Quotations

I have been saving quotations for ages. I finally got them all together and decided to put them here. There are currently 455 of them arranged alphabetically by author's last name. This was done by my word processor, so if a last name has two words to it, it is by the second word. For example de Sade would be alphabetized by Sade, not de Sade.

Someday I may sort them according to subject, but don't hold your breath for that!

If you have any quotes you want to share, send then to me at webmistress@airynothing.net.

The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing.	*Proverbs 20:4*
Teach your children to choose the right path, and when they are older, they will remain upon it.	*Proverbs 22:6*
It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray	*Aesop*
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.	*Louisa May Alcott*
You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you	*Charles Allen*
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom	*James Allen*
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.	*Maya Angelou*
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear	*Maya Angelou*
Adversity introduces a man to himself.	*Anonymous*
Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, if you are not willing to move your feet.	*Anonymous*
Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it.	*Anonymous*
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.	*Anonymous*
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.	*Anonymous*
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.	*Anonymous*
Get rich quick! Count your blessings!	*Anonymous*
He who thinks most of heaven will do most for earth.	*Anonymous*
Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.	*Anonymous*
I am too blessed to be stressed!	*Anonymous*
If it were not for the last minute, nothing would get done.	*Anonymous*
If you are good, be better.	*Anonymous*
If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.	*Anonymous*
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.	*Anonymous*
Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.	*Anonymous*
Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.	*Anonymous*
Some pursue happiness, others create it.	*Anonymous*
The only people to get even with are those who have helped you.	*Anonymous*
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.	*Anonymous*
You are unique. Just like everyone else.	*Anonymous*
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.	*Janos Aran*
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.	*Aristotle*
Change in all things is sweet.	*Aristotle*
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work	*Aristotle*
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless	*Mary Kay Ash*
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.	*Arthur Ashe*
If you don't run your own life, someone else will	*John Atkinson*
Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.	*Marcus Aurelius*
Whenever you fall, pick something up.	*Oswald Avery*
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.	*Lauren Bacall*
Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.	*Richard Bach*
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.	*Sir Francis Bacon*
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.	*James Baldwin*
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.	*Lucille Ball*
Loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises.	*Honore de Balzac*
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.	*Tallulah Bankhead*
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.	*Carl Bard*
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.	*J.M. Barrie*
You can only be young once but you can always be immature.	*Dave Barry*
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.	*Mildred Barthel*
A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful--five years later.	*Phyllis Battelle*
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.	*James Beard*
Relationships are difficult, time-consuming, baffling, and sometimes heartbreaking. They're also what make life worth living.	*Martha Beck*
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.	*Henry Ward Beecher*
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.	*Henry Ward Beecher*
In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.	*David Ben-Gurion*
You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left.	*Yogi Berra*
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.	*Elizabeth Bibesco*
Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.	*Josh Billings*
Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past.	*Landrum Bolling*
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.	*Dietrich Bonhoeffer*
Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.	*Bono*
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.	*Victor Borge*
All beginnings require that you unlock a new door.	*Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav*
People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.	*Daily Bread*
Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.	*Robert Bringle*
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.	*Charlotte Bronte*
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.	*Charlotte Bronte*
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.	*Les Brown*
Light tomorrow with today.	*Elizabeth Barrett Browning*
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.	*Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant*
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.	*Buddha*
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.	*Buddha*
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.	*Buddha*
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.	*Buddha*
The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by somebody weaker than you.	*Buddha*
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.	*Buddha*
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.	*Lois McMaster Bujold*
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.	*Martin Van Buren*
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.	*Carol Burnett*
Adversity is the first path to truth.	*Byron*
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.	*Joseph Campbell*
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.	*Dale Carnegie*
All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.	*Michael Carr*
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.	*Alexis Carrel*
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.	*Rachel Carson*
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.	*Pablo Casals*
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.	*Willa Cather*
The grand essentials for happiness are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for.	*Chalmers*
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.	*Coco Chanel*
A day without laughter is a day wasted.	*Charlie Chaplin*
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.	*Ralph Charell*
18th century Rabbi Michal Chasidic once said to his sons: "my life was blessed, because I never needed anything until I had it."	*18th century Rabbi Michal Chasidic*
You must once and for all give up being worried about success and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.	*Anton Chekhov*
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.	*Lord Chesterfield*
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.	*G.K. Chesterton*
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.	*G.K. Chesterton*
The greatest carver does the least cutting.	*Tao Te Ching*
Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.	*Tao Te Ching*
We grow old as soon as we cease to love and trust.	*Madame de Choiseul*
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy.	*Sonia Choquette*
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.	*Agatha Christie*
If you are going through hell...keep going.	*Winston Churchill*
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter.	*Winston Churchill*
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.	*Winston Churchill*
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear.	*Glenn Clark*
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?	*Jean Cocteau*
Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move	*Paulo Coelho*
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.	*Confucius*
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.	*Confucius*
Good and evil do not befall men without reason. Heaven sends them happiness or misery according to their conduct.	*Confucius*
He who will not economize will have to agonize.	*Confucius*
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.	*Confucius*
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.	*Confucius*
Hope likes justification, but can do without.	*Mason Cooley*
Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.	*Joan Ganz* *Cooney*
Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.	*Fanny Jackson Coppin*
I thank You God for most this amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.	*e.e. cummings*
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.	*Marie Curie*
My future starts when I wake up every morning�Every day I find something creative to do with my life.	*Miles Davis*
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today	*James Dean*
Happiness is the delicate balance between what one is and what one has.	*F.H. Denison*
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.	*Rene Descartes*
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.	*Ani DiFranco*
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices. - to Harry in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," by J.K. Rowling	*Professor Dumbledore*
There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.	*Dr. Wayne Dyer*
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be. .	*Dr. Wayne Dyer*
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.	*Henry Van Dyke*
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.	*Thomas A. Edison*
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.	*Thomas A. Edison*
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.	*Albert Einstein*
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.	*Albert Einstein*
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.	*Albert Einstein*
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.	*Albert Einstein*
When the solution is simple, God is answering.	*Albert Einstein*
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.	*Albert Einstein*
It is never too late to become what you might have been.	*George Eliot*
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.	*George Eliot*
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?	*George Eliot*
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.	*T.S. Eliot*
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.	*Ralph Waldo Emerson*
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.	*Ralph Waldo Emerson*
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.	*Ralph Waldo Emerson*
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.	*Ralph Waldo Emerson*
The only way to have a friend is to be one.	*Ralph Waldo Emerson*
What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say.	*Ralph Waldo Emerson*
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.	*William Feather*
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.	*Sally Field*
The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.	*Sarah Fielding*
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.	*F. Scott Fitzgerald*
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.	*Malcolm S. Forbes*
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.	*Malcolm Forbes*
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.	*Max L. Forman*
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.	*Jodie Foster*
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.	*Anatole France*
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.	*Benjamin Franklin*
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.	*Benjamin Franklin*
Energy and persistence alter all things.	*Benjamin Franklin*
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.	*Benjamin Franklin*
You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing.	*Lewis Freedman*
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.	*Sigmund Freud*
All we have to decide is what to do with the time we are given. - *to Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring (movie)*	*Gandalf*
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.	*Indira Gandhi*
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.	*Indira Gandhi*
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.	*Mahatma Gandhi*
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.	*Mahatma Gandhi*
There is more to life than increasing its speed.	*Mahatma* *Gandhi*
Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of someone else.	*Judy Garland*
Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.	*Shakti Gawain*
The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.	*Nelson Gaylord*
True happiness is an acceptance of life as it is given to us, with its diminishment, mystery, uncontrollability, and all.	*Michael Gellert*
Show me a woman who's not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry woman.	*Nikki Giovanni*
Eternal inner peace has to be cultivated daily.	*Delphine-Gay de Girardin*
I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help.	*Susan Glaspell*
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.	*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe*
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.	*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe*
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.	*Vincent Van Gogh*
Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together.	*Vincent Van Gogh*
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.	*Emma Goldman*
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.	*Daniel Goleman*
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.	*Charles Varlet, Marquis de La Grange*
In pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up.	*R.H. Grenville*
The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduced yourself to had life not done it for you.	*Kendall Hailey*
When one teaches, two learn.	*Robert Half*
There's an important difference between giving up and letting go.	*Jessica Hatchigan*
Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.	*Helen Hayes*
Don't cut your conscience to fit this year's fashions.	*Lillian Hellman*
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.	*Sir Arthur Helps*
There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.	*Frank Herbert*
Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.	*James Leo Herlihy*
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.	*Etty Hillesum*
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.	*Hippocrates*
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.	*Eric Hoffer*
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.	*Lou Holtz*
When all is said and done, more is said than done.	*Lou Holtz*
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.	*Lee Holz*
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.	*Horace*
Those who want much, are always much in need.	*Horace*
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.	*Lena Horne*
Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.	*Doug Horton*
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.	*Langston Hughes*
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.	*Victor Hugo*
Nothing makes you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.	*Zora Neale Hurston*
One finds great comfort in good dinners.	*Zora Neale Hurston*
I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.	*Queen Elizabeth I*
Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.	*Michael Iapoce*
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in	*Andrew Jackson*
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.	*Jesse Jackson*
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.	*William James*
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.	*William James*
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed	*Storm Jameson*
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.	*Thomas Jefferson*
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.	*Thomas Jefferson*
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.	*Thomas Jefferson*
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.	*Thomas Jefferson*
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.	*Thomas Jefferson*
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.	*Thomas Jefferson*
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.	*Thomas Jefferson*
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.	*Douglas Jerrould*
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.	*Lyndon B. Johnson*
I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.	*Michael Jordan*
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.	*Martin Luther King, Jr*
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.	*Martin Luther King, Jr*
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love	*Martin Luther King, Jr.*
Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?	*Martin Luther King, Jr.*
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.	*Martin Luther King, Jr.*
We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear	*Martin Luther King, Jr.*
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.	*Carl Jung*
I paint myself because...I am the person I know best.	*Frida Kahlo*
We learn to fly not by becoming fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.	*Sam Keen*
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.	*Helen Keller*
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world in the eye.	*Helen Keller*
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.	*Thomas a Kempis*
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.	*Corita Kent*
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.	*Kierkegaard*
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.	*Grenville Kleiser*
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.	*Dalai Lama*
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."	*Ann Landers*
A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live.	*Lao-Tzu*
It may be that those who do most, dream most.	*Stephen Leacock*
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience	*Stanislaw J. Lec*
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway.	*Harper Lee*
With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?	*Jay Leno*
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.	*C. S. Lewis*
We are what we believe we are.	*C.S. Lewis*
You only live once-but if you work it right, once is enough	*Joe E. Lewis*
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.	*W.M. Lewis*
Rather than persistence in service, service consists of courtesy. Observance of courtesy in the course of service is better than service itself.	*The Wisdom of Sufism compiled by Leonard Lewisohn.*
All I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.	*Abraham Lincoln*
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.	*Abraham Lincoln*
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.	*Abraham Lincoln*
Whatever you are, be a good one.	*Abraham Lincoln*
Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope	*Hal Lindsey*
My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.	*The Lockhorns*
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.	*Vince Lombardi*
Inches make champions.	*Vince Lombardi*
He that respects himself is safe from others.	*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow*
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.	*John Lubbock*
Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.	*Max Lucado*
You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread--stale and dry.	*Loretta Lynn*
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson: to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world	*Mahatma Mahatma*
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.	*Maimonides*
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.	*Erin Majors*
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.	*Bernard Malamud*
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.	*Louis Mann*
Risk! Risk anything! ...Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.	*Katherine Mansfield*
[Some people] have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.	*A.H. Maslow*
It is a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.	*Somerset Maugham*
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.	*John McEnroe*
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.	*Margaret Mead*
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.	*Golda Meir*
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.	*Menicus*
Genius is eternal patience.	*Michelangelo*
I am still learning.	*Michelangelo*
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.	*Michelangelo*
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.	*John Stuart Mill*
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.	*John Stuart Mill*
Manna falls from the sky; I have only to open my hands and receive	*Henry Miller*
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.	*John Milton*
Creativity is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God.	*Bob Moawad*
There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.	*Christopher Morley*
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.	*Ogden Nash*
Forever on Thanksgiving Day The heart will find the pathway home.	*Wilbur D. Nesbit*
Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.	*Executive Speechwriter Newsletter*
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.	*Friedrich Nietzsche*
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.	*Friedrich Nietzsche*
The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have.	*Leonard Nimoy*
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.	*Anais Nin*
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.	*Anais Nin*
To err is human; to refrain from laughing, humane.	*Lane Olinghouse*
Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.	*Motto of the Special Olympics*
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.	*Robert Orben*
When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.	*David Orr*
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.	*Ronald E. Osborn*
Fortune and love befriend the bold.	*Ovid*
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.	*Ovid*
To be loved, be lovable.	*Ovid*
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.	*General George S. Patton*
Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.	*Lawrence J. Peter*
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.	*Philo*
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.	*Pablo Picasso*
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.	*Pablo Picasso*
It takes a long time to become young.	*Pablo Picasso*
Youth has no age.	*Pablo Picasso*
Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.	*Pindar*
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.	*Robert M. Pirsig*
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.	*Plato*
The beginning is the most important part of any work.	*Plato*
He who laughs, lasts.	*Mary Poole*
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.	*Emily Post*
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.	*Jacques Pr�vert*
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.	*Chinese Proverb*
He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six.	*Chinese proverb*
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.	*Chinese proverb*
If you want happiness for an hour�take a nap. If you want happiness for a day�go fishing. If you want happiness for a month�get married. If you want happiness for a year�inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime�help others.	*Chinese Proverb*
One kind word can warm three winter months.	*Chinese proverb*
When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your heart.	*Chinese Proverb*
Elbow grease is the best polish.	*English Proverb*
The torch of love is lit in the kitchen.	*French Proverb*
Rast ich, so rost ich (When I rest, I rust.)	*German Proverb*
There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so.	*German Proverb*
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!	*German Proverb*
If there is no wind, row.	*Japanese proverb*
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.	*Maori proverb*
Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer.	*Norwegian proverb*
Prayers go up and blessings come down.	*Yiddish proverb*
God helps those who persevere.	*Qur'an*
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.	*Qur'an*
There ain't no cloud so thick that the sun ain't shinin' on t'other side.- an 1870s mountain man	*Rattlesnake*
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.	*Ruth Renkel*
Don't let other people tell you what you want.	*Pat Riley*
Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.	*Rainer Maria Rilke*
It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.	*Anthony Robbins*
Patience is also a form of action.	*Auguste Rodin*
It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.	*Fred Rogers*
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.	*Will Rogers*
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.	*Will Rogers*
Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.	*Will Rogers*
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.	*Eleanor Roosevelt*
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.	*Eleanor Roosevelt*
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.	*Franklin D. Roosevelt*
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.	*Theodore Roosevelt*
If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself to yourself.	*Rumi*
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.	*Rumi*
Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved.	*Dora Russell*
Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.	*St. Francis de Sales*
Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.	*St. Francis de Sales*
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.	*St. Francis de Sales*
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.	*Sallust*
Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back. If you smile at it, it returns the greeting.	*Herbert Samuels*
It is easy to keep things at a distance. It is harder to be aloof of them.	*Buddhist saying*
The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Humanity's flaw is that we can deteriorate; but our virtue is that we can improve.	*Hasidic saying*
The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.	*Paul Scherer*
Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.	*Albert Schewitzer*
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?	*Robert Schuller*
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.	*Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf*
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it	*C.C. Scott*
Whenever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.	*Seneca*
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out--it's the grain of sand in your shoe.	*Robert Service*
Too many people miss out on the silver lining because they're expecting gold.	*Maurice Setter*
Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time.	*Linda Shalaway*
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.	*George Bernard Shaw*
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself	*George Bernard Shaw*
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy."	*Florence Shinn*
Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do	*Gerry Sikorski*
Ultimately, it is through serving others that we become fully human.	*Marsha Sinetar*
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.	*Dodie Smith*
Are you humbly grateful? Or grumbly hateful?	*Pastor Roland Smith*
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.	*Sydney Smith*
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.	*Socrates*
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.	*Socrates*
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself	*Suzanne Somers*
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.	*Sophocles*
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.	*Baruch Spinoza*
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.	*Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.*
Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise--then you will discover the fullness of your life.	*David Steidl-Rast*
The root of joy is gratefulness.	*David Steindl-Rast*
Don't postpone joy.	*Bumper Sticker*
Success is a journey, not a destination.	*Ben Sweetland*
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.	*Rabindranath Tagore*
Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow! Grow!"	*Talmud*
The highest wisdom is loving kindness.	*Talmud*
The whole worth of a kind deed is in the love that inspires it.	*Talmud*
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.	*Mother Teresa*
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.	*Mother Teresa*
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.	*Mother Teresa*
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.	*Mother Teresa*
Peace begins with a smile.	*Mother Teresa*
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.	*Mother Teresa*
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.	*Dorothy Thompson*
Be not merely good; be good for something.	*Henry David Thoreau*
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.	*Henry David Thoreau*
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.	*Henry David Thoreau*
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.	*Henry David Thoreau*
Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.	*Henry David Thoreau*
Simplify, simplify, simplify.	*Henry David Thoreau*
For fast acting relief, try slowing down.	*Lily Tomlin*
Work Hard--Do your best--Keep your word--Never get too big for your britches--Trust in God--Have no fear--and Never forget a friend.	*Harry S. Truman*
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.	*Mark Twain*
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.	*Mark Twain*
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.	*Mark Twain*
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.	*Mark Twain*
When in doubt, tell the truth.	*Mark Twain*
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.	*Frank Tyger*
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion	*Lao Tzu*
Angels may not dress the part, With robes and wings that soar, Often angels come as friends Knocking at your door	*Unknown*
Children are natural mimics--they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.	*Unknown*
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.	*Unknown*
Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I?	*Unknown*
Forgiveness is having the courage to take down the walls that we think are there to protect us.	*Unknown*
If God wanted you to talk more than he wanted you to listen, he would have given you two mouths and only one ear!	*Unknown*
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.	*Unknown*
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.	*Unknown*
Life is not measured by how many breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.	*Unknown*
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.	*Unknown*
Save the Earth. It's the only planet with chocolate!	*Unknown*
The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.	*Unknown*
True friends are like jewels, precious and rare. False ones are like autumn leaves, found everywhere.	*Unknown*
What I am doing today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.	*Unknown*
Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.	*Unknown*
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands--and then just eat one of the pieces.	*Judith Viorst*
To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.	*David Viscott*
The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.	*Kurt Vonnegut*
Take time every day to do something silly.	*Philipa Walker*
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.	*Izaak Walton*
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.	*William A. Ward*
The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.	*Martha Washington*
If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.	*Edgar Howe Watson*
Tomorrow hopes that we have learned something from yesterday.	*John Wayne*
When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out.	*David L. Weatherford*
I can, therefore I am	*Simone Weil*
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?".	*Simone Weil*
My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds.	*Mel Weldon*
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger.	*H.G. Wells*
Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, as long as ever you can.	*John Wesley*
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.	*Morris West*
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.	*Elie Wiesel*
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.	*Elie Wiesel*
Age is all imagination. Ignore years and they'll ignore you	*Ella Wheeler Wilcox*
Talk happiness; talk faith; talk health. Say you are well, and all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true.	*Ella Wheeler Wilcox*
Those whom the gods love grow young.	*Oscar Wilde*
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all	*Laura Ingalls Wilder*
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.	*Thornton Wilder*
The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist	*Harold Wilkins*
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.	*Tennessee Williams*
We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.	*Marianne Williamson*
You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a fine spirit of hope of achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand	*Woodrow Wilson*
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.	*Oprah Winfrey*
Life's a dance. Put on your dancing shoes.	*Steve Winwood*
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.	*W. Beran Wolfe*
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.	*Virginia Woolf*
The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.	*William Wordsworth*
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.	*Frank Lloyd Wright*
Sometimes you have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.	*Kobi Yamada*
Do or do not. There is no try. from The Empire Strikes Back	*Yoda*
Hope is like a road in the country; there wasn't ever a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.	*Lin Yutang*
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing�that's why we recommend it daily.	*Zig Ziglar*