[Miscellaneous Quotes]
  • "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." - Douglas Everett

  • "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." - George Washington

  • "You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself." - Pearl Bailey

  • Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use." - Ruth Gordon

  • "We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success." - Henry David Thoreau

  • "What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us." - Unknown

  • "Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault." - Dr. David M. Burns

  • "Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  • "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you into something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "In three words I can sum up everything I've ever learned about life: IT GOES ON." - Robert Louis Stevenson

  • "Everyone has to lie on his or her deathbed and face his or her life in the end. The only real question you have to answer is: “Whose life did you live? Yours or one that resembled everyone else's?” - Matt Good

  • "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Red Auerbach

  • "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another." - Frank Zappa

  • "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." - Oprah Winfrey

  • "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." - Nora Roberts

  • "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein

  • "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." - Elizabeth Kubler

  • "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - William Shakespeare

  • "If your sunshine wants far outstrip your cold morning desire, have a talk with yourself. Then have a lot more talks with yourself. Convince number one that you can succeed - and you will succeed. If you don't believe in you, why should anyone else?" - Tom Hopkins

  • "A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart." - Unknown

  • "The true form is magnificently illuminated with gleaming fire. The teaching's voice is total silence amid the ringing of wind chimes. The moon hangs in the old pine tree, cold in the falling night. The chilled crane in its nest in the clouds has not yet been aroused from its dreams." - Hongzhi Zhengjue

  • "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin into his nest again, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson

  • "We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness." - David Weatherford

  • "The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." - Lady Bird Johnson

  • "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill

  • "Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go." - Herman Hesse

  • "You have not lived until you've found someone worth dying for." - Unknown

  • "The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love." - William Sloan Coffin

  • "Nobody can hurt me without my permission." - Mohandas Gandhi

  • "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • "Be who you are and say what you feel because people who mind don't matter and people who matter don't mind." - Unknown

  • "Money it turns out was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did." - James Baldwin

  • "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Sinners are much more fun and only the good die young." - Billy Joel

  • "Always shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will fall among the stars." - Unknown

  • "I love you today, I'll love you tomorrow, I'll love you in my afterlife because you are my soul and the soul never dies." - Marie-Alicia

  • "If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace." - Robert Duvall

  • "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

  • "You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind." - Henry David Thoreau

  • "The greatest secret to living a happy and fulfilled life is realizing that everything is created in our minds before it manifests itself in the outer world. We must believe before we can see." -— Sarah Ban Breathnach

  • "Being deeply in love with someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Unknown

  • "If you wake up in the morning and you can get out of bed...it's going to be a good day." - C.E.Riley

  • "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan

  • "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean

  • "To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its 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

  • "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." - Ralph W. Sockman
  • "The most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, or even touched; they must be felt with the heart." - Unknown

  • "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain

  • "Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.'" - Erich Fromm

  • "You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." -Joan Baez

  • "Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth." - Ashleigh Brilliant

  • "We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it; really look after it and nurture it." - John Lennon

  • "Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left? Answer: five. Why? Because there's a difference between deciding and doing." - Mark L. Feldman & Michael F. Spratt

  • "Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice." - Nora Roberts

  • "The worst prison would be a closed heart." - Pope John Paul II

  • "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy

  • "You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." - George Burns

  • "Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back." - Unknown

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

  • "True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone." - Richard Edgely

  • "Never ignore a gut feeling but never believe that it's enough." - Kermit the Frog

  • "It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." - Mark Twain

  • "Earth's crammed with heaven." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend your right to say it." - Patrick Henry

  • "If you don't leap, you'll never know what it is to fly." Guy Finley

  • "I don't know the key to success, but the key failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby

  • "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." - Unknown

  • "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde

  • "I dropped a tear in the ocean. Whenever they find it, I will stop loving you." - Unknown

  • "Start writing a new chapter, for if you live by the book you'll never make history." - Ben Sobel

  • "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill

  • "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  • "Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller

  • "Dance like no one's watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like no one's listening, live like it's heaven on earth." - William Purky