My Favorite Quotes

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My Favorite Quotes

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness." – George Sand

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
~Duguet

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
~John Andrew Holmes

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
~Dr. Seuss

Beware the fury of a patient man.
~John Dryden

Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it.
~Anonmous

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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
~Soren Kierkegaard

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Get rid of anything less than excellent in your life, and your integrity will increase.
~Brian Koslow

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In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.
~Theodore Roosevelt

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Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars
~Henry Van Dyke

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
~Robert Frost

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Never let yesterday's disappointments overshadow tomorrow's dreams.
~ Author Unknown

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Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
~ Helen Keller

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The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness lives for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
~ Unknown

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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
~Goethe

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First things first.
~ Stephen R. Covey

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Be the change you want to see in the world.
~Gandhi

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Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.
~Sarah Ban Breathnach
From Hold That Thought, by Sarah Ban Breathnach (Warner Books)

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Did you know...that when you walk past a flower, whether it be in somebody's garden or in a vacant lot, the flower will always smile at you. The most polite way to respond, I've been told, is to cheerfully return the smile.

~Ron Atchison

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If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Proverb

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It takes strength to be firm,
It takes courage to be gentle.
It takes strength to stand guard,
It takes courage to let down your guard.
It takes strength to conquer,
It takes courage to surrender.
It takes strength to be certain,
It takes courage to have doubt.
It takes strength to fit in,
It takes courage to stand out.
It takes strength to feel a friend's pain,
It takes courage to feel your own pain.
It takes strength to hide your own pains,
It takes courage to show them.
It takes strength to endure abuse,
It takes courage to stop it.
It takes strength to stand alone,
It takes courage to lean on another.
It takes strength to love,
It takes courage to be loved.
It takes strength to survive,
It takes courage to live.
(author unknown)

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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
~ Kahlil Gibran

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Anyone can have a good day.
The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.
~Arthur Golden, author.

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"...the ignorant bemoan their fate and seek to blame their problems on others. The wise seek the cause of the problem within themselves."

~ Hex. 39 The Oracle of Changes
http://www.iching.com

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The only completely consistent people are the dead.

--Aldous Huxley

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Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities;
they will never come.

--Janet Erskine Stuart

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There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."

--Albert Einstein

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The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way you use them.

-- American Proverb

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

-- Mark Twain

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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.

The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

--Ayn Rand
Russian-born American Author

On Friendship

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
- Winnie the Pooh

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known it be lost."
- Charles Caleb Colton

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

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus.

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."

"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
- Mencius

"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."
- Stone Temple Pilots

"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay."
- Dave Matthews Band

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them"

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere"
- Tim McGraw

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
-Lee Iacocca

"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
-Nigerian Proverb

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
-unknown

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"Sometimes, no matter how much faith we have, we lose people. But you never forget them. And sometimes, it's those memories that give us the faith to go on.
" ~Monologue from CBS' Early Edition

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Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.
~Tom Stoppard

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Babyboomers:
The product of a vast uncontrolled urge to reproduce which suddenly overtook an otherwise reserved and well-behaved group of people belonging to a preceding generation.
~Sagitelle

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People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
~Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

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Life is about not knowing, having to change,
taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity.
~Gilda Radner

gilda

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The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller

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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
~Moliere

moolee

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People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~Abraham Lincoln

abedababe

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Our real blessings often appear to us
in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments;
but let us have patience,
and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
~Joseph Addison

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Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
~Anonymous

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And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
~Grandma Moses

Info on Grandma Moses
gramma

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Obstacles are necessary for success because victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and your strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence--and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms, forcing you to become better.

~Og Mandino

Info on Og Mandino, "Mr. Success"

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And when the night is cloudy,
There is still a light that shines on me,
Shine on until tomorrow, let it be.
~John Lennon/Paul McCartney

jonpaul

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Out of clutter, find Simplicity.
From discord, find Harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.
~ALBERT EINSTEIN

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It's just a job.
Grass grows, birds fly,
waves pound the sand.....
I just beat people up

~Mohammed Ali

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May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rains fall soft upon your fields, and,
until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
~Irish Blessing

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You can complain because roses have thorns,
or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
~ZIGGY

zig

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Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.
~Soren Kierkegaard

Here's a link for more info on this insightful philosopher
cutiepie

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A CREED FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve.
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health, that I might do great things.
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for riches, that I might be happy.
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men.
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life.
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things...
I got nothing I asked for -- but everything I hoped for.
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am, among men, most richly blessed!
~Roy Campanella

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
~Karen Sunde

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UNIVERSAL Rx
No moving parts, no batteries,
No monthly payments and no fees;
Inflation-proof, non-taxable,
In fact it's quite relaxable;

It can't be stolen, won't pollute,
One size fits all, do not dilute.
It uses little energy,
But yields results enormously.

Relieves your tension and your stress,
Invigorates your happiness;
Combats depression, makes you beam,
And elevates your self-esteem!

Your circulation it corrects,
Without unpleasant side effects.
It is, I think, the perfect drug;
May I prescribe, my friends,… the hug!
(And of course, fully returnable!)
~Henry Matthew Ward

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Look at everything as though you were seeing it either
for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be
filled with glory.
~Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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