Quotes

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato

“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived – this is to have succeeded.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

What’s so remarkable about love at first sight? It’s when people have bee looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable! – anonymous

Living happily ever after can only be done one day at a time. – source unknown

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. – Irish Proverb

“Examine what is said, not him who speaks.” Arab Proverb

If God sends you down a stony path,
may he give you strong shoes. – Irish saying

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” – Aesop

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. – Henry A. Kissinger

“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick — not wounded — dead.” – Woody Allen

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their face to their hearts – Source unknown

If only I could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without having to accomplish anything… – Ashleigh Brilliant

Pack up your gloomies in a great big box and sit on the lid and laugh! – Barbara Johnson

“Sometimes you’re the fly, and sometimes you’re the windshield.” – Barbara Johnson

“The way you see people is the way you treat them.” – Zig Ziglar

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and pulling it over your head! – Carol Burnett

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves while wiser people are so full of doubts. – Bertrand Russell