Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
-- Robert Herrick , "To Virgins Make the Most of Time"
Live your life, don't spend it.
-- A. Lakein
Mistakes are their own instructors.
-- Horace
-- Samuel Butler, 1835-1902
We must put 'if only' in a bottle and throw it into the sea in the hope that someone else will pick it up.
It is of no use to us.
-- Rosanne D. Thomas
I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls off a string.
-- L.M.Montgomery (1874-1942), Canadian Novelist, Author of Anne of Green Gables
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. -- Mary M. Morrissey
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born;
as if to say to insensate man, 'Behold! thou hast one more chance!'
-- Harriet B Stowe (1811-1896), American novelist
Heading into the future is a little like a caterpillar entering a cocoon.
The caterpilar doesn't know that he'll become a butterfly.
All he knows is that he's alone, it's dark, and it's a little scary. -- Unknown Source
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. -- Annette Funicello
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change...you will change.
-- Dr. Robert Anthony
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
-- J. F. Kennedy
Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already.
The universe is change, life is understanding. -- Marcus Aurelius
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace. -- Cicero
We ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words. -- Goethe
To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else. -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. -- Danny Kaye
It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants.
The question is: what are we busy about?
-- Henry David Thoreau
Practice willingness. Train yourself to say, "Yes", where others say "No", or only "Maybe".
-- J. Donald Walters
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-- Joseph Campbell
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
-- Annette Funicello
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