Some of my Favorite Quotes

"Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
--Christopher Morley

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in therein to be content."
--Helen Keller

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
--Mae West

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
--William Butler

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
--Henry David Thoreau

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
--Ronald Dahl

"Be thankful for what you have.  If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
--Oprah Winfrey

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
--Walt Disney

"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains."
--Dutch Proverb

"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."
--W.J. Bryant

"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."
--Anne Morrow

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
--Oscar Wilde

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.  Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
--Winston Churchill

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
--Mother Teresa

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others."
--Booker T. Washington

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
--Napoleon Bonaparte

"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which all self-respect springs."
--Joan Didion

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving."
-- Earl Nightingale

"Power tires only those who do not have it."
-- Giulio Andreotti

"Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength."
 -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself. Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses."
 -- Bryce Courtenay

"No abilities, however splendid, can command success without intense labor and persevering application."
--Alexander T. Stewart (1803-1876), Entrepreneur

"There's no ceiling on effort."
--Harvey C. Fruehauf, Business executive

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a speaking picture."
--Simonides of Ceos

"The fruitful ground, the quiet mind."
--Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

"Be still and know that I am God."
--The Bible, Psalm 46

"You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems."
--Leonard Cohen

"Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream."
--Roger Rosenblatt

"The love, the faith, the peace within us."
--Maori Song

"People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
--Logan Perasall Smith

"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. To live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free."
--Robert Louis Stevenson

"Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep."
--Edward Young

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."
--Anonymous

"The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative."
--Kahlil Gibran

"Solitude, thought it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man.  All men come into this world alone and leave it alone."
--Thomas De Quincey

"Happy are those who are still, and to whom things come."
--Ben Okri

"...a well-spent day brings happy sleep..."
--Leonard da Vinci

"Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life."
--Robert Louis Stevenson

"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
--Joshua Reynolds

"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him."
--Booker T. Washington

"You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."
--Barbra Streisand

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
--Arthur Godfrey

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

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
--Hubert Humphrey

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
--Victor Hugo

"The breeze at dawn has secrests to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."
--Rumi

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
--Goethe

"It is absurd to divide people into good or bad.  People are either charming or tedious."
--Oscar Wilde

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
--Plato

"The whole problem is that fools and fanatics are certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
--Bertrand Russell

"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."
--Marie Osmond

"Everything comes too late for those who only wait."
--Elbert Hubbard

"He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough."
--Epicurus

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
--Socrates

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
--Martin Luther King Jr.

"It is never too late to be what you have been."
--George Eliot

"The shell must break before the bird can fly."
--Tennyson

"Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil."
--Zora Neale Hurston

"Never let yesterday use up too much of today."
--Will Rogers

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
--Demosthenes

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
--Jimmy Durante

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Play for more than you can afford to lose and you'll learn the game."
--Winston Churchill

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
--Aristottle

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"I have never been hurt by what I have not said."
--Calvin Coolidge

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
--Tupac Shakur

"Every calling is great when greatly pursued."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, and all we ever have is now."
--Bill Cosby

"It's not only fine feathers that make fine birds."
--Aesop

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
--Ingrid Bergman

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive."
--Anais Nin

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
--Mark Twain

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
--George Bernard Shaw

"The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good."
--Ann Landers

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
--Mario Andretti

"Friendship makes properity more brillant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
--Cicero

"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
--Jim Henson

"If we stopped trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
--Edith Wharton