"Better to be without logic than without feeling." - Charlotte Bronte, English author (1816-1855).
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength." - Corrie Ten Boom
"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses." - William Arthur Ward
"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish." --S. I. Hayakawa
"I quote others only the better to express myself." --Michel de Montaigne
"Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit." --Christian N. Bovee
"When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it." --Anatole France
"Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation." --Norman Augustine
"No profit grows where there is no pleasure ta'en." --Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)
"Act as if it were impossible to fail." --Dorothea Brande
"Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little." --Edna Ferber
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." --Mary Kay Ash
"Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant." --Sidney Hook, American philosopher and author.
"I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel." --Gloria Naylor
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." --Tennessee Williams
"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character." --Isabelle Eberhardt
"It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark." --Howard Ruff
"Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves." --Euripedes
"Examine the contents, not the bottle." --The Talmud
"If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right." --Jules Renard
"We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile." --Grace Williams
"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's." --Jean Paul Richter
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents." --G. C. Lichtenberg
"Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized." --Francis R. Havergal
"We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same." --Barbara Hershey
"Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind." --Timothy Fuller
"A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. " --Erich Fromm
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." --Louisa May Alcott
"Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow." --Anon.
"Eat life, or it will eat you." --P.M. Bennett
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." --Erica Jong
"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are." --Madeline L'Engle
"In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it." --Ivan Bloch
"Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life." --Hugh Prather
"I have always been waiting for something better -- sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me." --Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due." --William R. Inge
"A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence, to change." --Katherine B. Hathaway
"The greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances." --Martha Washington
"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist." --Mark Twain
"If one truly has lost hope, one would not be around to say so." --Eric Bentley
"I'm not happy. I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them." --Beverly Sills
"Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life." --Antoinette Bosco
"Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash." --Dr. Joyce Brothers
"He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears." --Michel de Montaigne
"You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness." --Anon.
"The truth (is) that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity." -- Helen Hayes, American actress (1900-1993).
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." --Oscar Wilde
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were
a year ago." --Bernard Berenson
"The only completely consistent people are the dead." --Aldous Huxley
"We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing." - Honore de Balzac
"Nothing has turned out as we expected! It never does. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is. " -- Gone With the Wind
"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." --Liz Smith
"Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as occasionally receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful - just as one is more angry for being told one is angry." -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould, American writer (1879-1944).
"Distance doesn't matter; it's only the first step that is difficult." --Marquise du Delfand
"I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." --Oprah Winfrey
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." --Ingrid Bergman
"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg - not by smashing it." --Arnold Glasow
"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand." --Native American Proverb
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." --Buckminster Fuller
"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow." --H.G. Wells
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." --Arthur Ashe
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." --Gilbert K. Chesterton
"There are only two ways to live your life; one is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is." --Albert Einstein
"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper." --Aristotle
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never." --Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813-1855).
"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities." --Christian Nestell Bovee, American author (1820-1904).
"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." --Maya Angelou
"Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely." --From The Movie, The Land Before Time
"The giving of love is an education in itself." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace." --G. Weatherly
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." --John Milton
"I'd rather have a half an hour of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special." --Julia Roberts
"Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues. " --Hugh Prather
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." --Anais Nin
"Sin ... has been made not only ugly but passe. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or under privileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick." --Phyllis McGinley, American poet (1905-1978).
"Every fragment of song holds a mirror to a past moment for someone." --Fanny Cradock
"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." --Hebrews 13:2
"If passion drives, let reason hold the reins. " --Benjamin Franklin
"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone. " --G.B. Stern
"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness. " --J.B. Priestley
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." --Anne Frank
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet
"Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to." --Arnold Glasow
"Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests." --George Matthew Adams
"It's never too late to be what you might have been." --George Eliot
"Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. " --Iara Gassen
"To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it." --Timothy P. Childers
"We fear something before we hate it. A child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise." -Cyril Connolly, British critic (1903-1974).
"That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. " -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." - Dr. Who
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -- Mark Twain
"An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity." -- Sir Winston Churchill
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." -Bertrand Russell, English mathematician and philosopher (1872-1970).
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them. " -- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
"Much of life," he told me, "depends on our being ignorant of reality. If we understood reality, we would never go on." - "Beauty", by Sheri S. Tepper
"History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed." -Horace Walpole, English author (1717-1797).
"The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates." --Thomas Szasz
"Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give, I give myself." -- Walt Whitman
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney J. Harris
"One should count each day a separate life." - Seneca
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get." -- H. Jackson Brown
"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." - Edward Everett Hale
"What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others." - Anonymous.
"No two people read the same book." - Edmund Wilson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
" She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer." - Emily Carr
"Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love." - Mariama Ba
"I always feel that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing." - Katherine Mansfield
"It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not." - Mignon Mclaughlin
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - Doris Lessing
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy
"Listening, not imitiation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. - Joyce Brothers
"Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear." - William Gladstone
"Because we do not know when we will die we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well and yet everything happens only a certain number of times and a very small number really. How many times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your life that you can't even conceive of your life without it. Perhaps four or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise, perhaps twenty, and yet it all seems so limitless."
- Paul Bowle
"We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life." - Carl Jung
"She was right, too, when she said that some kinds of love have an awful power to diminish. A child's does; mine for her did. I spent so much of my life, and hers, demanding that she be...only my grandmother. And all the while, she was this other magnificent woman."
- Anne Rivers Siddons, "Colony"
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
-Anna Louise Strong
"To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee."
- William H. Walton
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway."
- Mother Teresa
"Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partners are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by the law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, freely exercised.
- Stephen Ambrose, 'Comrades'
"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."
- Golda Meir
"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary"
- Aaron Rose
"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
- Roald Dahl, "The Minpins"
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."
- Victoria Holt
"There are only two ways to live your life; one is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is."
- Albert Einstein
"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure"
- Alice Hoffman
"We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. The understanding that although you're no bargain, you love and you are loved. Anyway."
- Ellen Goodman
"Patience is the key to joy."
- Fortune Cookie
"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same."
- Francesca Reigler
"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."
- Harrison Ford
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then."
- Katherine Hepburn
"There's no point wishing the past was different - not when you got so much going for you now!"
- Grandpa Lou Pickles, 'RugRats'
"An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are and can function independantly in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes."
- Patricia Fry
"Success? Don't you know it is all about being able to extend love to people? Not in a big, capital-letter sense, but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word."
- Ralph Fiennes
