Favorite Quotes:

Favorite Quotes:

Life:

-“The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.”

-“Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.”

-Christopher Morley (1890 – 1957, US author and Journalist)

-“It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.”

-Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950, US poet)

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-“Life is just one damn thing after another.”

-Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915, US author)

-“I love humanity, but I hate people.”
-Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950, US poet)

-“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

-Isaac Asimov (1920 – 1992, US science fiction novelist & scholar)

-“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”

-Robert Heinlein (1907 – 1988, US science fiction author)

-“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

-Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965, British Politician)

-“If you give up on life, then you give up on yourself.”

-Boua Vahn

Kindness/Compassion:

-“Red is for love, passion, and anger. White is for purity and protection. Pink is for kindness and compassion.”

-Boua Vahn Thor

-“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

-Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC, The Lion and the Mouse)

-“There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.”

-Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

-“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”

-George Sand (1804 - 1876)

-“One kind word can warm three winter months.”

-Japanese Proverb

Change:

-“Change is inevitable.”

-Boua Vahn Thor

-“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

-Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol)

-“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”

-Carol Burnett (1936 - )

-“It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.”

-James Gordon, M.D.

-“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.”

-King Whitney Jr.

-“Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.”

-Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004

-“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

-Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

Curiosity:

-“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

-Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)

-“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”

-Steven Wright (1955 - )

Courage:

-“Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.”

-Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973)

Hate:

-“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

-Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

-“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”

-Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

-“Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”

-Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)

Happiness:

-“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.”

-Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

-“Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.”

-Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)

-“Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.”

-Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

Friendship:

-“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”

-Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings

-“Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”

-Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

-“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”

-Japanese Proverb

-“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”

-John Churton Collins (from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations)

-“Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.”

-Jay Leno (1950 - ?US comedian & television host)

Imagination:

-“Imagination is more important than knowledge...”

-Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

-“Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.”

-Jules de Gaultier

Creativity:

-“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

-Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

-“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.”

-“Basically, the secret to creativity is to get rid of the old and try the new.”

-“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

-Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973, Spanish Cubist painter)

Inspiration/Motivation:

-“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”

-Henrik Ibsen

-“All things are difficult before they are easy.”

-Thomas Fuller , M.D.

-“ Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."

-Clare Boothe Luce

-“Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!”

-Elizabeth Barret Browning

-“Do not employ handsome servants.” --> not sure what this means exactly, but it’s funny.

-Chinese Proverb

-“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”

-Chinese Proverb

-“Never give advice unless asked.”

-German Proverb

-“One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.”

-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)