Words To Live By
(Misc.)
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"Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers." ~Unknown "Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too." ~Unknown "Try to be governed by your loves and not your hates; and find goodness and beauty where you can." ~Brandon Meranda "Have a heart with room for every joy." ~P.J. Bailey "You never know when you will lose someone. So, grab them and tell them that you care now because it might be the last time you will ever be able to." ~Unknown "The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep." ~Alice Hoffman "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."~Mother Teresa "Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it." ~Thadeus Golas "Manners are just formal expressions of how you treat people." ~Molly Ivins "Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts." ~Madame de Stael "It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it." ~Unknown "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." ~Goethe "Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something." ~Unknown "Sticks and stones may harm the bones when thrown with an angry art. Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart." ~Unknown "He that gives should never remember; he that receives should never forget." ~Talmud "Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war." ~John Andrew Holmes "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "The basis of optimism is sheer terror." ~Oscar Wilde "Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative." ~Oscar Wilde "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for enough good people to do nothing." ~Amnesty International "It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." ~Edmond Hillary (The first person to climb Mount Everest) "There's so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it ill befits any of us to criticize the rest of us." ~Unknown "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." ~Henry David Thoreau "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." ~Andre Gide "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."~Nagui Mahfouz "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." ~Voltaire "Dreams are the answers to the questions we haven't learned how to ask." ~X-Files "Don't step on a daisy while looking for a rose." ~Unknown "The fragrance stays on the hand that extends the rose." ~Unknown "The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause." ~Baltasar Gracian "To refrain from imitation is the best revenge." ~Marcu Aurelius "Dancing's just a conversation between two people. Talk to me." ~Hope Floats "He who praises everybody, praises nobody." ~Samuel Johnson "Talent is the gift plus the passion- a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it." ~Neil Simon "You never saw a fish on the wall with its' mouth shut." ~Sally Berger "Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself." ~Unknown "Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die." ~Unknown "Those who can take advice are sometimes superior to those who can give it." ~Von Knebel "Be modest, a lot was accomplished before you were born." ~Unknown "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." ~Plato "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Character is what you are in the dark." ~Dwight Moody "Be the change you want to see in the world." ~Mahatma Gandhi "We must demand more not from each other, but from ourselves." ~Jewel "You closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too, even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling." ~Tuesdays with Morrie "Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can-and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk." ~Dr. Joyce Brothers "Seek to understand rather than be understood and love rather than be loved. For, it is in giving that we receive." ~St. Francis of Assisi "If it should happen that your dreams be shattered, do not be afraid. Have the courage to pick up the pieces and smile at the world. For, dreams that are easily shattered can just as easily be rebuilt." ~C. Jenson "Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have." ~Unknown "Never stop dreaming, for out of such fragile things come miracles." ~Unknown "Don't underestimate the power of doing. Of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." ~Winnie the Pooh "A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference." ~Winnie the Pooh "Let love rule thy heart, logic rule thy mind and faith rule your soul." ~Unknown "There are moments when, no matter the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees." ~Les Miserables "Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me." ~Unknown "One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that other people will never know about." ~Anne Tyler "If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive." ~Bhagavad Gita "Do one thing everyday that scares you." ~Baz Luhrmann "Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours." ~Baz Luhrmann "Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes your ahead, sometimes your behind ... the race is long and in the end it's only with yourself." ~Baz Luhrmann "Go as far as the eye can see, and when you get there, look further." ~Unknown "Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream, and we shout with others when we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all, we do only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid." ~Unknown "Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it." ~Hebrews 13:2 "No matter how badly your heart was broken, the world won't stop for your grief." ~Unknown "God, grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless." ~Admiral Chester W. Nimitz "The noblest vengeance is to forgive." ~Italian Proverb "Every one is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." ~Mark Twain "The things you fear are undefeatable...not by their nature, but by your approach." ~Jewel "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." ~Hebrews 11:1 "You should never let the sun set on tomorrow before the sun rises today." ~Unknown "Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy - it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength. I will need them all." ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh "The more you suffer the more it shows you really care." ~Unknown "Don't let your broken heart keep from ever mending and miss out on a love that is never ending." ~Jessica Simpson "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ~Albert Einstein "Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly." ~Frank Tyger "If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it." ~Diana Nyad "Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overachiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards." ~Martha Stewart "Some things are true whether you believe them or not." ~City of Angels "The more you learn, the more you realize how much you really don't know." ~Hemingway "Stars are given light by nature, but dreams are what make them sparkle." ~Unknown "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." ~Henry David Thoreau "To reach the goal, we must sometimes run with the wind, other times against it. But we must certainly run, not walk, nor stand still." ~Unknown "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire." ~Unknown "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams are destroyed." ~Unknown "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." ~Theodore Roosevelt "Light tomorrow with today!" ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." ~Donald Kendall "Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows." ~Robert Ingersoll "Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they're not; it helps them to keep trying." ~Merry Browne "To dream of the person you'd like to be is a waste of the one you are." ~Unknown "Forgiveness is the sweetest thing anyone can ever give you." ~Unknown "How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but someone." ~Coco Chanel "Never confuse movement with action." ~Ernest Hemingway "If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too." ~Sue Grafton "Never look down on anybody, unless you are helping them up." ~Jesse Jackson "When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself." ~Unknown "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." ~Henry Ford "You never get a second chance to make a first impression." ~Unknown "The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." ~Unknown "Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly." ~Unknown "No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears." ~Unknown "Listen to your heart, it is the only thing in the world that knows exactly what you are feeling." ~Unknown "To dream is to live what you can't at this moment." ~Jessie Bellock "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." ~C.S. Lewis "Good, better, best, never let it rest, till the good is better and the better is best!" ~Unknown "Excuses are nails used to build a house of failure." ~Unknown "If you treat an individual...as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." ~Geothe "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." ~Erica Jong "The definition of maturity is knowing that your pleasures aren't worth other peoples` pain." ~Mike McDonald "The future is no place to place your better days." ~Dave Matthews Band "Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." ~Bacall "The greatest gift that you can give another person is your attention." ~Unknown "Those who are at the top of the mountain did not fall there." ~Unknown "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." ~Mark Twain "Courage is grace under pressure." ~Ernest Hemingway "Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." ~Frank Outlaw "What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness." ~Thomas Aldrich "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ~Mother Teresa "Imagination is more important that knowledge." ~Albert Einstein "Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all time, in all circumstances." ~St. Vincent De Paul "Slow down and take the time to really see. Take a moment to see what is going on around you right now, right where you are. You may be missing something wonderful." ~J. Michael Thomas "A little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil...is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore, search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity." ~Albert Schweitzer "The future is not some place we are going but one we create. The paths are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination." ~John Schaar "He who has choice has trouble."~Dutch Proverb "There are no rules. Just follow your heart." ~Robin Williams "Hope is a waking dream." ~Aristotle "The things that count most in life are usually the things that cannot be counted." ~Bernard Meltzer "If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches." ~Carolyn Kenmore "Imagination is the foundation of our future." ~Unknown "Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off." ~C. G. Jung "When you use words everyday, you forget how to make them count!" ~Unknown "Sometimes, you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down." ~Kobi Yamada "Faith goes up the stairs that love builds and looks out the window which hope has opened." ~C.H. Spurgeon "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 "Experience is one thing you can get for nothing." ~Oscar Wilde "One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be." ~Oscar Wilde "Do not let yourself be defined by the words that others speak against you." ~President Bill Clinton "Abandon yourself to nature's truths and let nothing in this world be unknown to you." ~François Rabelais "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." ~Mother Teresa "The law an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind."~Martin Luther King Jr. "Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none." ~William Shakespeare "You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." ~Mary Tyler Moore "Those who have succeeded and don't mention luck are kidding themselves." ~Larry King "Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears." ~Paul Simon "Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either." ~Golda Meir "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." ~Harriet Beecher Stowe "Never act a certain way to fit in, for when all your acting is done, you will have forgotten who you really are." ~Christopher Swift "The family is the essential presence- the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it." ~Bill Buford "Have a strong mind and a soft heart." ~Unknown "Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."~Charles Dickens "Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge." ~Carmelia Elliot "Some complain that roses have thorns. Be thankful, instead, that thorns have roses." ~Ziggy Comics "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need." ~Unknown "You can't get to heaven half off the ground. Everybody knows almost doesn't count." ~Brandy. "In a world where you can be anything - be yourself." ~Unknown "You can run from the disappointments you're trying to hide, but it's only when you embrace your past that you truly more forward." ~Unknown "Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent - just common sense and love will do." ~Myrtle Auvil "Waste not fresh tears over old grieves." ~Euripides "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did. But, people will never forget the way you made them feel." ~Unknown "Always remember the last thing you say to people each day. Because what if it happens to be the last thing you ever get to say to them?" ~Unknown "Every person you meet is an opportunity for kindness." ~Unknown "Seeds of kindness will yield a bountiful harvest o blessings." ~Unknown "A cheerful heart is good medicine." ~Proverbs 17:22 "Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young." ~O.S. Marden "Unshared joy is an unlighted candle." ~Spanish Proverb "May life's greatest gifts always be yours-happiness, memories, and dreams." ~Unknown "Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love." ~Adela Rogers St. Johns "We can't all be shining examples, but we can at least twinkle a little." ~Unknown
