 | The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get less than
you settled for. |
| Every man dies, but not every man lives. |
| Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. |
| The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for
curiosity. ~Ellen Parr |
| We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and
clap as they go by. ~Will Rogers |
| No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde |
| We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde |
| Only dead fish go with the flow. |
| Watch out for the person behind the guy in front of you. |
| Never argue with a fool~ people might not know the difference. |
| Nothing he never said ever did him any harm. ~Cavlin
Coolidge |
| The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ~~Robert Lewis
Stevenson |
| The new and the old have value to man only as they relate to the
present.... To live for either is to lose his only reality, the moment. |
| Man must learn to let go as easily as he grasps or he will find
his hands full and his mind empty. |
| As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move and
the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity
of dreams. Hopeful, we are half way to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost
forever. |
| To see people as they really are we must love them
unconditionally. Unless we do so, they may not reveal themselves to us and we will
miss them forever. |
| Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are
unable to give possesses you. ~Andre Gide |
| The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.
~Joanna Macy |
| A positive attitude may not solve all of your problems, but it
will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. |
| Push a coincidence back far enough, and it becomes inevitable.
~Carl Jung |
| I am no longer afraid of storms, I am learning how to sail my own
ship. ~Louisa May Alcot |
| If you haven't got time to do it right the first time, when will
you find the time to do it over? |
| Be ashamed to die until you have achieved something for the good
of humanity. ~T. Mann |
| The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they
cease to live. ~W. Somerset Maugham |
| There is no failure except in no longer trying. ~Elbert
Hubbard |
| Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much the heart can hold.
~Zelda Fitzgerald |
| I am more important than my problems. ~Jose Ferrar |
| There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like
the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| One who lets slip the opportunity to serve another misses one of
the richest experiences life has to offer. ~Pali Text |
| It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ~Walt Disney |
| If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain. or help one fainting robin
into his nest again, I shall not live in vain. ~Emily Dickinson |
| Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life....
not by our standard of life. By our By our measure of giving.... not by our
measure of wealth. By our simple goodness.... not by our seeming greatness.
~William Arthur Ward |
| With a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a
hair. ~Persian Proverb |
| Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work
and to play and to look up at the stars. ~Henry Van Dyke |
| If you think you have given enough, think again. There is
always more to give and someone to give it to. ~Norman Vincent Peale |
| The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
~Samuel Johnson |
| Knowledge comes by way of ignorance, so we ought to be encouraged
by what we don't know. |
| Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty is never old.
~Franz Kafka |
| A great deal of good can be done in the world if one is not too
careful who gets the credit. ~A Jesuit Motto |
| To behave with dignity is nothing more than to allow others freely
to be themselves. ~Sol Chaneles |
| One forgives to the degree that one loves. ~La Rochefaucould |
| On this earth there is no perfect love, only human love. |
| When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in
yourself. ~Martin Walsh |
| We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of
getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do
have. ~Frederick Koenig |
| The fear of life is the favorite disease of the Twentieth Century.
~William Lyon Phelps |
| Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and
asking other strangers, hiding who the are, to love us. |
| We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them. ~M
Scott Peck |
| Every individual has a place to fill in this world and is
important in some respect whether he chooses to be or not. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| the man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the
protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good
shall go from me. ~Buddah |
| We are confined in our understanding of other human beings by what
we know about ourselves. |
| Where you find no love , put love, and you will find love.
~John of the Cross |
| Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must
carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability
of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. ~Henry David Thoreau |
