| Just like my Funny Quotes pages, these pages are full of words to live by (there are some funny quotes that I wouldn't exactly base MY life on, but hey, whatever floats your boat). These, like the title says, are the serious ones. |
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| "Think of all the beauty left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank "Each day can be one of triumph if only you keep up your interests." - George Matthew Adams "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." - Josh Billings "If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we'd have a pretty good time." - Edith Warton "People are not going to love you unless you love them." - Pat Caroll "There are no rules. Just follow your heart." - Robin Williams "The purpose of life is life." - Karl Lagerfeld "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln "It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded." - Anne Morrow Lindburgh "Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." - Raymond Lindquist "You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose." - Benjamin Lipson "No one knows what he can do until he tries." - Pubilius Lindquist "No one can build her security on the nobleness of another person." - Willa Cather "Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it." - Ovid "It is enough that I am of value to somebody today." - Hugh Prather "Life without a friend is death without a witness." - Spanish proverb "Forget the times of your distress but never what they taught you." - Herbert Gasser "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt "Every path has its puddle." - English proverb "Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue." - Andre Gide "The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him." - Henry L. Stimson "Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." - Corita Kent "Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother." - Khalil Gibran "The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours." - Jules Jusserano "Never let yesterday use up today." - Richard H. Nelson "The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others." - Jean de la Bruyere "Don't curse the darkness; light a candle." - Chinese proverb "Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence." - Vince Lombardi "You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself." - Ethel Barrymore "Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours." - unknown "People are ridiculous when they try or seem to be that which they are not." - Giacomo Leopardi "If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission." - Grace M. Hopper "Always try to go a step past wherever other people expect you to end up." - Beverly Sills "True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only." - Francois de la Rochefoucald |