The way I see it; if you want the rainbow, you
gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
Life is change; growth is optional
Karen Kaiser Clark
It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to
revise.
Nancy Thayer
We are the hero of our own story
Mary McCarthy
Life is like a camel; you can make it do anything
except back up
Marcelene Cox
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned
about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole
heart don't know how to laugh
either.
Golda Meir
The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you
risk even more.
Erica Jong
Living never wore one out so much as the effort
not to live.
Anais Nin
If you have made mistakes...there is always another
chance
for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call "failure" in not falling down,but staying
down.
Mary Pickford
"It is not seeing the light that impacts one's life; it is never ceasing to see the light that impresses one's life, spirit, heart and soul." --by Diane Lahaie August 6, 1994
A person needs only two tools:
WD-40 and duct tape.
If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40.
If it moves and it shouldn't, use the tape.
Draw your salary before spending it.
One must not tie a ship to a single anchor nor life to a single hope.
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit; try to belong to the first class - there's far less competition.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
To handle yourself, use your head,
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
Great minds discuss ideas,
Average minds discuss events,
Small minds discuss people.
Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
The tongue weighs practically
nothing,
But so few people can hold it.
To achieve success,
you must first risk failure.
(Thanks Shelly T.)
Don't squat with your spurs on.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back.
The quickest way to double your money
is to fold it over and put it back
into your pocket.
If at first you don't succeed, lower
your standards
(Thanks Tquinn AKA T_Rose97)
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets.
Life is an endless struggle full of
frustrations and challenges but eventually
you find a hairstylist you like.
One of life's mysteries is how a
two pound box of candy can make a woman
gain five pounds.
God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number
of things. Right
now I am so far behind, I will live forever.
I finally got my head together ... and my body fell apart.
Time may be a great healer but it's a lousy beautician.
Brain cells come and brain cells go but fat cells live forever.
Amazing! You just hang something in
your closet for a month or so and
it shrinks two sizes.
This section is contributed by Diana Lahaie, Thanks!
A man is not defined by his memories, but by his
actions.
We must embrace not only the light
of life but also life's darkness.
A fair face may fade, but a beautiful soul lasts forever.
Those who are at war with others are seldom at peace with themselves.
A day above ground is a good one.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
I am only one, but still I am
one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I
cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller
We can do anything we want if
we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
It's always too soon to quit!...
Norman Vincent Peale
No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent
Eleanor Roosevelt
It's easier to build a boy than mend a man.
Most people are about as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing in which people
more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you are falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose.
If you do not know where you are
going, every road will get you nowhere.
Henry Kissinger
The man who makes no mistakes
does not usually make anything
Edward Phelps
Don't part with your illusions. When they are
gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain
Nothing is a waste of time if
you use the experience wisely.
Rodin
You gain strength, courage and
confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the
face.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Character contributes to beauty
Jacqueline Bisset
We need to dwarf our troubles
and magnify our blessings.
Humphrey B. Neill
One can never consent to creep
when one feels the impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
The only just justification for
ever looking down on someone is to lift them up.
Jesse Jackson
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Hating someone is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.
The ultimate evil is to leave
the company of the living before you die
Seneca
Anxiety is the poison of human
life.
Blair
If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated?
Henry David Thoreau
Some men see things are they are
and say, 'Why? I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'
Robert F. Kennedy
In the long run we get no more
than we have been willing to risk giving.
Sheldon Kopp
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Mary Howitt
If there is anything better than to be loved, it is loving.
Of all the music that reached
farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beecher
He who gains victory over the other men is strong;
but he who gains victory over himself is all powerful.
Lao-Tzu
We do not receive wisdom; we must
discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or
spare us.
Marcel Proust
The bravest thing you can do when
you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra Harris
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest
missions we can undertake.
Greg Anderson
He knows not his own strength
who hath not met adversity.
Samuel Johnson
Have a vision not clouded by
fear.
Cherokee Proverb
When we do the best we can, we never know what
miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
No one falls in love by choice, it is by CHANCE. No one stays in love by chance, it is by WORK; and no one falls out of love by chance, it is by CHOICE! Thanks so much Stephanie Olsen
If you have any words of wisdom,
please E-mail them to me and if I like them I will add them to this page.
Thanks!!!!!
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