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A clown is a poet in action.
-- Henry Miller
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z, where X is work, Y is play, Z is keep your mouth shut.
-- Albert Einstein
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-- John Keats
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- William Morrow
Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then.
-- Samuel Johnson
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
-- Joseph Joubert
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
-- Persian Proverb
If you want a job done fast, give it to a busy person.
-- Anonymous
Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.
-- Madeline Kahn
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
-- Igor Stravinsky
Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.
-- Annette Goodheart
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
-- Jessamyn West
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
-- Dr. Seuss
A genius? Perhaps, but before I was a genius, I was a drudge.
-- Ignace Jan Paderewski
Happiness depends on ourselves.
-- Aristotle
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
-- Johnny Carson
Hope for miracles, but don't rely on one.
-- Yiddish Proverb
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-- Agatha Christie
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in longshot.
-- Charlie Chaplin
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
-- Diane Arbus
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you get all wet.
-- Anonymous
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes... Keep hope alive.
-- Jesse Jackson
Love is a breeze
that whisks through the trees
of my soul.
It bends my boughs and
blows my woes away.
I'm caught in this wind
and glad that it sends
me to you.
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
-- June Masters Bacher
Love is the only gold.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
She did observe, with some dismay, that far from conquering all, love lazily sidestepped practical problems.
-- Jean Stafford
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
-- Nadia Boulanger
Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
-- Elizabeth Stone
The melody in my head is the music of those I love.
The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
-- Myrtie Barker
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
-- Katharine Hepburn
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde
Dance to the music of your dreams; the steps will bring you joy.
What do you call bacon that's been in your refrigerator so long it's turned green?
Jurassic Pork!
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
-- Rita Mae Brown
Our children are here to stay, but our babies and toddlers and preschoolers are gone as fast as they grow up--and we have only a short moment with each. When you see a grandfather take a baby in his arms, you see that the moment hasn't always been long enough.
-- St. Clair Adams Sullivan
People who can agree on what's funny can usually agree on other things.
-- Anonymous
Real friends are those who upon watching you make a fool of yourself do not feel that the job was done permanently.
-- Anonymous
He who waits for a roast duck to fly into his mouth must wait a very, very long time.
-- Chinese Proverb
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-- Anais Nin
Somebody's boring me--I think it's me.
-- Dylan Thomas
It's not the speed toward the goal, but the direction...forward.
Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
-- W.C. Fields
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
-- Germaine Greer
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
-- Alan Kay
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-- Walter Bagehot
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The smile on your face brings a smile to my heart.
It's the special things in life
that make it mean so much,
The sun, the rain, the sky;
the thoughts and the touch.
If we let these precious things
float out to endless sea,
we lose our hope, our love and
all our reason to be.
There is nothing half so real in life as the things you've done...inexorably, unalterably done.
-- Sara Teasdale
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
-- W.H. Auden
Time heals what reason cannot.
-- Seneca the Younger
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
-- Coco Chanel
To err is human--but it feels divine.
-- Mae West
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
-- George Sand
two hearts
two minds
in time
did find
one love
one aim
two paths
the same
rejoice!
hold fast!
...and love will last.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
-- Doris Lessing
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
-- Rudyard Kipling
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
-- Ellie Katz
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain
Youth is a wonderful thing; what a crime to waste it on children.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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