Happiness is not having what you want. It’s wanting what you have.The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.--Charles Schwab
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.--Les Brown
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. --James Dean
Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear. --Mark Twain
There is no security on this Earth, there is only opportunity.--General Douglas MacArthur
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.--Theodore Roosevelt
He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever. —Tom J. Connelly
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.--Albert Einstein
The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it. —Blood of the Martyr
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.--Booker T. Washington
Don’t forget to love yourself. —Soren Kierkegaard
Big men become big by doing what they didn’t want to do when they didn’t want to do it.
Don’t overlook life’s small joys while searching for the big ones.
If you love life, it will love you back.
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire. —Duc de La Rochefoucauld
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. —Dr. Seuss
This is my ‘depressed stance.’ When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this. —Charlie Brown
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out alive. —Elbert Hubbard
Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. —Gallagher
Far better it is to dare mighty things, win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live on the grey twilight that knows neither victory, nor defeat. —Theodore Roosevelt
Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you’re dealt, you can’t win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win. -- Mike Conner
Take time to work, it is the price of success.Take time to think, it is the source of power.Take time to play, it is the secret of perpetual youth.Take time to read, it is the foundation of wisdom.Take time to be friendly, it is the road to happiness.Take time to dream, it is hitching your wagon to a star.Take time to love & be loved, it is the privilege of the gods.Take time to look around, it is too short a day to be selfish.Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul.
We are each of us angels, with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.—Luciano De Creschenzo
What most people need to learn in life, is how to love people and use things, instead of using people and loving things.
We do not understand Joy, until we have felt sorrow; Faith until we are tested; Peace, until we are faced with conflict;Trust, until we are betrayed; Love until it is lost; Hope, until we are faced with doubts.
Tell me, and I’ll forget. Show me, and I’ll remember. Involve me, and I’ll learn.
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile that it happened.
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
When we are wronged, we hurt. And hurts have a way of burrowing into our memory banks. Miserably chained to the past, we cannot figure out why we are bitter and unhappy. Forgiveness sets us free. Bitterness and revenge melt away under its hot fire. But it does not come as a whimsical feeling. It’s a deliberate act on our part. Revenge evens the score; Forgiveness wins the game.
To create is to trust yourself, your spirit and your vision.
One doesn’t discover new lands without losing sight of the shore.
To create is to live out what you are not yet, but are becoming.
For the sake of getting a living, we forget to live.
Pray not for a lighter load but for stronger shoulders.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.---Cardinal Newman
The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance---Pablo Casals
If Today
If you planted hope today in any hopeless heart
If someone’s burden was lighter because you did your part,
If you caused a laugh that chased some tears away
If tonight your name is named when someone kneels to pray
Then your day has been well spent.
Lot’s of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
However rare true love is, true friendship is rarer.
Forget your mistakes, but remember the lessons they taught you.
Do not let others influence your ideas or decisions. In 5 years it is you and not them who will be living with the choices that you made.
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
People are like stained-glass windows.They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.--- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
We can gain strength and courage and confidence, by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...We must do that which we think we cannot--- Eleanor Roosevelt
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. ---Moliere
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.--- Earl Gray Stevens
If you put off everything until you’re sure of it you’ll never get anything done.---Norman Vincent Peale
Opportunity always involves some risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is opening.---Alexander Graham Bell
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people; and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hundred years from now,...it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove......but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.---Kathy Davis
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.---Jesse Jackson
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
Normal is a setting on my clothes dryer.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried something new.---Albert Einstein
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.---Vince Lombardi
Six essential qualities that are key to success: sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom and charity.
Three grand essentials to happiness in life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.---Addison
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. --- Cardinal Newman
Blessed are they who know themselves, control themselves, improve themselves and, most importantly, give themselves.---William Arthur Ward
Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one’s heart to a dear friend. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subjects of conversation; they do not weigh their words, because there is nothing to be kept back. Neither do they seek for something to say; they talk out of the abundance of their hearts, just what they think. Blessed are they who attain such familiar, unreserved communication with God.---Francois Fénelon
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.---Hebrews 13.2
I shall pass through this world, but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, Let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall never pass this way again.
Don’t miss out on life just to stay alive.--- Adam Burrell
When you break your word, you break the one thing that cannot be mended.
Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward—your destiny—is in the present moment.---Dag Hammarskjold
The most wasted of days are the ones without laughter.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.---Rita Mae Brown
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.---Winston Churchill
Have a strong mind and a soft heart.---Anthony J. D’Angelo
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.---Anne Frank
Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.---Cordel Hull
There’s always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.---Henry Louis Mencken
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.---Albert Schweitzer
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.---Mark Twain
Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.---Tom Clancy
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.---Salvador Dali
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.---Gustave Flaubert
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.---Luciano Pavarotti
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after one grows up.---Pablo Picasso
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.---Marcel Proust
If life doesn’t offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.---Anthony J. D’Angelo
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.---Anthony J. D’Angelo
Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.---Anthony J. D’Angelo
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.---Bessie Stanley
Here’s to your love, health, and wealth—and time to enjoy each.---Spanish proverb
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don’t treat me right, shame on you.---Louis Armstrong
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.---George Washington Carver
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.---Arnold H. Glasgow
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.---Samuel Johnson
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.---Martin Luther King, Jr.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.---Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.---Abraham Lincoln
It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.---Molière
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.---Friedrich Nietzsche
To err is human, to forgive divine.---Alexander Pope
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.---George Bernard Shaw
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.---Mark Twain
When choosing between evils, I always like to take the one I’ve never tried before.---Mae West
A mountain wears down a horse, anger wears down a man.
If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will believe them.
If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for what he could be, he will become what he could be.
Truth fears no questions.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.---Henry C. Link
He drew a circle that shut me out heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win, we drew a circle that took him in.-- Edwin Markham,Outwitted
Death is more universal than life; Everyone dies but not everyone lives.--- A. Sachs
Self-respect is earned as surely as someone else’s; If you don’t have it you know why, and you mustn’t ever back down from an opportunity to create some.--- Ed Howdershelt
You don’t need to blow out another candle, to let your own candle shine.
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning will take care of itself.--- Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in the middle does what he wants to do. --- Bob Dylan
The friendship that can cease has never been real.--- St. Jerome
It is only with the heart that one sees rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye...--- Antoine de St.Exupery
The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready.
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control.In work, do what you enjoy. In family, be completely present. Tao Te Ching
The means by which we live are marvelous indeed. And yet something is missing. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together. . . . Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit.---Martin Luther King, Jr.
I will greet this day with love in my heart, for this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself, but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act, I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon, and none on who I call can defend upon its force…my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day. ---Og Mandino
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. --- Louisa May Alcott
A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best. --- Law of Success
When we die and go to Heaven, our Maker is not going to say, “Why didn’t you discover the cure for such and such?” The only thing we’re going to be asked at that precious moment is “Why didn’t you become you?” --- Wiesel
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. --- Ivy Baker Priest
We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you. --- Jeff Warner
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to use to learn from. --- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
If you really want to make the sale, make your pitch, provide the sales contract, give the decision-maker the pen, and then sit back and shut up! --- Charles Bettger
We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.--- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. --- Ziggy
The proper function of man is to live - not to exist. ---Jack London
Endurance allows us to get where we're going. Higher the goal, longer and more arduous the path. More endurance we can muster, more we can achieve. Many things we can change, and some things we must endure. We grow by our endurance. Strength comes from adversity.Stand up when others choose to sit down; Step forward when others prefer to step back;Speak out when the voices of silence are so deafening. Fr. Brian Cavanaugh, TOR
I think of people I met in the past. . . .Many, many people. Where are they now?Some are still friends, some just a Christmas card; others no longer met but never forgotten. Not every friendship lasts forever; we move house, school and job, we drift away from people. But every memory of friendship shared, even for a short time, is a treasure, like sunshine and warmth in our lives, like a cool breeze on a humid day, like a shower of rain refreshing the earth. Thank you, Lord, for the gift of friendship at every moment of life.
Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.---George Patton
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery, than live in a world so small; my mind could comprehend it. --- Henry Emerson Fosdick
Have faith in people. Believe in them; trust them and you will draw out the best in them. They will rise high to your expectations.
Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. --- Satchel Paige
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.--- Williard Marriot
Isn't it a shame of all the marvelous hopes and dreams, that never came true because those who dreamed those dreams were afraid of the laughter of others.
Dance like no one is looking, and love like you'll never get hurt.
Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills. --- Roger Crawford
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.--- Edith Wharton
Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.---James Leo Herlihy
To the world you may be just one person. To the person you may be the world.
It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.---Albert Brooks
To accept another human being is ONE of the hardest things in the world to do.The hardest, is accepting ones' self.
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. ---Faith Whittlesey
Never judge a work of art by its defects.--- Washington Allsworth
What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high.
If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.---' The Secret of Letting Go' --- Guy Finley
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.--- Shawshank Redemption
Have a heart that never hardens, And a temper that never tires, And a touch that never hurts.---Charles Dickens
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. --- (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Tomorrow I shall stand on the mountaintop and my voice shall roar across the land, for I and the universe are one. Tomorrow the energy of all eternity shall be seen in my eyes, for I and time are one. Tomorrow you will become one with my soul,for you and I are one. Tomorrow I will be filled with unconditional love,for I am love. Tomorrow.
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have; and take the step into the darkness of the unknown; we must believe that one of two things will happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on..... or we will be taught to fly.---Patrick Overton
Sometimes you must stand alone just to make sure you still can.
Always behave like a duck; keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.--- George Eliot
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.--- Martin Luther King
If God intended for today to be perfect, he would not have invented tomorrow.
Bloom where you are planted. --- Alfred Stuart Jr.
Worry is like a rocking chair; It gives you something to do, But doesn't get you anywhere.
Realists don't fulfill their ambitions. There must be a dreamer in all of us.
Remember that another time, all of you. A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.--- Eeyore
A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, and walks with you in the shadows.
Remember to always say what you mean.If you love someone, tell them. Don't be afraid to express yourself. Reach out and tell someone what they mean to you. Because when you decide that it is the right time,It might be too late. Seize the day!
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I Love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. You have done it without a touch, without saying a word. You have done it by being yourself.
Better to have met you in my dream than to awake and reach for hands that are not there.
When a person shows you their true-self believe them the first time. Don't make them show you 28 more times.--- Maya Angelo
The pain of losing someone is small compared to the loss of not knowing them at all.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh,and the greatness which does not bow before children.--- Khalil Gibran
Perhaps the best thing in life is being able to choose the ones you love,
Perhaps the worst thing in life is not being able to choose the ones who love you back.
It is okay to kiss a fool, it is okay to let a fool kiss you, but never ever let a kiss fool you.
More than any other human problem, loneliness, the absence of meaningful human connection, drains the joy and sense of purpose from our lives. It explains why people go to shopping centers who have no intention of shopping ... They just need to be somewhere where other people are, hoping that among the hundreds of strangers passing by, they will find one familiar friendly face. It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program; much of time, they do not even
know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives.--- Harold Kushner
All the memories are of stopping and staying awhile. I realize that I have driven too fast through life, carrying in my baggage too much impatience and apprehension, Missing too many chances and passing too many people in the dust. --- Life on the Road by Charles Kuralt
A relationship is like sand in the palm of your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is, the minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold on to some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost. --- Kaleel Jamison
My soul has a wordless song for you.
A true friend knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.--- Donna Roberts