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Quotes

Here is a collection of quotes that I have found or have been sent to me. I have found many of them to be inspirational and downright good to read. Enjoy!

"Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you."
-Unknown

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
-Oscar Wilde

"Why not go out on a limb? That's where all the fruit is."
-Mark Twain

"Every new beginning starts from some other beginning's end."
-"Closing Time" by Semisonic

"Don't drink, don't smoke, and be nice to everybody."
-Frances Brown

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
-Elbert Hubbard

"Accept other people's differences - that's what makes life interesting, after all."
-Unknown

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless."
-Mother Teresa

"Of all the milestones in your life, nothing changes
you for the better more than having children."
-Colin Ungaro

"Instead of loving your enemies,
treat your friends a little better."
-E.W. Howe

"Babies are such a nice way to start people."
-Don Herold

"From small beginnings come great things."
-Proverb

"Rave on sweetie, it'll be over in the blink of an eye."
-Buddy Holly

"A relationship is like a rose,
How long it lasts, no one knows;
Love can erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you'll see at last;
To feel that love, it makes you sigh,
To have it leave, you'd rather die;
You hope you've found that special rose,
Cause you love and care for the one you chose."
-Rob Cella

"It's amazing how much you can hear when no one is saying anything."
-Elaine St. James

"I do not believe things happen accidentally. I believe you earn them."
-Madeleine Albright

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
-Mother Teresa

"No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty."
-Leon Wieseltier

"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth."
-Bonnie Friedman

"The single greatest cause of aetheism in the world today
are people who acknowledge Jesus with their lips
but walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.
This is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable."
-Unknown

"O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day.
If I forget thee, do not thou forget me."
-Sir Jacob Astley

"You can't help someone get up a hill without
getting closer to the top yourself."
-Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"Never forget what is worth remembering
or remember what is best forgotten."
-Anonymous

"We too often love things and use people when we should
be using things and loving people."
-Reuel L. Howe

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

"A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you."
-Adlai Stevenson

"A compliment is like a kiss through a veil."
-Victor Hugo

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Before him, I may think aloud."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week."
-Gen. George S. Patton

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
-William James

"We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life."
-James Van Praagh

"Don't worry that children never listen to you;
worry that they are always watching you."
-Robert Fulghum

"When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends."
-Mark Twain

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
-Thomas Paine

"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions."
-Anonymous

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow."
-Charles Brower

"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
-Jean Paul Richter

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures
and tolerates your successes."
-Doug Larson

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else."
-Len Wein

"A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out."
-Walter Winchell

"Are we friends or are we not?
You told me once but I forgot.
So tell me now and tell me true,
So I can say..."I'm here for you."
Of all the friends I've ever met,
you're the one I won't forget.
And if I die before you do,
I'll go to heaven and wait for you."
-Unknown

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
-Marcus Aurelius

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
-Erica Jong

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
-Judy Garland

"Always be nice to those younger than you,
because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
-Cyril Connolly

" Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."
-Jacob Braude

"Always do what you are afraid to do."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
-W. H. Auden

"An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception."
-Harold Loukes

"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

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