Quotes for Life
Get busy with living or get busy with dying, but stop standing still.
-Stephen King Shawshank Redemption

The time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love.
-Lisa Loeb Falling in Love

All thoughts, all passions, all delights
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,          
And feed his sacred flame.
     
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge Love

God never gives any one person more trouble in their life than they can handle.
-My Amazingly Wise Grandmother

The best way to kill time is to work it to death.
-Dick Vermeil Rams Coach
Contributed by Ernie Marshall

The saddest words of voice or pen are, alas it might have been.
-Unknown (That guy "Unknown" must have been pretty smart,
because he has a lot of famous quotes-Ernie Marshall)

Contributed by Ernie Marshall

Every Decision you make is a mistake.
-Edward Dahlberg
Contributed by Rufus

The snow goose need not bathe itself to become white;
nor need you to do anything except be yourself.

-Lao Tze
Contributed by Hathor

The lion, while hunting, does not roar.
-Nigerian Proverb
Contributed by Hathor

Life is like a wild tiger, you can either lay down and let it rest it's paw
on your head; or you can sit on it's back and ride it - ride the wild tiger.

-Unknown
Contributed by Hathor

It's not the men in my life; it's the life in my men.
-Mae West
Contributed by Hathor

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
-William Shakespeare Henry IV
Contributed by Hathor

History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
-James Joyce
Contributed by revolution

The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad
-Salvador Dali
Contributed by revolution

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides relief denied even to prayer.
-Mark Twain
Contributed by revolution

Hell is other people.
-Jean Paul Satre
Contributed by revolution

You understand, we are tied down to a language which
makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

-Tom Stoppard
Contributed by revolution
There are words you hear in your lifetime that touch your soul, change your life, make you smile, or make you cry. There have been many words that have caused my heart to stir. I will share them with you as I remember them or hear them. Please feel free to send me any words you have heard that have had the same affect.
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