Fanny Fern
"How can you say luck and chance are the same? Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterwards."
Amy Tan
"Most new discoveries are suddenly seen things that were always there."
Susanne K. Langer
"The real moment of success is the moment not apparent to the crowd."
George Bernard Shaw
"One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about."
Anne Tyler
"Unfulfilled desires are dangerous forces."
Sarah Tarleton Colvin
"Each relationship you have with another person reflects the relationship you have with yourself."
Alice Deville
"The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you."
Leo Buscaglia
"A true friend is one that is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
Len Wein
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. Let your best be for your friend."
Kahlil Gibran
"Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it."
Thaddeus Golas
"You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy."
Jane Roberts
"Think where man's glory begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."
William Butler Yeats
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island. To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
Baltasar Gracian
"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
Elizabeth Foley
"Friends are people who help you be more yourself."
Merle Shain
"To love at all is to be vulnerable."
C.S. Lewis
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it."
Helen Keller
"That which hurts, also instructs."
Ben Franklin
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
Kahlil Gibran
"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger."
Nietzsche
"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."
Marcel Proust
"…when life's problems get you down… find the time to call someone- a buddy, peer, or friend."
Lilian Gamble
"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
William Wordsworth
"Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better."
Laura Huxley
"Tell me. I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me and I'll understand."
Chinese Proverb
"There is no way to know before experiencing."
Dr. Robert Anthony
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow."
Langstom Hughes
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true."
Richard Bach
"Waste not time; for that's the stuff that life is made of."
Benjamin Franklin
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
Booker T. Washington
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward."
Soren Kierkegaard
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
Abraham Lincoln
"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
T.S. Eliot
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Asking a question is only embarrassing just for that moment. Not asking is embarrassing and it will haunt you for the rest of your life."
Japanese Proverb
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."
Wendell Johnson
"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"
Steven Wright
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
George Bernard Shaw
"We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger"
Anonymous
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
Bill Cosby
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it."
Unknown
"I am NOT suffering from insanity... I happen to be enjoying myself!"
Anonymous
"God gave people a mouth that closes and ears that don't, which should tell us something."
unknown
"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. "
Ninon de L'Enclos
"He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it. "
Rousseau
"There are times when silence has the loudest voice."
Leroy Brownlow
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
Vernon Sunders Law
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be on a crowded velvet cushion."
Henry David Thoreau
"A long dispute means both parties are wrong."
Voltaire
"In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinion--and every other man is entitled not to listen."
G. Norman Collie
"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
Mark Twain
"I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth."
Elie Wiesel
"When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars."
Charles A. Beard
"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."
Jesse Jackson
"To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one."
Jack Kornfield
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced...Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice"
-Cherokee saying
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do".
Robert A. Heinlein
What is joy?
It is a bird
That we all want to catch
It is the same bird
That we all love to see flying
Sri Chinmoy
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
William Shakespeare
"Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor."
John Milton
"The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"
Eugene Kennedy
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."
Tim McGraw
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it."
Jonathan Winters
"There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures."
J. G. Hubbard
"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due."
William R. Inge
"The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it."
Harvey Milk
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
Erica Jong
"Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes . . . ."
Rev. Jesse Jackson "
The morning is wiser than the evening."
Russian proverb
"In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it."
Ivan Bloch
"Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you."
Joey Adams
"He who begins many things finishes but a few."
Italian proverb
"We only do well the things we like doing."
Colette
"Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow."
Anon.
"Redeem thy mis-spent time that's past: / Live this day, a if 'twere thy last."
Bishop Thomas Ken
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it"
Margaret Thatcher
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results."
Dennis Wholey
"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too."
Samuel Butler
"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."
Denis Diderot
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself."
Ethel Barrymore
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is nothing we receive with so much reluctance as advice."
Joseph Addison
"Whatever advice you give, be brief."
Horace
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
Robert Browning
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
Ambrose Bierce
"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them."
Abraham Lincoln
"Who has begun is half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!"
Horace
"The body says what words cannot."
Martha Graham
"Ask and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."
Bible
"He who seizes the right moment is the right man."
Goethe
"Only one person in a thousand is a bore, and he is interesting because he is one person in a thousand."
Harold Nicolson
"Nothing is permanent but change."
Heraclitus
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by."
Robert Frost
"Large streams from little fountains flow, tall oaks from little acorns grow."
David Everett
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
Mario Puzo
"Experience gives us the test first and the lessons later."
Naomi Judd
"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."
Marcus Aurelius
"To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be."
Miguel De Unamuno
"The heart is forever inexperienced."
Henry David Thoreau
"Not to decide is to decide."
Laurence J. Peter
"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."
Robert Burton
"The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed."
Sebastien R. N. Chamfort
"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
Henry J. Kaiser
"Procrastination is the thief of time."
Edward Young
"Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down; we don't move, today is today, always is today."
Octavio Paz
"Remorse is the poison of life."
Charlotte Bronte
"Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose garden."
T.S. Eliot
"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."
Francis Bacon
"A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't."
-Murphy's Law of Sex
"Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."
Matthew Arnold
"Opportunity can often sway even an honest man."
Anonymous
"People see only what they are prepared to see."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."
William Wordsworth
"The biggest mistake is believing that there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship."
Deborah Tannen
"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
George Bernard Shaw
"We are what we believe we are."
Benjamin N. Cardozo
"Acceptance of what happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune."
William James
"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out."
Anon.
"When I start comparing myself to every stranger I pass on the street -- convinced that each one is thinner, richer, smarter, and happier than I am -- I will try to remember that they're looking at me and thinking exactly the same thing".
Barbara Graham
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."
Dale Carnegie
"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
Mignon McLaughlin
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."
G. K. Chesterton
"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes."
Doug Larson
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
Henry Ford
"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."
-- Barbara Kingsolver
"Stuffing feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken." - Brad Pitt, Fight Club
"Just the thought of being with you tomorrow is enough to get me through today." - Anon
"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."
-- Sophia Loren
You Never Know
You never know when someone
might catch a dream from you.
Or something you say may
open up the windows
of a mind that seeks light;
The way you live may not matter at all,
But you never know, it might.
And just in case it could be
that another's life, through you,
might possibly change for the better
with a better and brighter view,
it seems it might be worth a try
at pointing the way to the right;
Of course, it may not matter at all,
but then again, it might.
~source unknown
Hugs
It's wondrous what a hug can do
A hug can cheer you when you're blue
A hug can say "I love you so"
Or "Gee, I hate to see you go."
A hug is "Welcome back again"
And "Great to see you, where've you been?"
A hug can smooth a small child's pain
And bring a rainbow after rain.
The hug: There's just no doubt about it
We scarcely could survive without it.
A hug delights and warms and charms --
It must be why God gave us arms.
Hugs are great for Fathers and Mothers,
Sweet for sister, swell for brothers
And chances are your favorite aunts
Love them more than potted plants.
Kittens crave them, puppies love them,
Heads of State are not above them.
A hug can break the language barrier
And make your travels so much merrier.
No need to fret about your store of them
The more you give the more there's more of 'em,
So stretch those arms without delay
And give someone a hug today!
~Dean Walley
Roles And How We Play Them
Whenever I'm disappointed with my spot in my life, I stop and think about little Jamie Scott. Jamie was trying out for a part in a school play. His mother told me that he'd set his heart on being in it, though she feared he would not be chosen. On the day the parts were awarded, I went with her to collect him after school. Jamie rushed up to her, eyes shining with pride and excitement. "Guess what Mum," he shouted, and then said those words that will remain a lesson to me: "I've been chosen to clap and cheer!"
~source unknown
T H I N K
A few years ago at the Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants, all physically or mentally disabled, assembled at the starting line for the 100-yard dash. At the gun, they all started out, not exactly in a dash, but with a relish to run the race to the finish and win.
All, that is, except one boy who stumbled on the asphalt, tumbled over a couple of times and began to cry.
The other eight heard the boy cry. They slowed down and looked back. They all turned around and went back. Every one of them.
One girl with Down's Syndrome bent down and kissed him and said, "This will make it better."
All nine linked arms and walked across the finish line together.
Everyone in the stadium stood - and the cheering went on for several minutes. People who were there are still telling the story. Why?
Because deep down we know this one thing: What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What truly matters is helping others win, even if it means slowing down and changing our course.
~author unknown
"If i reach for your hand will you hold it? If i hold out my arms will you hug me? If I go for your lips will you kiss me? If i capture your heart, will you love me?"
"Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened"
"The future is no place your better days." -Dave Matthews Band
"Celebrate we will, cause life is short but sweet for certain." -Dave Matthews Band
"I'm not going to change my ways just to please you or appease you." -Dave Matthews Band
"Turns out not where but who you're with that really maters" - Dave Matthews Band
"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well" - Dave Matthew Band
"Would you not like to be sitting on top of the world with your legs hanging free?" -Dave Matthew Band
"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching." -Anon.
"Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it." --Don Herold
"What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do." --Anon.
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. " -- Rene Descartes
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." -- George Bernard Shaw
"If you are going through hell, keep going." -- Sir Winston Churchill
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -- Thomas Alva Edison
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." --Vince Lombardi
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." -- Jimmy Durante
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." -- Will Durant
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" -- Henry David Thoreau
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. " -- George Bernard Shaw
"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" -- Will Rogers
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." --George Washington
"True friends stab you in the front."
-Oscar Wilde
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." --Buddha
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." --Shakespeare
"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble."
-Rudyard Kipling
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough." --Frank Crane
"What's meant to be will always find a way." --Trisha Yearwood
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." -Unknown
"When you spend your life worrying about how other people feel, you lose track of how you feel." -Unknown
"After awhile you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't mean security, And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises, And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child, And you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for paths. After awhile you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure... That you really are strong, And you really do have worth."
-Veronica A. Shoffstall
"I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry."
-Unknown
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
-Plato
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."- Maugham
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." -G. Randolf
"True friends are the people that are there for you unconditionally. They are the people that never question you and support you no matter what the circumstances are. They are the people worth living for." -unknown
"Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it." -Belgicia Howell
"True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side."
"My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are."
"Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell everyday, some are like that one station with the foreign language; you don't understand a word of it but you listen and watch anyway. And then there are the ones like the commercials, always changing, ever-so-annoying and only seem to be there when you are bored. But every once and a while you meet someone who's like a really good movie of the week or that one tv show you hardly ever get to see anymore because you're so busy. My point is hold on to the friends you care about and since we don't have a remote control to mute someone or just change the channel, pick your friends carefully."
"Friends. A simple word isn't it? It's uttered everyday to almost every person imaginable. Who are your friends? I used to think that friends were the people that you could laugh and talk to. Now I know that friends aren't that, they're the people that touch your heart. You could spend hours with them doing nothing at all and it can be the best time of your life, just because it was with them. They're the people you can share your secrets with, cry with, laugh with, and just have fun with. They don't judge you or make you change. They accept you exactly as you are. They look at you and they see a great person, one they love spending time with. You all share something in common and are tied together by memories, tears, laughs and smiles. You're tied together by love for the other. Friendship is the strangest but greatest thing in the world. I find my time with my friends, the best times of my life. My friends are my heart, my soul, my fun, my laughter, tears, love and my life." -Kate Tierney
My friends accept me for things
I cannot accept within myself
- Unknown
It takes a lot of understanding, time and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. As I approach a time in my life of complete uncertainty, my friends are my most precious asset.
-Erynn Miller
Fiends are angels who lift us up to our feet, when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
"It's the friends you can call at four in the morning that matter."
"You were always there when I needed you, never left my side, always there to lean on and dry the tears I cried. I could always talk to you, you never seemed to mind, your voice so honest and gentle, your words so honest and kind. I thought I'd never meet someone as special as you are, you're my best friend in the whole wide world, you're my shooting star."
"If all my friends were to jump off of a bridge, I would not follow. I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fell."
"When people seem to push you away, that's when they need you the most."
"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age."
-Thomas Jefferson
"May friends of our youth be the companions of our old age."
-Anonymous
"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe that I deserved my friends."
-Walt Whitman
"Because we can't call people without wings angels, we call them friends instead."
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being yourself."
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. I love you for the part of me that you bring out."
-Elizabeth Barret Browning
"You and I will always be close.
And you deserve to know that
you always have - and always will -
hold a very special place in my heart.
Along with my favorite memories
and right beside my highest hopes,
I keep a very precious reminder that
...we'll never be apart."
--Jenn Davids
"Leave, but don't leave me. Look around, choose your own ground, for long you live and high you fly, and smiles you give and tears you cry, and all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be."--Pink Floyd
"There are so many ways to be connected to people. There's some people that you feel this unspoken connection to, even though there's no word for it. And the people you've known forever that you know in ways other people can't, because they've seen you change…they've let you change."--Angela Chase from My So Called Life
"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."
- Stone Temple Pilots
"I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on. I'll do the same if the same is what you want, if not I will go alone."
-Dave Matthews Band
"Do what you will, always walk where you like, your steps, do as you please I'll back you up."
-Dave Matthews Band
"See you and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best, so we can pull on through, whatever tears at us, whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around."
-Dave Matthews Band
As we go on.. We remember... All the times, we had together... As our lives change...come whatever We will still be friends forever "
-Vitamin C
" Discipline is the guardrail that keeps you on the path of self esteem."
--- Kent Nelson --- Alabama
" We cannot become who we need to be, By remaining who we are.
Invent yourself everyday."
--- Unknown
" Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."
--- Les Brown
" Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, But when there is nothing left to take away. "
--- Antoine de St. Exupery
"Tell me who admires and loves you,
and I will tell you who you are."
--- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage without fear."
--- P. Hayes
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this."
--- Henry David Thoreau
"Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment… and you can see forever. "
--- Nancy Kerrigan
" If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime."
--- Author Unknown
" The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; It is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one, When they discover that someone else believes in them And is willing to trust them."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
" It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
--- Confucius
" Don't try to become great; be great now, and discover that excellence is a reward you don't need others to confirm."
--- 'Freedom From the Ties That Bind.'
--- Guy Finley
"Would those of you who say it can't be done, stop bothering those of us who are doing it."
--unknown
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"If you can't accept losing, you can't win."
--Vince Lombardi
"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard think makes it impossible."
--George C. Lorimer
"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them."
--Madame C. J. Walker
"The key to change . . . is to let go of fear."
--Rosanne Cash
"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."
--Christopher Morely
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
--William Feather
"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
--May Sarton
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it."
--Rona Barrett
"The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."
--Bertrand Russell
"There's only one thing worse than the man who will argue over anything, and that's the man who will argue over nothing."
--Laurence Peter
"If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift."
--Frank Tyger
"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."
--Shirley MacLaine
F
orgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace." --G. Weatherly
"What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better." --Wendell Phillips
"The best mirror is an old friend." --Anon.
"Only those who dare, truly live."
--Ruth Freedman
"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth." --Horace
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
--Norman Vincent Peale
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." --Dorothy Nevill
"The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." --Lady Bird Johnson
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."
--William James
"Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is... It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best." --Sir Laurence Olivier
"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." --Jacob Braude
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. -- Julie Burchill
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.
~ Wayne Dyer
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
~ Marian Anderson ~
When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.
-Tin Cup (movie)
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. -George Bernard Shaw
"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."
--Jean de La Fontaine
"I can trust my friends… These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow."
--Cher
"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."
--Anon.
"A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt."
--George Herbert
"It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry."
--Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Everyman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."
--Marcus Aurelius
"Some pursue happiness - others create it."
--Anon
"The only unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."
--John F. Kennedy
"There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are." --Frederick L Collins
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." --Franklin P Jones
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." --Reinhold Niebuhr
"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it." --Sir Laurence Olivier
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." --Albert Schweitzer
When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
~ H.K. Barclay
"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."
~ Jerry Chin
"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."
~ Doug Horton
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? "
* Robert Browning
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"Hitch your wagon to a star. "
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. " - Confucius
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. "
* Henry David Thoreau
"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice--that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." "
* Sydney J. Harris
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour. "
* William Blake
"The words the happy say
Are paltry melody
But those the silent feel
Are beautiful"
*Emily Dickinson
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
*Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
We know what we are, but know not what we may be
*William Shakespeare
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well as you.
* George Bernard Shaw
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. -- Chinese Proverb
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring." ~ Francis H. Bradley ~
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
~ Fanny Brice ~
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
~ Hervey Allen ~
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
~ Peter Seller
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
~ Heartland Advisor ~
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.
~ Eric Allenbaugh ~
Every silver lining has a cloud.
~ Avon ~
I Wish You Enough
"I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting. I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess. I wish you enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Good-bye. I wish you enough."
"Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it." --Henry Ward Beecher
"The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves."
--Ellen Goodman
"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
--Napoleon
"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living."
--Jean Kerr
"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble."
--Moliere
"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on." --Frederic Chopin
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." --James A. Garfield
"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
--Carlos Castenada
"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you." --Herbert Gasser
"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."
--Jonathan Swift
"When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade."
--Dale Carnegie
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
--English proverb
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
--English proverb
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
--G. K. Chesterton
"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
--Robert Half
"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait."
--Ellen Metcalf
"Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly."
--James Russell Lowell
"Admitting Error clears the Score/ And proves you Wiser than before."
--Arthur Guiterman
"It's not enough to be busy . . . the question is: what are we busy about?"
--Henry David Thoreau
"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."
--Hal Borland
"Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm."
--Euripides
"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
--John Ruskin
"People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve."
--John Miller
"What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?"
--Benjamin Franklin
"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
--Elbert Hubbard
"You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures."
--Charles C. Noble
"Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize."
--Norman Vincent Peale
"I am happy and content because I think I am."
--Alain-Rene Lesage
"The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you've been in the race."
--Nellie Hershey Smith
"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
--Dale Carnegie
"Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves."
--John B. Sheerin
"Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
- Epicurus
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.
-Helen Keller
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
- Maurice Seitter
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
-Unknown
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.
- Violeta Parra
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
- Unknown
You wouldn't worry so much about what people really thought of you if you knew just how seldom they actually do.
- Unknown
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
-Robert Brault
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
-Ed Cunningham
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good
we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
~ William Shakespeare
Take the time to come home to yourself every day.
~ Robin Casarjean
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~ Dr. Seuss
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
--George Bernard Shaw
If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.
--Allyson Jones
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
--David Weatherford
"That white horse you see behind that fence may just be a zebra in disguise"
--Unknown
"One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak."
--G.K Chesterton
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
~ H. L. Mencken ~
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
--Chinese proverb
We have all been to those meetings where someone wants over 100 percent. How about achieving 103
percent? Here's a little math that might prove helpful.
What makes 100 percent?
If A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z: can be represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Then:
H A R D W O R K:
8 1 18 4 23 15 18 11 = 98% only
K N O W L E D G E
11 14 15 23 12 5 4 7 5 = 96% only
But,
A T T I T U D E
1 20 20 9 20 21 4 5 = 100 %
However,
B U L L S H I T
2 21 12 12 19 8 9 20 = 103%
It stands to reason that hard work and knowledge will get you close, but attitude and bullshit will put you over the top.
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"
--Stephen Levine
"'So do all who live to see such times, but it is not for us to decide. All that is for you to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.'"
--Gandalf, Lord of the Rings
The road goes ever on and on
Out from the door where it began
Now far ahead the road has gone,
Let others follow it who can.
Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet
--J.R.R Tolkein "The Lord of the Rings"
Soon round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate;
And though I oft have passed them by,
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
---J.R.R Tolkein
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
-J.R.R Tolkein "The Lord of the Rings"
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
-Gimli
"He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall."
-Elrond
"It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope."
-Elrond
"Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end."
-Legolas
"I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It isn't to see Elves, nor dragons, nor mountains that I want - I don't rightly know what I want: but I have to do something before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire."
JRR Tolkein
You can only come to the morning through the shadows. -JRR Tolkien
"Though here at journey's end I lie
in darkness buried deep,
beyond all towers strong and high,
beyond all mountains steep,
above all shadows rides the Sun
and Stars forever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
nor bid the Stars farewell."
-Sam, The Return of the King
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
-Bilbo Baggins
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future...
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
J.R.R. Tolkien
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
-Eric Hoffer
"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed."
-Michael Pritchard
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
-Ambrose Redmoon
"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"
-John Greenleaf Whittier
We have to understand the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye...The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
---J. Bronowski
All men are alike in their dreams, and all men are alike in the promises they make. The difference is what they do.
---Moliere
Distance doesn't matter; it is only the first step that is difficult.
---Marquise du Deffand
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do, that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
---Henry Ward Beecher
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
---Aesop
Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.
---William Sessions
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
---J.C. Watts
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
---Winston Churchill
We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.
---R. W. Boreham
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
---Ellen Hubbard
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
---H. Jackson Brown
Relationships of all kinds are like sand held in 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 onto 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
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
---William James
It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him."
---Dr. Dale E. Turner
Always love your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
---Oscar Wilde
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
---Jonathan Carroll
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse [to the trap] gets the cheese."
--Anon.
"What you see in yourself is what you see in the world."
--Afghani proverb
"…So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.
It's when I'm weary of considerations,
And life is too much like a pathless wood
Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
From a twig's having lashed across it open.
I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."
Robert Frost
"Reading makes immigrants of us all -- it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."
-Hazel Rochman
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."
-Frank Tibolt
"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again."
-Todd L. Bradbury
"In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip."
-Daniel L. Reardon
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
-Robert Frost
"He whose face gives no light shall never become a star."
-William Blake
"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."
--Henry Ford
"Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still."
--Chinese Proverb
"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."
--Charles Evans Hughes
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
--Kenji Miyazawa
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
--Steven Wright
"God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me."
--Anon.
"Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with