Here you'll find a collection of some of my favorite quotes and other little pearls of wisdom. Some will make you laugh or get a little misty-eyed, but mostly they will just inspire you. I will periodically add more as time goes on, so check back every now and then. Read on...

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Quote Index

Inspirational Quotes
Comical Quotes
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Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
~Carl Sagan

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
~Alex Haley

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~Aristotle

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
~Jimi Hendrix

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
~Pablo Picasso

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
~Amy Tan

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
~Marlene Dietrich

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
~Gloria Steinum

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 them.
~Louisa May Alcott

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
~Anne Frank

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart...
~William Wordsworth

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
~Helen Keller

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
~Christopher Reeve

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
~Betty Friedan

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~Winston Churchill

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
~Audrey Hepburn

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
~Robert Frost

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
~Lord Byron

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
~Anne Frank

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I, being poor, have only my dreams.
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
~William Butler Yeats

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
~Maya Angelou

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
~Maya Angelou

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
~Ashleigh Brilliant

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
~Casey Stengel

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
~ François La Rochefoucauld

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
~Jean Paul Richter

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
~Unknown

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
~Sir Walter Scott

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
~Jean Rousseau

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
~Sophocles

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
~Erica Jong

No one ever injured their eyesight from looking on the bright side of things.
~Unknown

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
~Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

You are young at any age if you're planning for tomorrow.
~Unknown

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real.

~Unknown

If you want to see the view, first you have to climb the mountain.
~Unknown


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