explain - your friends don't need it,
and your enemies won't believe you anyhow.
~Elbert Hubbard

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
~Les Brown

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
~Source Unknown

You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
~Frank Crane

You can complain because roses have thorns,
or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
~ZIGGY

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
~Billie Burke

Looking back, I have this to regret,
that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
~David Grayson

There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
~Source Unknown

The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
~John Evelyn

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
~The Reverend Jesse Jackson

Do not belong so wholly to others
that you do not belong to yourself.
~Baltasar Gracian

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence.
It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
~Jean Paul Richter

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do
if he knew he would never be found out.
~T.B. Macaulay

Be able to be alone.
Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
~Sir Thomas Browne

Each day of our lives we make deposits
in the memory banks of our children.
~Charles R. Swindoll

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
~Mignon McLaughlin

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Control your emotion or it will control you.
~Samurai maxim

Dream as if you'll live forever...live as if you'll die today.
~James Dean

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
~Wayne Gretzky

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
~Booker T. Washington

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
~Stephen Covey

Until you make peace with who you are,
you'll never be content with what you have.
~Doris Mortman

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