Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Quotes

Well I LOVE quotes. Like a lot! So I thought I'd put a bunch up here that I really like. :)

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." -James M. Barrie

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."-Harry S. Truman

"If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you." -Mahummad Ali

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." -Theodore Roosevelt

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." -Mark Twain

"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers." -Deepak Chopra

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." -Walt Disney

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him." Martin Luther King

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." Buddha Spiritual Teacher, Founder of Buddhism

"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself." Dietrich, Marlene 1901 - 1992, German actress and Singer

"Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said." Rostand, Jean 1894 -1997, French Biologist and Moralist

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott

"Old love does not rust." - Estonian Proverb

"Love sees roses without thorns." - German Proverb "

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway." - Anonymous

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." - William M. Thackeray

"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea." - Algernon Charles Swinburne

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." ~Kahlil Gibran

"A human life is a story told by God." ~Hans Christian Andersen

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." ~Kenji Miyazawa

"While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil." ~John Taylor

"Life is eternal, and love is immortal,and death is only a horizon;and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."~Rossiter Worthington Raymond

"Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow." ~Rita Schiano, Sweet Bitter Love, 1997, published by The Reed Edwards Company

"If tears could build a stairway,And memories a lane,I'd walk right up to HeavenAnd bring you home again."~Author Unknown

"For some moments in life there are no words." ~David Seltzer, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

"Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
That are no more, and shall no more return.
Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;
I stay a little longer, as one stays
To cover up the embers that still burn."~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality." ~Emily Dickinson