Here is a collection of some of my favorite quotes, most of which I have been able to relate to at some time in my life. Oh, and be sure to check out my Jack Handy quote page...they crack me up!
"There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss...no other road, no other way--no day
but today."
--Jonathan Larson
"Just as life is an end in itself, so every living human being is an end in himself, not the means to the ends or the welfare of others -and, therefore, man must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself."
--Ayn Rand
"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em."
--Louis Armstrong
"Forget your times of distress, but never forget what they taught you.
--Unknown
"Never let yesterday use up today."
--Will Rogers
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and
lose, the next best."
--Unknown
"One of the hardest things to do is watch the one you love love somebody else.
--Unknown
"Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while, you might
miss it."
--Ferris Bueller
"What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is
the person who made you cry?
--Unknown
"Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the
end yet
--Unknown
"All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere and somehow there is someone searching for us."
--The Wonder Years
"The strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept."
--Unknownbr>"I learned that you have to be who you are because if you're not who you are, then who are you?"
--Doug
"I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
--Frederick Perl
"She said she usually cried at least once each day, not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful... and life was so short"
--Brian Andreas
"To live is so startling it leaves time for little else"
--Emily Dickinson
"I can sum up all I've learned about life in three words; it goes on."
"If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax, I would limber up, I would be crazier than I've been on this trip. I know very few things I'd take seriously any more. I'd certainly be less hygenic...I would take more chances, I would take more trips, I would scale more mountains, I would swim more rivers, and I would watch more sunsets. I would eat more icecream and fewer beans. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it all over again, I'd have many more of them; in fact I'd try not to have anything else, just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of my day. If I had it to do all over again, i'd travel lighter, much lighter than I have. I would start barefoot earlier in the spring, and I'd stay that way later in the fall. And I would ride more merry-go-rounds, and catch more gold rings, and greet more people and pick more flowers and dance more often. If I had it to do all over again - but you see, I don't."
--Jorge Luis Borges
"Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."
--Charlotte Witten
"How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way."
--Pascal
"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary to meet again. A meeting again--after moments or lifetimes--is certain for those who are friends."
--Richard Bach
"You can have anything you want – if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
--Abe Lincoln
"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."
--Indian proverb
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
--Alexander Graham Bell
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you will very often get it."
--W. Somerset Maughbam
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go, others stay for awhile, leaving foot-prints on our hearts and we are never quite the same."
--Unknown
"There are always two choices, two paths to take.One is easy. And its only reward is that it is easy."
--Unknown
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
--Carl W. Buechner
"Never shall I forget the days I have spent talking with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
--Ludwig van Beethoven
"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
--Henry David Thoreau
>"A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose-and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion (live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours."
--Leo Buscaglia
"How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now."
--Gerald Jampolsky
>"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
--Ghandi
"Happiness isn't having what you want, but wanting what you have."
--Carl W. Buechner
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
--George Eliot
"The path of life has many crossroads, and at each one it's difficult to say goodbye and go our own separate ways, choosing the direction that is right for each of us. But the memory of being together will always remain, and there is always the chance that our paths will cross again."
--Donna Yee
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend."
--Albert Camus
"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."
--Confucius
"Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
--Bernard Baruch
"The best remedy for anger is delay."
--Seneca
"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."
--Unknown
"Sometimes I think people care too much...I think they call it love."
--Winnie the Pooh
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
--Mark Twain
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood."
--Ralph Nichols
"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 lived. This is to have succeeded."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow)."
--Horace
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves."
--Ghandi
"Do not anxiously hope for what is not yet to come; do not vainly regret what is already past."
--Chinese Proverb
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