Quotes Page 5
Fate...there is fate. But fate can only get you so far; because once you're there, it's up to you to make it happen.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
What we receive by reaching our destiny is not nearly as important as what we become by stretching towards it.
We attract hearts by qualities we display; we retain them by qualities we possess.
Any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for. -Charles Francis Xavier
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. -Barbara De Angelis
Sometimes I wish I hadn't been in such a hurry to move forward. There comes a point when it becomes impossible to go back.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
We make our own choices. We pay our own prices.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Your biggest challenge isn't someone else it's the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs and the voice inside you that yells 'CAN'T' but you don't listen. You just push harder and then you hear the voice whisper 'can' and you discover that the person you thought you were is no match for the one you really are.
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out
But when the darkness sets and their true beauty is revealed; only if there is a light from within. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.
Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning. -Hope Floats
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. E.E. Cummings
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Carl W. Buckner
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on. Robert Frost
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. Rosa Lane
If your dreams should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything is different. From Calvin and Hobbes
The day we lose our need for dreams is the day the human race forfeits its soul. John Chian
All our young lives we search for someone to love. We choose partners, change partners, all the while wondering if there's someone, somewhere who might be searching for us. The Wonder Years
People tell you to be yourself...like yourself is some defined thing.
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott
This is the true measure of love - when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us. Goethe
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.
Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Angels are among us. You can find them if you look close enough.
May Love & Laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home. May good and Faithful friends be yours where ever you may roam. May Peace and plenty Bless your world with Joy that long endures. May all life's passing seasons Bring the best to you and yours.
Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in all things. Remind yourself that your efforts do make a difference, even if you think they are miniscule in comparison to the magnitude of the problem. Wayne Dyer
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not enough to understand life. You have to live it. If you spend all your time understanding you miss the true moments of happiness.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ~ Simone De Beauvoir ~
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ~ Maureen Dowd ~
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. ~ Albert Einstein ~
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ~ Brendan Francis ~
Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season. ~ Robert Frost ~
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. ~ Maurice Godelier ~
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. ~ Russell Lynes ~
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. ~ Henry Miller ~
Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. ~ Clark Moustakas ~
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. ~ George Orwell ~
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ~ Denis De Rougamont ~
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~
We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. ~ Ida R. Wylie ~
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. ~ Heartland Advisor ~
The reward of suffering is experience. ~ Aeschylus
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. ~ Louisa May Alcott ~
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning. ~ Eric Allenbaugh ~
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ~ Barbara De Angelis ~
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. ~ Mary Kay Ash ~
Every silver lining has a cloud. ~ Avon ~
When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. ~ H.K. Barclay ~
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. Henry Ward Beecher ~
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. ~ Arnold Bennet ~
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ~ Taylor Benson
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight. ~ Josh Billings ~
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~ Anne Bradstreet ~
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. ~ William C. Bryant ~
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. James Buckham ~
Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture. ~ Mario Burata ~
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. ~ Emilie Cady ~
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. ~ Thomas Carlyle ~
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. ~ M Kathleen Casey ~
Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ~ Jerry Chin ~
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. ~ Kitty O'neill Collins ~
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. ~ Francis Ford Coppola ~
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug. ~ Francisco D'Anconia ~
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. ~ Danny Devito ~
A wounded deer leaps the highest. ~ Emily Dickinson
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ~ Frank Herbert, Dune ~
Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ~ Duke Ellington ~
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. ~ Henry Fielding ~
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul. ~ Elias A. Ford ~
What is to give light must endure the burning. ~ Viktor E. Frankl ~
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. ~ Robert C. Gallagher ~
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. ~ Gesser ~
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. ~ Kahlil Gibran ~
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. ~ Arnold H. Glasgow ~
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. ~ Hanmer Parsons Grant ~
Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. ~ Edward Everett Hale ~
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable. ~ Vance Havner ~
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. ~ Heraclitus ~
In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win. ~ Dustin Hoffman ~
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ~ Horace ~
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. ~ Doug Horton ~
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. ~ Edgar Watson Howe ~
