If you want a place in the sun,
you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.
~Abigail Van Buren~
A child is the root of the heart.
~Carolina Maria de Jesus~
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart
don’t know how to laugh either.
~Golda Meir~
Be able to be alone.
Lose not the advantage of solitude,
and the society of thyself.
~Sir Thomas Browne~
Cleaning your house while your kids are
still growing
is like shoveling the walk
before it stops snowing.
~Phyllis Diller~
Most people live and die
with their music still unplayed.
They never dare to try.
~Mary Kay Ash~
To live is so startling it leaves little time for
anything else.
~Emily Dickinson~
We don’t see things are they are, we see them as we are.
~Anais Nin~
When people say: she’s got everything, I’ve only one answer:
I haven’t had tomorrow.
~Elizabeth Taylor~
The soul can split the sky in two,
and let the face of God shine through.
~Edna St Vincent Millay~
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
~Lauren Bacall~
Don’t postpone joy.
~Bumper Sticker~
Persons thankful for little things are certain to be the
ones with much to be thankful for.
~Frank Clark~
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh,
at yourself.
~Ethel Barrymore~
Don’t be afraid your life will end;
be afraid that it will never begin.
~Grace Hansen~
Seek not outside you, heaven is within.
~Mary Lou Cook~
Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
~Suzanne Nichols~