Quotations

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

--Shakespeare

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

--Shakespeare

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility.

Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

--Mark Twain

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

--Mark Twain

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart:

the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

--Mark Twain

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy

you must have somebody to divide it with.

--Mark Twain

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

--T. S. Eliot

Love is like quick-silver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays.

Clutch it, and it darts away.

-- Dorothy Parker

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

--Willa Cather

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

--Victor Hugo

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

--Anonymous

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

--H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

--Javan

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived

are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

--Henry Drummond

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved--

loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

--Victor Hugo

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough.

But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

--Anna Louise Strong

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.

Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

--James Baldwin

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

--Henry David Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

--Eleanor Roosevelt

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

--Gandhi

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

--William James

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

--William James

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

--Buddha

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

and things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art; to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

--W. M. Lewis

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

--Socrates

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters

compared to what lives within us.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

--Jeremy Schwartz

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long

at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

--Helen Keller

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue,

which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...

--Aristotle

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love,

and something to hope for.

--Allan K. Chalmers

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

--Benjamin Disraeli

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

--Mark Twain

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

--H. Jackson Browne

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

--C. G. Jung, Psychological Reflections

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

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

--Langston Hughes

If you can imagine it,

You can achieve it.

If you can dream it,

You can become it.

--William Arthur Ward

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

--Anatole France

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

--Harold Taylor

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

--Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom"

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs

and the guffaws of scoffers.

--Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage

to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched

-- they must be felt with the heart.

--Hellen Keller

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love;

love recompenses the adorers.

--Kahlil Gibran, "Beauty"

You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

--Abraham Lincoln

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

--Alexander Hamilton

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty.

--Henri Frédéric Amiel, The Private Journal of Henri Frédéric Amiel

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom

created nothing under the sun in vain.

--Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

--Anonymous

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

--John Powell

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.

--Jesse Jackson

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts.

With our thoughts, we make the world.

--Buddha

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

--René Descartes

Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.

--Lord Thomas Dewar

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.

--Benjamin Disraeli

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

--Plutarch

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it.

Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

--Herman Hesse

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world,

but to change it.

--Colin Wilson

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

--Sir Winston Churchill

Wisdom begins in wonder.

--Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

--Socrates

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course,

you are an exceptionally good liar.

--Jerome K. Jerome

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

--Anonymous

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss

the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

--"Cheers"

You can never plan the future by the past.

--Edmund Burke

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time,

you will not do anything with it.

--M Scott Peck

Time is the fire in which we burn.

--Gene Roddenberry

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

--C. G. Jung, Psychological Reflections

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people

who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

--Nora Ephron

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

--James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

--Anonymous

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

--Orison Swett Marden

The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.

N.B.: From this quote is derived the proverb, "Good things come to those who wait."

--Lamentations 3:25

Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal.

--Horace, Odes, 15 B. C.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking

we were at when we created them.

--Albert Einstein

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

--Alan Saporta

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

--Confucius

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning.

The end is where we start from.

--T. S. Eliot, "Four Quarters"

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

--Josh Billings

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete,

everybody will respect you.

--Lao-Tzu

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

--Richard L. Evans

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

--Henry David Thoreau

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

--Helen Keller

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,

but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

--Anonymous

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

--William Shakespeare

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for,

it is a thing to be achieved.

--William Jennings Bryan

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

--William Shakespeare

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

--Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

--Willa Cather, My Antonia

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.

Imagination encircles the world.

--Albert Einstein

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

--Nelson Mandela

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

-Abraham Lincoln

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