Quotes: About 385
"Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do."
~~~ Irma Kurtz
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
~~~ Plato
"The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see the beauty in others."
~~~ Omar Suleiman
"Don't just be yourself. Be all of yourself. Don't just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life."
~~~ Joss Whedon
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
~~~ Edgar Degas
"There's always a little truth behind every 'just kidding,' a little knowledge behind every 'I don't know,' a little emotion behind every 'I don't care,' and a little pain behind every 'It's okay.'"
~~~ Unknown
"To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life."
~~~ Osho
"One man can make a difference and every man should try."
~~~ Unknown
"You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?"
~~~ George Bernard Shaw
“History is written by the victors - and when there are no victors, it all winds up in corporate shredders.”
~~~ Neal Shusterman
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
~~~ Unknown
"The Japanese say you have three faces. The first face, you show to the world. The second face, you show to your close friends, and your family. The third face, you never show anyone. It is the truest reflection of who you are."
~~~ Unknown
"People build up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."
~~~ Unkown
"There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn't jump puddles for you."
~~~ Unknown
"In a perfect world everything would either be black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is."
~~~ Neal Shusterman
"The sad truth about humanity, Risa was quick to realize, is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given."
~~~ Neal Shusterman; Unwholly
"Rivers belong where they can ramble, eagles belong where they can fly. I've got to be where my spirit can run free. Got to find my corner of the sky."
~~~ Pippin
"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory."
~~~ Dr. Seuss
"When you fight to cling to people who are no longer meant to be in your life, you delay your destiny. Let them go."
~~~ Mandy Hale
"Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger."
~~~ Unknown
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. Te purpose of life is to give it away."
~~~ Pablo Picasso
"Move on. It's just a chapter in the past. But don't close the book, just turn the page."
~~~ Unknown
"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anyone or anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."
~~~ Unknown
"Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well."
~~~ Unknown
"A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on it's own wings. Always believe in yourself."
~~~ Unknown
"You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it."
~~~ Unknown
"In life it's not where you go - it's who you travel with."
~~~ Unknown
"Appreciate what you have, since you don't know what you've got until it's taken away from you... That's when it is too late."
~~~ Unknown
"Life's not about the people who act true to your face. It's about the people who remain true behind your back."
~~~ Unknown
"How others see you, is not important. How you see yourself means everything."
~~~ Unknown
"No one can drive you crazy unless you give them the keys."
~~~ Unknown
""You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other."
~~~ Neal Shusterman; Unwind
""'How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?'
'They do it all the time,' says Hayden. 'That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.'"
~~~ Neal Shusterman; Unwind
"Picasso had to prove to the world he can paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on one side of a face, and noses stickin' outta kneecaps and stuff. See, if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist."
~~~ Neal Shusterman; Unwind
"When the apple is ripe it will fall."
~~~ Irish Proverb
"One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have - people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of the darkness and light all of our lives."
Neal Shusterman; Unwind
"Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay and the war would be over and done in a day."
~~~ Erich Maria Remarque
"You can't change human nature without first changing the law."
~~~ Neal Shusterman; Unwind
"You can't change laws without first changing human nature."
~~~ Neal Shusterman; Unwind
"Be a fruit loop in a world full of cheerios."
~~~ Unknown
"Between freedom and enslavement lies a fine line."
~~~ Unknown
"Wherever you are it's your friends who make your world."
~~~ Unknown
"Be strong because things will get better. It may be stormy now, but it never rains forever."
~~~ Unknown
"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
~~~ Oscar Wilde
"Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."
~~~ Henry David Thoreau
"Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box."
~~~ Deepak Chopra
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."
~~~ Mark Twain
"The Propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that a certain other set of people are human."
~~~ Aldous Huxley
"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
~~~ J. K. Rowling
"Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."
~~~ Elizabeth Green
"A lie has many variations, the truth none."
~~~ African Proverb
"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears."
~~~ Native American Proverb
"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."
~~~ Robert Swan
"You may think the grass is greener on the other side. But if you take the time to water your own grass it would be just as green."
~~~ Unknown
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
~~~ Unknown
"Pain is the same for everyone. Why do humans think their pain is different?"
~~~ Unknown
"I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life."
~~~ John Feldmann
"I am a reader not because I don't have a life but because I choose to have many."
~~~ Unknown
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
~~~ Unknown
"You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf."
~~~ Unknown
"A nation of sheep will soon have a government of wolves."
~~~ Edward R. Murrow
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."
~~~ Malcolm X
"Love is caring for each other even when you're angry."
~~~ Unknown
"Happiness is found when one is not looking."
~~~ Unknown
"A heart breaking sounds like guitar strings snapping. It's the notes of a song that'll never happen."
~~~ Unknown
"A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets."
~~~ Lauren Oliver
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
~~~ Mahatma Gandhi
"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."
~~~ Joseph Campbell
"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
~~~ Margaret Mead
"You can't change the world, you can only change yourself."
~~~ Beatrice Wood
"Finally, Christopher Robin said, 'Pooh, if you ever need me and I'm not around, you must remember this: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. And what's most important to know is that even if we are apart, I shall always be with you...' And Pooh put his paw on Christopher Robin's shoulder and said, 'And I shall always be with you.'"
~~~ Pooh's Grand Adventure
"The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer."
~~~ Neal Shusterman; Everfound
"Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe."
~~~ Neal Shusterman; Everfound
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
~~~ Will Rogers
"Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. At the first, ask yourself, 'Is it true?' At the second ask 'Is it necessary?' At the third gate ask 'Is it kind?'"
~~~ Sufi Saying
"When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless." ~~~ Chris Colfe
"Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps you in touch with your children."
~~~ J. Paul Getty
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
~~~ Abraham Lincoln
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."
~~~ George Orwell
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
~~~ Nikita Khrushchov
"Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again."
~~~ Unknown
"If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simple means the river bends."
~~~ John Enoch Powell
"What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else."
~~~ Hal Boyle
"Intelligence is like a river. The deeper it is the less noise it makes."
~~~ Unknown
"The difference between school and life? In school you're taught a lesson and then given a test. I life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."
~~~ Tom Bodett
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
~~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour."
~~~ Zen Saying
"Changing someone is like changing a river's course. It can be done, but it's not easy."
~~~ Unknown
"Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere."
~~~ Emma Smith
"Every morning you have two choices: Continue to sleep with dreams, or wake up and chase your dreams. The choice is yours."
~~~ Unknown
"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it."
~~~ Unknown
"Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
~~~ Buddha
"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
~~~ Christopher Columbus
"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."
~~~ Konrad Adenauer
"There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it."
~~~ Edith Wharton
"If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation."
~~~ Osho
~~~ Osho
"The best kind of friendship is one with missing memories, not because they were forgotten, but because there's too many to remember them all."
"Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE, the word itself says 'I'M POSSIBLE.'"
~~~ Audrey Hepburn
"A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers."
~~~ Paulo Coelho
"Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of yours."
~~~ Unknown
"You never make the same mistake twice... because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake it's a choice."
~~~ Unknown
"You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep."
~~~ Navajo Proverb
"Fear can make you cling to the strangest thing."
~~~ Unknown
"True leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders."
~~~ Unknown
"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."
~~~ Jean de la Fontaine
"There are two kinds of people in the world: Givers and Takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better."
~~~ Unknown
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
~~~ Mark Twain
"I don't have time to worry about who doesn't like me... I'm too busy loving the people who love me."
~~~ Unknown
"I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I've got to go to school the next day. It's like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution."
~~~ Bill Watterson
“Life is about using the whole box of crayons.”
~~~ RuPaul
“Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.”
~~~ Unknown
“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”
~~~ Phyllis Diller
“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.”
~~~ Stacia Tauscher
"Worry causes you to look around, regret causes you to look back, and hope causes you to look up."
~~~ Unknown
"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."
~~~ Orson Scott Card
"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
~~~ Mark Twain
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
~~~ Anaïs Nin
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."
~~~ Leo Buscaglia
"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday."
~~~ Unknown
"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it."
~~~ Toni Morrison
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
~~~ Thomas à Kempis
"We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
~~~ Michel de Montaigne
"The trees are God's great alphabet:
With them he writes in shining green
Across the world His thoughts serene."
~~~ Leonora Speyer
"If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country."
~~~ Unknown
"Traverse: One of two ways to stop while skiing; Tree: The other method."
~~~ Unknown
"When it comes to skiing, there's a difference between what you think it's going to be like, what it's really like, and what you tell your friends it was like."
~~~ Unknown
"A strong man stands up for himself, a stronger man stands up for others."
~~~ Unknown
"Seek wisdom to deal with life, courage to live it, grace to grow with it, and love to rule it."
~~~ Samuel
"You will do foolish things - do them with enthusiasm."
~~~ Collette
"Life is not a process of discovery, life is a process of creation."
~~~ Unknown
"We all shine with our own small light... together we blaze like the sun."
~~~ Unkown
"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."
~~~ Jim Watkins
"Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock."
~~~ Unknown
"Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese."
~~~ Billie Burke
"Expectation is the root of all heartache."
~~~ Shakespeare
"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
~~~ Jim Rohn
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
~~~ Harold Wilson
"I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday."
~~~ Unknown
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened."
~~~ Buddha
"A single rose can be my garden, a single friend, my world."
~~~ Leo Buscaglia
"If there are no ups and downs in your life, it means you are dead."
~~~ Unknown
"It doesn't really matter who you used to be, it only matters who you are right now."
~~~ Unknown
"Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light."
~~~ Bruce Lee
"The most expensive thing in the world is... Trust. It can can take years to earn and just a matter of seconds to lose."
~~~ Unknown
"If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you."
~~~ Unknown
"I learned to give not because I have much, but because I know exactly how it feels to have nothing."
~~~ Unknown
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
~~~ African Proverb
"It's not the goodbye that hurts, but the flashbacks that follow."
~~~ Unknown
"A society is defined not only by what it created, but what it refuses to destroy."
~~~ John Sawhill
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
~~~ Chuck Palahniuk
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
~~~ Unknown
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
~~~ Albert Einstein
"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see."
~~~ Alexandra K. Trenfor
"A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone."
~~~ Unknown
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."
~~~ Oscar Wilde
"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
~~~ Harriet Tubman
"People who have closed minds should also have closed mouths."
~~~ Unknown
"The past is unforgetable, the present is unavoidable, the future is unknown. These should be the laws of life."
~~~ Unknown
"We were born too late to explore new continents and born too soon to explore new planets but just in time to explore our minds."
~~~ Unknown
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
~~~ Abba Eban
"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."
~~~ Raymond Hull
"They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same."
~~~ Unknown
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
~~~ Unknown
"We all carry things inside that no one else can see."
~~~ Unknown
"Real revenge is making something of yourself."
~~~ Gerard Way
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
~~~ Plato
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."
~~~ Voltaire
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that is is stupid."
~~~ Albert Einstein
"There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn't matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is the one who runs around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong."
~~~ Hindu Proverb
"A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talk to each other instead of about each other."
~~~ Unknown
"Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness."
~~~ Lao Tzu
"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you."
~~~ Mother Teresa
"The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know - the less you know, the more you think you know."
~~~ David T. Freeman
"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them."
~~~ Antoine de Saint-Exapery
"When 'I' is replaced by 'We', even 'illness' turns into 'wellness.'"
~~~ Unknown
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
~~~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Friends are like stars, they come and go, but the ones that stay are the ones that glow."
~~~ Unknown
"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present."
~~~ Lao Tzu
"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."
~~~ Unknown
"Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include everyone."
~~~ Unknown
"I don't understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something created by nature we call it progress."
~~~ Ed Begley Jr.
"People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards, but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same."
~~~ Unknown
"Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."
~~~ Unknown
"Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you."
~~~ Unknown
"There are some who bring a light so great into the world that even after they have gone the light remains."
~~~ Unknown (I wish I knew who wrote this one)
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales."
~~~ Albert Einstein
"If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it."
~~~ Mark Twain
"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."
~~~ Lao Tzu
"The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death."
~~~ Osho
"When you have control over your thoughts you will have control over your life."
~~~ Unknown
"Love is what you're born with. Fear is what you learn."
~~~ Unknown
"The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about."
~~~ Wayne Dyer
"We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers."
~~~ Jacque
"Our greatest victory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
~~~ Confucius
"When life knocks you down, roll over, and look at the stars."
~~~ Unknown
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
~~~ Confucius
"Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win."
~~~ Unknown
"A head full of fears has no space for dreams."
~~~ Unknown
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
~~~ Albert Einstein
"Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly."
~~~ Morticia Addams
"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."
~~~ Unknown
"You can lead a human to knowledge. But you can't make it think."
~~~ Abe Rhethy
"The two most important days in your life are the day you're born and the day you find out why."
~~~ Mark Twain
"Staying quiet doesn't mean I have nothing to say, it means I don't think you're ready to hear my thoughts."
~~~ Unknown
"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
~~~ From GOA Forest Department
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
~~~ Dalai Lama
"The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself."
~~~ Unknown
"Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back."
~~~ Marcus Aurelius
"Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you."
~~~ Unknown
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
~~~ C. S. Lewis
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
~~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
~~~ Roald Dahl
"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from."
~~~ Seth Godin
"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
~~~ John Bunyan
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything."
~~~ Plato
"Forgive those who insult you, attack you, belittle you or take you for granted. But more than this... forgive yourself for allowing them to hurt you."
~~~ Unknown
"I alone can't change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."
~~~ Mother Teresa
"Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace."
~~~ Unknown
"An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it's going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming."
~~~ Unknown
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."
~~~ Ram Dass
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
~~~ Unknown
"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."
~~~ Frank Zappa
"You may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say you did not know."
~~~ William Wilberforce
"No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress. You're still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying."
~~~ Tony Robbins
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
~~~ Salvador Dali
"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
~~~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Somewhere out there there is a tree, tirelessly producing oxygen so you can breathe. I think you owe it an apology."
~~~ House
"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."
~~~ Unknown
"If you want to change you have to be willing to be uncomfortable."
~~~ Unknown
"Happiness is not a destination, it's a way of life."
~~~ Unknown
"If you have to choose between being kind and being right, choose being kind and you will always be right."
~~~ Unknown
"Be selective in your battles, sometimes peace is better than being right."
~~~ Unknown
"Be humble for you are made of Earth. Be noble for you are made of stars."
~~~ A Serbian Proverb
"Those who wish to sing... always find a song."
~~~ Swedish Proverb
"I don't know where I am going but I am on my way."
~~~ Unknown
"Everything was impossible until someone did it..."
~~~ Unknown
"Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything."
~~~ Unknown
"Truth is the first casualty of war."
~~~ Athur Ponsonby
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
~~~ Carl Jung
"Don't judge people. You never know what kind of battle they are fighting."
~~~ Unknown
"Count your smiles instead of your tears and count your courage instead of your fears."
~~~ Unknown
"When a child gives you a gift, even if it is a rock they just picked up, exude gratitude. It might be the only thing they have to give, and they have chosen to give it to you."
~~~ Dean Jackson
"Every single person on the planet has a story. Don't judge people before you truly know them. The truth might surprise you."
~~~ Unknown
"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice..."
~~~ Unknown
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
~~~ Rumi
"Before we go looking for life on other planets can we stop killing life on this one?"
~~~ Unknown
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
~~~ Plato
"Every dream begins with a dreamer."
~~~ Unknown
"You can't live a positive life with a negative mind."
~~~ Unknown
"Your dream doesn't have an expiration date. Take a deep breath, and try again."
~~~ Unknown
"If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone."
~~~ Maxwell Maltz
"If you are happy, happiness will come to you because happiness wants to go where happiness is."
~~~ Yogi Bhajan
"Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there."
~~~ Unknown
"Your life is your message to the world. Make sure it's inspiring."
~~~ Unknown
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."
~~~ Stephen R. Covey
"Life is too short. Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change."
~~~ Unknown
"The only people you need in your life, are those who want you in theirs. Never make someone a priority, if they only see you as an option."
~~~ Unknown
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
~~~ Dalai Lama
"Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world."
~~~ Unknown
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
~~~ T.S. Eliot
"'Just living is not enough,' said the butterfly, 'one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.'"
~~~ Hans Christen Andersen
"The butterfly counts not months, but moments, and has time enough."
~~~ Rabandranath Tagore
"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
~~~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"Music is what feelings sound like."
~~~ Unknown
"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."
~~~ Leopold Stokowski
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
~~~ Elbert Hubbard
"When you re-read a classic, you do not see in the book more than you did before: You see more in you than there was before."
~~~ Clifton Fadiman
"I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart."
~~~ Richard Livingston
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
~~~ Mark Twain
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
~~~ Confucius
"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
~~~ Ralph W. Sockman
"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."
~~~ Emerson M. Pugh
"Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun."
~~~ George Scialabra
"We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow."
~~~ Woodrow Wilson
"Common sense is not so common."
~~~ Voltaire
"If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered."
~~~ Edgar Allen Poe
"How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire?"
~~~ Unknown
"How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire?"
~~~ Christy Whitehead
"An unwatched pot boils immediately."
~~~ H. F. Ellis
"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith."
~~~ Mary Manin Morrissey
"A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read."
~~~ The Talmud
"Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask."
~~~ X-Files
"Physics is imagination in a straight jacket."
~~~ John Moffat
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
~~~ John Barrymore
"When all else fails, pray for a fire drill."
~~~ Unknown
"What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased."
~~~ Unknown
"Don't waste your time looking back at what you've lost. Move on. Life is not meant to be traveled backwards."
~~~ Unknown
"The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday."
~~~ Unknown
"People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used."
~~~ Unknown
"Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence."
~~~ Osho
"The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but it is fear."
~~~ Gandhi
"Teachers can open doors, but you need to walk through yourself."
~~~ Zen Proverb
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
~~~ Albert Einstein
"Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you."
~~~ Dr. Seuss
"One man's daydreaming is another man's day."
~~~ Grey Livingston
"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
~~~ Chinese Proverb
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
~~~ Mark Twain
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
~~~ Charles W. Elliot
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read."
~~~ G. K. Chesterton
"Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book."
~~~ Unknown
"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."
~~~ David Carradine
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."
~~~ James Matthew Barrie
"The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others."
~~~ Unknown
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
~~~ Erica Jong
"Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things."
~~~ Unknown
"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."
~~~Donna Roberts
"Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends."
~~~Unknown
"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others."
~~~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, translated from Turkish
"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book."
~~~Unknown
"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely."
~~~Ogden Nash
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
~~~ Aristotle
"I'd rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
~~~ Gerry Spence
"An entire sea of water can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you."
~~~ Unknown
"The story of your life isn't over yet, So instead of reading whats already written, think instead of what you'll write."
~~~ Unknown
"Enjoy the little things in life, for someday you will realize they were the big things."
~~~ Unknown
"In this world we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."
~~~ Mother Theresa
"Remember that when you leave this earth, you take with you nothing that you have received... only what you have given, a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage."
~~~ St. Francis of Assisi
"Loser's visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success."
~~~ Chinese proverb
"One must dare to be himself, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
~~~ Chinese proverb
"A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried. Niether would a million tears, I know because I cried."
~~~ Megan Aragon
“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”
~~~ Deepak Chopra
"Dreams are just memories of the future..."
~~~ Unknown
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
~~~ Nido Qubein
"Writing is a struggle against silence."
~~~ Carlos Fuentes
"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down."
~~~ Unknown
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. "
~~~ Aristotle Onassis ♥
"I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone."
~~~ Robin Williams
"Sometimes you miss the memories, not the person."
~~~ Unknown
"Don't let people shape who you are, let your imagination shape who you want to be."
~~~ Unknown
“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
~~~ Albert Einstein
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
~~~ Winston S. Churchill
"The past can hurt, but the way I see it, you can either run form it or learn from it."
~~~ Rafiki
"Character development is the true aim of education."
~~~ Unknown
"When you feel defensive, examine what you fear."
~~~ Unknown
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
~~~ Bill Cosby
"Some people care too much... I think its called love."
~~~ Winnie the Pooh
"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside. But success will last forever."
~~~ Unknown
"We are limited only by the questions we haven't yet thought to ask."
~~~ Unknown
You can close your eyes to what you don't want to see but you can't close your heart to what you don't want to feel!
~~~ Unknown
"I wish people cared about the earth as much as they care about who created it."
~~~ Unknown
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer"
~~~ George Patton
~~~ George Patton
"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines"
~~~ Robert Schuller
"Regret lasts much longer than humiliation"
~~~ Unknown
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened"
~~~ Dr. Seuss
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe"
~~~ Albert Einstein
"A room without books is like a body without a soul"
~~~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
~~~ Martin Luther King Jr.
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
~~~ Oscar Wilde
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
~~~ Thomas Edison
“It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
~~~ J. K. Rowling
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
~~~ Stephen Chbosky
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
~~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
~~~ J. K. Rowling
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
~~~ Robert A. Heinlein
“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
~~~ Paul Terry
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
~~~ Albert Einstein
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
~~~ G. K. Chesterton
“We read to know that we are not alone.”
~~~ William Nicholson
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
~~~ Albert Einstein
"You want weapons?
We're in a library!
Books!
The best weapons in the world!"
~~~ Doctor Who
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
~~~ Unknown
"Choose a job you love, then you will never have to work a day in your life."
~~~ Unknown
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
~~~ Jorge Luis Borges
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
~~~ William Shakespeare
"Have you ever seen a grown-up get into a car so they could go 'nowhere in particular?'"
~~~ Neal Shusterman; Everlost
"Love comes from within, while fear tries to invade."
"Courage come from within, fear comes from without."
"Happy is the home that shelters a friend."
~~~ Emerson
"Sorting out life, one load at a time."
~~~ Unknown
~~~ Unknown
I can only please one person per day! Today isn't your day... and tomorrow doesn't look good either!"
~~~ Unknown
"Forever is composed of nows."
~~~ Emily Dickinson
"We are not human beings going through a temporary spiritual existence, we are spiritual beings going through a temporary human existence."
~~~ Unknown
"I'm not telling you it's going to be easy I'm just telling you it's going to be worth it."
~~~ Unknown
"Strength shows, not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over."
~~~ Unknown
"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life."
~~~ Unknown
"This is a cat. He does not hate you because of your ethnicity, your sexuality, your gender, your appearance, or your religion. He hates you because he is a cat."
~~~ Unknown
"They never mean the words they say, so take it back and fade away."
~~~ Unknown
"I'm not obsessed. That would mean there was something I could do to change it."
~~~ Unknown
“The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.”
~~~ Albert Einstein
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
~~~ Virginia Woolf
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
~~~ Helen Keller
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
~~~ Linda Grayson
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
~~~ J. K. Rowling
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
~~~ Oscar Wilde
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
~~~ Albert Einstein