Some Quotes For Thought


"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."

"To the world, you may be but one person, but to one person, you may be the world."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." ~Robert Frost~

"We would be more grateful if we knew how much of what we take for granted is planned by God."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." ~Helen Keller~

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." ~Edith Wharton~

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." ~Will Rogers~

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." ~Plato~

"Humans are the only creaturs who, when they lose their way, run faster."

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." ~Gen. George Patton~

"There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy."

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." ~Lao-tse~

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." ~Aldous Huxley~

"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~

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." ~Barbra De Angelis~

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon." ~Susan Ertz~

"It's good to have money and all the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." ~G.H.Larimer~

"We cannot lead someone else to the light while we are standing in the dark."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." ~Anais Nin~

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." ~Marie Curie~

"Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle."

"You see things that are and say, 'Why?' but I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not'?" ~George Bernard Shaw

"A saint is not one who never falls; it is one who gets up and goes on ever time he falls."

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge~

"A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find." ~Plutarch~

"We keep the best of that whieh we give away."

"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them come about through encouragement from someone else." ~George Adams~

"In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure." ~Heart Warrior Chosq~

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." ~Whitney Young, Jr.~

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." ~Henry Ford

"Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks." ~Bill Marriott~

"This is the 90's. You can't juset dump your boyfriend anymore. You have to recycle him." ~Randy Glasberger~

"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back." ~Mick Jagger~

"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." ~Karen Casey~

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." ~Mother Teresa~

"The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you." ~A.L. Kitselmen~

"You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?" ~Rumi~

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." ~Helen Keller~

"If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace." ~Robert Duvall

"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." ~Iris Murdoch

"Things do not change. We change." ~Henry David Thoreau~

"Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it." ~Hebrews 13:2~

"You never find yourself until you face the truth." ~Pearl Bailey~

"A friend is a gift you give yourself." ~Robert Louis Stevenson~

"All you need is love." ~John Lennon~

"I have no desire to move mountains, construct monuments, or leave behind in my wake material evidence of my existence. But in the final recollection, if the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart, then in living, I have made my mark." ~Thomas L. Odem~

"Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift."

"The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best converstaion you've ever had."

"It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives."

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." ~Winnie the Pooh~

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." ~Mencius~

"Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead."

"Experience is what you get looking for something else." ~Mary Pettibone Poole~

"For most of history, anonymous was a woman." ~Virginia Woolf~

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." ~George Eliot~

"Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others." ~Thomas Kempis~

"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, Though canst not then be false to any man." ~William Shakespeare~

"A little lanterncan do what the great sun can never do--it can shine in the night."

"Worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles!"

"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work." ~John Lubbock~

"A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever."

"All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it." ~James Baldwin~

"Conduct is more convincing than language." ~John Woolman~

"The reputation of a thousand years may be dertermined by the conduct of one hour." ~Japanese proverb~

"Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love." ~Thomas Szasz~

"If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done." ~Michael S. Traylor~

"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." ~Joan Rivers~

"A man's greatest strength develops at the point where he overcomes his greatest weakness." ~Elmer G. Letterman~

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." ~Elbert Hubbard~

"The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable." ~Paul Dean~

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." ~Mae West~

"If you want to truly understand something, try to change it." ~Kurt Lewis~

"A stumble may prevent a fall." ~English proverb~

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." ~Walter Elliot~

"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are." ~Roy Disney~

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and discover they were the big things."

"There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat." ~Denys Finch Hatton~

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"Whether you think yoyu can or you think you can't, you're right." ~Henry Ford~

"The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse." ~Don Juan~

"First make your arrangement, then trust in heaven; and in no case worry." ~Proffesor Jawett~

"A hug is a great gift--one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange."

"Face the thing you fear, and you do away with that fear. The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us." ~Alcoholics Anonymous~

"It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know' ". ~Somerset Maugham~

"Wearing your halo too tight also gives other people a headache!"

"You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we think." ~Brother Lawrence~

"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry, and stop to smell the flowers along the way." ~Walter Hagen~

"Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there." ~Old English Legend~

"Love cures people--both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." ~Karl Menninger~

"It is said that the face is a mirror of the soul."

"We should all be concerned about the future becase we will have to spend the rest of our lives there." ~Charles F. Kettering~

"Education is what you get from reading the small print in a contract. Experience is what you get from not reading it."

"To get rid of an enemy, one must love him." ~Leo Tolstoy~

"It often shows a fine command of launguage to say nothing."

"Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way." ~John H. Vincent~

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." ~Simone de Beauvoir~

"I feel there is something unexplored about a woman that only a woman can explore." ~Georgia O'Keefe~




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