My Favorite Quotes

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
-Pietro Aretino

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
-Haida Indian Saying

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
-Zen proverb

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
-Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-General George S. Patton, Jr.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
-Gaius Plinius (c. 61-112 A.D.)

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

Making the decision to have a child is momentous -- it is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
-Elizabeth Stone

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
-Cicero

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
-John Ruskin

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
-Bertrand Russell

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
-Doris Mortman

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
-Arnold H. Glasow

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
-Japanese proverb

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
-Abraham Lincoln

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.
-Henry Kaiser

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
-Zadok Rabinwitz

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
-James Oppenheim

There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
-Cyrus Curtis

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
-Lin Yutang

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

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
-Socrates

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
-Judith S. Martin

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
-James Baldwin

People only see what they are prepared to see.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

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 been opened for us.
-Helen Keller

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
-Henry J. Kaiser

The deeds you do today may be the only sermon some people will hear today.
-St. Francis of Assisi

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
-Rose Lane

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
-Moliere

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
-George Santayana (1863-1952)

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

It is those things we learn after we know it all that are most important.

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; heads you win-tails you lose.

The young wish to give their elders the full benefits of their inexperience.

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have. Spend it wisely.

Always remember that it's not the destination that counts in life - it's the journey.

Have a great day.... God bless.