Quotes I

Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are inconquerable. ~Theodore Vail

Some people grumble because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
~ Unknown

Goals are dreams with deadlines. ~Diana Sharif

Ulcers are what you get from mountain climbing over molehills. ~Unknown

Above all else, guard your affections. For they influence everything else in your life.
Proverbs 4:23 TLB

When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell

Character, like sweet herbs, should give off its finest fragrance when pressed. ~ unknown

A man is like a teabag, you only know how strong he is once he's in hot water. ~Salada tea bag

Never report what may hurt another, unless it be a grater hurt to some other to conceal it. ~ William Penn

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. ~John Holz

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb

A gossip is someone with a keen sense of rumor. ~Wally Phillips

Blowing out another person's candle won't make yours any brighter. ~Unknown

Form good habits. They are just as hard to break as bad ones. ~Unknown

Be assured that any worthwhile action will create change and attract support. ~ Philip Marvin

~People must believe in each other and feel it can be done and must be done; in that way they are enormously strong; we must keep up each other's courage. ~Vincent Van Gogh

~You can clutch the past so tightly to yourself that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell
~The guiltless mind cannot suffer.
Unknown~If you want something in the worst way, that's probably how you'll get it.
Unknown~Anything we don't accept in our life will come back to us again and again until we make peace with it.
~Your self worth is far more important than your net worth.~Treat money as a cherished friend instead of pushing it away. You will get more of it!~People want more out of life so they buy and collect more material things when what they really need is more food for their soul.

Understanding oneself is a necessary condition to understanding anyone else.
~Mortimer J. Adler
I now mother my mother when I can no longer mother my daughter who is older than I have ever felt myself to be. ~ Susan Jacobsen
A negative approach results in people feeling as if they are being treated like little children, which encourages them to act that way. ~Marie Mathey

Oh the worst of all tragedies is not to die young but to live until I am 75 and yet not ever truly to have lived. ~Martin Luther King Jr.

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

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you're happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much the heart can hold. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald

It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again. ~Vincent Lombardi

Minds are like parachutes. They function only when they are open. ~Bumper Sticker

A life lived in love will never be dull. ~Leo Buscaglia

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. ~Louis Nizer

If we treat people as they are, they will stay as they are. But if we treat them for what they might be, and might become, they will become their better selves. ~G.T. Smith

To behave with dignity is nothing more than to allow others freely to be themselves.
~Sol Chancles

Many of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to other's expectations. ~Nathaniel Brandon

It is not our tenderness which keeps us warm at night, but our tenderness which makes others want to keep us warm. ~Harold Lyon

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the pwers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. ~Mary Cholmondeley

To live in the hearts we leave behind; is not to die. ~Thomas Campbell

Take your life into your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing! No one to blame.
~Erica Jong

We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them. ~Leo Tolstoy

The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost. ~G. K. Chesterton

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. ~George Bernard Shaw

To deny any aspect of your basic emotions is to deny life itself. ~Barbara Fast (from "Getting Close")

One must desire something to be alive. ~Margaret Deland, American Novelist

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. ~Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz singer

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
~Mignon McLaughlin, Humorist