Quotes




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I have put together a collection of quotes that I like, and that speak to me personally.
Some inspire me, some make me think, and some make me laugh.
Some are hopeful, some bitter; all reflect different aspects of my personality and character.



"To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
to leave the world a little better;
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is the meaning of success."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you."
~Francoise Sagan
"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."
~Olin Miller
"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."
~Golda Meir
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
~George Bernard Shaw
"Humor is just another defense against the universe."
 ~Mel Brooks

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
~Robert Frost
"It is better to be looked over than overlooked."
~Mae West

"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."
~Sophia Loren

 "In the end, everything is a gag."
~Charlie Chaplin
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive
And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
~Goo Goo Dolls "Iris"
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
-- Anne Rice
So now I say the things I want to say,
Sometimes its better letting go this way,
I'll always know down in my soul,
We really had so far to go,
I'd given all I had to give,
And now it's time for me to live,
And I wont look back,
And I wont regret,
Though it hurts like hell,
Someday I will forget,
And this is letting go, this is letting go...
~Sozzi

It isn't possible to love and part ... You can transmutate love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
~E. M. Forester
You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand. Take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.
~Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
~Charles Caleb Colton

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
~Eileen Caddy

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
~Anonymous

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
~Virginia Woolf

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may.
~Jimmy Buffett

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
~Emily Dickinson

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
~Henry Ford

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
~William Butler Yeats, from ''He wishes for the cloths of heaven''


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