quotes

Here are a few of my fave quotes (you know the kind that can really get ya thinking):

What you believe is what becomes real for you. So if you tell yourself, "I'm disgusting," 50 times a day, then you're brainwashing yourself into believing it, even though it's the furthest thing from the truth.
-Sabrina Solin

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

I am one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale

After a little mental growing and mellowing, the quirky things about the way we look can become our favorites. These days I like being short. It makes me feel sassy when I take on big things and big people. And then, one the days when I need a little help, there are always platform heels.
-Francesca Delbanco

Hugging is the ideal gift...fun to give and receive, shows you care...and, of course, is fully returnable. Hugging is practically perfect. No batteries to wear out, inflation-proof, nonfattening, no monthly payments, theft-prook and nontaxable.
Charles Faraone

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.
Carol Burnett

It's alright letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday.

If Columbus had turned back no one would have blamed him. No one would have remembered him either.

Why is it that people who don't know whether they are coming or going are in such a big hurry to get there?

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.

Use what talents you have-the woods would be silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs

Definition of status: Buying something you don't need with money you don't have to impress people you don't like.

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

I grumbled because my feet hurt-until I met a man who had no feet.

Life is a grindstone-whether it polishes you up or grinds you down depends on the stuff you're made of.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is that when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers."

It's hard to fly like an eagle when your surrounded by turkeys.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

The following quotes are from the CBS series "Touched By An Angel"

Do you know why God put people' s faces on the front of their bodies? Faces are in the front so people can see where they're going, not where they've been. We have to go forward, not backward.

The problems with making heroes out of humans is that when they eventually act like humans, everyone is disappointed.

You have the right to be less than perfect.

Most driven people make the mistake of thinking they're doing the driving. That's how accidents happen.

You exchanged your faith for evidence. You stopped believing in what you knew, and you started believing in what you saw. But you see, faith is the evidence of what you can't see.

Sweetheart, we're all on the same team, trying to win the game together. And don't you forget who's calling the plays for all of us.

People get very strange when it comes to money. I'll never understand why they put so much faith in a piece of paper.

You ever notice something about humans? You ask them if they could go back and live any day over again, what would they do? It's always to go back and fix something as if they knew precisely the moment when everything went wrong.

Why is it, if you talk to God, you're praying, but if God talks to you, you're nuts

Have you ever noticed how even people who don't believe in God find themselves calling out His name in their lowest, loneliest hour? You can't ask for His help unless somewhere deep down you truely believe in him.

God's not just a matchmaker. He's a matchkeeper.

You've got to start worshipping something higher than yourself, man, 'cause I've got news for you: you are nowhere as cool as God is.'

The miracle is that there isn't more evil in this world than there is.

All your life you've been afraid of life. You'd decide you were too fat or too short of too anything, as long as it could convince you too hide. But God made you and He knew what He was doing.

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