As you can tell by my other pages I love quotes. But, the ones you see on my pages weren't always there. I switch the quotes around when I get tired of them. I used to just delete them, but I thought I should save them so everyone can read all the great quotes people have said. I also included some I just like that weren't on any of my pages. Read and listen with your heart.

Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
- Pema Chodron

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
- Erma Bombeck

"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."
--Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
-Winston Churchill

Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
-Mark Twain

ATTITUDE
by Charles Swindoll
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

-Virgina Woolf

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately and not when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

-Henry David Thoreau

I discovered I always had choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.

-Judith M. Knowlton

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

-Arthur Ashe

"Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions."
-- Anthony de Mello

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

Never let a problem to be solved
become more important than a person to be loved.

-Barbara Johnson

Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.
-Ernest Holmes

Worry never robs tommorrow of sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.

-Leo Buscaglia

The person who knows a great deal about
things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive;
those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.

-Gerald Vann

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

-Mark Twain

The things which are impossible with men
are possible with God

-Luke 18:27

If your ship doesn't come in,
swim out to it.

-Jonathan Winters

That which you can't give away,
you do not possess. It possess you.

-Ivern Bell

The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a person's determination.

-Tommy Lasorda

Life itself is a race, marked by a start, and a finish.
It is what we learn during the race,
and how we apply it, that determines whether
our participation has had a particular value.
If we learn from each success, and each failure, and
improve ourselves through the process, then, at the end,
we have fulfilled our potential and performed well.

-Dr.F.Porsche

From quiet homes and first beginnings,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.

- Hilaire Belloc 1870-1953
(from my cyberfriend, Susan)

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

Many people spend their entire life indefinitely preparing to live.

-Paul Tournier

-French proverb

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic
who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

-Horace

It's good to fail now and again -
you learn a lot more out of failure
than you do out of success.

- Ian Hunter

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first
and last garment:it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with,
and it should be treated with honor.

-Martha Graham

Before you marry keep your two eyes open;
after you marry, shut one.

-Jamaican proverb

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greates obstacle to discovery is not ignorance-
It is the illusion of knowledge.

-Daniel J. Boorstin

There is no security on this earth,
there is only opportunity

-General Douglas MacArthur

The world is moving so fast these day that the man who says it can't be done
is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

-Harry Emerson Fosdick

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

-Plato

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

-Claude Bernard

Take your life in you own hands and what happens?
A terrible thing:no one to blame.

-Erica Jong

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss
by going to fast-you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

-Eddie Cantor

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

-Joseph Chilton Pearce

Last updated:Jan. 12, 1999